Big Brothers Big Sisters

A character decides to become a Big Brother or Big Sister and spend time with a kid. It never goes the way they expected.

The Odd Couple

Appearances

• The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Season 3, episode 22, "Like Oh, Brother" (1962). Dobie and Maynard volunteer to be big brothers at a home for disadvantaged boys.
• The Odd Couple: Season 1, episode 9, "The Big Brothers" (1970). Felix signs up to be a Big Brother, but his Little Brother prefers Oscar.
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 6, episode 8, "Mary's Delinquent" (1975). Mary joins the Big Sisters program and mentors a troubled teenaged girl. When Sue Ann hears about it, she joins too to help boost her public image.
• Night Court: Season 2, episode 6, "Bull Gets a Kid" (1984). Bull finally gets accepted into the "volunteer fathers" and gets a "son" named Andy, who turns out to be a girl named Stella.
• Newhart: Season 4, episode 11, "Much Ado About Mitch" (1986). George volunteers to be a big brother, but his little brother seems to prefer Dick.
• Golden Girls: Season 4, episode 14, "Love Me Tender" (1989). Rose and Blanche volunteer for the "Be-a-pal" program and take two teenaged girls under their wings. When the four of them go shopping, the girls secretly shoplift merchandise and frame Rose and Blanche.
• Seinfeld: Season 5, episode 18, "The Raincoats" (1994). A friend named Alec convinces George to become a big brother to a little boy named Joey, but George doesn't want to do it, so he tells Alec he's going to Paris and asks Jerry's parents to send Alec a postcard while they're in Paris, but it backfires when Alec tells George that Joey's father lives in Paris, so he can take Joey with him.
• NewsRadio: Season 4, episode 15, "Big Brother" (1998). Matthew tells the gang that he has signed up for the Big Brothers program, and everyone assumes that he means he's a volunteer big brother, but it turns out that Matthew was matched with "big brother" by mistake, and neither brother noticed.
• Spin City: Season 4, episode 14, "Casino" (2000). To help boost his campaign, the mayor becomes a "Big Buddy" to a little boy who's bitter because when the mayor abolished rent control, the Big Buddy program had to make cutbacks, so the mayor makes it up to him by holding a raffle to raise funds to save the program.
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 1, episode 2, "Charlie Wants an Abortion" (2005). While at the mall with Charlie's possible son, Charlie and Sweet Dee run into the Waitress, who's there with her "little sister." She tells them she's part of the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, and since Charlie doesn't want her to know he might have a kid, Dee tells the Waitress that Charlie is in the program too, and his potential son is his "little brother."
• My Name is Earl: Season 4, episode 8, "Little Bad Voodoo Brother" (2008). Randy blames Earl for his never getting a baby brother, so to make it up to him, Earl tries to sign Randy up for "Big Bros Little Bros," but he's rejected, so instead, he becomes a big brother to Catalina's nephew, Oscar, who recently arrived from their country. Unfortunately, Oscar turns out to be a creepy little voodoo kid.