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The Best Episodes of Californication

A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and...

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  1. Background image for The Apartment
    9.3/10(2.3k votes)

    #1 - The Apartment

    S3:E8

    Hank's in for a hedonistic night to remember when Jackie and two stripper friends arrive at his doorstep, unannounced. The next morning, before Hank can escort his new friends from the apartment, Charlie shows up with a verbally abusive Rick Springfield. Hank’s forced to hide the hung-over party girls all over the house after Jill and Felicia pay surprise visits. The charade reaches its boiling point when Dean Koons arrives on the scene, resulting in a messy catharsis by fire.

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  2. Background image for Mia Culpa
    9.1/10(1.9k votes)

    #2 - Mia Culpa

    S3:E12

    As the Moodys at last prepare to move to New York, Becca tells Hank about an intimate coming of age experience she had. Hank’s stunned when Mia shows up at the house unannounced, in town with her slimy boyfriend / manager PAUL for a book signing. Hank fails to prevent Mia and Paul from hatching a devious publicity stunt, forcing Hank to finally share the long-buried heartbreaking secret with Karen. gives Charlie a career opportunity of a lifetime, but Charlie must confront the fact that he might be losing Marcy for good.

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  3. Background image for Zoso
    8.2/10(1.2k votes)

    #3 - Zoso

    S3:E4

    Hank objects to Becca's adult fashion sense; Hank and Charlie visit a strip club to discover the secret life of a talented student; Charlie and Marcy's house sale goes awry.

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  4. Background image for Wish You Were Here
    8.1/10(1.3k votes)

    #4 - Wish You Were Here

    S3:E1

    With Karen gone, Hank has to deal with a more and more rebellious Becca. Meanwhile, Charlie and Marcy move back together though they still plan to divorce each other.

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  5. Background image for Turn the Page
    8.0/10(25 votes)

    #5 - Turn the Page

    S1:E11

    Charlie and Dani represent Mia after she wrote a book that seems to have come out of Hank's feather. Becca decides to move out of Bill and Karen's home to live with her dad Hank.

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  6. Background image for The Last Waltz
    8.0/10(25 votes)

    #6 - The Last Waltz

    S1:E12

    As Karen's wedding to Bill nears, Hank struggles with accepting what appears to be inevitable. Bill informs Mia that he will not allow her book to be published and Hank has a unique solution to dealing with Becca's surprise visitor.

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    Director:Scott Winant
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  8. Background image for The Raw & the Cooked
    8.0/10(22 votes)

    #7 - The Raw & the Cooked

    S2:E4

    Hank proposes to Karen right before a dinner party, to which Mia, Charlie, Marcy, Lew Ashby, Sonja and Julian are invited. Drugs and special circumstances turn the evening in an unexpected direction.

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  9. Background image for La Petite Mort
    8.0/10(20 votes)

    #8 - La Petite Mort

    S2:E12

    Hank completes his biography of Ashby. Charlie is reduced to working at a car dealership. Sonja gives birth. Karen accepts a job offer back home in New York, forcing Hank and Becca to make painful choices.

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  10. Background image for Verities & Balderdash
    8.0/10(1.2k votes)

    #9 - Verities & Balderdash

    S3:E3

    Hank attends a university mixer and consoles his jilted assistant; Charlie celebrates his first talent signing.

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  11. Background image for Hell-A Woman
    7.9/10(36 votes)

    #10 - Hell-A Woman

    S1:E2

    Hank begins his blogging job at Hell-A-Magazine. Karen is able to set Hank up with her friend Sonja by disguising the get together as a family dinner. At dinner, Becca reveals how Hank met Karen.

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    Director:Scott Winant
  12. Background image for California Son
    7.9/10(29 votes)

    #11 - California Son

    S1:E8

    Hank's father dies. Despite the memories of his father floating to the surface, he doesn't want to go to the funeral. To ease his pain, he goes to bed with a hooker named Trixie, despite the fact he doesn't have enough money to pay her. Meanwhile, Karen does her best to help him overcome the pain.

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    Director:Scott Winant
  13. Background image for Filthy Lucre
    7.9/10(27 votes)

    #12 - Filthy Lucre

    S1:E9

    After the funeral of Hank's father Al, Hank comes back to L.A. with a new manuscript, that he wants Karen to read. After receiving a bonus paycheck, he buys a new car for himself and a new guitar for Becca.

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  14. Background image for Dogtown
    7.9/10(1.1k votes)

    #13 - Dogtown

    S3:E10

    Hank takes Charlie out on the town to drown his sorrows after Sue Collini fires him for causing client Rick Springfield to leave the agency. Meanwhile, Karen, still miffed by Hank's dalliance with Felicia, organizes a girls' night out with Becca and Marcy.

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  15. Background image for Blues from Laurel Canyon
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #14 - Blues from Laurel Canyon

    S2:E11

    Ashby hosts a party to celebrate the publication of Mia's book. Becca is devastated to catch Damien cheating on her.

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    7.8/10(1.2k votes)

    #15 - The Land of Rape and Honey

    S3:E2

    Hank starts working as college professor and soon gets into trouble while Charlie interferes with Marcie's romantic life.

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  17. Background image for Glass Houses
    7.8/10(1.1k votes)

    #16 - Glass Houses

    S3:E6

    Karen hatches a plan to move the family back to New York for good. Hank's mighty pleased, but Becca's crestfallen about leaving her new best friend, Chelsea. After inviting herself to Hank's class, Karen meets the comely ladies of the university: T.A. Jill Robinson and sexpot student Jackie. Later on, tempers flare when Becca and Chelsea get into some serious trouble and Hank and Karen are forced to pay a tense visit to Chelsea's parents, Felicia and Stacy Koons. Charlie is crushed when Marcy loudly consummates her girlhood-crush on Rick Springfield. But Sue Collini thinks up a creative way to restore Charlie's confidence.

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  18. Background image for Pilot
    7.7/10(40 votes)

    #17 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    A transplanted author suffers from writer's block and is disappointed that his novel has been turned into a romantic comedy for the big screen. He also learns his ex is engaged and that their 12-year-old daughter is acting on her “emerging sexuality.”

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  19. Background image for Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
    7.7/10(29 votes)

    #18 - Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

    S1:E6

    Hank spends the night with a sexy surfer girl and in return she robs him. Mia wants more of Hank's writing to pass her class, instead he offers her to help her with her own writing. Charlie wants to spice up the sex life with his wife, but she is not as fond of spanking as Dani is.

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  20. Background image for So Here's the Thing...
    7.7/10(1.1k votes)

    #19 - So Here's the Thing...

    S3:E7

    Hank's attempts to set things right with Karen lead to even deeper entanglements with the campus ladies. In the meantime, Charlie tries to prevent Sue's top client from leaving the agency and Becca scolds Hank for being a terrible role model for her.

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    Director:John Dahl
  21. Background image for Mr. Bad Example
    7.7/10(1.1k votes)

    #20 - Mr. Bad Example

    S3:E9

    When Becca and her friend Chelsea get into a brawl on campus, it leads to the revelation of one of Hank's affairs. In the meantime, Charlie risks his job trying to hold Marcy off drug addict Rick Springfield.

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  22. Background image for Comings & Goings
    7.7/10(1.1k votes)

    #21 - Comings & Goings

    S3:E11

    Karen drags Hank to an end of the semester goodbye luncheon at Felicia’s. Hank realizes he’s walked into a hornet’s nest as Felicia, Jackie and Jill all gang up on him. The Hank bashing is interrupted when Richard Bates, the novelist / professor Hank replaced at the college, pays a surprise visit.

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  23. Background image for Fear and Loathing at the Fundraiser
    7.6/10(32 votes)

    #22 - Fear and Loathing at the Fundraiser

    S1:E4

    Meredith convinces Hank to escort her to an environmental fundraiser. Coincidentally Bill and Karen are at the same event, where Karen makes a scene. Also, Hank runs into Dani and Charlie while they are in his office.

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  24. Background image for The Devil's Threesome
    7.6/10(28 votes)

    #23 - The Devil's Threesome

    S1:E10

    A new threesome including Hank and Charlie evolves from a meeting at the gym, while Karen and Marcy have a girl's night out at which they decide to surprise Hank and Charlie.

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    Director:John Dahl
  25. Background image for Slow Happy Boys
    7.6/10(1.1k votes)

    #24 - Slow Happy Boys

    S3:E5

    Hank has the apartment all to his bad self when Becca visits Karen in New York. Hank's old buddy from Long Island pays a visit. Hank shows him an epic time. Hank and his talented pupil Jackie take their student / teacher relationship to the next level. Charlie and Marcy are finally hitting the sheets again.

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  26. Background image for The Whore of Babylon
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    #25 - The Whore of Babylon

    S1:E3

    At a book signing, Hank gets into a scrap with the disgruntled director of the film based on his novel, and later runs into a woman whom he embarrassed and insulted on a blind date. Mia attempts to steal some of Hank's work to use for her high-school creative-writing class.

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    Director:Scott Winant

Best Episodes Summary

"The Apartment" is the best rated episode of "Californication". It scored 9.3/10 based on 2317 votes. Directed by Adam Bernstein and written by Tom Kapinos, it aired on 11/15/2009. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Mia Culpa".