Jesse (Season 1)

A Side of Chile (Episode 1)

Air date: 1998-09-24

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Diego moves next door to Jesse Warner and her family, and asks her out.

Goober Up the Nose (Episode 2)

Air date: 1998-10-01

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Jesse's movie date with Diego ends up in the emergency room when she gets a piece of candy stuck in her nose.

Bees Do It, Birds Do It, But Not in a Car (Episode 3)

Writer: Stephen Nathan

Air date: 1998-10-08

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Jesse's been taking it real slow in her relationship with Diego, but things begin heating up and she may not wish to cool them off.

Live Nude Girl (Episode 4)

Writer: Stephen Nathan

Air date: 1998-10-15

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Jesse learns that Diego once had a relationship with the nude model he's been painting at his house.

Boo! He's Back (Episode 5)

Writer: Nancy Steen

Air date: 1998-11-29

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: On the eve of Halloween, Jesse gets quite a scare---her ex shows up after seven years and wants to be back in Little John's life.

The Methadone Clinic (Episode 6)

Writer: Tad Quill

Air date: 1998-11-05

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Jesse's brush with an art-gallery owner may cost Diego a chance to show his work.

The Kiss (Episode 7)

Air date: 1998-11-12

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Jesse's ex-husband surprises her with a kiss, just after she and Diego have a spat.

The Cheese Ship (Episode 8)

Air date: 1998-11-19

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Jesse invites Diego to Thanksgiving dinner, even though her ex will be in attendance.

Barko, the Holiest Dog in the World (Episode 9)

Writer: Gabrielle Allan

Air date: 1998-12-10

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Little John is in a school play, Darren is in a commercial and Diego goes to great lengths to try to prove to Jesse that Roy is a jerk but Jesse won't listen.

Boo! He's Gone (Episode 10)

Air date: 1998-12-17

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Diego decides that if Jesse wants Roy he won't stand in the way. So he goes to Roy's to tell him, but he catches Roy with another woman. He tries to tell Jesse but she won't listen, that is until Junior finally speaks and tells her it's true. She throws Roy out.

The Best Deal Possible (Episode 11)

Writer: Dan Sterling

Air date: 1999-01-14

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Diego and Jesse pretend to be husband and wife while shopping for a car. Also now that Junior talks, he and Darren try and pick up girls.

The Mischievous Elf (Episode 12)

Writer: Dan Sterling

Air date: 1999-01-21

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Jesse decides to go back to high school. Her teacher asks her out and she doesn't know if she should say yes because he's her teacher. She finally decides to go out with him but finds out that he's a weirdo so she dumps him. Diego dates a student.

My Casual Friend's Wedding (Episode 13)

Writer: Nancy Steen

Air date: 1999-01-28

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Jesse, Linda and Carrie go to the wedding of a former high school classmate and Jesse is asked to be the maid of honor because the bride's sister couldn't make it. Jesse agrees. Linda makes out with a guy in the coat checkroom only to find out later that he's the groom. Jesse goes to talk to him to set him straight but the bride walks in as Jesse is giving him a hug and she thinks that Jesse is the one that was making out with him. When Jesse tries to cover for Linda, Linda says that it was actually her that made out with him. Then practically every woman in the room says that they also made out with him.

Hickory, Dickory, Death (Episode 14)

Writer: Gabrielle Allan

Air date: 1999-02-04

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Although they have split up, Jesse turns up for a date with Diego that they arranged long before, only to find him about to go out with his new girlfriend. Jesse deals with it by acting it out her fantasies of a forties film noir.

Crazy White Female (Episode 15)

Air date: 1999-02-11

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Diego feels that Gwen is becoming increasingly clingy, but Jesse thinks she is just being nice, until Gwen transforms herself into a Jesse look-alike. John Warner Sr. dates an old friend, Mary Anne that he meets up with after thirty years.

Bar Remodel (Episode 16)

Writer: Tad Quill

Air date: 1999-02-18

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: John Warner Sr. decides to go off to Alaska to climb Mt McKinley with Mary Anne, leaving the bar to the care of his three children. When they fail to sell it, they have to decide between them how to fit in running it with the other things that they want to do in their lives.

Touched by an Angel (Episode 17)

Air date: 1999-02-25

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Darren suggests a Charlie's Angels theme for the bar. Diego invites Jesse round to dinner, but it is a disaster, capped by her being so fearful that things won't work out well between them that it ruins what is left of the evening. It takes Diego some time to convince her that things could work out better.

Cecil, the Angry Postman (Episode 18)

Air date: 1999-03-04

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: When Jesse writes a love letter to Diego she never plans to send and little John sends it she tries to retrieve it. But she angered the mailman because he doesn't put the mail in the right mail slots and now to anger her he refuses to give her the letter she wrote to Diego because it's addressed to him not her. She then tries to put her arm in the mail slot and retrieve it but she gets stuck.

The Parent Trap (Episode 19)

Writer: April Pesa

Air date: 1999-03-11

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Diego's parents come to Buffalo and Jesse has to go pick them up at the airport but she picks up the wrong Vasquez's. When she goes with Diego to pick up the right Vasquez's they don't seem as happy to see Jesse as the wrong ones were.

Momma Was a Rollin' Stone (Episode 20)

Writer: Dan Sterling

Air date: 1999-03-18

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Another kid is beating up Little John at school so Jesse goes to talk to his mother. His mother is actually his stepmother and her mother. Jesse now has a stepbrother and Little John has an uncle his own age. She asks Jesse to borrow five grand because her relationship with her new husband, Fez Foose a member of the rock band ""The Ass Police"" isn't going so well. Jesse can only come up with 1200,65$ and her mother takes the money and runs out on her again to go to South America. Jesse goes to confront her mother on the plane and her mother decides to stay.

Finders Keepers (Episode 21)

Air date: 1999-03-25

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: While on a scavenger hunt Jesse and Diego find a baby in the park. Jesse wants to keep it but Diego and her family tell her it's not a good idea. Just as Diego starts to like the baby the mother is found and the baby returned.

I Do, I Think I Do (Episode 22)

Writer: Gabrielle Allan

Air date: 1999-04-01

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Jesse gets a full scholarship for nursing school. Diego faces deportation when his visa runs out. He gets a job at UCLA which is California but Jesse doesn't want him to take it because it's so far away from her but he doesn't have a choice. Jesse goes to talk to him and to her surprise he asks her to marry him. To be continued...