Future Friends star Matthew Perry makes the first of three Growing Pains appearances in this episode. Carol (Tracey Gold) is in the doghouse with her parents after staying out too late at the library with her new male acquaintance, a college boy named Sandy (Perry). More trouble ensures when, after a secret rendezvous at a bar with Sandy, Carol fabricates a "cover story" for Jason (Alan Thicke) and Maggie (Joanna Kerns)--which almost instantly blows up in her face! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi