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ApeAccount
Since: Feb, 2015
2024-08-15 14:51:09
Could it be Spencer
(apparently also known as "Under One Roof")? I've never seen the show, so I'm really just basing this on the fact that it seems to have been a 1980s sitcom featuring a teenage boy named Spencer and there was an episode called "Crazy Girl" which could fit the one you described.
TairaMai
Since: Jul, 2011

So there was this 1980's sitcom with one of the characters being a teenage boy named Spencer.
At one point he was looking for love -as teen boys are wont to do- and found this Manic Pixie Dream girl.
Emphasis on manic - she lived in a RV or a trailer and the episode had her going from quirky to complete psycho real fast.
The inside was done up in these weird paintings that supposedly showed her art skills but also showed her mental state - nightmare fuel all around.
The last bit was Spencer locking her in her bathroom then running away - the camera lingering on the door while this woman said "Spencer" over and over again in a madness mantra.
What show was this?