About this season
Carol & Company is a comedy program airing on NBC-TV in the United States during 1990 and 1991. Carol & Company applied an unusual repertory approach to television comedy. Every week, Carol Burnett and her fellow players, Peter Krause, Jeremy Piven, Meagen Fay, Terry Kiser, Anita Barone, and Richard Kind, performed a different half-hour comedy playlet. Only the performers remained the same from week to week; there were no ongoing characters or plots, although there were guest stars from time to time; Betty White was one who made an appearance. In 1991, Carol's cohort, Tim Conway made a cameo appearance as audience member in an episode, "That Little Extra Something." Carol & Company began as a midseason replacement in January 1990, and was subsequently picked up for a full season and ran until July 1991. In 1990 Swoosie Kurtz won an Emmy for her appearance in the episode titled Reunion.
Episodes (24)
1. Grandma Gets It On
Aired 22 September 1990 • 30 min
Lillian Preskin's daughter arrives at the nursing home and threatens to send her mother off to a home run by nuns if she engages once more in sex with the residents. Their conversation, however, is interrupted by the arrival of a new war veteran... and Lillian has a penchant for veterans.
2. Diary of a Really, Really Mad Housewife
Aired 29 September 1990 • 30 min
It's a day in the life of an average American housewife, but for Dorothy Tibbit, it's ""one of those days."" When her garbage disposal conks out, Dorothy attempts to return home in time to meet the plumber but everything goes wrong. There are problems at the dry cleaners, the bank, the grocery store, the bus stop -- it's all enough to drive a housewife really, really mad...
3. Goin' to the Chapel
Aired 6 October 1990 • 30 min
This is two seperate episodes centering on Evelyn Sweets and her ""Chapel of Romance."" In ""Dummy Dearest,"" Evelyn is approached by a woman with a ventriloquist's dummy who pleads with Evelyn to marry them. Evelyn agrees, hoping to get the insane woman out of her chapel, but she soon comes to the realization that the dummy may be alive. In ""Being Out There,"" Evelyn is approached by Chester Neff, who assume's that her ad's tag, ""I'll marry anyone,"" means that she will become his wife.
4. Guns and Rosie
Aired 13 October 1990 • 30 min
5. Stiff Competition
Aired 20 October 1990 • 30 min
6. Here's to You, Mrs. Baldwin
Aired 27 October 1990 • 30 min
7. Trisha Springs Eternal
Aired 3 November 1990 • 30 min
Roz's college friend Trisha (guest star Betty White) comes to town and announces that she's taken the apartment next door to Roz... but Roz can't stand her. Quickly Roz finds that Trisha's destroying her life and driving her to the brink of madness.
8. Mom and Dad Day Afternoon
Aired 10 November 1990 • 30 min
9. Driving Miss Crazy
Aired 17 November 1990 • 30 min
10. The Jingle Belles
Aired 24 November 1990 • 30 min
Arlene Harvey and Kate Benton (guest star Bernadette Peters) are best friends and a commercial jingle songwriting team, but jealousy ensues when Kate is offered a record audition at Cosmic Records.
11. Teacher, Teacher
Aired 1 December 1990 • 30 min
This episode consists of two sketches about teachers. In the first, Carol plays Mrs. Cornfeld, a teacher who's pulled over by a former student during his first day on the job as a policeman. In the next skit, the whole company plays students (using their real first names) in a classroom on their teacher's final day.
12. Spudnik
Aired 7 December 1990 • 30 min
13. No News Is Bad News
Aired 4 January 1991 • 30 min
Christine Heyward, a respected journalist, arrives to discover that she's the only member of her news team retaining her job. The new head of the show, a game show creator, changes the format and the news becomes a game show with a ""MTV mentality."" Despite intial hesitation, Christine sells out but soon discovers she's been suckered.
14. Turning Tables
Aired 18 January 1991 • 30 min
15. That Little Extra Something
Aired 25 January 1991 • 30 min
The company attempts to put on a ""live show"" centering on an eccentric millionaire who's attempting to murder his wife. Complications ensue when Richard Kind's aunt Wanda (also played by Burnett) thinks that Carol has invited her to perform in the show.
16. A Fall from Grace
Aired 1 February 1991 • 30 min
Grace Fitchell is ""the bitch goddess of darkness."" While checking the dryer for a missing sock, she accidentally falls into the Land of Lost Stuff. In order to return home, she must find the last thing that she lost, but during her quest she encounters ghosts of her past that change her future (via Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol).
17. Suture Self
Aired 8 February 1991 • 30 min
18. High on LIfe
Aired 15 February 1991 • 30 min
19. Momma Needs a New Pair of Shoes
Aired 1 March 1991 • 30 min
20. Jewel of Denial
Aired 9 March 1991 • 30 min
21. Intimate Behavior
Aired 15 March 1991 • 30 min
22. Noah's Place
Aired 12 April 1991 • 30 min
23. Overnight Male
Aired 27 April 1991 • 30 min
24. For Love or Money
Aired 4 May 1991 • 30 min