In revealing that their late mother, Margaret, was a heavy smoker, Carl reveals that he and Margaret had fought about the issue many times and that he wishes he had slapped her to get her to realize she was killing herself. forcing his hand and, in talking to Julie, getting him to reveal why he was so furious with her. This prompts her to move out of the house temporarily, and when Carl stands his ground and justifies his actions, Nell, Katie and Samantha ostracize him. The Season 2 episode "Julie Smokes" has Carl slap his daughter across the face when, after she lied to him that she was not smoking, she accidentally blew smoke in his face, having unsuccessfully concealed that she had currently been smoking a cigarette.Nell intervenes (by standing in the way) and stops him, and he eventually cools off and backs away. When the two are arguing, Katie makes a snide remark about why she thinks her father wanted her to take the test, prompting him to warn her to stop, and when she presses on, he takes off his belt and chases after her. A later Season 1 episode, "Katie the Cheat," has Carl fuming when he learns that Katie did not actually take a college entrance exam (while Julie did).When Carl demands an explanation, Katie makes a snide remark - "She can't say anything, she's dead!" - to his question about how she'd think her mother would react if she knew her daughter had been arrested.
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In the series pilot, Katie is arrested for shoplifting.Abusive Parents: Carl physically slaps his two older daughters (and threatens to spank Samantha at least once) in various episodes.For the final season, the show underwent a Retool, with most of the cast (minus the older Kanisky daughters) moving to New York City. After the death of Dolph Sweet (Carl) after season 4, the series continued for a season with Nell as the sole head of the Kanisky household. the girls) in an otherwise standard 80s Dom Com setting. straightlaced second-generation Polish Chief Kanisky) and generation (Nell and Carl vs. Most of the show's humor came from the clashes of culture (Nell, the Sassy Black Woman from the South vs. Later additions to the cast included Stanley Kanisky (Carl's father), Adelaide "Addy" Wilson (Nell's best friend, played by Telma Hopkins), adopted son Joey ( Joey Lawrence) and Nell's mother, Maybelle. Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom that ran on NBC for six seasons (1981–87), starring Nell Carter as Nell Harper, a once-aspiring singer who became a housekeeper for the Kaniskys: patriarch Carl, the chief of police of the fictional Glenlawn, California, and his daughters Katie, Julie and Samantha (the last of the kids played by a young Lara Jill Miller).
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