"Basic Training" is the eighth episode in the seventh season of the NBC family sitcom Family Ties. It originally aired on January 1, 1989, and is the hundred-and-fifty-eighth episode of the series overall.
Synopsis[]
Skippy enlists with the army after he sees the results of his career aptitude test. Steven is barred from eating fattening foods due to his heart attack.
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Career Day at Grant College shows Skippy that he has no aptitude for any skill or job. He decides to join the Army and takes to Basic Training like everything else in his life. Meanwhile, Steven is still adjusting to his return home from the hospital (mostly in his new diet).
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Trivia[]
- Three of the men in Skippy's platoon are named Holworthy, Matthews, and Straus, which are the names of freshman dorms at Harvard College.
- "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (in nice harmony) plays as Skippy goes off to the Army.
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