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Season 1

  • S01E01 Lydia Arrives

    • November 8, 2001

    Lydia moves into Billy B. Ong's house after coming from Hong Kong, and Billy B. Ong struggles with his lawyer to try to get rid of her.

  • S01E02 Desperately Seeking Yang

    • November 15, 2001

    Lydia seeks money, so she finds a businessman called Mr. Yang to see if he could fund her business. Meanwhile, Ronda's friend Mary tries to convince Ronda not to pursue Billy.

  • S01E03 Chocolate

    • November 22, 2001

    Ronda decides not to dress up for work anymore after being dumped. Meanwhile, Max has been grounded by Billy for not doing well in school.

  • S01E04 Ronda's Party

    • November 28, 2001

    Lydia is desperately seeking customers for her new dimsum business. She begs Ronda, who turns to her friend Vivian, who is throwing a party.

  • S01E05 Blackout

    • December 4, 2001

    Apple forgets to come back in time for a family outing to the Hong Kong family association and has to stay home alone with Max.

  • S01E06 Jolly Fruits

    • December 11, 2001

    Lydia fills out numerous lucky draw tickets from a fruit company, without having read the rules first.

  • S01E07 Usha

    • December 18, 2001

    When Lydia gets depressed, her friend Usha, a former Bollywood star actress, arrives and tries to cheer her up.

  • S01E08 Diet

    • January 6, 2002

    Lydia wants a job as a salesperson for a health food company, but the manager thinks that she is too overweight.

  • S01E09 Rat

    • January 13, 2002

    Apple discovers a rat in the bathroom. Meanwhile, Lydia invites food critic Claire Tong over to try her dimsums so she would write an article about Lydia.

  • S01E10 Billy's New Assistant

    • January 20, 2002

    Lydia becomes Billy's assistant while Ronda goes away for a surgery.

  • S01E11 Cat And Fire

    • January 27, 2002

    When a neighbor's cat comes in and tries to eat Lydia's expensive dumplings, it leads to an argument between Billy and Lydia.

  • S01E12 Brother Part 1

    • February 3, 2002

    When Lydia's brother Fruit Woo arrives in Singapore, Billy and Max suspects that he is not honest. Meanwhile, Ronda starts turning her attention towards Fruit.

  • S01E13 Brother Part 2

    • February 10, 2002

    When Lydia learns of Fruit's situation, she is forced to take desperate measures.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Where in the world is Lydia Lum?

    • November 12, 2002

    Billy goes in search of Lydia. Meanwhile, Lydia, Fruit and the children are on the run.

  • S02E02 There’s Something about Number 1

    • November 19, 2002

    Lydia has returned to Singapore, and Billy wants to sell Lydia's fishballs. Meanwhile, Jordan wants to go back to his old school, but the principal won't let him.

  • S02E03 Who’s the Man?

    • November 26, 2002

    Lydia meets a new friend, Sulaiman, while trying to find a job at a job fair. Meanwhile, Ronda tries to persuade Billy to hire a trend consultant.

  • S02E04 Ronda Moves In

    • December 3, 2002

    When Rondas's flat is being renovated, she moves in with Billy and Lydia.

  • S02E05 All In A Night’s Work

    • December 10, 2002

    Ronda comes up with a scheme to lure Billy to go on a holiday.

  • S02E06 Customer is the King

    • December 17, 2002

    After Lydia is turned down for a job as a chef at a 5-star hotel, she gets a surprise offer from one of the hotel's guests who tasted her dim sums. Meanwhile, Ronda wants Billy to treat her like a personal assistant.

  • S02E07 Thank Gott!

    • January 7, 2003

    Blurry lines ensues when a doctor mistakes Lydia's tunnel vision treatment for something else, while bicycle accident victim Ronda joins her rival in the same hospital.

  • S02E08 Where’s Wally?

    • January 14, 2003

    A "Look Who's Talking" themed episode that finds Ronda trying to take care of Billy's 15-month-old nephew, only to have Lydia ending up being the nanny.

  • S02E09 The Spirulina Incident

    • January 21, 2003

    Lydia attempts to make fishballs out of Spirulina while also trying to find a way to get Jordan to eat his vegetables. Meanwhile, Max adopts a pet turtle.

  • S02E10 A Matter Of Principal

    • January 28, 2003

    At a meet-the-principal day at Max and Apple's school, Billy and Lydia find themselves dealing with their principal, a no-nonsense army officer who is upset with Max and Apple's behaviour.

  • S02E11 The Reunion

    • February 4, 2003

    Jordan is unhappy that he wet his bedspread one night and tries to hide it by volunteering to do the laundry for the rest of his life. Meanwhile, Billy gets nervous about his looks because his 30th secondary school reunion is coming up.

  • S02E12 Table of Mao

    • February 11, 2003

    Lydia and Billy discover that the family dining table might have once belonged to Chinese Chairman Mao.

  • S02E13 Sleeping With The Enemy

    • February 18, 2003

    Billy discover another will that states that he has to remarry in order to keep the house, which Ronda sees as an opportunity. The children try to develop a plan to stop Lydia from losing her half of the house.

Season 3

  • S03E01 The Way We Were

    • September 30, 2003

    Flashback to 1979. Lydia comes to Singapore for the first time to fullfill her dreams of becoming a Singapore Girl. Meanwhile, Ah Kong goes all out to fix Billy up with Lydia.

  • S03E02 Mrs. Billy B. Ong

    • October 7, 2003

    Billy's wife Suzanne returns suddenly after disappearing for 7 years. According to the terms of Ah Kong's new will, this means that Lydia no longer owns half the house and has to move out.

  • S03E03 Stakeout

    • October 14, 2003

    The police set up a stakeout base in Lydia and Billy's house to observe one of their neighbour's alleged illegal activities.

  • S03E04 Mahjong Queen

    • October 21, 2003

    Lydia is on a winning streak in mahjong and ends up playing with a big time gambler who cheats her of her half of the house.

  • S03E05 Do The Right Thing

    • October 28, 2003

    Lydia goes to the ATM, finds $80,000 in her bank account and has absolutely no idea where the money came from or what to do with it.

  • S03E06 Hard Habit to Break

    • November 4, 2003

    Lydia starts to smoke again after quitting for more than 16 years. Ronda finds the man of her dreams but gets paranoid when she can't find anything wrong with him. Meanwhile, Sulaiman has something to hide when he comes to work one day with a huge plaster on his face.

  • S03E07 Life's A Peach

    • November 11, 2003

    Apple wants Lydia to help her in her school project but Lydia is too busy helping a client win back her fiancee. Apple turns to Ronda and Lydia gets jealous when Apple and Ronda start to bond. After Max sprains his ankle doing the cha-cha, Sulaiman offers his "magic fingers".

  • S03E08 Workplace Health

    • November 18, 2003

    Lydia is roped in to help at Bill Bong's fishball factory. Meanwhile, Jordan is practising the violin and gets forced to play at a "lunch time concert".

  • S03E09 Obsessions

    • November 25, 2003

    Max and Jordan pull a scheme on Apple by pretending that a singer that she's a fan of wants to see her. Meanwhile, Ronda decides to enrol in therapy to help overcome her obsession with Billy.

  • S03E10 Dotting the Eyes

    • November 25, 2003

    Lydia gets overzealous in protecting Jordan's eyesight. Meanwhile, Ronda and Sulaiman engage a couple who are top web designers to set up the Bing Bong Ball website.

  • S03E11 Educating Lydia

    • December 2, 2003

    Lydia is annoyed at how much her son Jordan has to learn in school as a result of preparing for his PSLE (Primary School Leaving Examination). Meanwhile, Ronda and Sulaiman go on strike after Billy turns down their demands.

  • S03E12 Wrong Feng Shui

    • December 9, 2003

    Lydia tries to turn her business and life around by amending the feng shui in the house. Billy doesn't believe in feng shui and refuses to let her touch his side of the house.

  • S03E13 Charlie's Aunties

    • December 9, 2003

    In an episode inspired by "Charlie's Angels", Suliaman tries to bankroll an action-adventure flick, but ends up with a tight shoestring budget. Meanwhile, Billy will stop at nothing to ensure his Bing Bong Balls gets maximum exposure in the movie.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Homecoming

    • November 16, 2004

    Lydia loses her half of the house to Billy's estranged cousin Johnny who shows up will a new will.

  • S04E02 Who Killed Johnny

    • November 23, 2004

    After Johnny is unexpectedly found dead in the kitchen of the house, Ronda's old boyfriend (who happened to work for the CID), TJ, arrives at the house to find Johnny's murderer.

  • S04E03 Idol Dreams

    • November 30, 2004

    Rejected by Singapore Idol because of her age, Lydia 'kidnaps' judge Dick Lee who has a case of amnesia.

  • S04E04 The Haunting of Lydia

    • December 7, 2004

    Sulaiman helps Lydia scare Billy into selling the house by playing ghost, but their plan goes too well and she gets haunted herself.

  • S04E05 Miss Bing Bong Ball

    • December 14, 2004

    Lydia takes in the Miss Bing Bong Ball beauty contest to spite Billy. When she appears to be winning, Bill sets out to sabotage her. Sulaiman insists on finding out what the B in Billy B Ong stands for.

  • S04E06 Merry Christmas Lydia

    • December 21, 2004

    Lydia plays Santa Claus for a disastrous Christmas party while Billy resorts to desperate measures to be selected Money Face of the Year.

  • S04E07 Ants And Romance

    • December 28, 2004

    Love is in the air for Jordan and the girl next door. Meanwhile, there's no love for Billy and Lydia when ants start crawling around the house.

  • S04E08 Potions and Superstitions

    • January 4, 2005

    Billy receives a gift from Suzanne that brings good luck but Lydia sees it as bad luck for her. Meanwhile, Ronda steps up her attempt to win Billy.

  • S04E09 The Meaning of Life

    • January 11, 2005

    Lydia gets an offer to publish a book from Sulaiman's new girlfriend (Desiree Siahaan) plus a warning from 'life guru' Deechop Pratha.

  • S04E10 Lydia of The Opera

    • January 18, 2005

    When Lydia's Chinese opera star idol, Fai Fai, shows up for a concert, everything really goes off on a sour note when Fai Fai starts offending Lydia.

  • S04E11 Masak With Lydia

    • January 25, 2005

    Suliman gets Lydia a cooking spot on a TV show -- except it is in Malay and Lydia can't speak the language; Jordan is having second thoughts about seeing the girl next door; Ronda wants Billy to finally notice her.

  • S04E12 Return of the King

    • February 1, 2005

    The King returns and seeks refuge with Lydia after escaping an assassination attempt by his brother. Meanwhile, Billy gets a surprise visit.

  • S04E13 The Last Laugh

    • February 8, 2005

    Billy's wife returns with something he never knew he had. Ronda contemplates marrying the King while Lydia has to save her brother from prison.