A Different World
Season 5
25 episodes
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S05E01 We've Only Just Begun
Dwayne and Whitley start their new lives together as an engaged couple. while they also have a new set for the dorm and welcome some new freshman.
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S05E02 The Dwayne Mutiny
Dwayne is under a lot of stress after being so over occupied while Jaleesa starts a new her own job at home.
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S05E03 Home is Where the Fire Is
Bickering distracts Whitley and Kim from a hazard in Lena's (Jada Pinkett) room.
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S05E04 Almost Working Girl
Freddie takes a job as a receptionist and overhears one of her new superiors talking saying they are against affirmative action. Lena tries to get out of an English assignment by renting the movie instead.
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S05E05 In the Eye of the Storm
As a hurricane batters the campus, Ron and Freddie confront their differences while trapped together.
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S05E06 Rule Number One
Dwayne fails to foresee the consequences of his tutoring Lena (Jada Pinkett); Ron goes into the cosmetics business.
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S05E07 Baby, I'm a Star
Kim's new-found arrogance loses her a spot in Ron's band; Col. Taylor frets over his age.
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S05E08 Liza Who-Little
Whitley's wealthy cousin Liza (Jasmine Guy in a dual role) goes husband-hunting at Hillman.
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S05E09 To Tell the Truth
Dwayne gets into hot water when he is spotted holding hands with a woman other than Whitley.
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S05E10 Do You Take This Woman?
Dwayne and Whitley's parents both come together for their engagement party. When both mothers get into a heated exchange Dwayne and Whitley are going to an exchange as well when Dwayne gets cold feet but it is Whitley who calls off the engagement.
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S05E11 Mammy Dearest
Airing eleven years after my Howard University dissertation trumped extant evidence disclaiming a gender neutral American culture, episode 11 from season 5 is the mother lode imitation of silk purse life from a sow's ear. The African Queen ending does nothing to obscure this producer's eurocentric bias toward aryan motherhood & his imprimatur that blacks embrace their own out-of-Africa evolution.
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S05E12 Twelve Steps of Christmas
Whitley and Dwayne struggle with their first holiday apart. The Taylor Family is having a conflict of interest over Christmas traditions. Therapist, Dr. Langhorne advises everyone to holiday cheer.
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S05E13 Just Another Four-Letter Word
Ron is forced to move out of his apartment after he spends the rent money pursuing his music career.
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S05E14 Cats in the Cradle
At a hotly contested Hillman-Virginia A&M game, Ron accepts a sucker bet from three white A&M students, then gets into a fight with them when one of them starts to spray a racial epithet on his car in revenge. In a cell, the men proceed to give very different accounts, mediated by a white officer who challenges both groups' assumptions.
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S05E15 Prisoner of Love
Freddie's pen pal, Jamal, is an ex-con and he visits Hillman, where Whitley is drawn to him. Ron and Dwayne get involved and find an expensive camera and other items in Jamal's belongings and accuse him of stealing.
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S05E16 Bedroom at the Top
When Whitley is promoted at work, she is faced with sexual harassment by her new boss. Colonel Taylor is thrilled to learn Terrence has finally chosen a career, until he finds out it's dance.
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S05E17 May the Best Man Win
Byron Douglas is impressed with Whitley's fund raising skills and asks her to help with his Senate campaign. Mr. Gaines has troubles with the lease at The Pit and Byron gets involved.
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S05E18 Kiss You Back
Whitley and Byron are getting serious, but Whitley still has feelings for Dwayne. They end up sleeping together when Dwayne arrives at Whitley's place to discuss their relationship. Kim finally goes out with Ron to a club but ends up leaving when every woman seems to have a past with Ron.
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S05E19 Conflict of Interest
After Whitley and Dwayne spend the night together, they avoid speaking about their feelings. Charmaine and Lance visit Hillman.
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S05E20 Sellmates
Ron is intrigued by a female con artist. Kim fears she won't be accepted to medical school.
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S05E21 Do the Write Thing
Lena is losing her engineering scholarship until she writes a moving story about her father, which later is proven to be fabricated. It earns her a journalism scholarship and brings her closer to her gambler father. Whitley jeopardizes Byron's fund raising when she wears a fur to an event.
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S05E22 Love Taps
Events take a tragic turn at the dorm when Lena suspects a rapper named Dion is abusing Gina.
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S05E23 Special Delivery
Byron's opponent brings details of a stripper in Byron's past to light but Byron refuses to fight back, and just wants to discuss the issues. Byron wins the election and proposes to Whitley which upsets Dwayne. Jaleesa gives birth with the help of Kim and Freddie.
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S05E24 Save the Best for Last: Part 1
Whitley's wedding is fast approaching and Dwayne has convinced himself he can handle it, but he's unable to hide his sadness at the bachelor party.
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S05E25 Save the Best for Last: Part 2
Dwayne decides he's not going to Whitley's wedding. He gives her wedding present to Ron and asks him to take it to the ceremony.
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