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- Robson Arms is an older Tudor styled two-story walk up apartment building located in the west end of Vancouver. The building is inhabited by a variety of tenants, who interact with each other, and who interact with the mainstays of the building, namely the womanizing superintendent Yuri Kukov, and the Tans, the owner/managers of Pendrell Market, the corner grocery store attached to the building. On a week to week basis, The Troubadours comment on the state of the building's tenants through song over the opening credits.
- Leslie Nielsen parodies the methods and maneuverisms of Peter Graves (as well as his straight face) in this spoof of "Biography". It has such weeks as "Sinister Magnets Weeks" and tells the stories of the Friendly Giant and other fake celebrities based on real ones. The scenery also pokes fun at Biography's.
- A biography of Denny Doherty, member of The Mamas and The Papas, actor and songwriter. It's a first-person narrative using segments of Denny's stage show "Dream A Little Dream" and interviews with Doherty and friends (Michelle Phillips, McKenzie Phillips etc.) to tell the story of a remarkable life. New-found recordings and autobiographical hits sung by Doherty and friends (Scott McKenzie, Dennis Ryan and Barry McGuire) bind together this touching tale of love and friendships gone wrong.
- This feature-length documentary focuses on four individuals who have lived through painful and horrific events but have managed to find the ability to forgive. Lesley Parrott, Anne Marie Hagan, Alan McBride, and Reverend Julie Nicholson have all lost family members through violent crimes and are trying to absorb, cope with, and move past it. In a world wracked by increasing violence and horror, the film brings hope that there are other possibilities beyond blind revenge; that in forgiving others we can set ourselves free.
- Geoff McAlister and Stanley Wasserman are in a gay May-September relationship. They are both a reflection of their respective generation: Geoff is an active massage therapist who keeps care of himself physically, whereas Stanley enjoys relaxing at home indulging in the finer things in life, especially when it comes to food and drink. Despite the fact that Geoff defers more often than not to Stanley's wishes, Geoff loves Stanley and visa versa. They see themselves as a gay version of their neighbours, Elaine and Carlisle Wainwright, and hope to be as happy as the Wainwrights appear. A health fanatic, Geoff ignores a lump in his left testicle, which does end up being cancerous, the testicle which needs to be removed. Geoff refuses, wanting to deal with his problem in a more holistic manner. In reality, Geoff is angry and upset with his situation, and takes it out on Stanley, who has never taken care of his own body. After they find out the Wainwright's relationship is not all it appears to be on the surface, Geoff and Stanley examine their own relationship and find it's doing much better than the Wainwrights. Geoff's cancer ends up making their individual lives converge as they both see Geoff through this health scare.
- Tom becomes the support for two people. First, Carlisle finally admits that Elaine has left him. Carlisle uses Tom both as his divorce lawyer (despite the fact that Tom does not specialize in divorce nor does he really agree to act as Carlisle's lawyer) and surrogate "friend". Tom is further burdened when Carlisle is unexpectedly hospitalized and thus Tom is forced to look after Elaine's beloved but temperamental dog, Lulu, who Carlisle refuses to place in a kennel. And second, Janice and Tom have been casually dating, and outwardly everything seems to be going all right. However, Tom still thinks about his deceased wife, Colleen. Tom "speaks to Colleen" while he's sleeping, but there's something more to Tom's pain than the fact that he misses Colleen or that he thinks about the suffering she endured with her illness prior to her passing. Tom finally admits to himself that although he loved her, their marriage, especially at the end, was by no means perfect. With that admission, he can counsel Carlisle to move on with his life, something that Tom decides to do with Janice.
- Following the suicides of the Dubois sisters, the main question on everyone's mind is who will be the new owner and what will he/she do with the building? Yuri and the Tans are the most concerned as their livelihoods are attached to the building. The who ends up being Stu Dubois, Pauline and Bea's second cousin. The what?: he intends on fixing up and selling the building. He does retain Yuri's services but Yuri is still worried that the new owner will not, and as such decides to fix up all the tenant's problems to get good references from them. The only tenant who seems to feel sorry for Yuri is Bobby, since he figures Yuri, solely by association, was the closest to the Dubois sisters. Things change for Bobby when Bobbi tells him of her one time indiscretion with Yuri. When Bobby finally catches up with Yuri, they have a physical altercation. But a physical altercation happens around them at the same time: an earthquake. There is substantial damage to the building, some of which has landed on top of a now pinned-by-rubble Yuri. While the rest of the tenants have evacuated the building (which includes a distraught Bobbi), captives Bobby and Yuri have time to air their issues. It also gives Bobby time to figure out not only what he's going to do with Yuri, but what he's going to do about his marriage.
- Young and naive Alicia Plecas is behind in her rent. She is unemployed and unskilled. Although she is going to hairdressing school, hairdressing is a skill that she lacks. Yuri hopes to trade sexual favours for rent, but Alicia refuses. For protection, she finds Hal, who is also sexually interested in Alicia, and hopes to get her into bed eventually. Hal manages to get her a cleaning job for Carlisle, despite the fact that she doesn't have the necessary skills to do that either. She ends up being an awful, clumsy cleaner, but she and Carlisle end up bonding over similar personal issues, and admittedly a bit of lust on Carlisle's side. Sexually, she and Hal continually almost make Hal's wish come true, but Alicia's missing pet hamster, Bushy-Bush, always gets in the way. Ultimately, Hal can't control his urges any longer; his actions cause a permanent rift between himself and Alicia. Despite knowing that Carlisle has his own unspoken lusty thoughts toward her, Alicia at least gets the necessary confidence from him to stand on her own two feet for the first time in her life.
- Sault, a recent transplant to Vancouver from Toronto, is feeling a little alienated in her new surroundings, both within the city and within the building. Stanley, her next door neighbor, complained to the super that her cigarette smoke is traveling unwanted through the vents. Despite that, Stanley's partner, Geoff, invites Sault over for dinner as a gesture of kindness. Sault's abrasive personality grates on Stanley, but Geoff continues to maintain a friendship with her. This is strengthened when Geoff mistakenly assumes that Sault, like him, is a cancer victim, while in reality she suffers from alopecia. She doesn't correct him since she figures this misunderstanding will strengthen the bond with her one and only friend in Vancouver. He continues to support her in any way he can with her supposed cancer, which gets her deeper and deeper into the lie. But she also sees the mileage she can get out of being a cancer victim in other aspects of her life, that is until Geoff finds out the truth. Sault realizes that it may not be the surroundings that are the problem but rather her.
- All around geek, Fred Fochs, has been cyber-corresponding for three months with a woman named Kelly, who lives in Newfoundland. For both, it is a long distance girlfriend/boyfriend relationship. Luckily for both, they still consider it so after their first encounter via webcam. Kelly has decided to come to Vancouver to go to school and wants to stay with Fred, at least initially until she can find her own place. Fred is initially excited about this, until he realizes that some of his quirks may be off-putting to her in person. Chief amongst these are his brain, which he keeps in a jar. It is not a real brain - it was a movie prop - but it is a brain nonetheless. After much consideration, Fred decides to let Kelly stay with him but hide the brain. Upon arrival, Kelly finds that she likes Fred even more than she thought, even after she does stumble upon the brain which she did indeed find slightly off-putting. On the flip side, Fred is attracted to Kelly physically and attracted to the fact that she is attracted to him, but there are certain little things which annoy him about her, including that she's clumsy, has a continually runny nose, and has a laugh like a mule. Although they're having a mostly good time together, Fred unleashes his true thoughts about her annoying habits during an unguarded moment. Hurt, Kelly decides to leave despite Fred's apologies.
- Hal says to his roommate Nick, "Your whole life is constipated", which is true in both a literal and figurative sense, the latter especially in relation to his love life. Not quite what you would call a ladies' man, Nick and his life start to loosen up when he meets Elaine, a married older woman in the building. Although their connection happens on many levels, they have the love of classic Canadian rock as a strong meeting point, of course including the Stampeder's song "Sweet City Woman". This liaison with Nick makes Elaine reexamine her life with older and stuffier Carlisle. Everything comes to a head when Nick crashes Carlisle's book launch party, and puts "Sweet City Woman" on the record player. Mirroring his now loosened life, Nick's constipation finally subsides. The episode concludes with a scene straight out of "The Graduate".
- Bao's mother, recently arrived from Hong Kong, moves in with the Tans. "Grandma" solely speaks Cantonese but is trying to learn English. Everyone in the household needs to make adjustments to get used to Grandma, but Ricky seems to have the hardest time. Grandma, despite her glaucoma, spends much of her time as the new pair of eyes at the store, and cannot help but comment directly, albeit in Cantonese, about all the store's customers, including Elaine Wainwright, who she accuses of being a shoplifter. There indeed has been a string of thefts at the store, so Yuri installs an antiquated and only half functioning security camera. Grandma ends up being more perceptive than anyone gives her credit and better eyes for the store than the camera. Meanwhile, Ricky, the aspiring karaoke star, is asked to sit with Grandma during a time he wants to sing in a karaoke competition. He decides to ditch Grandma for the competition - which he ends up winning - but Grandma, alone, gets into a near disaster. This incident not only places Ricky in hot water with his parents Bao and Toni, but on bad terms with Grandma. He makes things up with Grandma when he learns that marijuana aids in relieving symptoms of glaucoma, and hooks Grandma up with resident slackers and pot-growers, Nick Papathanasiou and Hal Garcia. Although initially suspicious of Nick and Hal, Grandma ends up getting along famously with the pair. Ricky gets a new appreciation for Grandma when he learns more of her past life as a nightclub singer cum burlesque star. Ricky and Grandma end up joining forces in creative ways to get Ricky a new karaoke machine, and to get Elaine Wainwright, who is indeed the store's shoplifter, to return all the stolen merchandise.
- Bao and Toni are approaching their twentieth wedding anniversary. Although they do love each other, they are falling into a rut. Toni compares their love life not to an exciting Ferrari or even stable and reliable Volvo, but rather a Pacer, "fun in the past, but outdated". On the other side of the coin, Bao thinks his professional life will soon take an upward swing when he expects he will be offered the principal tuba seat with the symphony orchestra. But the symphony's job offer of development officer isn't quite what he expected or wanted. But he takes the job, without telling Toni, since he feels in holding out for his dream job of playing the tuba regularly and professionally, he has not given Toni the life she deserved. Thinking Bao having an affair due to his now daytime absence, Toni and Bao have a heart to heart, which includes Bao knowing about the Pacer comparison. This talk opens up an entire new chapter of understanding and love in their lives. But ultimately it is hearing his favorite tune "Clair de Lune" being played by a street musician that makes Bao realize that his happiness inspires happiness around him. It's going to be a good twentieth wedding anniversary.
- Pauline and Bea Dubois, the elderly sister owners of the building, are disagreeing on how the building should be run. Pauline prefers to make do with Yuri's talents to fix whatever problem, whereas Bea thinks that many things are falling apart and should just be replaced as goodwill toward the tenants. Because of their differences and long term competition with each other, they needle each other in small ways just to get under each other's skin. The elder Pauline is the more forceful one, whereas Bea will do things on the sly. One thing that Bea has been doing on the sly is getting her affairs in order: she's dying. When Pauline finds out, she's upset not because Bea didn't tell her or not because she's sad for her sister's condition but because Bea once again is doing something first in life. Pauline decides to manufacture mock ways of killing herself first. Bea doesn't appreciate this as Pauline has always tried to steal the limelight. When Bea confronts Pauline that her illness is indeed a fact, the Misses Dubois collectively decide to turn out the lights. Meanwhile, Yuri stumbles across Bushy-Bush. Not knowing he's Alicia's pet, Yuri decides to keep the hamster for himself.
- Hal and Nick are pining over their lost conquests, Hal with Alicia, and Nick with Elaine. Hal slowly comes to the realization that Alicia may have exposed his true shallowness with women. To test his theory, he decides to call up old girlfriends to see what they think of him. On the other side of the apartment, Sault enters Nick's life. Sault is trying to rekindle her friendship with Geoff, and by unfortunate association Stanley. She uses her new 'buddy' as a pawn in her plan. She decides to hold small dinner party with Geoff, Stanley and Nick, the latter with whom she promises a roll in the hay afterward if he attends and helps with the cooking. He agrees. At dinner, things are going awkwardly, but Sault and Stanley start to bond over Stanley's spinach dish, which Sault loves so much she wants to the recipe. The bond breaks down when Stanley refuses to share the recipe. Nick, who likes Sault in a bizarre way, does whatever he can to help her get the recipe. Just as Sault starts to feel a special bond with Nick, Nick reluctantly decides that Sault will probably never like him that way and leaves Sault in the lurch.
- Fourteen month newlyweds Bobbi and Bobby Briggs are celebrating being back together after Bobby was away on a business trip to Duluth with his company, Trinity - a Christian religion materials supplier - and Bobbi, an aspiring aerobi-dance instructor, was back visiting her family in Regina. After their passionate night together, Bobbi notices a condom wrapper stashed underneath her nightstand. Knowing that Bobby didn't use the condom with her, Bobbi automatically assumes he used it with another woman and looks for other signs of who that other woman might be. Bobbi thinks it's Bobby's co-worker Sasha, the one, as Bobbi calls her, with the overbite and the big mono-brow. Her suspicions are heightened when Bobby needs to go back to Duluth with Sasha among others. While Bobby's away, Bobbi decides to wreak revenge on her husband by seducing and sleeping with another man. After a failed attempt at a restaurant, Bobbi, drunk, throws herself at Yuri, who has always been attracted to her and as such, doesn't resist her advances. After their sex session, Bobbi feels guilty, more so after she learns from Ricky that Yuri is a Lothario who has been seen breaking into tenant's units probably to have sex. Bobbi confronts Yuri with her suspicions. Yuri confirms what he's been doing, implying that the condom wrapper was his. Bobbi and Yuri mutually agree to keep quiet about Yuri's break-ins and Bobbi and Yuri's indiscretion. Knowing that she was wrong about Bobby and Sasha, Bobbi wants to make it up to her husband upon his return. Just as he is about ready for bed, Bobby finds a condom wrapper, not his, stuck to the bed sheets. For the time being, Bobby and Bobbi's secrets and suspicions remain unspoken between the two.
- Single mom and nurse Janice Keneally and her pre-teen son Henry Armstrong move into Robson Arms. The fact that their new apartment, like all the units in the building, requires much maintenance - in Janice's words, it's a shit-hole - is the least of her worries as she needs to adjust to her new single mom status after the turbulent break-up with Henry's father Gord. Janice's stress is evident to all her new neighbours. Yuri Kukoc, the building super, tells Henry all she really needs to relieve her stress is sex. With new friend Ruby Tan in hand, Henry goes on a search in the building for a sex partner for his Mom. The most suitable candidate seems to be Tom Goldblum, a lawyer who lives directly above Janice and Henry. Henry and Ruby do some investigative work to discover more about Tom by breaking into his apartment, and promptly get caught by Tom. But they do find out what they need to know - he is single, recently widowed and the noises Henry and Janice continually hear from his apartment is not sex as they assumed but Tom exercising - and they in turn tell Tom the reason for the break-in. Although Tom has no interest in having sex with a woman he hasn't even met yet, Henry maneuvers a dinner invitation for Tom to their apartment that evening. At dinner, both Janice and Tom end up being embarrassed when Janice finds out about Henry's scheme and the fact that Tom knew about it. Later, Janice decides to apologize to Tom, who ends up helping her with her life situation in more ways than one.
- The boiler in the building is on the fritz which is causing a heatwave throughout the complex. The heat is also turning up on Wayne's lies. He can no longer tell if what's coming out of his mouth is the truth or a lie. It isn't until Dawn, his wife, serves him divorce papers that Wayne thinks perhaps he should stop his lying. Dawn left Wayne because of his lies, and has been working in the oil patch in Fort McMurray. Her company is sending her all expenses paid to Saudi Arabia to work and she feels this as good a time as any to break ties with Wayne. Wayne still loves Dawn and decides to go to a Liars Anonymous meeting in hopes of winning Dawn back. Initially, he lies while at the meeting, but finally turns his whole life into one big truth, which he ends up doing more for himself than to win Dawn back. Despite a few bumps in the road, including the death of his plants since they thrived on the joyousness of his lies and a beating by a Colin James wannabe, Wayne does win Dawn back with his transformation, although she too admits the truth that she really is scared about the move to Saudi Arabia. However, Hal convinces Wayne that Dawn really needs to get on with her life in Saudi Arabia without him. She ultimately comes to the realization that she no longer loves Wayne but was only staying because she was scared. Meanwhile, Bobby continues his affair with Sasha, which is witnessed by Yuri and Hal's skunk, with which Bobby has a close encounter of the bad kind.
- Yuri's older alcoholic brother Val stops by. Although Yuri tries to persuade him to leave and stay somewhere else, Val manages to worm his way in. Yuri has mixed feelings about Val: he loves his older brother, knows he's trouble but feels somewhat responsible for him as Val took care of Yuri when they were little kids. Their mother was taken away when Yuri was four years old, right after World War II, because of her association with Mussolini. Val is currently selling illegal fireworks to neighborhood kids to make ends meet. A motherless for the time being and head-braceless Georgia becomes the center of attention for both Yuri and Val. Finally exasperated with Val's antics and drunkenness including Val's admission to Yuri about what really happened to their mother, Yuri turns him into the cops who came looking for Val earlier on. Yuri thinks that in doing so, he is helping his brother. However the cops aren't looking for Val for the reason Yuri thought, but he ended up helping his brother more than he realized when he called Constable Birnham. It's Georgia who ends up bringing the brothers together, at least for the time being.
- Hal's life is getting even slower as his unemployment insurance has run out and he has nothing to do and no money on which to live. Nick is frustrated with Hal being such a slacker. This coincides with Nick meeting a new friend in the building by the name of Wayne Ross. Hal openly dislikes Wayne, partly out of jealousy. Hal confides in Alicia who thinks perhaps Nick is going through a crisis of some sort in his life, but also thinks that his and Nick's issues are a manifestation of Hal's slacker attitude. As such, Hal decides to turn his life around. It ends up not being as easy as he thought. But Nick eventually finding out that Wayne isn't everything he professes to be and Hal's close encounter with the apartment skunk brings Hal and Nick's life full circle, but better as Hal decides to go back to school to get certified in urban wildlife management. Meanwhile, Stu has hired a new building manager, Elvis Michalowsk, who becomes the bane of Yuri's existence.
- After Sault has an anxiety attack at work, she confesses to Geoff, her confidante, that she hates her life. She needs a man in her life and decides once again to pursue - stalks, really - Nick, despite not knowing if he really is the one for her. She uses the same techniques that Geoff originally used to pursue Stanley. Sault and Nick do reconnect - for Sault, it may be the start of something nice, but for Nick, Sault is just, as Hal coins, "the just for sex girl". When Sault finds out this is how Nick thinks of her, she literally chases him down. They both have a turbulent admission that they perhaps should break up, but not before one last sexual go at it in the park. But things look up for Sault when she and her job, the cause of much stress in her life, mutually part company.
- When Andrew Colton moves into the building, Geoff and Stanley's gaydar immediately goes off. Even Yuri is confused about his own sexuality when he admires Andrew's butt before he realizes that the butt belongs to a man. When Andrew mentions his partner "Chris" to Geoff, Geoff assumes that Chris is a man. However much to Geoff's surprise and somewhat dismay, Chris ends up being a woman. Because of Geoff's interest in Andrew, Stanley throws out one coy gay reference after another to Andrew. Geoff, on the other hand, is angry and confused about what he sees as Andrew's denial of who he is as a person, and during a moment of drunkenness and out of lust, Geoff tries to kiss Andrew. Andrew is taken aback and angry by Geoff's move. Geoff's attempted kiss coincides with continuing problems between himself and Stanley, primarily surrounding the imbalance in their relationship around money and its associated power. Although Geoff tries to bury the hatchet between himself and Andrew, Andrew is still angry. Andrew neither confirms or denies his sexual orientation, but just states that having a family has been his priority in life for as long as he can remember.
- Bobbi, always tired - one of the classic signs of depression - is concerned that Robbie looks jaundiced. She has to deal with him on her own since Bobby is away on another business trip, this time to Portland, where, unbeknownst to Bobbi, he is continuing his affair with co-worker, Sasha. When Bobbi calls Bobby for advice, he convinces her to take Robbie to the doctor, but he also wants her to go see a doctor herself regarding her depression, the latter which she refuses. But Dr. Singh, Robbie's doctor, has two diagnoses: Robbie is fine, but Bobbi is depressed and she prescribes a mild antidepressant to a pill-phobic Bobbi, who promptly pops one anyway when the stress of life becomes too much. When Bobbi calls Bobby in the middle of the night, Sasha answers the phone. Although Bobby calls back with a somewhat plausible explanation, Bobbi, distraught since she knows Bobby is lying, turns to Rob, the refrigerator repairman, for advice, support and comfort not only about Bobby's infidelity but about her self-assessment as being a bad mother. Rob, in turn, offers an unusually sympathetic ear. In the morning, Bobbi realizes that Rob's advice was her own dream induced thoughts. She finally knows what she has to do and throws Bobby out. Meanwhile, the identity of Robbie's biological father is implied by his Texas shaped birthmark. And Robson Arms gets a new owner.
- Andrew wants to have a baby, and wants to make the process as scientific as possible for conception. This direction is different than what he and Chris had previously discussed, which was to have a baby whenever it naturally happened. Amongst their baby talk, Andrew tells Chris about the fact that Geoff tried to kiss him. Initially, rather than be upset, Chris is humoured and flattered for Andrew. However, when more and more indirect signs of gay men being attracted to Andrew surface, including warnings from Chris' overbearing mother Dianne, Chris begins to think that perhaps her nonchalant attitude toward Geoff's kiss is misplaced and that Andrew's want for a baby but otherwise recent standoffishness is really a sign that Andrew is gay. She decides first to confront Geoff, but only finds Stanley, who provides a little insight into the gay male psyche in relationship to Chris and Andrew's marriage. Despite Stanley's assurances to Chris, Andrew, upon probing by Chris, admits to her that he does sometimes think about men sexually, but denies being gay since he has never acted on those thoughts. Confused, Chris turns to her mother Dianne for more advice, who tells Chris that she should have the baby as security to hang on to Andrew. Chris ultimately decides and tells Andrew that now is not the time to have a baby. Although Andrew says that she alone without a baby is enough to fulfill his life, Chris still has doubts about his true feelings.
- Both Yuri and Toni are facing new nemeses. Yuri's is contractor and television personality Jim Caruk, who Elvis has hired to fix up the building since Stu has a prospective buyer. In essence, Jim is doing Yuri's job. Yuri realizes that his livelihood at Robson Arms is in jeopardy, especially when Elvis gives Jim a set of master keys to the building. Toni faces two nemeses: menopause and Bao's pretty young third cousin Kitty Chong, just arrived from Kowloon, Hong Kong. Initially seemingly sweet, innocent and naive, Kitty tells a heartbreaking story of a recently killed loving fiancé. She is adored by all, especially the men of the building, with whom Kitty uses her sexuality to get whatever she wants. This includes some sexual favours for Elvis, who is threatening to triple the store's rent once the lease expires. Grandma, who has never trusted the Chong side of the family, is the first to see through Kitty's charade. Toni eventually sees the real manipulative side of Kitty, who wants to steal everything that Toni has. Based on advice from Yuri, who will resort to down and dirty tactics to save his job, Toni gets the upper hand on Kitty when Toni discovers Kitty's real background, which includes a still living fiancé from whom Kitty embezzled money; and Kitty's ultimate goal of getting Bao and Toni to sign her immigration documents to move to Canada. Ultimately, Kitty is sent packing back to Kowloon, but not before she gets Elvis to renew the store's lease at the same rate.
- It was a dark and stormy night, which brings with it dark and stormy Georgia or "Georgie", Carol's estranged head-brace wearing teen-aged daughter, on Carol's doorstep. Although Carol has been fairly open about her life with her neighbors, Georgie exposes more of that life: that Carol just returned from India where she spent eighteen months in an ashram trying to find herself, this following the divorce from Georgie's father Manny. Georgie, wanting to stay with her Mom for a few weeks, decides to wreak havoc at Robson Arms as material for her on-line videos: she puts red dye in the washing machines, lets Hal's skunk loose in the building and invites Brent the bum over for dinner. Carol loves her daughter but also finds her exasperating. The last straw for Carol is when Georgie plans to film her own deflowering. This act reveals the reason for Georgie's bad behavior: she feels she is the reason for all her parent's problems and feels she was an accident in their lives. Carol endures an accident of her own after she finally convinces Georgie that she really is the best thing in her life and is proud to be her mother.
- It's six weeks away until Bobbi and Bobby have their baby, and there is some underlying and unspoken tension between the two. Bobbi is putting increasing pressure on the household by wanting everything to be perfect - she wants everything to be new despite the cost and is paranoid about everything that may negatively affect the pregnancy. This is proving to be a little too much pressure for Bobby, who still has doubts that the baby is his. He manifests his stress by starting to flirt with co-worker Sasha, a self-professed slut; she reciprocates the flirting. As Bobby's stress increases, the flirting progresses to "second base". Finally Bobby confronts Bobbi with his feelings. This statement leads to a clearing of the air between the two, including their hopes, fears and Bobby's admission of his dalliance with Sasha. However, that still doesn't stop Bobby from being literally caught with his pants down just as Bobbi's water breaks. Meanwhile, Yuri is on the hunt for a skunk tenants have told him has been stalking the building.
- Much is happening at Robson Arms in the aftermath of the earthquake. Janice and Tom have moved in together and out of the building. Stu, managing the building following the death of his cousins Bea and Pauline, is trying to sell, and in turn is working Yuri to the bone trying to repair all the earthquake damage. And ex-Toronto Maple Leaf, Caldo Vasco, is learning to maneuver in the building in his wheelchair. A recent drunk driver accident has turned him into a paraplegic. Caldo and Yuri are at each other's throats, Caldo because he has never liked the way Yuri has treated him (which is no different than the way Yuri's treated everyone else in the building), and Yuri because he is taking all the flak for Caldo's lascivious acts. Caldo has been milking his new wheelchair-bound status for all it's worth, and no one except Yuri knows that Caldo was the drunk driver causing the accident, which resulted in a dog being run over and killed. Despite making a deal with Caldo, Yuri eventually spills the beans to the rest of the tenants about Caldo's accident. Their feud comes to a head when they are caught fighting in front of a television news crew, the crew at Robson Arms solely as a marketing ploy for Stu to sell the building. Caldo and Yuri come to a new understanding of each other after their physical encounter and bond against a common foe.
- Sault has fallen on hard times since she lost her job. While she waits to hear about money for a proposal she submitted for a business venture, she is forced to take a temp job at Strategic Consolidated to make ends meet, despite that it is a mindless job for a mindless company. There she meets Perry Sound, a graphic novelist who is working at Strategic Consolidated just to earn a living. In many respects, he is a male version of Sault: cynical, brash, and someone who takes the easy way in life. As an example, he eats tuna and coffee sandwiches for lunch to give himself bad breath so that people at the office won't talk to and therefore bother him. Sault and Perry are sympatico in almost every respect, and they quickly end up as a twosome in their personal lives. She even feels comfortable enough to tell him about her alopecia, which he thinks is sexy. When she finds out that her proposal was rejected, Perry talks her into working permanently at the mindless factory called Strategic Consolidated. Geoff doesn't like the fact that in doing so, Sault would give up on her work dreams. Even Stanley, who still doesn't like Sault, thinks she is selling out. Eventually, Sault thinks that another "her" in the form of Perry is too much of a good thing, and decides that she really does need some work, and as a result personal happiness in her life and leaves Perry and Consolidated. Perhaps she can find the Mary Tyler Moore "Mary Richards" brand of happiness.
- After Carlisle passes away alone in his apartment and isn't discovered until after a week, loner geek Fred decides that he should get out more before he befalls the same fate as Carlisle. He tries speed dating, but to no avail. But then he attaches himself emotionally to Carol Goldstein, a self-professed forty-five year old constantly horny woman who has moved into Carlisle's suite. Carol wants to get to know her neighbours, but soon finds out that perhaps her initial friendliness with all the tenants was not a good idea as Fred will not take her subtle hints to leave her alone. Finally she tells him directly to get lost as he and she really aren't even compatible as friends. This perhaps was the impetus he needed to meet the person best suited to him. He meets Alicia, who was probably Carlisle's closest friend in the building and who had been leaving memorials for Carlisle at Carol's apartment door. Computer assistance for Alicia and a common love for the original Battlestar Galactica (1978) is the start of Fred's first true friendship in the building.
- Stanley and Geoff make some compromises in their social life, each committing to do activities the other enjoys. Of late, Geoff has been spending much "mentoring" time with newly out of the closet ex-Robson Arms tenant, Andrew Colton, which has made Stanley slightly jealous and somewhat suspicious. But he doesn't worry about Geoff and Andrew for the time being as he is looking forward to a visit from Toronto by his ex-wife, Frances. Frances is a smart, beautiful woman who has much more socially in common with Stanley than Geoff has with Stanley. Stanley would probably still be married to her if she was only a man! But with Frances and Stanley having such a good time together, Geoff decides to let them go to the opera together instead of Stanley's original commitment of going to Seattle for Pride weekend with Geoff. But Geoff also decides to go to Seattle anyway with Andrew and some other friends. But when Geoff arrives home unexpectedly, he finds that Stanley and Frances have caught up more with each other than would have been expected. But with this major jolt to their relationship, Stanley and Geoff have to make some tough and radical decisions regarding their relationship. Meanwhile, Fred recognizes Chuck as former children's television star, Captain Bed Head. Chuck uses Fred's idolatry of him to his advantage.
- Bobbi feels her life is falling apart. She has resorted to selling skin care products over the telephone, but is making no money doing it. And Bobby has not paid child support in months. She has nightmares about who she feels has caused all her problems, namely Sasha. To empower herself, she decides to join SWUT - Single Women United Together - a self-help group. Although she doesn't find solace in the group as its original intent, Bobbi does find solace in the fact that two of the members - in progress transsexual Phyllis aka Phil and shy stuttering Norah - look up to her. The three form a Bobbi clique. Her power role in SWUT is short term when Sasha, who dumped Bobby, joins the group. Despite Sasha volunteering to leave the group, all the non-Bobbi clique members of SWUT vote to keep her in. Bobbi does whatever she can to get Sasha out, but Sasha fights back. After a physical altercation between the two, Bobbi gets expelled from SWUT. During her final act of "revenj" (as she spells it) against Sasha, Bobbi realizes that the two are more alike than she'd really like to admit. But are their similarities enough for Bobbi to bury the hatchet. Meanwhile, Alicia, still angry at Hal, needles him about what she's sees as tenant infractions.
- Sault's book proposal is turned down by the publisher. However, the editor of Canuck, a new magazine, likes her writing and wants Sault to write an article on vertical bar conditioning aka pole dancing. This test article leads to Canuck offering her a monthly column. Things finally look to be going right for Sault, until her older sister Alex aka "Annabelle Bonaduce" (the Ste. Marie sisters were big fans of _"Partridge Family, The" (1970)_ when they were kids) comes for a visit. Alex was always the perfect one, and still is seemingly so, with a good job, wonderful and gorgeous family and a yacht club lifestyle. Alex's visit was not by accident: she's come to Vancouver to bring Sault back to Toronto to live under the watchful eye of the family, who think Sault subconsciously sabotages everything positive in her life. Getting advice from Hal, Sault decides that she needs distance from her family despite the fact that she loves them. But Sault's unusual life provides fodder for her monthly column. Meanwhile Stanley has a crush on a new columnist, who writes under the name Annabelle Bonaduce. Elsewhere, Carol leads the charge in the anti-condo movement. But Chuck bribes one more tenant onto the pro-condo side: the Tans.
- What came first: Sault's negative attitude or her string of very bad luck in Vancouver? Specifically on the work front, she has lost one contract after another to her arch rival, Richard, or Dick as she calls him. Positive thinking may help her in an upcoming request for proposal for a "Yay Vancouver" campaign. In general, Geoff thinks her negativity came first, and he convinces her to accompany him to a positive thinking seminar. After attending, Sault thinks it's a load of rubbish. Trixie also attended the seminar and uses the positive thinking message to her benefit. But after one good thing happens to Sault, a string of good luck seems to follow, including getting the contract for "Yay Vancouver". Sault's perspective turns 180 degrees where she feels that positive thinking will get her anything regardless of anything else she does. After some bad things happen, including learning about Trixie's ulterior motive in doing that first positive thing for Sault, Sault realizes that there is a balance between positive thinking and making things happen for oneself. Sault decides to take charge of her life.
- Previous slackers, Hal and Nick, are now productive members of working society. Nick has just started working as an insurance broker and Hal is continuing his career in animal control, working for Dennis. Both Nick and Hal are good at their jobs. Nick is in line for a major promotion, but Hal admittedly doesn't care for the way Dennis runs his business. Life on the most part is going swimmingly for both until Hal's father, Ramon, drives up to Robson Arms. He has retired, sold the family house, bought a motor home and plans on driving to Santiago, Chile. He's just waiting for his passport before he leaves. But during his wait, he causes one ruckus after another in Hal and Nick's home. He also denigrates Hal's job as he doesn't see the profession as being secure. With Ramon's newfound disposable income, Hal asks his dad for a loan to buy his own van to start his own animal control business. Ramon refuses as he'd rather see Hal get a secure office job. But Hal and Nick learn that Ramon isn't as financially secure as he seems, as he has made some less than wise investments with his new best friend, the "Prince of Nigeria". In addition, Ramon's retirement was not quite his own doing. But equally as important, they get the impression that the road trip is all talk as Ramon just doesn't seem to want to leave. An incident at work makes Nick realize that he does not want to grow old without striving for something he really wants in his heart. Both Nick and Hal achieve their dreams when first Ramon lends Hal the requested money, and second a never traveled Nick buys a one year around the world plane ticket.
- Carol starts dating Matt, a handsome, intelligent renaissance man who respects Carol as a person. The dinner party crowd of Toni, Bao, Geoff and Stanley all like Matt. But Carol keeps him at a distance. Carol then meets Jason Rogerman, the single father of one of her students. Jason is brash and crass, but deep down is more like Carol in terms of personality than Matt. They start a passionate sexual relationship, all the while each stating that it is only sexual since Carol was up front about her relationship with Matt. The dinner party crowd do meet Jason, and cannot understand why Carol would spend any time with Jason when she has Matt. Public perception takes a hold of Carol's mind set until she realizes that being sympatico with someone is more important than what other people think. Meanwhile, Fred continues his by-the-books running of the building fronting for the Hoskins. Geoff and Stanley can't agree on a wedding date. And the Hoskins start the process to turn Robson Arms into an expanded building of high end condos.
- Sault, aka Annabelle Bonaduce, is running out of ideas for her magazine column. The only one of the many hair-brained ideas that Sault came up with that was approved by Charlotte, her editor, was an exposé on a gay wedding, Stanley and Geoff's wedding to be more precise. Sault, as Geoff's maid of honour, is reluctant to tell her "bride" of this news. When she eventually does, Geoff flatly refuses. One would think that Stanley would reject the idea as well, but when he hears about the possible free swag associated to spruce up their otherwise sparse festivities... Meanwhile, Bobbi, with newly received secretarial school diploma in hand, gets her first temp job at the chiropractic office of Dr. Jordan Cohen. Bobbi is excited about the job since she is physically attracted to Jordan. She wants so much to be in love and be loved again, both for herself and for finding a father for Robbie. Luckily for Bobbi, Jordan is as equally attracted to her and he asks her out. Before him asking her on this date, Bobbi secretly rifled through Jordan's private things to find out more about him. She finds only one possible skeleton, which she thinks is a wife named Angela. After their date which included an exciting romp in bed, Bobbi discovers that Jordan's skeleton is not exactly what she thought it was. His skeleton?: he hates children. It really is rather a morbid fear of children. Bobbi initially keeps news of Robbie from Jordan, but when it looks that they are mutually falling in love, Bobbi ultimately has no choice but to tell him. Because of his deep feelings for her, Jordan tells her he will try to not let Robbie get between them. Regardless of if things between Bobbi and Jordan work, Yuri (Robbie's biological father), newly arrived back at Robson Arms, is willing to support Bobbi and Robbie in any way they need.
- Hal misses Nick in more ways than one. With Nick still traveling through Europe, Hal misses chumming around with his buddy but also misses Nick's financial contribution to the apartment. Hal is behind in rent, and doesn't want to resort to Trixie's other method of payment (wink, wink). He's even had to hire Joel, who he dislikes, for his animal control business as he can't turn down jobs since he needs the income. Just in time, Nick returns home, but he's not alone. He's brought with him is new Belgian wife, Anke. Anke is beautiful, passionate, emotional, controlling and critical of anyone or anything against her own thoughts and beliefs. She and Hal initially get along until she begins to control everything that happens in the apartment. Hal also doesn't like the "puppy dog" way Nick acts with her. Georgia, who wants to enroll at the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, wants advice from Anke, who is a self-professed artist herself. Anke denigrates all of Georgia's work, which irks Hal. This is the last straw for Hal who wants Anke out. Anke thinks she's trumped him when she signs a lease for the apartment. The three roommates have come to a head, and Nick ultimately has to make a decision between his best friend and his wife. Meanwhile, Bobbi also needs some money despite receiving Euros in the mail from an anonymous source. She believes the Euros are play money. Tuition for the secretarial course she wants to take has gone up and is now unaffordable to her. The receptionist at the school suggests she earn some easy money as a phone sex operator, a job that goes against all of her puritan attitudes.
- An unknown vandal has been wreaking havoc at Robson Arms, this at a time when Trixie is trying to fix the place up to pass code so that the condo approval will go ahead. Chuck is somewhat nonplussed by the vandalism. Trixie thinks the vandal is Carol, the leader of the non-condo movement in the building. In reality, the vandal is a sleepwalking Chuck. When Trixie finds out, she thinks his actions are a sign of subconscious sabotage of her wishes. They have a battle of the wits, this between Trixie's dreams of wealth from the condo development and Chuck's attempts to thwart Trixie's every move for whatever his purpose. Chuck's motives are to continue his and Trixie's illegal maneuvers in making money, in this situation by selling non-existent condo units to offshore investors, then pulling up stakes with their profit. But after running from the law for such a long time, Trixie wants to lead a legal if not ruthless existence in their quest for money. Trixie manages to get her way this time. In the process, an old face returns to Robson Arms to help Trixie in her quest for wealth.
- Bobbi finally receives a child support payment from Bobby. But elation for the much needed money is torn for needing to tell Bobby the truth that Robbie is not his biological child. Meanwhile, Chuck and Fred are moving forward on the condo application. Fred and Alicia are looking forward to the new 2-bedroom mountain view unit they will be getting as part of their deal for Fred's work as tenant president. They have the support of fifteen tenants and only require the support of one more tenant to proceed. However, getting that last signature may be a problem as they have run out of supportive tenants. Chuck figures their last hope is to trick elderly Tabitha into signing. What is working in Chuck's favour is that he knows Tabitha trusts Fred and will do whatever Fred tells her to do. On Fred's urging, Tabitha does sign. But Fred is feeling pangs of guilt and remorse when he realizes that Tabitha doesn't have the money to buy a unit and will thus eventually be turned out onto the street. His guilt turns to anger when he realizes that Chuck has been lying to him and to the other tenants. Specifically, Chuck plans not to renew the Tan's lease on the store and has been lying about Hal, Nick and Anke's lease. And worse for Fred and Alicia, he reneges on their large mountain view unit. Fred decides to ease his conscience by tearing up his own signature of support. But Chuck may have one last trick up his sleeve to help get the condo become a reality.
- Val has come to stay with Yuri as Val's been placed under house arrest for some minor infractions and as Val has no where else to go. Once at Robson Arms, Val sees that Yuri is acting a little differently, especially doting on one tenant, namely Bobbi. Val instinctively knows that Robbie is Yuri's son. Providing some brotherly Kukoc advice, Val tells Yuri that Kukoc men make terrible fathers and that he should keep his distance for Bobbi and Robbie's sakes. In a moment of drunkenness, Val kind of lets slip to Bobbi that he knows who Robbie's father is. Bobbi finally comes to the understanding of Robbie's true parentage when she sees Yuri's Texas-shaped birthmark, exactly like Robbie's. After that, Bobbi decides to keep Yuri at an emotional but kind distance. Meanwhile, Geoff and Stanley's wedding is fast approaching. Stanley likes all the free swag they are getting from being "Annabelle Bonaduce's story", but Geoff is finding the extravagance overwhelming. By association, Geoff is also finding the thought of being married overwhelming. Or is Geoff just having a plain case of cold feet? Will he show up to the ceremony? An unexpected incident at the wedding site - Robson Arms' courtyard - may just place enough ease in Geoff's mind to go through with the marriage.