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SEASON 1 – The WB

Created by Allison M. Gibson

Theme song: “I’m a Survivor” written by Shelby Kennedy and Phillip White, performed by Reba McEntire

• 001. Pilot – 10/5/2001
  • The Hart family, who reside in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, and is made up of dentist Brock (Christopher Rich), his ex-wife Reba Nell (Reba McEntire), their teenage daughter Cheyenne (JoAnna Garcia Swisher), middle daughter Kyra (Scarlett Pomers), and youngest son Jake (Mitch Holleman), are sent to court-ordered therapy after a melee ensues at the separation custody hearing. The doctor Susan Peters (Nell Carter) is trying to get to the root of their problems, when it is revealed that Brock is going to marry his dental receptionist Barbara Jean Booker (Melissa Peterman) and she is pregnant, and also that Cheyenne is pregnant from her boyfriend Van Montgomery (Steve Howey). Brock and Reba are naturally angry, but Reba plans to offer her daughter support. She sends Van home to tell his parents the news. That night she finds Van hiding under Cheyenne’s bed. She has snuck him into the house because when he told his parents, they responded by kicking him out. Reba tells him that he can live at their house, so she can help oversee the raising of the baby. Van makes a grand gesture and asks Cheyenne to marry him. Although Brock is his assistant coach and a fan of Van as a high school football player, he is against the marriage and tells Reba that he refuses to come to the wedding. She demands that he come, and is asked to bring ice to the wedding ceremony at her house. Reba works hard to get ready for the wedding despite a series of crises including Cheyenne refusing to wear Reba’s wedding dress in favor of a tiny strapless dress with no bra, and Cheyenne melting down because she’s afraid her father isn’t coming. When Reba starts burning the food, she too nearly has a nervous breakdown. Brock finally shows up with the ice, as well as the eternally perky Barbara Jean. Reba recovers just in time to stop a fight between Cheyenne and Van, started because Van plans to play football after the wedding. This results in a small melee that causes Barbara Jean to fall into the cake. Reba has a talk with Cheyenne realizing that their lives are not how they planned them to be, but it is important that they learn to plot a new course. The wedding goes on as planned. Bret Loehr is Jake’s friend Bret. Jorge Luis Abreu is the wedding photographer. 1/10/22

• 002. The Honeymoon’s Over or Now What? – 10/12/2001
  • Cheyenne and Van return from their honeymoon in Galveston and head back to school. After they leave, Brock stops by to pick up some things, and Barbara Jean comes in to go to the restroom. They get a call from the school principal Mrs. Hodge (Julia Duffy) that she’d like to see Cheyenne’s parents. Reba and Brock both head out, but they forget that Barbara Jean is there, and leave her behind at the house. Mrs. Hodge recommends that Cheyenne be moved to the Holly House School for Pregnant Teens. Reba doesn’t care for the idea, but agrees to show Cheyenne the pamphlet. Cheyenne turns out to be adamantly against it and refuses to go. When Reba informs Mrs. Hodge of Cheyenne’s decision, Mrs. Hodge tells them that it wasn’t merely a suggestion, and that if she doesn’t move to the Holly House, that she’ll suspend Cheyenne for an earlier infraction she did with the drill team. Reba thinks this is unfair, and she tells Mrs. Hodge that she will have a battle if she tries to suspend Cheyenne. The family sees the therapist Dr. Peters again, this time with Barbara Jean dragged along. They all discuss the school situation, and Reba suggests that Van not attend classes either… including the Wildcats championship football game. This worries Brock, as he knows they won’t win without him, but Brocks wants to support Cheyenne. He carries out with the boycott until the night of the game.  Brock nearly talks Van into playing, since there might be college scouts at the game, but in the ends he refuses to play. Mrs. Brock finally shows up at the house and tells Cheyenne that she has officially been reinstated. Cheyenne decides she no longer wants to go to Westchester High School any longer, since they only want her so that Van will play in the game. Kyra tells Cheyenne that she shouldn’t buckle and let the school keep her hidden away. Cheyenne says she can’t expect the school to accept her when her own mother can’t. Reba admits that having a pregnant, married high school daughter wasn’t exactly in her plans, but agrees to try and improve her attitude. Cheyenne finally agrees to go back, and tells Van that it was very cool of him to stick up for her. Reba even allows them to share a big kiss before they leave for the game. 1/10/22
• 003. Someone’s at the Gyno with Reba – 10/19/2001
  • Van starts moving his belongings into Cheyenne’s room, including his cheerleader poster that gets him psyched before the gang. Reba thinks that Cheyenne will throw a fit, but she is surprisingly supportive of adding all of his stuff to her room. Reba herself has a big issue with him moving his Exer-Cist workout equipment into her living room, so he has to take that upstairs to the their bedroom as well. Meanwhile, Brock takes Jake out for his visitation and Reba gives him a long list of thing that he should and shouldn’t do wit him. Reba is shocked when she takes Cheyenne to her gynecologist appointment that one of the places that Brock takes Jake is the very same office, where Barbra Jean has her gynecologist. While she and Cheyenne are waiting for the doctor, Reba gets Cheyenne to admit that she hates a lot of what Van is bringing into her room, and encourages her to talk to Van about it. However when she confronts Van about it, Van gets furious and storms out of the room. This also leads to a fight between Reba and Cheyenne, who thinks that Reba is too controlling and that this is why Brock left her. Reba goes and sees Dr. Peters, who tells her that is overreacting and she needs to take some time for herself. Reba chooses to go to a move and leaves the kids home to fend for themselves. They wind up calling their father to bring them pizza. When Cheyenne complains to her father about her mother being a control freak, he is quick to defend Reba and tells her that even though she can be controlling, she is still an amazing woman that stayed with him as long as she could with as difficult as he can be, and that their problems only became big because they didn’t communicate the little things. When Reba gets home that night, Cheyenne and Reba come to an agreement, and Reba promises to stop interfering and Cheyenne apologizes for how hard she was on her mother. Van and Cheyenne make up and compromise by putting the cheerleaders in the closet. Cherie Franklin is the nurse. 3/25/22
• 004. You Make Me Sick – 10/26/2001
  • The Hart house is thrown into a tizzy when Cheyenne begins suffering her first pangs of morning sickness. Meanwhile, Jake has playing with his neighbor friend Robbie (Dylan Charles), but when his mother Caroline (Julia Campbell) comes to pick him and hears some of the off-color talk from a miserable Cheyenne, she is visibly distraught and seems not to care for Reba’s idea of having a sleepover at her house. Van asks for his coach Brock on how to handle Cheyenne’s mood swings and constant misery from her sickness. Brock claims that Barbra Jean doesn’t show any signs of sickness when he tells her to shake it off and change her attitude. He also offers to have them over so that they can get a change of scenery. Van tries to use this with Cheyenne, but she doesn’t want his advice that boils down to him wanting her to stop vomiting. She agrees to visit her dad though, and doesn’t understand why Barbra Jean doesn’t seem to feel sick. She admits that she actually feels terrible, but wants to hide it from her man and keeps a smile on her face no matter how bad she feels. Back home, Reba finds out that Jake now wants to have a campout at Robbie’s place. Reba confronts Caroline about it, and she finally admits that she doesn’t want Robbie picking up any bad influences at Reba’s house. This upsets Reba and she tells Jake that he can’t go over there, and then has an indoor campout in Robbie’s room with him. When Robbie thinks the night is lame, Reba returns to Caroline’s house and tells her that Jake can come over since she doesn’t want to hurt him, but she only wishes Caroline trusted her. Cheyenne follows B.J.’s advice and fakes feeling well all evening, but when she and B.J. are offered dessert, she admits that she’s still sick… and she also lets her dad known that B.J. is faking it. Van says he’d rather try and help Cheyenne get through it, but Brock still prefers that B.J. continue to fake it. Caroline comes over and tells Reba she may have overreacted, and allows Robbie to stay there. 3/25/22
• 005. The Steaks are High – 11/2/2001
  • Cheerleaders Luanne (Rini Bell) and Marci (Shanola Hampton) come early in the morning to ‘kidnap’ Van and feed him breakfast as part of a Pepette cheerleader tradition, which Cheyenne and tolerates. However she can’t help feeling a little resentful since she can no longer participate while she is pregnant. Van is also the player of the week, which means that his parents are supposed to throw a pre-game steak dinner for the team, and he asks Reba to stop in for them since his parents hate him. She reluctantly agrees, but doesn’t quite realize what a big deal it is until Brock and B.J. bring over the The Westchester Wildcat Pre-Game Steak Dinner Bible which highlights all of the specifics of the ritual. Since B.J. has it memorized already, she offers to take over but Reba declines. Reba gets to work following the bible to the letter, although Cheyenne gets distracted in the baby aisle at the grocery store and brings home Gerland’s potato salad instead of Ed’s Famous Potato Salad. The dinner is a rousing success and all of the rituals are followed, making Reba a star mother to the team. Cheyenne also is asked to join the other cheerleaders in leading a cheer and then suiting up in her uniform to sit with them during the game. Before the dinner is through, B.J. spots the empty Gerland’s container in the trash, and freaks out. She immediately tells Brock, Coach Bobby Harrell (Troy Evans), and entire team, causing a panic and a crisis of confidence. Everyone blames Reba, and when Cheyenne tries to take the blame, Reba stops her from talking and takes it herself. Although Cheyenne can’t quite zip up her uniform, she gets ready for the game, realizing that now that she is having a baby, everything about football and cheerleading seems frivolous. Kyra announces that the Wildcats are down 21 points in the first quarter, so Cheyenne decides to go confess that it was her who screwed up the potato salad. She makes her big confession to the team, but is greeted by silence. Van backs her up and tells everyone it took a lot of guts to come down and admit her mistake. Crickets. Then Reba shows up with some of Ed’s potato salad, and all of the players take a bite. Despite the fact that it was only Gerland’s potato salad in an Ed’s container, it rallies the Wildcats on to victory. B.J. makes her apology to Reba for ratting her out. Erik Aude is a football player. Lesley Nagy is the other cheerleader. 7/27/22
• 006. The Man and the Moon – 11/9/2001
  • When Reba tires of fixing the garbage disposal with all of the rigging that Brock had done to it, she finally calls a handyman named Bill Hayden (Greg Evigan). Brock is jealous that she is bringing another man in the house, and insists that Bill is flirting with her when he asks Reba if he can help her find a new faucet. Meanwhile Van encourages Cheyenne to go out for pizza with her friend Lara and Patti (Olivia Allen, Marisa Theodore), so she agrees to go. However, Van is furious with her when she and her friends pass the football bus and moon the players. He insists that it is his butt now, while she maintains it is her own. She is mortified though when one of the players takes pictures of the girls and puts photos of their butts on the internet to vote on which is best. Van promises to take care of it, but the photo remains, and even worse, Cheyenne isn’t getting any votes. Van then tells her that he threatened everyone not to vote for her, so they won’t have to look at it. She reminds him that they can still look at it without voting, and now she only has two votes – Van’s and hers. Reba decides to take Bill up on his offer, and the two of them go shopping to look for a a faucet , flirting and having fun the entire time. At the end of the night, Bill attempts to kiss her, and she pulls away. She admits that she finds him attractive and fun, but says she isn’t ready to date again yet. She asks him to keep her in mind and ask her out again later if he is still available. When she gets inside, Brock is in the kitchen working on the ice maker. Brock tells her that he doesn’t like her dating, but she responds that he’s made his choice with B.J. but he’s uncomfortable seeing her dating someone else. He admits it, heads home, and says he might have really broken the ice maker. Jason Strickland is the football player on the bus. 7/27/22
• 007. Tea and Antipathy – 11/16/2001
  • When Cheyenne complains about the way Reba is folding Van’s socks and the type of milk she is buying, Reba asks her to go do the shopping. Instead of going shopping, Cheyenne and Van go out and find an apartment they like. However, when filling out the application, they realize that they don’t have any income. Cheyenne still expects to get an allowance, and Van expects to learn how to mow lawns. Chyenne asks Brock for money to help with the rent, but he refuses and encourages them to stay with Reba, citing how much he enjoyed it when he lived there. Cheyenne asks Van to go ask his parents if they’ll help, although Reba reminds them that they didn’t even attend the kids’ wedding. Much to Van’s surprise, when he speaks to his father, he gives Van a new truck and tells them that they can come live with them. This bothers Reba since his parents have done nothing to help so far, but the kids are excited to live there since they have a mansion and a maid. They start packing their things and head over there, but when they arrive, Van’s father (Sam MacMurray) privately tells Van that only he can come live there and that he needs to separate himself with his past. Van is scared to argue with his father, but instead leaves to go talk to Reba. She tells him that it’s time that he stood up to his father, so he heads back over, asking Reba to come help support him when he talks to him. Van can’t bring himself to stand up to him again, so Reba speaks on his behalf. Van still can’t step in… until his father starts insulting Reba for allowing her daughter to get pregnant. Van then tells him that Reba is better father than he ever was, and he gives the truck keys back to him. Reba is proud of him for standing up, and they decide to stay at Reba’s for now. Meanwhile, Kyra keeps making excuses to skip visitation time with her father. Likewise, Brock doesn’t seem to push the issue because he is scared of Kyra. Reba insists that they spend the day together doing something face to face. Brock makes arrangements to have lunch at Miss Potsworth’s Tea House, but Kyra feels like she’s too old for that. She asks if Brock can take her to the movies, but he knows Reba wanted them to have face-to-face time. However, he decides that the movies will be fine, and in fact, that they don’t even have to see the same one, making both of them happy. Carolyn Hennesy is Mrs. Montgomery. Wendy Worthington is the waitress at the Tea House. 11/20/22
• 008. Don’t Know Much About History – 12/7/2001
  • Kyra comes home from school and tells everyone that she is changing her band instrument form clarinet to tuba. Meanwhile, Van comes home and tells everyone that he failed his History midterm and consequently, cannot play in the Friday night game. Brock tells him that he will talk to his teacher Mr. Devaney (Patrick Thomas O’Brien), who agrees to let him take a make-up test. Van realizes that he knows the material but gets so nervous because he worries about failing, not being able to play, and then not getting into the NFL. In fact, he was so nervous that he misspelled his own name. Reba works on tutoring him and tries to get him to de-stress before he takes it. She realizes he is carrying the weight of the team, his wife, and baby all on his back. It becomes clear that Kyra chose the tuba because her crush Bryan (Shawn Pyfrom) also plays the tuba. She invites him over to play with her, much to the surprise of everyone in the family. Kyra even makes cookies for him. Van ends up failing the test on his next attempt as well. This time he gets depressed, so Reba suggests that he try and find something else to do in additional to football. He winds up getting a small part in the school play The Alamo Experience, which is the start to another dream of his: to become a celebrity. Brock then gets Mr. Devante to give him a third chance, this time using the same questions that were on the second test. However, Van says he’s already committed to the play. Brock tries to talk him out of the play, and to pass the test so he can play with the Wildcats. Reba then criticizes Brock for not taking his wants and needs seriously and tells him he needs something to fall back on. Brock then tells him that since he made a commitment to be in the play, he should follow through. Van goes through with the play, and although he trips on stage, he enjoys it. Brock tells him afterward that the team managed to win 28-20 without him. This is a huge relief off of his back to know that the team can do it without him if needed, and his desire to play football returns. After Kyra gives Bryan her cookies, Brian asks her if their bandmate Melissa Berg likes him. Kyra then tells her mother that she hates the tuba, and both Reba and Cheyenne tell her that she’ll find other loves in her life. Van decides to join another play, this time a musical. Kat Sawyer is the video yoga lady. 11/21/22
• 009. Every Picture Tells a Story – 12/14/2001
  • When the baby kicks inside Cheyenne, Van reluctantly feels it, and finally starts to feel like a father. Meanwhile, Reba’s old friend Lori Ann Garner (Park Overall) returns to Houston when her company relocates back to her hometown. Lori Ann is harsh on Brock, so Reba starts insisting that Brock get his stuff out of her garage. When she is going through the stuff, they find a photo of Brock and B.J. in Hawaii taken a couple of years before the separated. Reba is so furious that she has a garage sale and starts selling all of his things at rock bottom prices, including his golf clubs, which she sells to a kid named Keith (Charlie Zigler) for $5.00. When Brock finds out what she is doing, he adamantly tells her that he didn’t meet B.J. until after they split up, and he can’t explain why she is in the Hawaii dental convention photo. Van starts to go overboard with being a father and wants to curtail their bad eating and sexual habits. However, Cheyenne finds a way to use his new attitude to her advantage by making him wait on her hand and foot. She finally has enough when he keeps waking her up to find out of she is sleeping okay. B.J. comes to see Reba and tells her that before she found Jesus, she used to be very promiscuous, and that she was actually at the Hawaii convention with another married man, Dr. Schneider, and in fact had been with lots of married doctors… including one named Dr. Gomez (Carlos Palomino) who runs into her at the bar. Reba gets Brock’s golf clubs back and takes him to him, apologizing for jumping to conclusions. He tells her that he still loves her in a way, but Reba says it is time that they both move on. Kevin Dean Williams is the man at the garage sale. 5/4/23
• 010. When Good Credit Goes Bad – 1/11/2002
  • With Reba’s divorce closing in a month, she and Lori Ann go out for a nice lunch, but when Reba tries to pay for it, the waitress (Cathy Herd) tells her that he credit card is over its limit. When she calls the card company and report it stolen, she finds out that someone has purchased a diamond tiara. She quickly figures out that it was B.J. and that Brock had given them both credit cards on the same account. Meanwhile, Kyra’s school calls and speaks to Cheyenne and tells her that Kyra skipped school, Cheyenne and Van decide to handle it like parents, threatening to tell Reba what she did if she doesn’t cooperate with them. They also force Kyra to do their laundry and chores as her punishment. When Van changes the punishment to make her write sentences, Kyra gets fed up with the whole thing and decides to confess what she did to her mother. Cheyenne is surprised when Reba tells her that she is forgiven without a punishment. When Reba goes over to Brock’s place to read him the riot act about the credit card, B.J. lets it slip that they are getting married in two weeks. He wants to have the wedding in San Thomas during a dental convention in order to take a benefit on a tax write-off. Since the divorce isn’t final for another month, Brock tries to get Reba to sign a form that allows the wedding to take place before the divorce is final. Reba is annoyed by it, and Lori Ann encourages her to make him suffer. B.J. tries to take back the taira to the mall, she stops at the Joy for Jesus shop and tries to buy an angel statue for Reba. The cashier (Danile O’Loughlin) finds that the credit card was reported stolen and reports it to security. B.J. calls Reba to come bail her out, and while she is there, B.J. tells her that she didn’t really want to get married in San Thomas anyway. Reba tries to console her and tells her that her wedding will be special as long as it expresses who she is. B.J. asks Reba to be her Maid of Honor. Feeling sorry for B.J., Reba tells Brock that she will sign the form. Brock later admits that he only wanted to have the wedding away from Houston so they wouldn’t make Reba uncomfortable, but after everything she told B.J., he wants to have it at home. He even asks Reba to sing at the wedding. 5/4/23
• 011. Meet the Parents – 1/18/2002
  • Reba finds out for her parents J.V. (Barry Corbin) and Helen (Dorothy Lyman) that they are going to stop by for a visit as they head from their hometown of Muleshoe to go dove hunting for their 46th anniversary. Reba is nervous because this is their first visit since Brock moved out. Brock offers to stay away, but Reba tells him that they’d like to see him. Van is also worried about their reaction to him for getting Cheyenne pregnant. Helen gives Cheyenne a locket that J.V. had given her with their wedding ring inside. Cheyenne is touched and wants to try and make similar lasting memories with Van. However, when she gives him a heart-shaped keychain, Van only laughs at it. Reba arranges a lunch for their anniversary, but when Brock brings Barbra Jean along too, Helen takes an instant dislike to her and throws away the pie that she brought. Reba has a talk with her mother and tells her that if she can accept her, then her mother can accept her being there as well. However, Reba thinks that her mother goes overboard when she accepts an invitation from Barbra to go shopping at the mall after lunch. Van tries to return the romantic gesture to Cheyenne and puts her wedding ring inside a Twinkie, but she doesn’t appreciate it. When Cheyenne tells her grandfather how bad they are doing at ‘making memories’, he confesses he has no memory of the locket he gave his wife. At the mall, Cheyenne has to endure her mother and Barbra Jean becoming friends and performing R.E.S.P.E.C.T. in matching tops. When they get home, Reba tells her mother that she went overboard in befriending Barbra Jean. She also confesses that she thinks her mother believes she is a failure that her marriage didn’t work. She tells Reba that she thought Reba was being walked on and was trying to defend her, but now realizes that she’s strong by accepting things rather than weak. As the folks leave to continue their anniversary celebration, Reba’s father tells her that they’re both proud of her and that he never had any doubt that she would hold it together. 9/11/23
• 012. A Mid-Semester’s Night Dream – 1/25/2002
  • After Van announces that he had a dream that their baby was born a goat boy, Reba announces that she has been invited to come be a substitute teacher at Van and Cheyenne’s school, much to Cheyenne’s horror. Brock also isn’t happy that the two youngest kids are going to be alone for a little bit before Reba gets home. However, he is unwilling to shuffle any of his social activities to pick up her slack. Meanwhile, Van and Cheyenne’s friends Marissa Devin (Lacey Beeman) and Eric (Mike Erwin) announce that they are going to get married. Van and Cheyenne are excited because they seem to be emulating them, but Reba wants the kids to help convince them that they would be making a huge mistake. Reba says she only let Cheyenne get married because she was pregnant. In an effort to convince them that marriage is a bad idea, Cheyenne tells them how she never has any privacy, and Van tells them that he regrets never being able to ‘shop around,’ leading to a huge fight between them. When Marissa and Eric admit they only want to get married so that they can have sex, Reba insists that this is a horrible reason. After her class the next day, Reba is told by the principal Mrs. Hodge that she is being let go because Marissa’s mother got wind that it was Reba’s idea that Marissa and Eric could have sex without getting married. She has a hard time defending herself, even though this clearly wasn’t what she meant. Reba starts to second-guess herself on how she handled Cheyenne and Van’s situation by making their lives too cushy. Brock backs up Reba and tells her that she made a brave decision to help them finish high school by supporting the kids. He thanks her for being there for them every day. Cheyenne wonders why Reba supported them if she knew they weren’t going to make it. She tells them that they have difficult odds, but they have a better chance by knowing how difficult it will be. When Van gets home, he and Cheyenne assure each other that if they had to do it again, they would have still chosen to get married. Reba makes sure she talks to the younger kids about sex. Cory Gums is student Chuck Perkins. 9/11/23
• 013. Brock’s Swan Song – 2/1/2002
  • Brock is planning on keeping the kids with him for the weekend but has to cancel when his father “John D” unexpectedly passes away on the golf course while taking a swing at a swan. Since Barbra had never met his father, and he didn’t have much of a relationship with him, Brock asks Reba to help him plan the funeral. Meanwhile, Van and Cheyenne toss around names for the baby as they wait to get an ultrasound to find out the sex. Brock and Reba meet with a funeral representative named Mr. Hudson (John Brady) and opt for some economical choices. However, when Barbra hears that Brock is going cheap, she intervenes and decides to plan a lavish funeral full of her church members, and a bussed-in Baptist choir. Reba reads Brock the riot act about letting her run all over him, and furthermore, give John D a funeral he would have hated. Brock agrees and decides to have him quickly cremated and then spread him on the golf course where he died. He convinces Reba to go along with him, but as they are spreading his ashes among the sand, the police arrive and arrest them both. While in custody, Brock mentions that his father is continuing to cause him trouble, long after he originally ran out on their family, and then later objected at Brock and Reba’s wedding because he thought Reba was too good for him. However, Reba reminds him of some good times he had with him too, and Brock remembers the time he tries to teach him to fight against a bully. Brock starts to regret his life choices even more, especially when it comes to his marriage with Reba. She reminds him that he is feeling sad and should just take time to mourn his father and their marriage in his own way. Officer Aoki (Kenneth Choi) tells them that the golf club isn’t going to press charges, and he gives him back the remains of his father… along with a little extra dirt. Later, Brock takes Jake back to the golf course, where they can drop just a bit of the remains after depositing a large amount of his ashes at the Kit Kat Club. Van and Cheyenne find out they are having a girl. Van is disappointed because he had dreamed about sharing football with a son. After Van comforts a scared Jake after he has a nightmare, Cheyenne reminds him that little girls need the comfort of their daddy as well. Van starts to soften to the idea of having a daughter. 1/9/24
• 014. The Story of a Divorce – 2/15/2002
  • Reba gets her final divorce papers while she is having breakfast with Lori Anne, and she tries to convince Reba that she needs to start dating again. Brock is trying to combat his guilt by taking the kids shopping. Lori Ann starts going through her storage of men’s phone numbers and suggests that she look up her old boyfriend Parker Reynolds (Peter Scolari), whom Reba had broken it off with just before she agreed to marry Brock. Meanwhile, Kyra starts telling Jake horror stories about getting a new father, and the new children that their mother and ‘new dad’ will love more than them. Reba meets Parker out at a nice Italian restaurant, and they have a great time together. Parker admits that it took him a long time to recover from his broken heart after she left him. As they are saying goodnight, Reba admits that she can no longer remember why they even broke up. After they kiss goodnight, Reba suddenly recalls why they broke up: he is a lousy kisser, and she doesn’t feel a spark with him. Parker sends flowers to Reba the day after the date, much to the delight of Barbra Jean. When Brock hears she is dating Parker, he doesn’t seem to be overly fazed. Reba meets up with Parker for lunch with the intention of breaking it off. Before she does, she gives him one more chance with a big kiss, but again feels nothing. Parker thinks that she doesn’t want to see him because he is too short, but she finally admits that it is the lack of sparks with their kissing. After one more kiss, he realizes that she doesn’t feel anything, and they agree to part ways. Mrs. Hodge happens by and says that she felt it, opening the door for a possible match between them. That night, Reba overhears Kyra telling Jake that his new name is going to be “Parker Jr.” She asks Kyra if she is upset about the divorce. Although she puts up a strong front, he ends up breaking down and crying. Reba later compliments Brock for handling her first date so well, but he confesses he remembers her complaining about the lack of spark with Parker. He also tells her that he hopes she will find someone that will make her happy, and although he will be jealous, that will be his cross to bear. Penny Nickels is the waitress. Max Steven Miller is the guy who’d rather be short. 1/11/24
• 015. You May Kick the Bride – 2/22/2002
  • Brock and B.J. stop over to bring the girls their bridesmaids’ outfits for the wedding, which are made of shiny, purple taffeta. Reba tells her girls that she will try to make the dresses more presentable, but Kyra is not yet sold on whether she is even going to attend the wedding. Reba tells her that she isn’t going to force her to go, but that it would mean a lot to her father. B.J. invites Reba to come to the wedding, but Reba flatly refuses to be any part of it. Van tries to be ultra-sensitive in talking about the wedding around Reba. Brock later returns to the house to tell Reba that B.J. really wants to get her blessing. Reba refuses to give it, until Brock reminds her that this could cause the wedding to be postponed and then they will have to go through another five months of planning. Reba immediately gives her blessing to avoid this. On the day of the wedding, Van and Jake put on their black suits and cowboy hats, but Reba makes them give up their fake guns. Cheyenne’s dress is dramatically improved, while Kyra still hasn’t shown up to put her on. Brock comes over to pick up the girls, but B.J. comes through the back door, asking to talk to Reba. She wants to hear directly from Reba that she has her blessing, so Reba assures her that she does. B.J. then breaks down and tells Brock that she can’t marry him, realizing how sweet and giving Reba is. She thinks that if Brock can leave a woman like Reba, he could easily leave her as well. Reba doesn’t want to take the rap for ruining the wedding, so she goes back in to talk to B.J. and tell her that she might be the right woman for him, where Reba was not. This cheers her up, and she decides to move forward. Kyra shows up and tells her father that she isn’t going to go the wedding. He tells her that he really wishes she would come but understands if she doesn’t want to. After they all leave, Kyra has a talk with Reba, who tells her she won’t be losing anyone and that the train has left the station. Kyra reconsiders and decides to be part of the wedding, so Reba drives her there. Both Brock and B.J. separately ask Reba to stay, but Reba says that the day should be about them. However, when she goes to leave, she steps on B.J.’s dress train and rips it. She quickly tries to sew it back together before she walks down the aisle, but Reba accidentally sews it to her own pants, so therefore, has to walk down the aisle behind B.J. When everyone wants to know what she is doing, Reba makes a speech about how she is connected to them through her kids. When she is still unable to leave due to being sewn to B.J., she starts to sing The Heart of Texas. Lisa May is the woman in the congregation that thinks Reba is unable to let go. 5/12/24
• 016. Vanny Dearest – 3/15/2002
  • The fact that Kyra got all A’s on her report card is once again overshadowed when Van gets named as the All-City football player of the year. Reba decides to make a special dinner for Kyra but feels bad about Van’s parents not being notified that Van will be honored with a banquet. Cheyenne is just excited that she will appear alongside in the newspaper. Meanwhile, Brock has Jake all to himself, but struggles to be able to make a grilled cheese sandwich that he will eat. Reba goes to Pilate’s class in order to try and run into Van’s mother Sue (Robin Riker) so she can tell her about Van’s awards ceremony. Sue says that her husband wouldn’t approve of her going, but Reba tells her that she should be there for her son’s celebrations, even if she doesn’t approve of his marriage. Cheyenne is less than enthused about Sue showing up at the dinner since she has been so horrible to Van and her about the marriage. She is even more upset when Van thanks his mother for all she’s done during the ceremony, stealing Cheyenne’s thunder, and taking her place in the photo for the newspaper. Brock gets it out of Reba that Jake likes the crusts cut off of his sandwiches. Van’s mother shows up at Reba’s house in order to try and be a good mother to Van, giving him advice on what to wear. When everyone leaves for the day, Sue hangs around so that she can greet Van when he gets home. When Jake still refuses to eat the sandwiches, Brock has a talk with him about the divorce, telling him that he will always love him and be his father. However, it turns out that Jake simply doesn’t like the multi-grain bread. That night, Reba has a special dinner for Kyra, but all of the focus is on Van and his mother, as Cheyenne gets tired of him asking his mother to solve all of his problems, including picking a birth method. Cheyenne storms off, and Reba has a talk with Van about cutting the apron strings and making his own decisions now that his responsibilities have changed. Van takes the talk to heart and asks her to leave but tells him that it is now goodbye ‘forever’. Reba returns to the Pilate’s class to talk to Sue and tells her that she has to find a happy medium in how much to be involved with her son’s life, a problem that plagues all mothers with grown children. Aysia Lee is the Pilate’s instructor. 5/13/24
• 017. He’s Having a Baby – 4/12/2002
  • Cheyenne is anxious to start Lamaze birthing classes, but Van is not happy about going along, particularly since he thinks he is being graded for it. Eventually, he is talked into going, and he winds up finding the details of child birthing to be fascinating. Unfortunately, it has the opposite effect on Cheyenne, who becomes even more nervous about having her baby. Meanwhile, Brock wants to take the kids’ old crib that he made to use for his baby with B.J. Reba takes issue with this, but Cheyenne says that she doesn’t really want to use it because it is old and dusty. While Van is anxious to take the next Lamaze class, Cheyenne makes up a story about having a paper due and tells him that she can’t go. Reba encourages him to go alone and share the information with Cheyenne, but he doesn’t want to go alone, so he asks Reba to go with him. She reluctantly agrees to be the ‘mommy’, but when they start with the exercise, it is Van who lays on the mat with his feet in the air. Also surprising Reba is the fact that Brock shows up for class with B.J. When the Lamaze teacher Maya (Niecy Nash) asks Brock to say a few words about father three babies in the past, he admits to the class that he wasn’t involved in the births of the first three kids but plans to make up for it by being with B.J. every step of the way. Bitter that he is so different now, this causes Reba to hit Brock in the stomach with their practice baby doll. While she takes delight in telling Lori Ann about how she hit him, she thinks differently when she realizes that Jake is listening in. She decides to call and apologize, but finds out from B.J., who also doesn’t want to speak to Reba because of what she did, that Brock is in the hospital. Fearing that she really injured him, she rushes over to the hospital. Van comes home from the Lamaze class and tells Cheyenne about the fight that her parents got into. She has plenty of time to listen to that, but still maintains that she is too busy with school to go back to class. Kyra has a talk with her about how the female body is built to have babies and that she will be fine, which makes Cheyenne feel better about it. Brock tells his hospital roommate Fred (Dennis Burkley) that he had a horrible day after getting hit by his ex-wife and then having his current wife drop a crib on his toe, which is the real reason that he is in the hospital. When Reba arrives, Brock lets her believe that he is there because of the injury he sustained from her. This makes her apologetic and forgiving, although she tells Brock that she wishes he could’ve been the man for her that he is now for B.J., but admits she’s never try to tell him not to be a great father to his new baby or be a great husband to B.J. but wishes that he wouldn’t rub it into her face so much. He apologizes, and she forgives, rubbing his foot as she walks out of the room. When he lets out a yell when she touches his foot, she realizes that he is in the hospital for a different injury and becomes furious that he tricked her. Before she leaves, she makes sure to flick his broken toe. 9/29/24
• 018. She Works Hard for Their Money – 4/19/2002
  • Reba and the family get ready for Cheyenne’s baby shower, and Cheyenne hopes to get a car from her mother. Reba tells her that, per their longtime agreement, she will only help her get a car when she has reached a point where Cheyenne can pay for half of it. Brock plans to get them a big-screen TV since B.J. is coming to shower, but Reba suggests that he get something more practical. Reba gives Cheyenne a quilt that she made from Cheyenne’s baby clothes, but the gift is overshadowed when Brock shows up and gives Cheyenne keys to a used car. Reba privately chastises Brock for not discussing it with her since they had always had the rule about not giving her the car until she could pay for half. Brock agrees to take the car back until she can come up with the money, and even agrees not to make it sound like it is Reba’s fault. Cheyenne and Van are disappointed, and even when Brock takes the blame, they still know that it was because of Reba’s rule. Van goes out and gets a job at Fat Tony’s Pizza Palace, and Reba tells Cheyenne that she can do work around the house and make some money toward the car. Cheyenne winds up going overboard with doing dishes and washes Reba’s grandmother’s hand-painted China from the cabinet, which wipes all of the paint off. Van then comes home and says he got promoted to be a delivery boy, but Reba says that he is not able to use the car until they can pay for half of it. Consequently, Van talks Reba into driving him around in her car to make his deliveries. Lori Ann advises Reba to simply back off of the rule and let them keep the car, but Reba thinks that they are finally learning to stand on their own two feet, and she thinks it is best to keep up with that lesson… even if it means driving Van around on his next shift again. That night after Van’s shift, Reba comes home covered in pizza sauce, just in time to see Van and Cheyenne give Brock their first $100 toward the car. Van and Cheyenne tell Brock that he is a great parent for making them save up the money for the car, as it feels so much better to buy it themselves. Reba nearly melts down and tells Van that she is quitting helping him and that Cheyenne is fired from cleaning. She then gives them a check for $2900 to cover the rest of the car, claiming it is her baby shower gift. They are both thrilled and thank her profusely. After they leave, Reba takes the check from Brock and rips it up, telling him that she is taking credit for being the hero even though he bought the car. Brock humorously tells her that she can be the good cop for now, but to watch out as Cheyenne and Van will soon want a house, and Jake has always wanted a pony. Myrna Niles is rich neighbor Gladys Horsted. 9/30/24

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