Under Pressure

June 23, 1997
30 min
Season 1 - Episode 8: Under Pressure

Season 1 - Episode 8: Under Pressure

Fired Up - Backdrop

Overview

Gwen is laid up with illness for a few days and she has nothing to do but lay around watching infomercials and eating Terry's delicious soup made in a pressure cooker. She gets a brainstorm and decides that she and Terry could market pressure cookers as a way to make this delicacy. They find a dealer with a warehouse full of the cookers and make arrangements with him. Gwen recruits Guy to be in their infomercial and Danny to write it, though much of his strident working-class rhetoric is red-penciled. Gwen uses the soup to bribe Mrs. Francis into providing them the name of an out-of-work celebrity to endorse the product. June Lockhart is contacted. She's suitably impressed and agrees to endorse the cookers. The first broadcast of the infomercial is a ringing success with orders pouring in. But then the women find out that their supplier Mr. Tolafa has reneged on the deal and is selling them himself, touting them ""as seen on TV!"" June comes by in a fury and tells the girls in terms she

Episode Information

TV Show

Fired Up

Season

Season 1

Episode Number

8

Air Date

June 23, 1997

Runtime

30 minutes

Guest Stars

Francesca P. Roberts

Francesca P. Roberts

Mrs. Francis

June Lockhart

June Lockhart

June Lockhart

Robert Silver

Robert Silver

Mr. Talofa

A

Andrea Stein

Customer

Crew

Danny Zuker

Danny Zuker

Writer

James Burrows

James Burrows

Director