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The Best Episodes of Better With You Season 1

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Maddie and Ben have been dating for nine years and they know each other inside and out. Maddie's younger sister, Mia, has been dating Casey for seven weeks. With a shared c'est la vie attitude,

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Better With You Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    6.4/10(80 votes)

    #1 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Maddie is surprised when her little sister announces her engagement; Casey shares exciting news with Ben.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Better With You Season 1 Episode 2 - Better With Firehouse
    6.5/10(66 votes)

    #2 - Better With Firehouse

    S1:E2

    Ben is secretly hurt when he is left out of the Putney family's Christmas card photo; Mia and Casey ask Maddie and Ben to be the people who say ``no'' to their future child

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Better With You Season 1 Episode 3 - Better With Ben
    7.0/10(57 votes)

    #3 - Better With Ben

    S1:E3

    Ben is secretly hurt when he is left out of the Putney family's Christmas card photo; Mia and Casey ask Maddie and Ben to be the people who say ``no'' to their future child.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Better With You Season 1 Episode 4 - Better With Fighting
    7.2/10(50 votes)

    #4 - Better With Fighting

    S1:E4

    Casey implements a plan to avoid fights with Mia; Maddie inadvertently exposes a fault in her relationship with Ben.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Better With You Season 1 Episode 5 - Better With Little Buddy
    6.6/10(51 votes)

    #5 - Better With Little Buddy

    S1:E5

    Maddie plans to trick Vicky into choosing not to send frivolous emails to Ben.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Better With You Season 1 Episode 6 - Better With Halloween
    6.9/10(53 votes)

    #6 - Better With Halloween

    S1:E6

    Mia and Casey offer to give Maddie a Halloween-free party for her birthday, which falls on the same day as the holiday; Mia finds a mysterious videotape among Casey's things.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Better With You Season 1 Episode 7 - Better With Road Joel
    7.0/10(50 votes)

    #7 - Better With Road Joel

    S1:E7

    Joel and Ben accompany Casey on a road trip to Vermont to help him move his stuff out of storage. Ben looks at the trip as an opportunity to bond with Casey; but Joel sees the road trip as his annual chance to go off -- way off - of his salt-free diet. Meanwhile, the Putney women organize Mia's baby shower, and Casey's hard-to-please mother, the earthy but rather quirky Ariel, comes for a visit. Mia goes out of her way to be accepted by her future mother-in-law, but things get heated between Vicky and Ariel when both want their grandchild to call them "Nana."

    Director:Shelley Jensen
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Better With You Season 1 Episode 8 - Better With Flirting
    7.0/10(48 votes)

    #8 - Better With Flirting

    S1:E8

    Mia and Casey are excited when Maddie gets them a meeting with one of the top wedding planners in the city -- the charming but very expensive Lorraine Ashley. But the too-good-to-be-true arrangement turns awkward when it looks like Lorraine is trying to upstage the couple's pending nuptials. Meanwhile, Ben realizes that he has been with Maddie for so long that his "flirting muscle" has gone soft.

    Director:Shelley Jensen
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Better With You Season 1 Episode 9 - Better With Thanksgiving
    7.1/10(57 votes)

    #9 - Better With Thanksgiving

    S1:E9

    This Thanksgiving, everyone but Vicky is relieved when her oven breaks down. For once, the rest of the family can enjoy a normal Thanksgiving dinner and won't have to endure one of her unsavory concoctions -- such as maple syrup turkey stuffed with shrimp and raisins. And while spending the holiday at Maddie's and Ben's apartment, Mia accidentally finds her late grandmother's presumably stolen ring hidden in their linen closet... Now the unmarried couple has some explaining to do.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Better With You Season 1 Episode 10 - Better With Christmas Crap
    6.7/10(54 votes)

    #10 - Better With Christmas Crap

    S1:E10

    Maddie and Mia agree that they are not looking forward to the annual tradition of spending Christmas with everyone at the family lake house, so Mia and Casey use the pregnancy as their excuse and Maddie comes up with her own tall tale.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Better With You Season 1 Episode 11 - Better With Skinny Jeans
    7.0/10(50 votes)

    #11 - Better With Skinny Jeans

    S1:E11

    When Mia accuses Ben of ripping her favorite pair of jeans, she drags him to the store, where he has to break the tough news to Mia... it's time for pregnancy pants. Meanwhile Joel decides to get himself into shape after he finds out he's ranked last in Vicky and her girlfriends' fantasy husband draft website, and Maddie goes to extreme lengths to impress Casey with her high regard for the U.S. Postal Service.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Shana Goldberg-Meehan

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  12. Better With You Season 1 Episode 12 - Better With a Cat
    7.4/10(52 votes)

    #12 - Better With a Cat

    S1:E12

    After parents-to-be Mia and Casey adopt a cat, the pediatrician tells them they shouldn't have a stray animal around the baby. Maddie and Ben enter into a spirited competition with Vicky and Joel, all under the impression that if one of them takes in Mr. Meow-gi, then Mia and Casey will name that couple as the baby's guardian.

    Director:Shelley Jensen
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Better With You Season 1 Episode 13 - Better With Valentine's Day
    6.9/10(51 votes)

    #13 - Better With Valentine's Day

    S1:E13

    Casey has big plans for his first Valentine's Day with Mia. But Ben and Joel tell him that their rule is to never buy expensive Valentine's Day gifts for their ladies because doing so would set a costly precedent. Casey goes ahead with his plans anyway, and Ben realizes that he too wants to show Maddie how he feels. When Joel finds out, he decides to compete with them no matter the cost - and gets singer/pianist Michael Feinstein to perform.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Better With You Season 1 Episode 14 - Better With a Leather Jacket
    7.5/10(55 votes)

    #14 - Better With a Leather Jacket

    S1:E14

    The job interview-bound Casey, unaware that bad luck always follows the wearer of a particular leather jacket, borrows it without telling anyone. Everyone recalls their own bad experience while wearing the jacket, including Ben, who accidentally dropped a blanket on New York Yankee outfielder Nick Swisher when he was trying to catch a fly ball.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Better With You Season 1 Episode 15 - Better With a Shamrock
    7.1/10(45 votes)

    #15 - Better With a Shamrock

    S1:E15

    Ben hopes to get his name inscribed on a shamrock at his favorite bar, but it looks like he will strike out in his efforts when he learns the establishment's owner is New York Yankee Nick Swisher (appearing as himself), with whom Ben has a bad history. Meanwhile, Mia and Maddie use a secret language to convey their apprehension about attending a charity event with Vicky.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Shana Goldberg-Meehan

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  16. Better With You Season 1 Episode 16 - Better Without a Couch
    6.9/10(53 votes)

    #16 - Better Without a Couch

    S1:E16

    Casey's ex-girlfriend wants the couch she loaned him when they were still together; Maddie updates Vicky and Joel's wills.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Better With You Season 1 Episode 17 - Better Without a Job
    6.8/10(47 votes)

    #17 - Better Without a Job

    S1:E17

    Maddie lies about getting laid off from the law firm; Mia and Casey suspect there is a hidden message in the children's books Vicky donated to them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Better With You Season 1 Episode 18 - Better With Lying
    7.0/10(45 votes)

    #18 - Better With Lying

    S1:E18

    Maddie gets a feeling that the story Mia tells about how she and Casey met is not true; Vicky and Joel have Mia and Casey's engagement party at the country club and use it to promote Joel's campaign to be the club's treasurer

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Better With You Season 1 Episode 19 - Better With Dancing
    7.9/10(55 votes)

    #19 - Better With Dancing

    S1:E19

    After discovering Mia can't dance very well, Casey tries to conceal his skills; Ben runs into Larry King and asks him for relationship advice.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Better With You Season 1 Episode 20 - Better With Crying
    6.7/10(50 votes)

    #20 - Better With Crying

    S1:E20

    Mia and Casey try to reschedule their wedding until after their baby is born; Ben learns that Joel is worried about crying during his wedding toast.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Better With You Season 1 Episode 21 - Better With a Bargain
    7.0/10(48 votes)

    #21 - Better With a Bargain

    S1:E21

    Joel tries to use his bargaining skills to get Mia the baby stroller of her dreams; Maddie worries she's losing her passion to be a lawyer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Better With You Season 1 Episode 22 - Better With the Baby
    7.7/10(50 votes)

    #22 - Better With the Baby

    S1:E22

    While in labor, Mia and Casey decide that they should be married before baby Charlie comes into the world. The rush is on to make the wedding happen, as Casey and Ben dash to City Hall for the marriage license; Maddie puts herself in charge of finding an authorized person to perform the ceremony; and Vicky and Joel hurry to the hospital's gift shop to find the "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" items.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Better With You" season 1. It scored 6.4/10 based on 80 votes. Directed by James Burrows and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/22/2010. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Better With Firehouse".