In the opener, George walks of the job when he's ordered to cut his ponytail; but his problems have less to do with the length of his air than they do with his huge gambling debt.
George's sanity is questioned after he sees a UFO.
George dates a pet-shop owner. (Part 1 of 2)
Friends offer fashion advice when George shows up at the Moylan in a Nehru jacket, ready for his date with Kathleen, which is later interrupted by news that Miles has run away. (Part 2 of 2)
George helps Sydney get a modeling audition, but then accidentally breaks her nose.
A pompous newsman's TV tirade about incompetent New York cabbies prompts a verbal letter bomb from George, who later surprises pals at the Moylan with his on-screen rebuttal.
George makes a killing off a drunken passenger and begins spending with reckless abandon, ignoring Harry's warning about ""bad money"" until he attends a championship boxing match.
Movie buffs frequent the tavern, to the dismary of the regulars.
After his thermos disappears at the Moylan, George makes a big stink, raving on about the declining quality of life at his neighborhood tavern.
George takes pity on a has-been '60s rocker when he sees him performing for spare change in the street.
George is cited by a cab-company ""spy"" for using foul language on the job and must appear at a city hearing.
Thugs hijack George's taxi.
A game of pinball may destroy George's relationship with Kathleen.
Harry tries to recapture his youth by stealing a truck.
George angles for a fishing buddy after a woman bequeaths her late husband's ice-fishing boat to him. What has George reeling, however, is the young man who shows up at the Moylan claiming to be his son.
George plots to sell off a package of purloined pot and gets increasingly paranoid in the process, for a good reason: a pot-sniffing pooch is on his trail.
George advises Sydney against dating the urbane Dr. Beck; but later, even the ragtag George is taken in by the Beck family's unaffected ways on a visit to their palatial estate.
A comatose bar patron on life support has left George with power of attorney over his gambling winnings, and now George discovers it's up to him to pull the plug.
George is in hot water with Harry's wife, who suspects her husband is having an affair and using George's apartment as his love nest. The truth is that Harry is just intimidated by her surgically altered good looks.
A mysterious virus overruns the city and it's originating in George's apartment, where his housecleaning has created a primordial soup of deadly organisms.
George tries to set up his ex-wives with Jack and Frank.
George figures he's doing an adolescent a favor by buying him his first Playboy magazine, but the boy's parents insist George has scarred their son for life.
George runs into an old buddy, a priest with a crisis of conscience whom George offers a guided tour of the secular world.
George is confronted with evidence suggesting his father was on the Japanese side of World War II.