Life Goes On

- Season 3

(1991)

The Thatchers toast the reopening their newly-renovated Glen Brook Grill, but their dreams go up in smoke when the restaurant burns down and Corky finds himself at fault.

While the Thatchers rise from the ashes of the restaurant, Becca prepares to take wing for Paris in a student-exchange program, and Paige and Corky go hunting for jobs.

Corky is nearly swamped when he tries to help Tyler's brother Donny, who also has Down's, mainstream at Marshall High. Meanwhile, Tyler's difficulty adjusting to a repeat of his senior year causes friction between him and Becca.

The new order of Libby as the primary breadwinner and Drew as the homemaker creates new strains in their marriage that scares Corky into thinking that they might divorce.

Becca is about to have her Sweet 16, which might go sour when she wants to take her relationship with Tyler to the next level, to Drew's dismay. Meanwhile, Corky opens his own checking account.

Becca is devastated to learn that Jesse has tested HIV-positive, and during a scuffle between him and Tyler, she blurts out in front of everyone that he has AIDS. When word gets out, new PTA President Libby is pitted in the middle.

Libby's vivacious cousin Gaby breezes in from Sicily like a whirlwind, touching everyone's lives and leaving Libby turning green with envy.

After seeing a B-movie called "Body Snatchers From Venus", Corky imagines that his family is turning into Venusians.

After the Thatcher household is burglarized, suspicions center on Paige's African-American acquaintance, Drew and Libby debate over having a gun.

Corky takes a tumble for the new assistant manager while Becca is torn between Tyler, who isn't over her; and Jesse, who goes in search for the girl who infected him with HIV.

Christmas brings anxieties to all, with Drew reopening the grill; Libby in charge of the holiday show; but most of all to Becca, who fears the worst when Jesse is hospitalized with pneumonia.

The Thatcher home is struck by lightning which results in Corky predicting the future, Arnold the dog running away, Becca with a major static problem in her hair, Drew attracted to another woman, and Paige enchanted by the boss' son.

Jerry's dad shows up at the ad agency and starts pushing him around, so he quits and starts to help "run" the grill, much to Drew's annoyance.

Becca, Libby, and Paige have entered the "man zone" as they tear down a wall in the Thatcher house to reveal another room and the mementos left behind.

An ordinary graffiti-covered wall that the students are ordered to repaint becomes a symbol of the future for Jesse as he waits for his medical test results. Meanwhile, Corky finds an abandoned baby in the theatre.

Jesse gets hired to work as a waiter at Drew's place, but declining patronage forces Drew to let him go; however, later they bond over their love of blues music.

Libby writes a fairy tale about Corky who later enters it in a contest. Libby then gets an offer to get it printed as a children's book, but in a rewritten form.

Inspired by her grandparents' upcoming 50th wedding anniversary, Becca proposes to Jesse, and he agrees, but then they think twice. Meanwhile, Kenny wants Paige to marry him, but Paige isn't so sure.

Romance blossoms between Corky and Amanda, a girl with Albinism-related Down Syndrome, but her parents nip it in the bud. Elsewhere, Jerry sponsors Becca in a need-based scholarship contest.

Drew and Libby leave the kids in charge of the house and they decide to have a party--which is crashed by Tyler and his college frat buddies.

In the aftermath of the car accident, Corky is still rendered mute while Becca grapples with guilt and grief over Tyler's death. Meanwhile, Paige bonds with Michael while they're locked in a refrigerated room.

Paige has a great heart-to-heart with Drew about her upcoming marriage to Kenny, after which Drew takes matters into his own hands and convinces Michael to go after Paige, then behind both their backs he hires Michael's band to play at the wedding. Paige and Kenny break up at the altar and Paige runs off with Michael; meanwhile, Corky proposes to Amanda. Jesse leaves for Arizona with his mom but later returns, saying that Becca is his family now.