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The Worst Episodes of 3rd Rock from the Sun

The high commander of an alien expedition lands on Earth -- what he considers to be the least-important planet -- in human form as Dick...

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  1. 6.2/10(349 votes)

    #1 - Seven Deadly Clips

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    S3:E9

    The Solomons reflect on their sinful ways in an episode that illustrates their misdeeds in clips from past episodes.

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  2. 7.1/10(289 votes)

    #2 - Dick'll Take Manhattan (2)

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    S6:E5

    Dick takes Mary up to his penthouse and wines and dines her, but she tells him that she doesn't believe in true love anymore, no matter how hard he might try to persuade her otherwise. Meanwhile, Sally isn't happy being second fiddle to Don's wife so she asks him to break up with her. Don, however, wants to run for president and so refuses, so Sally breaks up with him; while at NBC, Tommy's huge ego and demand for a high pay on Saturday Night Live leads Harry to fire him.

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  3. 7.3/10(301 votes)

    #3 - Les Liaisons Dickgereuses

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    S6:E1

    Mary's wealthy sister Renata Albright has donated a large sum of money to have an extension built onto Pendelton University, but Mary knows that it is in fact a spiteful gesture designed to quite literally block the sunlight into her office. To retaliate, Dick schemes with Mary that he will woo Renata, win her, and then break her heart. Meanwhile, Sally and Harry are given ten thousand dollars by Renata to convert their house into a teen center.

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  4. 7.3/10(320 votes)

    #4 - Dick'll Take Manhattan (1)

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    S6:E4

    The Solomons visit a parallel universe, in which they are living in New York City, where Dick is a highly regarded attorney, Sally writes a sex column and Harry is President of NBC, while Tommy is a star on Saturday Night Live. Despite this, Dick is unhappy because he cannot find Mary; however, upon entering a basement bar he discovers her, a failed actress-turned torch singer who has renamed herself Kiki Lyle. Meanwhile, Sally discovers that Don is the Mayor of New York, and that she isn't his girlfriend, but his mistress.

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  5. 7.3/10(269 votes)

    #5 - My Mother, My Dick

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    S6:E14

    Mary's mother Martha arrives in town and Dick decides to tell her what Mary really thinks of her - that she ruined her childhood. Angry, Martha tries to attack Dick and falls over, ending up in hospital. When Dick goes to visit, however, Martha tells him her side of the story, and a deeply moved Dick takes her side and promises to tend to her during her recovery. Meanwhile, Harry and Sally get a nasty surprise when throwing junk in the time space portal - a new alien.

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  6. 7.3/10(278 votes)

    #6 - Dick Soup for the Soul

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    S6:E16

    Dick accompanies Mary and Nina to a book-signing for a self-help book entitled 'A Road Map to Happiness', and despite first thinking it stupid, Dick opens the book and is immediately converted. He then concludes that his relationship with Mary stands in the way of his happiness, and attempts to break up with her. At college, Tommy is attempting to get into a fraternity but is doubtful that he'll pass the entry rituals, so he enlists Sally's help, but she just ends up making it harder. Meanwhile, Mrs. Dubcek gives Harry the job of painting the kitchen ceiling, and he is determined to create a work of art.

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    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Sean Veder
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  8. 7.4/10(457 votes)

    #7 - The Dicks They Are A-Changin'

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    S1:E14

    When Dick's evasive about his past, Dr. Albright suspects he's a '60s radical fugitive. Harry joins a CD-of-the-month club, and is swamped with CDs.

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  9. 7.4/10(355 votes)

    #8 - Fun with Dick and Janet (1)

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    S3:E1

    Sally, Tommy and Harry return from the home planet with a surprise for Dick: a bride-to-be.

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  10. 7.4/10(344 votes)

    #9 - Fun with Dick and Janet (2)

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    S3:E2

    Dick tries to hide his Janet predicament from Mary; Officer Don suspects that aliens have landed.

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  11. 7.4/10(309 votes)

    #10 - Episode I: The Baby Menace

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    S5:E1

    The Solomons are relieved when Vicki's baby turns out to be human, but horrified when she announces her plans to sell her story to the papers. When a reporter comes sniffing around, Sally gives Dick the title of Security Officer and orders him to kill him; however he can't, so she makes him High Commander and herself Security Officer so that she can kill the reporter herself. Dick then reminds Sally that he is now the High Commander, and that there is nothing she can do to reverse it.

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  12. 7.4/10(277 votes)

    #11 - InDickscretion

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    S6:E3

    Dick and Mary decide to go on a double date with Sally and Don, but things start to become uncomfortable when Dick and Sally begin talking incessantly about how good their other half is in bed. The next day Dick and Sally come to realize that neither Mary or Don said anything about how good they are, and immediately worry that they aren't. Meanwhile, in a food store, Mary and Don run into each other and, consumed by what they'd heard about each other in bed, share a kiss. Elsewhere, Harry and Tommy follow in the footsteps of Jack Kerouac and take to the open road.

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  13. 7.4/10(274 votes)

    #12 - A Dick Replacement

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    S6:E11

    Dick and Mary visit a psychic together, who claims that the pair are from two different worlds and predicts that Dick will one day up and leave Mary. Horrified at this news, Dick decides to find a replacement boyfriend for her, settling on a man called Gary; who thinks he's actually being offered Dick's position of physics professor. Meanwhile, Sally and Harry decide that if the psychic really knows that they are aliens, then they must kill her, but in a way that isn't possible for her to predict.

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  14. 7.5/10(488 votes)

    #13 - Ab-Dick-ted

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    S1:E9

    Dick receives a roundabout lesson in family values from Dr. Albright's loopy brother, who claims to have been abducted by aliens.

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  15. 7.5/10(442 votes)

    #14 - Father Knows Dick

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    S1:E18

    Dick decides the reason Harry is “odd” is because he lacks a father, and sets out nurture the suddenly rebellious Harry. Meanwhile, sparks fly when Sally meets the hostile mother of her boyfriend.

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  16. 7.5/10(414 votes)

    #15 - Big Angry Virgin From Outer Space

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    S2:E4

    Romantic woes between Sally and Randell don't deter Harry from signing up with a dating service. August tests Tommy's loyalty.

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  17. 7.5/10(394 votes)

    #16 - Dick Jokes

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    S2:E11

    A jealous Dick decides to show Mary how funny he is after she asks another professor to emcee a college fund-raiser she's organizing. Meanwhile, Harry loses his beloved coat, and Sally builds a shelf to hold her shoes.

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  18. 7.5/10(377 votes)

    #17 - A Dick on One Knee

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    S2:E16

    A Frenchman asks an unwitting Sally to marry him so that he can remain in the country. Tommy discovers he has a talent for flower arranging and styling. Dick is inspired to discuss marriage with Albright.

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  19. 7.5/10(334 votes)

    #18 - Jailhouse Dick

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    S3:E11

    Dick decides to "rehabilitate" one of Officer Don's prisoners, so he pays his fine and takes him home; Mary decides to give away the dog Dick gave her.

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  20. 7.5/10(328 votes)

    #19 - The Great Dickdater

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    S3:E13

    Dick decides to date again, so he goes to Sally and Officer Don for advice; Harry and Tommy find a wallet with $200 in it, and decide to give the money back to its owner.

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    Director:Terry Hughes
  21. 7.5/10(317 votes)

    #20 - Dick and Harry Fall in a Hole

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    S5:E18

    Dick and Harry fall into a large hole in the woods, which covers over when they attempt to climb out. Dick then panics, whilst Harry remains in a relaxed, zen-like state. A hole expert, named Angus 'The Hole' McDuff is called to the scene and devises a plan to build a second hole in order to access the one Dick and Harry are stuck in; however he becomes highly offended when Sally belittles his idea.

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  22. 7.5/10(301 votes)

    #21 - The Big Giant Head Returns Again (2)

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    S5:E22

    The Big Giant Head has revealed to Dick that he is his father, and so would like to get to know his girlfriend Mary better; however, Mary gets drunk at the dinner party and reveals that she has slept with over forty men in her lifetime. The Big Giant Head orders Dick to break up with Mary so he decides to run away with her, before Tommy reminds him that Earth children defy their parents all the time. Meanwhile, Vicki invites Harry's new girlfriend Janice to Tommy's graduation, where she attempts to kill her from beneath the bleachers; however, Sally quickly realizes what's going on and rushes to intervene before it is too late. The time comes for Tommy's speech, but he puts aside talking about his achievements to try to convince Alissa to forgive him.

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  23. 7.5/10(276 votes)

    #22 - Why Dickie Can't Teach

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    S6:E6

    Tommy is looking for a college to attend and Dick steers him away from the big names such as Harvard and tries to convince him to attend Pendelton instead. Upon taking one of Dick's classes, however, Tommy decides that Dick is a lousy teacher and that he would rather look elsewhere. Outraged, Dick orders Tommy to go to Pendelton. Meanwhile, Sally is concerned that Don isn't listed one of Rutherford's ten most powerful men and so she gets him a job working for one of them.

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  24. 7.5/10(280 votes)

    #23 - B.D.O.C.

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    S6:E7

    The Solomons' say goodbye to Tommy as he goes to college, but Dick soon begins to miss him and attempts to convince him to come home. Tommy, however, is enjoying college life and doesn't want to, so Dick convinces him to pull an elaborate freshman prank to gain himself popularity, but really in the hope that Tommy will be expelled. Meanwhile, Sally and Harry are interviewing candidates for Tommy's replacement and although their best candidate appears to be a woman called Christie, when a handsome man named Bryce walks through the door, Sally hires him on the spot.

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  25. 7.5/10(272 votes)

    #24 - You Don't Know Dick

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    S6:E13

    Nina accuses Dick of knowing nothing about Mary, so in an attempt to prove her wrong, when Judith walks into the office announcing that she has two tenth-row tickets to a Gordon Lightfoot concert, Dick claims to already have front row tickets. Of course, he doesn't, and so attempts to find a pair of front row tickets before it is too late. Meanwhile, Sally tells Chaz, the Channel 10 anchorman, that she would like to start presenting the news instead, and so he agrees to let her interview Lightfoot in the company's box at the Rutherdome; but really, he intends to seduce her.

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    Director:Terry Hughes
  26. 7.5/10(270 votes)

    #25 - Glengarry Glen Dick

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    S6:E15

    After hearing a pitch for a timeshare, Dick is sold and, unable to afford it entirely, he convinces Don to pay the other half. When Dick, Mary, Sally and Don take their first holiday there, however, they find it to be dismal; small and windowless, with nothing in the surrounding area but a prison. Meanwhile, Tommy has finally outgrown Harry, leading Harry, paranoid that he is shrinking, to consult a doctor.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Seven Deadly Clips" is the worst rated episode of "3rd Rock from the Sun". It scored 6.2/10 based on 349 votes. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Andrew Orenstein, Michael Glouberman, it aired on 12/3/1997. This episode scored 0.9 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Dick'll Take Manhattan (2)".