8. Charitable Dick — Episode — 3rd Rock from the Sun

8. Charitable Dick

Mary and Dick go to a charity auction. All the buyers get applause and Dick wants this attention too. Therefore, he bids on a painting he actually doesn't want. Don has trouble sleeping because Sally snores. Meanwhile, Tommy and Harry write a new mission statement because Harry lost the original.

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

At a charity auction for the Rutherford Boys Home, Dick wants everybody to applaud him and so starts a bidding war with Studwick for a painting and ends up paying seventeen hundred dollars for it. Meanwhile, Don complains when Sally's snoring keeps him up all night, so she decides to try to stay awake all night so that he can sleep, but ends up keeping him awake anyway. Back at home, Harry and Tommy have been given the job of devising a new mission statement, and so try to work out what their purpose is on Earth. ( Absent: Elmarie Wendel as Mrs. Dubcek)

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