Trying Times

- Season 2

(1989)

A maid from West Indies hired by a snobbish rich white couple that's throwing a chic party decides to teach them and their daughter a lesson by magically summoning young impoverished boy, Abdul, from TV into their living room.

Suburbanite Bill returns home from work only to find seductive secret agent Daphne there instead of his family. She claims that people like Bill, who are the epitome of goodness, end up on a kill list. But is Bill really all that good?

A geeky orthopedic shoe salesman, whose true passion is playing sax, reports all of his unreported tip income to the I.R.S. out of Catholic guilt. The I.R.S. decides to pulverize him, and his pervy tax attorney, Agripina, is of no help.

Unhappy with his perfect life, career and wife, a young professor starts an affair with a nasty, chain-smoking, female colleague.

A widow forced to work at a fast food joint can't stand her arrogant teenage manager.

LSMFT (a.k.a A Good Life), meaning "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco", follows a man who gives up smoking only to immediately become pressured by his surrounding into reconsidering this decision.