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The Pigeon

Episode Number: 18    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Thursday July 13, 2000    Prod Code: 1ADM17
While boxing with Jake on the balcony, Ian accidentally knocks a pigeon's nest filled with eggs off the ledge -- and doesn't care. But after hearing one too many of Jake's lectures about pigeon vengeance, when the mother returns to the balcony and seems to know who did it, Ian becomes more paranoid and fearful than Henry that it has come to get him. Worse, Ian's panic attack threatens a meeting Tess arranged with his favorite author, Terrance Sterling, when the pigeon refuses to go away. Meanwhile, Maddie receives somebody else's package containing an expensive cashmere sweater and likes it so much she doesn't want to give it to its rightful owner, while Henry gets seriously turned on when Tess tells him that she went to school with Terrance's lesbian daughter, Brooke, who had a crush on her.

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Writer: Joe Piscatella, Craig A. Williams
Director: Sheldon Epps
Star: Heather Paige Kent (Maddie Keller),  Tony Shalhoub (Ian Stark),  Neil Patrick Harris (Henry McNeely),  Eddie McClintock (Jake Donovan),  Dorie Barton (Tess Faraday)
Guest Star: Frances Conroy (Beverly Rose [Rich Sweater Lady]),  Kim Rhodes (Brooke [Sterling]),  Lynn Tufeld (Maid),  Wes Craven (Terrance Sterling)

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Originally scheduled to air on February 24, 2000, but after the broadcast of "The Hypnotist," the series was shelved for the duration of February sweeps. It was then rescheduled to kick off the return to the schedule on July 6, but the date was pushed back a week for no reason -- and that's when it finally aired. The series' return wound up doubling as the series' farewell; a day after it aired, NBC yanked the rest of the episodes they had planned to show. (edit)

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Ian: They're rats with wings. Aside from pooping on limousines they do nothing I like. (edit)
Maddie: Her kids are so adorable. I learned everything there is to know about Pokemon and then on the bus on the way home I locked myself in the bathroom and tied my own tubes. (edit)
Ian: Maybe she wasn't ready for the responsibility of raising a repulsive disease-ridden family of vermin. (edit)
Henry: You can't sneer without lips.
Ian: Oh, yeah? You're doing it right now. (edit)
Henry: You still wearing that hot sweater?
Maddie: I do look hot in it, don't I?
Henry: I meant "hot" as in "stolen." (edit)

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