Season 4: Episode 85: Dance Mania
Clair gets Theo two tickets to a taping of his favorite TV show, Dance Mania, as the producer is one of her hairdresser's regular clients. Theo is thrilled, as the show has a long waiting list for tickets. He invites Cockroach to go to the taping with him. They are disappointed when the stage manager refuses to let them onstage because he must monitor the number of dancers to meet the fire code. One opening becomes available, and Theo tells Cockroach to take it. He initially refuses because Theo was the one who got the tickets. The third time that Theo offers, Cockroach accepts and goes onstage. He gets to dance with the show's most popular dancer, Tina Hunter. A steaming Theo watches on a monitor in the green room. He becomes very jealous when Cockroach becomes the talk of the school. He is furious when Vanessa and Rudy force him to turn the TV to Dance Mania so that they can watch Cockroach's appearance. He trips over one of Rudy's toys on his way out of the room. When she refuses to apologize for leaving it out, he throws it into the street and lets it get run over by a car. Clair follows Theo to the kitchen and tries to calm him. She says that he should have jumped at the chance to be on the show if it was that important to him, and that he shouldn't have offered it to Cockroach unless he was sincere. Meanwhile, Vanessa tries to teach the "new math" to a frustrated Cliff.