Rodney Trotter a supportive partner in Cassandra, whom he met at a computer training course in "Yuppy Love", and married in 1989. Her father Alan employed Rodney at his company, Parry Print Ltd. (at least until Rodney accidentally quit that job), and, with some financial assistance from Del, he was able to buy a flat and finally move out of Nelson Mandela House. Their marriage suffered when Rodney punched Cassandra's boss, and broke his nose, when returning from Margate in "The Jolly Boys' Outing". They split up in the 1990 Christmas special "Rodney Come Home" (having split up three times in the
I Never Met the Dead Man broccoli by pouring it onto Brian's plate. "I Never Met the Dead Man" was the first episode of "Family Guy" for both writer Chris Sheridan and director Michael Dante DiMartino. For the first months of production, the writers shared one office lent to them by the "King of the Hill" production crew. As with the remaining first four episodes of the season, the title of the episode was derived from 1930s and 1940s radio programs, particularly the radio thriller anthology "Suspense", which featured several elements pertaining to death and murder. This convention was later dropped following the fourth episode of