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.