A Very Special Drew

The cast laments the show's inability to pick up even a single major Emmy nomination.  Hoping to win over Emmy voters, they decide to make a "very special" episode filled with tragedy and controversial issues.  Drew and Lewis deliver a homeless woman's baby in the living room.  She promptly pulls a gun on them and tries to rob them.  Drew responds by buying a gun and making an over-the-top speech about his right to own it.  Some latchkey kids move into the neighborhood, and the gang acts irresponsibly around them.  Oswald becomes a kleptomaniac.  Mimi suffers a recurrence of obsessive-compulsive disorder after losing her clothes in a fire.  Wick becomes bulimic.  Kate gets a headache, and quickly winds up in the hospital with an incurable illness.  Lewis repeatedly makes insensitive comments, and follows each with a spotlit monologue in which he tries to psychoanalyze himself.  The doctor gives Drew a medical book and suggests that he might be able to find a cure for Kate.