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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 22
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English
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Dick and Mary are invited to a reception for a new professor, and Mary asks Dick to try not to act so weird. Mary says that Dick and his family are the "Addams Family." Dick asks August if he seems weird to her, and when she answers in the affirmative, he goes ballistic. Dick tells the other aliens that it's obvious that they're not fitting in. From now on, they must be statistically average.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 26
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English
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Mary's doing a promotional video for the university directed by Aubrey Pitman, one of Dick's students, and Dick's upset that he wasn't asked to participate. When the guy she's been dating doesn't show up as promised, Nina accepts Harry's offer to drive her to the dentist to have her wisdom teeth extracted.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 9
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English
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Dick confides in Dr. Albright that he and Sally can't seem to stop fighting, and Mary tells him it's the same with her younger brother Roy. But when Dick meets Roy, he immediately likes him and invites him to dinner with the Solomon family. During dinner, much to Mary's embarrassment and the Solomons' alarm, Roy tells a story about being abducted from a cornfield by an alien spacecraft.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 7
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English
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During Pendleton's homecoming weekend, Dick learns firsthand the importance humans place in competition. Tommy has a crush on his glee club teacher. Sally makes Nina her best friend. Harry gets a job as a security officer.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 3
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English
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When Dick smashes the Rambler into a tree, Mary assumes that he's insured, but he isn't. He pretends he has the same agent as Mary and when the agent drops by, Dick is annoyed to discover that it's necessary to buy the insurance before the accident. But when Dick rents a car, he falls in love with it.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 10
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English
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Dr. Albright uses flattery to convince Dick to attend a faculty meeting in her place, but Dick immediately alienates the group by innocently revealing her true feelings: they're a bunch of stodgy, boring old men. When Dr. Albright is furious with him, a perplexed Dick learns that the "truth" can have many degrees and nuances.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 5
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English
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Since Mary became dean, Dick feels she's been neglecting him. He's even more unhappy when he learns he's about to have a new officemate: Dr. Jennifer Ravelli, a comparative literature professor from Harvard.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 5
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English
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Prompted by a Harrison Ford magazine cover, Dick considers having plastic surgery, despite Mary's assurances that she loves him just the way he is.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 8
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English
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Fueling his own ego, Dick forces Tommy into a special school for gifted students. Meanwhile, Sally is mistaken for a drag queen and Harry dabbles in magic.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 22
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English
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The other aliens learn that the BGH is Dick's father. Meanwhile, Tommy discovers that Sally dumped Alissa on his behalf.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 9
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English
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Mrs. Dubcek asks the Solomons to babysit her infant nephew. Dick discovers that he's not very good at taking care of things when he kills Dr. Albright's fish.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 21
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English
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The Big Giant Head and Vicki arrive unexpectedly, and it's immediately clear that the honeymoon is over. The BGH insists that Dick take him out clubbing that night in spite of the fact that Dick has already made plans with Mary.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 14
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English
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Dick walks in while his teaching colleagues are discussing the killings they've made in the stock market. Not to be outdone and without a clue of what they're talking about, Dick invites Mary on a six-day vacation in Cancun to be paid for with his stock-market profits.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 19
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English
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Frank Cooper, a former student of Mary's and now an academic himself, shows up at Rutherford. Cooper, a very handsome man, greets Mary affectionately and Dick's instantly overwhelmed with jealousy.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 7
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English
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Dick gets called for jury duty and finds the experience baffling from the very beginning. He doesn't want to be on the jury for any case that he finds boring or insignificant, but he is also highly insulted when he's excused several times in the jury selection process.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 12
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English
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Harry has a new job at a video store where he takes his work very seriously. Tommy is one of his first customers, renting a David Copperfield magic show that he thinks will save him the trouble of reading the Dickens novel. Dick convinces Dr. Albright that he should accompany her to Chicago to receive an anthropology award, and they wind up stuck in a snowstorm.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 8
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English
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Relations become strained between Tommy and his girlfriend August when Cheryl, a cheerleader, enters the picture. Dick, Sally and Harry attend a party in honor of Dr. Hanlin, a universally-disliked faculty member. When the doctor drops dead at the party, Dick, whose honesty Dr. Hanlin admired, is perplexed to learn that his dying wish was for him to deliver a eulogy at the funeral.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 19
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English
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Dick informs the other aliens that Mary saw him turn Neesam into a chimp. After a brief discussion, it's agreed upon that denial is the best method of damage control.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 3
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English
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With Mary's promotion to dean, Dick soon learns that he's being perceived as Mrs. Albright. While he's a bit uncomfortable with his new status, it doesn't seem to bother Mary at all. When Mrs. Dubcek's grandson opens a lemonade stand, Tommy and Harry open their own but have no success. And when Sally learns that Don has had other women in his life, she tracks down all his ex-girlfriends.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 17
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English
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When Nina leaves Dick's grade reports on the computer and he has no idea how to retrieve them, it's clear that he's a physics professor who is computer illiterate. Dick can't accept that he, a superior being, can't operate a computer. He returns his old computer to the electronics store and insists that it's broken.