On WHIP Radio, the campus station at the college Bud attends, Oliver Cole and Mark Campbell host several hours of unconventional and overlooked programming. After a probing interview divulging the past of Trumaine's Dean of Students, Steve Rhodes, both Oliver and Mark are kicked off the airwaves and out of school. To get revenge on her ex-husband, Marcy D'Arcy leads a feeble on-air protest against their expulsion. The protest does not attract much attention, but when Bud's desperate attempt to steal the affections of April away from Nickolai, a ruggedly handsome basketball star is broadcast over the station, "Hot Talk With April" is born, the station --and Mark and Oliver-- become popular and Dean Rhodes allows them to stay at Trumaine and on WHIP Radio. [Note: this episode was the second new series pilot broadcast as an episode of Married With Children]