Episode #212 "The Gift Of Jamie"

  Steve hires an actor to help him weasel out of going to Katie’s for Christmas; she catches on immediately and tells him that now she doesn’t want him to come. Steve didn’t’ want to hurt her feelings, but he’s relieved he doesn’t have to go. Jamie wants to but a great present for Brenda, but as usual he’s penniless. Potter Stevens, the vintage clothing tycoon of Indianapolis, has offered Jamie $350 for his 1967 Pucci shirt but Jamie can’t bear to part with it; he’ll find another way to raise some money. Confident that he’ll win, he decides to enter a karaoke contest with a prize of 4500; he’ll use the money to buy Brenda a new TV, since hers is broken. He convinces Steve to also enter the contest but to dress as Saddam Hussein so that everyone will hate him and Jamie will be sure to win. Jamie overhears Katie talking with Brenda and reports to Steve that Katie will be cheating on him in Buffalo with a guy named Brian; Steve takes off for the airport still dressed as the dictator. Jamie loses the contest to Aaron Neville who’s a surprise contestant. Steve, still in his Saddam Hussein costume, bursts in on Katie’s Christmas festivities and encounters her cousin Brian who spent five years in therapy after being traumatized while fighting in the Desert Storm conflict. And Jamie sells his pants to Potter to buy Brenda’s TV but doesn’t give it to her until he installs a spy camera.