5.7/1053 votesLoading...#1 - Caroline and the Bar Mitzvah
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1998
Richard's Aunt Frieda announces that before she moves to Florida and wants to see Richard go through with the bar mitzvah he abandoned, and is willing to pay him $5,000 for the privilege. While an embarrassed Richard returns to Hebrew school, Caroline and Annie prepare a mocking party in his honor -- until Richard confesses to Caroline that he is doing it for the money only because he is humiliated by her having to pick up the tab for everything they do together. Meanwhile, Del gets a great deal in expensively tailored Italian suits, but won't admit they are several sizes too small for him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.0/1046 votesLoading...#2 - Caroline and the Fright Before Christmas
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/1998
Richard, Del and Annie are apparently successful in their combined effort to knock the Christmas spirit out of Caroline, but when she appears to have lost all interest in her annual tree-trimming festivities, her alarmed buddies declare an emergency trip to nearby ""Christmasville,"" only to discover that Caroline engineered the whole thing. When even the local re-enactment of A Christmas Carol doesn't do the trick, a furious Caroline tries to drive away and backs into the town's main transformer, blacking out all of ""Christmasville"" and condemning them to slave off their sentence in Santa's workshop.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: Oliver Goldstick
6.0/1045 votesLoading...#3 - Caroline and Joanie and the Stick
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 3/8/1999
Caroline tries to right an old wrong by giving up a romantic weekend in Boston with Richard to help out a visiting childhood chum, Joanie, whom Caroline once bullied in school. Meanwhile, a lonely Annie finds unexpected companionship with a smooth-talking parrot when she agrees to bird-sit for Dave, and Del has trouble accepting the fact that his new girlfriend Lisa is taller than he is.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: N/A
6.0/1047 votesLoading...#4 - Caroline and the Big Move (2)
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 4/26/1999
As Caroline and Richard prepare to leave for Italy to visit his newborn son, Richard makes a confession that gives Caroline second thoughts about their future together: he never wanted to have children. But when he arrives alone in Italy, Richard discovers that Julia has abandoned the baby, and slowly becomes a model father. Meanwhile, Annie and Del begin a clandestine relationship. Flashing forward six months later, the series finale finds Caroline headed to the altar with Randy, when an unexpected guest arrives during the wedding ceremony: Richard, holding his infant son...
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: Marco Pennette
6.1/1049 votesLoading...#5 - Caroline and the Rotten Plum
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1998
Caroline settles into her new workplace, where she inadvertently - and immediately - ticks off office manager Plum, who banishes Caroline and Richard to the basement. Meanwhile, Annie lusts after her yoga teacher Jonathan, but learns from Angie that he is a former porn performer.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: Oliver Goldstick
6.1/1049 votesLoading...#6 - Caroline and the Horny Kid
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/1999
Del and Caroline participate in the company's mentoring program, but Caroline's adolescent charge Stan develops an embarrassing crush on her, while Del's turns into a teenage fixer who takes over Del's professional and personal lives with impressive competence. Meanwhile, Reg tries to convince Richard to sell his art, but the results are disastrous: a coffee house show is a fiasco, and when Richard desperately tries to emulate a subway hawker and sell his works to consumers, he is busted by an undercover cop who confiscates his art.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: Tom Burkhard
6.1/1052 votesLoading...#7 - Caroline and the Ancestral Home
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/15/1999
Caroline and the gang visit her family's home in Wisconsin and learn her parents are selling the house. Distraught, she prolongs her stay (while Richard unwillingly bonds with the locals), and ultimately decides to preserve her childhood memories by buying the house herself.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: N/A
6.1/1044 votesLoading...#8 - Caroline and the 2000th Strip
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/22/1999
There's to be a big celebrity banquet to celebrate Caroline's 2000th strip, but there's a snag: Caroline is completely blocked in terms of fresh, funny ideas. While everyone else waits for her to get ready (Richard in a cheap rental tuxedo which gradually disintegrates), Caroline fantasizes about what life would be like if she retired. When she tearfully refuses to attend the banquet and does laundry instead, Richard gently points out that she has stopped writing about her real life in the strip (her fictional counterpart is ""still dating that veterinarian"") and perhaps it is time to bring her readers up to date -- and Caroline immediately draws a strip about their first date on the side of the washing machine.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.1/1047 votesLoading...#9 - Caroline and the Sudsy Guy
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/29/1999
Caroline's plans to rent out her house in Wisconsin hit an unexpected snag when Grandma Duffy refuses to leave, forcing Caroline to return to Wisconsin, where she is surprised to learn that her former boyfriend Randy will be her new tenant. Meanwhile, Richard has his hands full in New York when he agrees to take Caroline's place by caring for Annie (who is sick) and Del (who thinks his girlfriend may be cheating on him).
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: Tom Burkhard
6.2/1050 votesLoading...#10 - Caroline and the Little White Lies
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/1998
For insurance purposes, Del and Charlie pretend to be gay, but then Del meets a beautiful woman at a party, and in trying to pursue her gets himself and Charlie invited to be the couple of honor at a gay pride rally. Meanwhle, Richard reluctantly agrees to change his appearance so that he'll be picked for jury duty, and Annie lies to her mom about her dad's fiancée.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: Nancy Steen
- 6.2/1044 votesLoading...
#11 - Caroline and the Marriage Counselor (2)
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/4/1998
Synopsis needed: I caught this in a New York hotel room and then lost my notes.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: Oliver Goldstick
6.2/1048 votesLoading...#12 - Caroline and the Office
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1998
When Carol can no longer stand the pressure Del is putting on her to work out of her new corporate office instead of her home, a reluctant Caroline discovers that Richard has been sleeping there: his vengeful father-in-law has stripped him of apartments, possessions and credit cards, and Charley has been using Richard's old apartment as a makeshift hotel for visiting Russians. Then Richard falls afoul of the militaristic office manager Plum, who subjects him to standard employment tests, including a visit to the staff psychologist - who finds Richard's behavior a little odd.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: Neil Thompson, Gary Murphy
- 6.3/1051 votesLoading...
#13 - Caroline and the Getaway
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1997
When Caroline calls her out on always blowing her off for male dates, Annie makes a deal: they will go away together for a weekend skiing trip and ignore men. Naturally, both immediately spot exceptionally interesting men: an old school chum of Caroline's who confesses to having had a mutual crush, and for Annie a handsome tycoon. Meanwhile, Richard is hoping that his relationship with a fellow philosophy student won't remain Platonic, but the tryst he arranges in Caroline's apartment while she is away is invaded by Del and Charlie, who intend to make themselves at home to watch sports.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1056 votesLoading...
#14 - Caroline and the New Neighbor
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/8/1997
Things get a little stiff when an demanding elderly new neighbor, who is driving an initially sympathetic Caroline nuts, asks Caroline and Annie for a really big favor - to help out with the removal of her dead, naked husband. Meanwhile, Richard tries to sell his car, but the only bidder is Louis, a bizarre individual claiming to be a minister and promising eternal life in exchange for the vehicle. Charlie, smitten with Sophia, the beautiful new waitress at Remo's, offers Richard $500 (which he makes driving the car as a gypsy cab) so he can give the car to Sophia as a love token; but Richard decides to keep the car and drive it as a cab himself. Through all this, Del is obsessed with the idea that he is losing his hair and his looks.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1047 votesLoading...
#15 - Caroline and the Egg
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1997
Caroline's former colorist Jeannie comes back to town on a mission: she and her husband can't conceive, so she wants Caroline to donate an egg; Annie naturally seizes the opportunity to make Richard paranoid that Caroline plans to re-hire Jeannie. Meanwhile, Del has a close encounter with his old Porsche and gets himself hired as a male escort for the company that now owns his former automotive love.
Director: Arlene Sanford
Writer: Nancy Steen
- 6.3/1049 votesLoading...
#16 - Caroline and the Cabbie
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1998
Richard gets a chance to have a painting exhibited at the New York Public Library, but falls victim to on-line addiction at a cyber cafe. An outraged Caroline files a complaint against a rude cabbie, but Richard is her only witness (""A rude cab driver in New York? What's next, tall buildings?"") and fails to show up at the hearing. Meanwhile, after literal years on the waiting list, Annie finally gets an appointment with famous hair stylist Olaf, only to have Del and Charlie invade her session with a ridiculous scheme to market the hair sweepings of the famous - which Olaf loves.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Nancy Steen
- 6.3/1048 votesLoading...
#17 - Caroline and the Sandwich
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/27/1998
Caroline and Jo Anne Worley agree to stage a feud after the cartoonist is blamed for having a deli sandwich named for Worley being renamed in her own honor. Meanwhile, Richard agonizes because Julia's regained wealth has given him painter's block; and Annie shows a reluctant Richard that his new $12,000 gold Rolex watch gives him shopper's credit in the stores that formerly scorned him.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1057 votesLoading...
#18 - Caroline and the Condom
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 8/5/1996
Caroline's writers' block sends her down memory lane to Richard's first day on the job---a day with trouble in store for Caroline because she and Del had just rekindled their romance.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Fred Barron, Marco Pennette
- 6.4/1060 votesLoading...
#19 - Caroline and the Guy Who Gets There Too Soon
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1996
Realizing Caroline never received his love letter, Richard labors to retrieve it from her friend's apartment.
Director: Gordon Hunt
Writer: Donald Todd
- 6.4/1048 votesLoading...
#20 - Caroline and the Marriage Counselor (1)
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/4/1998
Caroline returns home to find Richard, Julia, Trevor, Annie, Del and Charlie bound and gagged together - which turns out to be the doing of a deranged marriage counselor, as we learn in a series of flashbacks: To quit or not to quit? That is the question Richard faces in this hour-long episode. When Julia is finally able to claim her inheritance, the Karinskys move into a penthouse and ponder leaving their jobs. While Mrs. Karinsky gives up bartending in a flash, Richard makes excuses about abruptly leaving Caroline. A concerned Julia hires a marriage counselor, who turns out to be more interested in Richard's job than his life. Meanwhile, Caroline suggests that she and Trevor move in together. Garry Shandling has a cameo as one of the therapist's other patients.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: Oliver Goldstick
6.4/1046 votesLoading...#21 - Caroline and the Drycleaner
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1998
It's just not Annie's day: she gets fired from Cats after eight years and is immediately dumped by her agent. To get back some self esteem, she agrees to go out with her dry cleaner to his dry cleaners' annual banquet, but when she attempts to strut both their stuff on the dance floor, she succeeds only in fracturing his leg. Meanwhile, since sales of her greeting cards are down, Del talks Caroline into attending a focus group which some wild new ideas about Caroline's cartoon strip. Richard is aghast to find Caroline seriously considering some of them (turning Salty into a dog, giving Caroline super-powers); then Del announces that all greeting card sales are down, Caroline's less than most.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: N/A
6.4/1046 votesLoading...#22 - Caroline and the Firing Squad
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/25/1999
Caroline is appalled to discover that Del (currently obsessed with buying a new Porsche) is paying his partner Charlie to stay at home so that his bizarre ideas won't compromise Del's career. When she persuades Del to let Charlie attend a planning meeting, the plan backfires big time: Charlie is fired. Charlie decides he wants to travel in Europe, and Del does the right thing and gives him the money for his Porsche as severance. Meanwhile, Richard gets Annie a job posing for a cartoonist who starts dating her, but the deal is fishy: it turns out he is only interested in her when she is dressed as the bizarre science fiction heroine of his strip.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1050 votesLoading...
#23 - Caroline and the Blind Date
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1997
Julia tries to cheer up Caroline by setting her up on a blind date, which Richard does his best to sabotage. Meanwhile, Annie prepares to realize her dreams of revenge at her high-school reunion, with an overly coached Del in tow pretending to be her highly successful husband.
Director: Arlene Sanford
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1051 votesLoading...
#24 - Caroline and the Toothbrush
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1998
An ecstatic Annie bursts in on Caroline and Trevor to announce that her mother is finally moving out to live with an aunt in the suburbs. When Caroline discovers that Trevor has left his toothbrush behind, she begins worrying about whether their relationship is moving too fast, then decides to get a key cut for Trevor, then takes Annie's advice not to give it to him yet - only to discover that a distracted Richard has already done so. Both Richard and Caroline pursue Trevor to his gym, where they have to fend off the attempts of an over-motivated employee to sign them up as members and where Caroline and a flustered Trevor finally reach an understanding of sorts in the steam room. Meanwhile, Del and Charlie pursue their daftest promotional scheme yet: kidnapping the Central Park groundhog so that when he emerges he will be wearing a little Caroline in the City cape. Naturally, this scheme backfires, along the way ensuring that Annie's mother doesn't move out after all. (So now that she
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1050 votesLoading...
#25 - Caroline and the Visit From Mom
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1998
When Caroline's mother visits, Annie becomes upset at the blandness of their relationship and encourages Caroline to have a healthy fight as she and Angie do. When Caroline timidly tries to open up to her mom, Margaret repostes with a real shocker: she hates Caroline's comic strip. Meanwhile, Del and Charlie go to Atlantic City at the request of a potential investor, and Richard tags along for the free ride, desperately trying to finish the new John Grisham thriller while resisting everyone's determination to tell him the surprise ending.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Caroline in the City
Every episode of Caroline in the City ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Caroline in the City!
Caroline in the City is an American situation comedy that ran on the NBC television network. It stars Lea Thompson as cartoonist Caroline Duffy, who...
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Caroline and the Bar Mitzvah" is the worst rated episode of "Caroline in the City". It scored 5.7/10 based on 53 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/14/1998. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Caroline and the Fright Before Christmas".