The Best Episodes Directed By Chuck Lorre
Every TV Episode Directed by Chuck Lorre Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Chuck Lorre Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Chuck Lorre is "Valet Girl", rated 9/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by Bill Prady". "Valet Girl" aired on 11/4/1998 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Brought to You in DharmaVision".
9.0/10 1 votes#1 - Valet Girl
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1998
Greg is forced to make a very embarrassing public admission when he sees the first girl he claims to have slept with and her jealous husband makes some serious threats. Meanwhile, Dharma and Greg attend the wedding of Kitty's housekeeper and offer to park cars as a wedding gift.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Bill Prady
9.0/10 1 votes#2 - Brought to You in DharmaVision
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1998
Dharma is surprised when both Jane and her parents accuse her of having changed because she is busy attending a society fundraiser with Kitty then alarmed when Kitty congratulates her on having changed to the extent that young socialites thinks she's ""a hoot and a half."" Her identity crisis is confirmed by a visit from the spirit of her Indian friend, George, who directs her to retreat to the Redwoods to find herself and conveys a cryptic message to ""save the young one."" An uncomprehending Greg reluctantly lets her go, persuading her to take Jane with her; then, upon seeing George in a dream, rushes to the woods in Larry's van to save Dharma and Jane, who have adopted a bear cub while remaining oblivious to the nearby presence of its angered mother. Best lines: George to Dharma: ""You might have mentioned that you moved. I scared some skinny guy in the shower half to death!""; Larry, fleeing from the mother bear, slips on something in the woods and mutters, ""That answers that question!""
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Bill Prady
7.6/10 9 votes#3 - Back Off, Mary Poppins
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/2004
Alan learns that Charlie belongs to an exclusive men's group, and he begs his brother to let him join.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.5/10 10 votes#4 - Smell the Umbrella Stand
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/6/2005
Alan starts to worry about a medical procedure that he is facing, and to get his mind off it, Charlie suggests they go to Las Vegas.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Susan Beavers
7.4/10 18 votes#5 - Chapter 1. An Actor Avoids
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/16/2018
As Sandy gets to know a new student better, he puts off visiting an old friend who wants to see him. Norman copes with a difficult issue at home.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Chuck Lorre
7.3/10 7 votes#6 - A Bag Full of Jawea
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/2004
Charlie tries to save Jake from school suspension for giving his teacher (Missi Pyle) the finger by romancing her, but his several attempts fail every time.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 7 votes#7 - A Lungful of Alan
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/2/2005
Alan is jealous of Charlie when an old classmate, who's now a beautiful woman, seems to be more interested in Charlie.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Eddie Gorodetsky
7.3/10 12 votes#8 - If They Do Go Either Way, They're Usually Fake
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/2003
Judith is upset with Alan and Charlie when she learns that a surfer who uses Charlie's shower walks around half naked in front of Jake . Then Alan's worried when Judith and the surfer become friends.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.2/10 13 votes#9 - An Old Flame With a New Wick
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/29/2004
Charlie is stunned to learn his ex-girlfriend is now a man.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.2/10 9 votes#10 - Just Like Buffalo
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/16/2004
When Jake repeats one of Charlie's sexist remarks in front of Judith's support group, the women convince Judith to stop Jake's visits with his dad and Charlie.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.2/10 10 votes#11 - I Remember the Coatroom, I Just Don't Remember You
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/21/2004
Judith's devious siren sister stirs things up at Jake's 11th birthday party when she hits on Alan. Meanwhile, Evelyn brings alcohol and has a party of her own.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.2/10 13 votes#12 - Camel Filters and Pheromones
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/2004
Berta's granddaughter spends the day at Charlie's, which isn't a problem until he learns she's a beautiful, rebellious 16-year-old.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Susan Beavers
7.1/10 14 votes#13 - Go East on Sunset Until You Reach the Gates of Hell
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2003
Jake wants to go home to his mom after he gets sick, prompting Alan to think he's a failure as a husband and now as a father.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.0/10 1 votes#14 - Instant Dharma
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1997
Dharma's parents arrive for their weekly yoga class only to find Dharma in tears because all her other students have deserted her for the popular self-defense class across the hall. Greg's efforts to cheer her up only get them evicted from Kitty's operatic fund raising evening. Clearing out her locker, Dharma curiously wanders into the self-defense class that turns out to be run by a wacky woman named Spyder, who is promoting herself with alarmist flyers about a massive increase in crime in the neighborhood. When Dharma protests that this is a lie, Spyder intimidates her physically, then invades a depressed Dharma's nightmare about breaking her non-violent principles and retaliating. When Dharma does attempt to remonstrate with Spyder, both she and Greg get their butts kicked.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 1 votes#15 - Turn Turn Turn
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1998
Experimenting to see if her parents can be trusted to mind the baby, Dharma and Greg take the baby to the movies with them, but the incessant crying annoys the patrons around them, Dharma's crying. Abby approached Kitty to see if they can agree on a compromise between their family traditions for the baby's naming ceremony, which results in a huge gathering and a minister, a rabbi, and a shaman. (Yes, they tell jokes.) Even Kitty, with the help of Larry's special cookies, gets into the swing of things; and all is happiness until a telegram arrives: Donna has changed her mind and wants the baby back.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Bill Prady
7.0/10 13 votes#16 - Twenty-Five Little Pre-Pubers Without a Snoot-Ful
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/2003
Alan tricks Charlie into joining him and Judith in leading Jake and his classmates in the school's annual music show.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Eddie Gorodetsky
7.0/10 10 votes#17 - Hey, I Can Pee Outside in the Dark
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/18/2004
Jake's sullen mood baffles and bothers the family and prompts Alan and Judith to take him to a child psychologist.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 9 votes#18 - Enjoy Those Garlic Balls
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/2004
Judith is dating Jake's pediatrician, and Alan is upset until Charlie points out that if she remarries, his alimony payments will end.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Eddie Gorodetsky
6.9/10 12 votes#19 - The Last Thing You Want Is to Wind Up with a Hump
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/2003
Alan and Charlie have encounters with some highly libidinous soccer moms, but with two very different outcomes.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Eddie Gorodetsky
6.9/10 8 votes#20 - Yes, Monsignor
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/2004
When Charlie leaves the house to avoid a date that he can't stand, he ends up at a coffee shop, where he meets his old girlfriend Lisa. He finds out that she broke up with her husband, and now has a child. Now he must try to convince Lisa that he's okay with her having a child. While Jake tries to justify to his father why he isn't doing so well in school.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Susan Beavers
6.9/10 7 votes#21 - Those Big Pink Things with Coconut
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/30/2005
The brothers throw out their mother, after she insults the way Alan is raising Jake. When Alan and Charlie ignore her phone calls, to get their attention she ends up in the hospital. When Alan and Charlie show up at the hospital they aren't sure if she's faking, and try to call her bluff.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Don Foster
6.9/10 8 votes#22 - The Devil's Lube
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/2008
Charlie finds himself re-examining his wild ways when an old friend dies and begins to feel that his time on Earth may be drawing to a close.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
6.9/10 9 votes#23 - Can You Feel My Finger?
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/23/2004
Charlie has a pregnancy scare involving one of his one-night stands and decides to go for the big "V," and we're not talking Vegas.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
6.8/10 8 votes#24 - Bad News from the Clinic?
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/2004
Charlie meets his match when he falls for a woman who's better at playing hard to get than he is.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: N/A
6.7/10 11 votes#25 - Alan Harper, Frontier Chiropractor
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/2003
When Alan is surprised to see that Judith has had a makeover and is dating a man, he decides to have Charlie help him transform his image.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Lee Aronsohn