Original title
Blossom
Released
7/5/1990
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Family
Production companies
Witt/Thomas Productions, Touchstone Television, Impact Zone Productions
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
5
Number of episodes
114
Blossom Russo is a highly intelligent and spunky teenager. The youngest of three, she lives with her divorced musician father, Nick, eldest brother and recovering substance abuser Anthony, and decidedly not-so-bright middle brother Joey. Along for the ride is Blossom's ditzy best friend, Six, who sometimes shows flashes of great perception.
As Blossom records a video diary entry, she hears her parents arguing. Then they tell Blossom they have an appointment with the family lawyer. Blossom daydreams about what will happen when her parents divorce.
Blossom reaches puberty and substitutes an older friend for her absentee mother to talk about it.
Blossom looks forward to her first prom date, with Joey's friend Bobby, but after Joey warns him about Bobby's reputation as a ladies' man, Nick forbids her to go out with him.
Blossom can't stand her dad's new girlfriend.
Nick leaves Blossom in charge of home one night while he performs on a cruise ship, and her imagination kicks into high gear when she sees Anthony's new girlfriend Stephanie stealing a family heirloom but is afraid to tell him for fear he will be driven back to drugs.
While Nick is disturbed by Blossom's increasing interest in sex, she sneaks off to a make-out party with Six and two boys.
Blossom feels left out when Six befriends a chic new student. The kids keep Nick from seeing his divorce papers.
Prompted by old home movies Blossoms has transferred to video, the family retreats to the cabin by the lake where they'd shared happier times in the past.
Blossom blames herself for getting tricked into a date for the homecoming dance with a school geek. Joey wants to get his driver's license.
Nick gives Anthony an ultimatum: get a job or get out of the house.
Blossom leans on Six for support while calling a boy for a date. Anthony tries to help a friend stay sober. Nick gives Joey a hard lesson in mathematics.
Against her father's wishes, Blossom plans to drop out of her snooty private school and enroll in public school. Joey schemes to pass a history test.
Blossom and Six spy on a woman who claims a rattled Nick is the father of her child. Anthony preps for a blind date.
It's bye-bye love for Blossom when a guy she's been yearning to see again tells her he's found someone else.
Blossom debates whether or not to let Jimmy get to second base; Anthony prepares for an earthquake.
Nick's control of the Russo household is undermined when he ex-father-in-law visits.
Blossom and Six find a marijuana cigarette, then Blossom loses it in the house, where it's found by Nick, who wants to weed out the dope the joint belongs to.
Blossom enjoys unchaperoned bliss on a school band trip, which enables her to play around in a hotel room with Six. Meanwhile, at home, Nick fears Anthony is messing around again.
Joey's cheating lands him in an advanced English class, while an innocent Blossom is labeled a naughty girl when an old friend spreads a vicious rumor.
Blossom gets a crush on Steve, who suddenly shows interest in Six; Anthony worried his past drug problems will ruin his job interview.
Anthony warns Joey that his friend might be getting hooked, while Nick plays hooky with Blossom and misses an important telephone call.
Joey gets a job in a Mexican cafe and falls for a colleague, but she only speaks Spanish; Six worries about her parents getting divorced; Tony saves a famous photographer's life.
Blossom falls asleep watching In Bed with Madonnaand dreams she is a famous singer.
When Nick announces he is bringing his new love interest home for dinner, everyone has bizarre fantasies about her.
After the Russos invite the LeMeures for dinner, Six and Blossom hope their respective single parents will fall in love; but when they stay in Santa Monica overnight, Six gets very nervous.
Memories, of which there are many, aren't enough to make a balloon payment on the house, so Nick is forced to consider selling.
The Russos spend a turbulent Christmas: It isn't a wonderful life for Nick as Christmas approaches, since a musicians' strike forces him to take a gig in a mall organ store.
Blossom is confident about her PSATs, while Six suffers from exam nerves; and things turn out differently then either expects. Meanwhile, Anthony's IQ is tested by a trip to the racetrack with Buzz.
Blossom develops a crush on her handsome substitute teacher, who turns out to be happily married.
Blossom is paired with a tough guy for a household management class exercise and targeted by his girlfriend. Nick is interviewed for his old high school newspaper by a former classmate. Anthony fears falling off the wagon because of drugs he's given for toothache.
Blossom has a problem with public speaking; Tony saves Miss June's life; Nick practices for appearing in a Paula Abdul video.
The family makes a video birthday card for Mom's 40th birthday; Nick visits a fitness studio.
A girl from school uses Blossom as a cover for dating boys.
Blossom and Six wait in line for fifteen hours to get tickets to C+C Music Factory. Joey gets his first baby-sitting job. Anthony is mystified by a female co-worker's hostility.
Six shows how much her parents' breakup bugs her when she and her mother stay at the Russo house overnight while theirs is being sprayed by an exterminator; and a 12-year-old boy develops a crush on Blossom.
Blossom forges her detention slip in order to sneak out to a big rock concert; Nick lies about where he's spending the night after he hits it off with a country singer.
Blossom passes her driver's test, but only because she cries; Joey is being sexually harassed by his boss at work.
Everyone has a date except Joey and Six, who spy on Blossom and Vinnie.
Nick wakes up to find that Blossom has run away with Vinnie.
Blossom writes a letter to her mother about Vinnie.
Tony is depressed about splitting up with Rhonda; Blossom is happily in love with Vinnie, until he suggests they should see other people; Joey thinks it is his fault that the girl he split up with was in an accident.
Joey uses an escort service in an attempt to ease his overactive hormones; Blossom's new romance threatens her friendship with Six.
Joey has a deadline for a story about himself, but is continually distracted by fantasies about beautiful women; Blossom is upset when Vinnie wants to go out with his ex-girlfriend.
Blossom decides to have sex with Vinnie, but he refuses; then she learns he is in a coma after a motorcycle accident.
Blossom and Six try to get fake IDs to get into a club; Anthony loses his first patient, an old comedian who left him laughing in the ambulance, and wants to have the funeral at the house.
Blossom and Six are arrested when stolen items turn up in their garage sale; pro-baseball scout Chico Barranca visits Joey to see if he has a future in baseball.
Grounded on Halloween, Joey gets mistaken for a crazed prowler, while Nick, Anthony, and Buzz have their car break down outside a very macho bar -- in costume as a female rock band.
Blossom runs for president of the student council against popular Eddie Warwick.
Blossom records her family on video; Joey becomes suspicious that he was switched at birth.
Blossom gets drunk on spiked punch at a frat party and wakes up nude in a stranger's bed; Rhonda moves in with Anthony while her apartment is fumigated; Joey gets a gorgeous math tutor.
Six considers having sex with her new boyfriend; Blossom's class change religions for a week, so she seeks information about Judaism from a wise, wisecracking rabbi; Joey and Anthony buy an old car together.
Blossom is called for a Harvard interview, and Buzz tries to dissuade her from rejecting college to stay with her beau by telling her of his World War-II era romance with her grandmother Ruby.
Nick is upset when the stand-up comic he is dating makes fun of him on the Arsenio Hall Show; Joey falls in love with Rhonda's niece; Blossom and Six make a serious video about safe sex that gets a thumbs down from the principal.
Blossom and Six ponder the passage of time; Joey's too nervous to open a college letter of acceptance; Anthony pops the question to Rhonda; Nick learns his date comes with strings attached.
Six begs Blossom to accompany her on a final practice drive before getting her license; Buzz announces he has gotten married; Joey is visited by two beautiful models, but no one will believe him.
Nick encounters an old friend; Blossom and Vinnie becomes closer after he asks her to the prom; and Joey and Anthony have a close encounter with a UFO.
Nick tries to keep the kids away from his Disneyland job as an Elvis impersonator; Blossom gets jealous when she sees Vinnie with his cousin.
The family gathers to watch the student films they have made through the years.
Blossom refuses to attend the senior prom when she learns Vinnie is not a virgin; meanwhile, Joey escorts a pregnant girl.
Blossom's mother reflects on her breakup with Nick while reading a letter from Blossom that focuses on her broken relationship with Vinnie.
Nick's money problems prompt the kids to help out, but when Blossom applies for a job at a record store, she discovers she has been beaten to the punch by Six. Meanwhile, Joey decides to make a fortune speculating in baseball cards, while Anthony tries to sell cosmetics by phone.
Nick and a TV-writer buddy pitch a sitcom to the network that's based on the Russo family, only Six gets cast in the role of Blossom.
Joey delivers a pizza to a woman who propositions him; Blossom suspects Six may be bulimic; sudden passion consumes Anthony and an antagonist.
Upset over her breakup with Vinnie, Blossom longs to visit her mother in Paris. She gets her wish at the beginning of the next season.
After moving to Paris to live with her mother, Blossom finds a new boyfriend, friendly waiter Laurent, who gives her a tour of the romantic city par excellence.
Joey and Anthony take jobs as air couriers to Paris.
Vinnie shows up in Paris; Anthony and Joey are followed; Nick and Six's mother spend the night together.
Blossom must decide whether or not to stay in Paris with her mother.
Joey and his dad go fishing together in hopes of bonding; Blossom discovers that Six is abusing alcohol.
Nick and Blossom are alarmed when Maddy returns with intentions of staying; Six rides along with Anthony and a cantankerous EMT.
Blossom is horrified to learn that Six is dating a married ex-con ten years her senior. Meanwhile, Joey gets a letter from the President asking for his advice, and Vinnie and Anthony set up an illegal cable hookup.
Six has run off with Sonny, and only Vinnie and Blossom know where they've gone. Blossom tries to talk Six out of her infatuation, but it ends only when Sonny is arrested and immediately falls for a female prison guard.
Blossom spots a gun in a classmate's locker; Joey encounters an alcoholic clown.
In a psychiatrist's office in the near future, Nick recalls the good old days, when Blossom got her SAT scores, Anthony proposed to Rhonda and Joey got a bad break en route to the big leagues.
After his breakup with Rhonda, Anthony accompanies Joey to a function at the Playboy Mansion, while Blossom attempts to write a romance novel to fund her college education.
Blossom feels Vinnie is losing interest in her; Six tries to seduce Joey; Nick discovers his date has had sex with Anthony.
Anthony starts drinking again while in Las Vegas; the family tries to accept Nick's new girlfriend.
Anthony and Shelly discover they are married after a night of drinking in Las Vegas; Vinnie proposes to Blossom.
A new student irritates Blossom by imitating everything she does; a character in Shelly's book resembles Tony.
Blossom becomes bitter when she realizes that Nick is in love with Carol; Joey finally has sex with his new girlfriend but worries that it will ruin their relationship.
There's something cooking between Blossom and her supervisor at a homeless shelter; meanwhile, Nick tries becoming a vegetarian, and Anthony can't stomach a waiter's racial slurs.
Six's date, who is Vinnie's best friend, makes a pass at Blossom and then denies it; Joey's secret admirer turns out to be a gay teammate; Anthony's father-in-law visits and discovers that he once arrested Nick during a 1970s campus protest.
A spoof of '60s beach-party movies features the new chick from Santa Monica making waves with the teen queen of Malibu over a surfer god.
Fabian, Phyllis Diller and Jimmie Walker become part of Blossom's beach party fantasy as Shy is Otto's hostage on the eve of the Ruler of the Waves surf contest.
Joey turns to a childhood imaginary friend for help when he suspects a teammate is using steroids; Blossom volunteers to baby-sit Carol's daughter, then is invited to a concert.
Cast members introduce favorite clips.
Blossom's 18th birthday makes her blue; Joey writes a letter to Hillary Clinton about health care; Carol's ex has an odd proposal for Nick; and Shelly's cousin Robin isn't thrilled to meet Anthony because of something Shelly hasn't told her about Anthony - that fact that he's white.
Blossom and Anthony scheme to fix up a lonely Buzz with Anthony's cantankerous EMT partner Mrs. Peterson; meanwhile, Joey takes notes from Nick on a school project.
Two aliens in a flying saucer (voices of Joey Lawrence and Michael Stoyanov) choose the Russo home as the site for their observations of earthling behavior, particularly their susceptibility to the seven deadly sins, which are illustrated in encounters between the various characters. (This being a family sit-com, sloth gets the most airtime.)
A missed baseball game prompts Joey to recall his mom's history of broken promises; Tony and Shelly's marriage is put to the test when Rhonda returns unexpectedly; Nick takes Blossom and Six to the drive-in and is not prepared for a barrage of questions about his past.
At the prom, Blossom gets the news that Vinnie's been accepted to an Ivy League school; Six is escorted by a nerdy foreign student with a hidden talent; and chaperones Nick and Carol act like a couple of teenagers in love.
Vinnie wants to announce his engagement to Blossom after he graduates, but Blossom has lost the ring - which she perceives as a bad omen. Meanwhile, college-bound Joey is drafted by a pro baseball team.
Major changes in the Russo household unsettle Blossom: Carol and Kennedy move in; Anthony and Shelly move out; and Joey hits the road with his baseball team.
Blossom and Nick fight over her resistance to change, particularly Carol, and she runs away from home to join Joey on his road trip.
Blossom is furious when Joey refuses to set her up on a date with his handsome but dumb teammate Richie, but has to admit he was right when a double date with Joey's dim new girlfriend Tanya bores her to distraction. Meanwhile, Kennedy finds a lost bulldog and is heartbroken when his owner claims him; and Shelly keeps picking on Anthony but won't say why - until we finally learn she is pregnant.
Blossom makes a video for the unborn baby of Anthony and Shelly to introduce him or her to the Russos' world; meanwhile, a veteran gives Joey the rookie treatment.
As Nick and Carol's wedding day arrives, there's something old (their exes at the bachelor party and bridal shower) and something blue (the bitter little flower girl, Kennedy).
Blossom struggles with a deceptively difficult school assignment in which she can express herself in any way she chooses, so Carol suggests that she simply write anything.
Blossom baby-sits Kennedy and her friend, a frightfully obnoxious little girl; meanwhile, Joey is like a babe in the woods when he's approached by a seasoned baseball groupie.
Six finds it hard to believe that she and Blossom weren't accepted at the same college. When Joey faces his first batting slump, Nick must revive his childhood persona of The Fishstick Man to help his son get his swing back. Anthony panics when it looks like Shelly is starting labor contractions.
Blossom dreams of herself as Blossom Gump, giving simple words of advice to Madonna and Michael Jackson, when in reality she'd rather be giving her opinions in the school newspaper.
When Shelly goes into labour, Blossom, Six and Joey are under the gun to get her to the hospital, while Anthony is being held at gunpoint in his ambulance.
Blossom sneaks off to a young-adult party, where she meets a guy who treats her like a mature young woman.
Blossom thinks the acting life might be for her, but her audition for a famous stage director doesn't play out as she hoped.
Blossom's wants some time alone with her new boyfriend to try to get something going, but there's too much going on in the house to get anything started.
Joey proves he's no dummy when he uses his scientific knowledge of anatomy to relieve Nick's stiff back.
Nick hopes sparks will fly when Blossom agrees to go out with the son of his old pal (who turns out to be happily gay); trapped by a flash flood, Joey and Six check into a hotel room together.
Vinnie announces he is transferring to UCLA because he misses Blossom; a new girlfriend spoils Joey.
Blossom is assaulted by her date, a popular football star, when she tries to fend off his aggressive advances.
Joey proposes to his old flame; Blossom gets a job at an ad agency run by Carol's old boyfriend, and Nick's bothered when Carol accepts an offer to be a consultant there.
Talia Shire asks Blossom to play the lead in a new movie she's directing - but the part requires Blossom to appear in the nude.
Blossom stubbornly refuses to accept a grade that she thinks is lower than she deserves - even if it means she won't graduate.
Joey proposes to Melanie; Nick decides to sell the house when Carol discovers she is pregnant; Blossom gets her first real job.
Blossom, Joey and Six discourage prospective buyers of the house, while Shelly and baby Nash plan to move back east.
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