List of Living with Lydia episodes#Season 4 (2004-2005)

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|Title= Lydia Arrives

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|11|8|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 1

|ShortSummary=Lydia moves into Billy B. Ong's house after coming from Hong Kong, and Billy B. Ong struggles with his lawyer to try to get rid of her. In the end, Lydia gets to stay and they split the house in half with a long strip of yellow tape that runs across the floor and dining table.

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|Title=Desperately Seeking Yang

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|11|15|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 2

|ShortSummary=Lydia seeks money, so she finds a businessman called Mr. Yang to see if he could fund her business. She fails to be able to contact him, so she goes to his office and invites him over to dinner at the house. Meanwhile, Ronda's friend Mary tries to convince Ronda not to pursue Billy by asking her to take interest in Mr. Yang instead.

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|Title= Chocolate

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|11|22|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 3

|ShortSummary=Ronda decides not to dress up for work anymore after being dumped by Mr. Yang. Meanwhile, Max has been grounded by Billy for not doing well in school. Lydia overhears them and asks Apple to help Max find some friends by taking him out with her friends to watch a Japanese anime film. Because Max knows so much about anime, Apple's friends think that he is cool and befriends him. Unfortunately, this leads Max to eating chocolate, something that he and Billy are extremely allergic to.

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|Title=Ronda's Party

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|11|28|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 4

|ShortSummary=Lydia is desperately seeking customers for her new dimsum business. She begs Ronda, who turns to her friend Vivian, who is throwing a party. Vivian agrees to pay Lydia to make 4800 dimsums in two days. Trouble strikes when Ronda accidentally makes dimsums with Max's plant fertilizer for a school project and can't remember which ones she made them with.

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|Title= Blackout

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|12|4|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 5

|ShortSummary=Apple forgets to come back in time for a family outing to the Hong Kong family association and has to stay home alone with Max. When a blackout occurs, she climbs into Max's bed and reads an anime comic with him. However, they fall asleep together and their parents return, thinking that they were having sex in the bed.

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|Title=Jolly Fruits

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|12|11|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 6

|ShortSummary=Lydia fills out numerous lucky draw tickets from a fruit company, not knowing that it was a husband-and-wife competition. When she wins and finds out she needs a husband, she drags Billy along to the company and makes the manager think that he is her husband. However, they find out that they need to star together in a promotional poster before they can claim their prize.

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|Title= Usha

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|12|18|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 7

|ShortSummary=When Lydia gets depressed, her friend Usha, a former Bollywood star actress, arrives and takes her to buy wacky clothes which Apple feels embarrassed about. She then takes her to a strip bar, where Lydia finally decides that hanging around with Usha isn't all that much fun. Meanwhile, Ronda, who thinks that Lydia is trying to steal Billy from her by acting depressed, turns Billy away from Usha.

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|Title=Diet

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|1|6|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 8

|ShortSummary=Lydia wants a job as a salesperson for a health food company, but the manager thinks that she is too overweight and wants her to buy the company's pricey diet pills or go on her own diet. Ronda steps in and gives Lydia a diet of eating only bananas, in return of $100 if she can survive two weeks on her diet.

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|Title=Rat

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|1|13|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 9

|ShortSummary=Apple discovers a rat in the bathroom, and she, Max, and Billy plan to capture it with rat traps, poison, and glue. Meanwhile, Lydia invites food critic Claire Tong over to try her dimsums so she would write an article about Lydia. However, Jordan doesn't seal the rat in a shoebox tightly enough after capturing it and lets it escape during Claire's visit. Furthermore, termites in the house escape from a hole Billy made while trying to find the termites.

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|Title=Billy's New Assistant

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|1|20|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 10

|ShortSummary=Lydia becomes Billy's assistant while Ronda goes away for a surgery. Unfortunately, she does not know how to use computers, and emails the wrong item to a customer. She then tries to stop him from reading it and deletes it in his office.

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|Title=Cat And Fire

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|1|27|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 11

|ShortSummary=When the neighbor's cat comes in and tries to eat Lydia's expensive dumplings, Billy agrees to Lydia paying the cat's medical bills as the neighbor found wounds after Lydia had tried to hit the cat earlier. They argue until they're off talking terms, while the children try to end the cold war by pretending there is a fire in the house with Jordan's exploding experiment.

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|Title=Brother Part 1

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|2|3|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 12

|ShortSummary=When Fruit Woo, Lydia's brother arrives in Singapore, Billy and Max suspect that he is not honest when they overhear one of his phone calls. Meanwhile, Ronda starts to turn her attention to Fruit which causes Billy to be angry.

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|Title=Brother Part 2

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|2|10|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 13

|ShortSummary=When Lydia finds out that Fruit owes a lot of money, she is forced to sell her half of the house to Billy and move out to Hong Kong so that she can pay back Fruit's loansharks.

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|Title= The Way We Were

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|9|30|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 27

|ShortSummary=In this flashback episode, Lydia recalls her first visit to Singapore in 1979 in her attempt to be a "Singapore Girl"-- a flight attendant for Singapore Airlines. Unfortunately, Lydia's date was supposed to be Billy...whom she passed after leaving the club Billy entered! This too would also begin Rhonda's attempts to get Billy after he meets Suzanne at the same club as well as her first encounter with Lydia.

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|Title= Mrs. Billy B. Ong'

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|10|7|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 28

|ShortSummary=Billy's wife, Suzanne, who ran out on him and Max so she can "Find Herself," returns in this conclusion to "Sleeping with the Enemy." As a result, Billy's and Max's lives are turned upside-down as they avoid her, and Lydia and her children have to worry if they can still stay in the house, after the new will had replaced the old one.

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|Title= Stakeout

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|10|14|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 29

|ShortSummary=The Ong residence becomes a stakeout for a pair of cops, KC and Yong who are trying to bust a fencing ring next door. That is, until Lydia, Billy, Apple, Jordan and Ronda discover that Max is visiting the place. While at The Roti Prata Shop, Sulaiman encounters an old friend. Guest Stars: Laurence Pang as Yong, Rick Tan as KC, Zanberi A Patah as Hashim, Jimmy Tiu as coffeeshop man.

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|Title= Mahjong Queen

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|10|21|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 30

|ShortSummary=Lydia's Mahjong get-together takes on an unusual game plan when she ends up losing part of the house to a more skilled participant. When the player reveals a gun (which was actually a lighter in disguise), Lydia and Billy fear to report him to the police as well in phobia of being arrested for illegal gambling, leaving Billy and the player to have to challenge each other in a game of Mahjong attempting to win Lydia her half of the house back.

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|Title= Do The Right Thing

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|10|28|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 31

|ShortSummary=Lydia and Apple discovers that $80,000 (in Singapore dollar) have just been deposited into Lydia's bank account. Now the big question is do they return the cash or spend it? Meanwhile, Ronda, calling all her 32 ex-boyfriends to apologize after Sulaiman convinces her about karma, finds herself together again with one of her old boyfriends, TJ.

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|Title= Hard Habit to Break

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|11|4|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 32

|ShortSummary=When ex-smoker Lydia starts to crave another puff, its up to Apple and Jordan to get her to put the cigarettes down. Meanwhile, after Sulaiman and Apple convince Ronda that there is something wrong with TJ, she desperately tries to find out what it is about him that is amiss.

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|Title= Life's A Peach

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|11|11|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 33

|ShortSummary=When Lydia's customer Peach breaks up with her fiancee, Lydia finds that the reason is that her fiancee's mother didn't want a daughter-in-law who couldn't cook. Lydia attempts to teach Peach how to cook, but after that plan fails, she calls over the fiancee's mother to eat her cooking instead while saying it was Peach's. Complications arise when Peach and Lydia find out that the reason of her fiancee breaking up with her wasn't true. Meanwhile, Apple can't get her busy mother to help her with her school project on entrepreneurship and instead asks Ronda to assist her.

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|Title=Workplace Health

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|11|18|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 34

|ShortSummary=When Billy finds out that workplace health programs were strongly encouraged to impress an inspector, he gets Ronda to host exercise lessons. However, when she hurts the workers with excessive exercise, Lydia is hired to replace her instead. However, when she chooses to exercise during work hours, a piece of food accidentally flies into the inspector's eye!

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|Title=Obsessions

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|11|25|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 35

|ShortSummary=Max and Jordan pull a scheme on Apple by pretending that a singer that she's a fan of wants to see her. Special Guest: Roy Chiu

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|Title=Dotting the Eyes

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|11|25|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 36

|ShortSummary=When Jordan accidentally enters the Ladies Room, Lydia takes him to make new glasses. However, she doesn't want him to keep changing glasses, so she gets him to protect his eyesight--unfortunately misquoting the eye doctor and annoying Jordan as a result.

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|Title= Educating Lydia

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|12|2|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 37

|ShortSummary=Lydia is annoyed at how much her son Jordan has to learn in school as a result of preparing for his PSLE (Primary School Leaving Examination). Meanwhile, Ronda and Sulaiman go on strike after Billy turns down their demands. Then Lydia tries to start her own strike too against Jordan's school.

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|Title= Wrong Feng Shui

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|12|9|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 38

|ShortSummary=Lydia's Feng Shui techniques seem to be working in Billy's favor. Thus Lydia curses Billy with her dark arts of feng shui.

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|Title= Charlie's Aunties

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|12|9|df=y}}

|EpisodeNumber= 39

|ShortSummary=In an episode inspired by Charlie's Angels, Suliaman tries to bankroll an action-adventure flick, but ends up with a tight shoestring budget.

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