Pearl

This article is about the television series. For other uses, see Pearl (disambiguation). Pearl is an American situation comedy, which was broadcast by CBS as part of its 1996-97 lineup. Pearl Caraldo (Rhea Perlman), a middle-aged widow was the loading dock manager for University Electronics but who wanted to achieve a higher level of education. She was accepted as a night student at the prestigious Swindon University. By contrast, her 20-year-old... more

This article is about the television series. For other uses, see Pearl (disambiguation). Pearl is an American situation comedy, which was broadcast by CBS as part of its 1996-97 lineup. Pearl Caraldo (Rhea Perlman), a middle-aged widow was the loading dock manager for University Electronics but who wanted to achieve a higher level of education. She was accepted as a night student at the prestigious Swindon University. By contrast, her 20-year-old son, Joey (Dash Mihok), a single father with no apparent ambition, was disappointed that his mother would no longer be readily available as a live-in babysitter for his infant daughter. Also less than thrilled was Pearl's sister-in-law Annie (Carol Kane), who was concerned that with her greater educational attainment, Pearl would become another "one of them intellectuals." A professor of a required course, Stephen Pynchon (Malcolm McDowell), further complicated matters by his belief that higher education was for a cultured elite, not working... less