8.5/102 votes#1 - A Little Mystery
Season 20 Episode 11 - Aired 9/11/2023
Hayley makes Jeff get a friend to add some mystery to their relationship but gets more mystery than she bargained for. Francine attempts to grow the world's longest fingernails.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Laura Beason
8.5/102 votes#2 - The Pink Sphinx Holds Her Hearts on the Turn
Season 20 Episode 20 - Aired 12/4/2023
Francine enters the strange and dangerous world of poker in order to learn how to hide her true feelings from Steve and Hayley.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Brett Cawley
8.3/103 votes#3 - Lost in Space
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 5/5/2013
Jeff must prove his love for Hayley to Emperor Zing in order to find his way home from the spaceship that abducted him.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Mike Barker
8.0/102 votes#4 - Downtown
Season 17 Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/2020
Hayley and Steve find themselves stranded in a suburban neighborhood.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Nic Wegener
8.0/102 votes#5 - Stretched Thin
Season 20 Episode 5 - Aired 5/1/2023
When Jeff finds out that the family thinks he makes terrible decisions, he decides to take a job selling stretchy leggings to prove them wrong.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Sam Brenner
7.8/104 votes#6 - Less Money, Mo' Problems
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 3/25/2012
After losing patience with Hayley and Jeff for their freeloading ways, Stan bets the young couple that he and Francine can live on minimum wage for a month. Meanwhile, Steve and Roger embark on a mission to test drive the car of their dreams.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Murray Miller
7.3/103 votes#7 - Son of Stan (2)
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2010
Francine and Stan compare parenting skills after Stan creates a clone of Steve; Roger searches for the missing bride and groom.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Erik Sommers
7.3/103 votes#8 - Hot Water
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2011
Stressed out by his family and his obligations, Stan decides to buy a hot tub to relieve his stress, but gets into hot water when he finds out the hot tub is evil.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Murray Miller
7.2/104 votes#9 - Please Please Jeff
Season 19 Episode 18 - Aired 11/21/2022
Jeff's people pleasing nature gets in the way of his relationship with Hayley; Stan wears a confusing costume to the CIA costume party.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Laura Beason
7.0/103 votes#10 - You Debt Your Life
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 2/20/2011
After an argument with Stan, Roger moves out of the house and is subsequently replaced. Meanwhile, Steve acquires a new job at Pearl Bailey High School.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Erik Sommers
7.0/104 votes#11 - Gorillas in the Mist
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 5/22/2011
Bonding with Steve at the zoo causes Stan to lose Steve in the gorilla cage.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Erik Durbin
7.0/104 votes#12 - Naked to the Limit, One More Time
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 2/17/2013
Roger pretends to be Jeff's imaginary friend so he can roam around the house without a disguise; when Jeff realizes Roger is an alien, Stan issues an ultimatum -- either Roger or Jeff must be killed; Steve becomes insecure about his body.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Keith Heisler
7.0/104 votes#13 - Now and Gwen
Season 12 Episode 5 - Aired 11/17/2014
When Francine's sister Gwen comes to town, Hayley suspects she is up to no good. Meanwhile, Stan teaches Steve the art of hugging Aunt Gwen, and Klaus shadows Roger's dramatic comments.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Rachael Bogert
7.0/102 votes#14 - Exquisite Corpses
Season 17 Episode 9 - Aired 6/8/2020
Jeff, Francine and Roger decide to team up and start their own bus tour business, with murderous results.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Brett Cawley
6.7/103 votes#15 - Kiss Kiss, Cam Cam
Season 13 Episode 6 - Aired 2/29/2016
Stan gets Francine baseball tickets for her birthday but is upset when they have a horrible kiss on the kiss cam. Steve and Roger head to Nevada to help clean polluted water.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Jordan Blum
6.7/103 votes#16 - Family Plan
Season 14 Episode 17 - Aired 8/7/2017
Francine reconnects with her birth family when she starts craving the experience of having a big family. Meanwhile, Stan becomes a Picker based on his obsession with American Pickers.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Joel Hurwitz
6.6/107 votes#17 - She Swill Survive
Season 10 Episode 16 - Aired 4/13/2014
Stan fears that Hayley has no life skills so he forces her to take a job as a bartender in Roger's attic bar but, when Bullock becomes Hayley's best customer, Stan realizes that he can use his daughter's knowledge to get ahead at work.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Rick Singer
6.5/102 votes#18 - Whole Slotta Love
Season 14 Episode 8 - Aired 4/10/2017
Francine becomes less attracted to Stan when he gets involved with slot car racing. Roger becomes a stewardess to perform comedy routines on the plane but is upset when another stewardess is funnier than him.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Charles Suozzi
6.4/105 votes#19 - The Curious Case of the Old Hole
Season 19 Episode 9 - Aired 9/5/2022
Wheels and the Legman try to hunt down the perpetrators who destroyed Steve's secret swimming hole. Meanwhile, Klaus helps an aging Principal Lewis reclaim his confidence.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: N/A
6.3/103 votes#20 - National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well: The Hole Story
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 12/23/2012
A talk show reveals that Francine was the toddler who, famously, was rescued from a well by a firefighter; Francine makes a discovery when she falls down the well on the anniversary of her rescue; Stan and Roger come up with a business idea.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Murray Miller
6.3/107 votes#21 - Blagsnarst: A Love Story
Season 11 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/2014
Roger and Francine discover an alien in the woods, and Roger capriciously has a one-night relationship with her before being fed up with her quirks. He tries to get rid of her by calling the CIA, but then realizes that he can’t go through with it.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Wes Lukey
6.3/103 votes#22 - Father's Daze
Season 14 Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/2016
Stan can't escape a recurring Father's Day.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Jordan Blum
6.2/105 votes#23 - Daesong Heavy Industries
Season 13 Episode 15 - Aired 5/9/2016
Stan loses his faith in religion after Steve questions everything in the Bible. He takes the family to Korea to investigate the rumors of a reinvented "Noah's Ark."
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Greg Cohen
6.0/105 votes#24 - Jeff and the Dank Ass Weed Factory
Season 16 Episode 5 - Aired 5/13/2019
Jeff wins a tour through a mysterious weed factory and brings Stan along.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Nic Wegener
6.0/105 votes#25 - The Book of Fischer
Season 19 Episode 3 - Aired 2/7/2022
Stan takes Steve to his favorite barbershop to hang with his crew; Jeff starts journaling to help with his bad memory.
Director: Chris Bennett
Writer: Parker Deay
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"A Little Mystery" is the best rated episode directed by Chris Bennett. It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was written by Laura Beason. It aired on 9/11/2023 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Pink Sphinx Holds Her Hearts on the Turn".