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4.8/106 votesLoading...#2 - Recognition
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/25/2024
After Nisha gets in a fender bender, Astrid decides to help her buy a new car; James' stay-at-home duties eclipse his job search efforts.
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Writer: Bita Joudaki
5.0/105 votesLoading...#3 - Respect
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/2024
Astrid and James realize they are at the dawning of a new era when Felix starts showing signs of pre-teen rebellion; James tries to ease tensions after he rejects Bo's job offer.
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5.0/105 votesLoading...#4 - Chores
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/2024
Astrid and James question whether they’re raising monsters when Felix and Viv refuse to pitch in around the house.
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5.1/107 votesLoading...#5 - Feelings
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/2024
James, feeling left out when Ennis makes a new friend, inserts himself in Ennis' dodgeball tournament. Meanwhile, Astrid struggles to get Viv to control her emotions, especially when frustrations at work make it hard to lead by example.
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#6 - Bedtime
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/2024
When James finds an old game console, he and Astrid attempt to find free time to play. But a bedtime routine threatens to eat up all the time between when the kids are supposed to be in bed and when Astrid and James have to go to bed themselves.
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6.2/1087 votesLoading...#7 - Intimacy
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/26/2022
James and Astrid attempt to get some alone time, but the kids keep getting in the way. Meanwhile, Dawn and Bo renew their vows.
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6.3/1059 votesLoading...#8 - Babysitters
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2023
Astrid and James plan a night out to celebrate Astrid's recent win at work. With help from Dawn, they're able to book the highly sought-after neighborhood babysitter, Jeffrey. Everything is going perfectly– the kids love Jeffrey; he's getting them to clean the house and even teaching them French. But when Viv's crush on Jeffrey threatens to ruin everything, Astrid and James struggle to take control of the situation while also taking Viv's big feelings into account.
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6.4/1067 votesLoading...#9 - Friends
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/2022
Feeling like parenthood has eroded her friendships, Astrid jumps at a playdate, and James attempts to keep his own commitments.
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6.4/1072 votesLoading...#10 - Fairness
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/2022
Between Astrid and her sister Dawn’s kids, their mother Nisha is feeling burnt out on babysitting duties. When she announces her retirement from free childcare, it falls to Astrid and Dawn to try and get her back on board for watching their kids. While Astrid scrambles for childcare, James faces a growing conflict between their two oldest kids, Felix and Viv, as an opportunity presents itself for one of them to be the face of a new marketing campaign at James’s work.
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6.4/1056 votesLoading...#11 - Consequences
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2023
With free box seat tickets to a Raptor’s game from Fintekölay in hand, Astrid and James are hesitant to discipline Felix and Viv when they slack on their chores. Punishing the kids would mean missing the game and that’s something they want to avoid at all costs. But after the kids get caught in an escalating lie, Astrid and James realize that maybe their discipline style can use a little work.
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6.4/1064 votesLoading...#12 - Talking
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2023
Astrid and James struggle to find something to talk about other than their kids while having dinner at a fancy restaurant. Feeling the pressure of keeping up with the exciting lives of their family and co-workers, Astrid and James regale each other with exaggerated stories from their week.
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6.5/1080 votesLoading...#13 - Truth
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/2/2022
While Astrid is away on a business trip, James struggles to keep the Tooth Fairy tradition alive.
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6.5/1062 votesLoading...#14 - Weekends
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/2023
With long days at the office, Astrid cannot shake the feeling that she is missing out on key moments with their kids. Astrid convinces James that what the family needs is an adventure together.
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6.5/1060 votesLoading...#15 - Therapy
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2023
While waiting on the results of an evaluation for Viv, Astrid and James feel the pressure of figuring out how to best help their possibly neurodivergent child. But when Viv’s new doctor, guest star Emma Hunter, rubs Astrid the wrong way, Astrid tries coming up with her own strategies for Viv. Meanwhile, at Gero’s Grocery, the enlistment of Fintekoäly – a tech company hired to automate checkouts at Gero’s – makes Marla uneasy.
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6.5/1060 votesLoading...#16 - Clothes
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2023
When Felix shrinks all his clothes doing laundry for the first time, Astrid and James are forced to buy him a new wardrobe. But shopping for clothes isn’t so easy now that Felix is developing his own style. On top of everything, Astrid and James wrestle with societal norms when Viv wants to start wearing crop tops. At Gero’s Grocery, Marla is working on a plan to start a fast fashion line.
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6.6/10118 votesLoading...#17 - Meals
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/2022
James and Astrid try to have a nice family dinner to celebrate a special occasion, but their young children make it challenging.
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6.6/1095 votesLoading...#18 - Bodies
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2022
Pressured to not look "like a dad" for an upcoming work event, James takes his kids out on a shopping trip. Seán Cullen guest stars.
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6.6/1074 votesLoading...#19 - Space
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/2022
Frustrated over their cluttered home full of kids' stuff, James and Astrid decide to purge.
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6.6/1067 votesLoading...#20 - Dignity
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/2022
Following embarrassing run-ins with her boss and co-workers, Astrid feels on the back foot and disconnected from her younger co-workers. Astrid realizes her best move might be to attend a drink night with the rest of her team.
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6.6/1068 votesLoading...#21 - Screen Time
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/2022
With their kids’ faces always buried in their screens, Astrid and James enact a weekend screen ban, but when Astrid inadvertently takes on an assignment at work and James gets put in charge of his company’s social media accounts, leading by example becomes more complicated than they originally thought. In a bid to get some work done, James takes the older kids to the park to distract them while he sneaks in some social media updates and Astrid stays home to put the baby down for a nap before launching into her own assignment. But without the hypnotic power of electronics, Astrid and James are in for an uphill battle.
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6.6/1061 votesLoading...#22 - Expectations
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/2023
With a move out of the city and their home of a decade looming, Astrid and James look back on when they first moved in. With Astrid set to give birth to her first child, her mother and sister do not see eye to eye on Astrid's birth plan.
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6.6/1059 votesLoading...#23 - Confidence
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2023
After the site of the future World Cup Village is closed due to goose poop contamination, Astrid is in charge of bringing the issue to the World Cup Committee. But after a disastrous meeting with Councillor Flynn, head of the committee, and an embarrassing practice round with her family, Astrid’s confidence takes a nosedive. Meanwhile, James is determined to teach Viv how to ride a bike in one afternoon.
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6.6/1056 votesLoading...#24 - Spontaneity
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/2023
When Astrid hears about Dawn's spontaneous trip to South America, she is determined to find a little spontaneity in her own life. With Astrid's convincing, she and James play hooky from work and buy tickets to a weekday matinee performance of Jagged Little Pill, the musical. But their plans are up in the air after getting a phone call from Viv's school saying she’s sick and needs to be sent home.
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6.6/1056 votesLoading...#25 - Leaving the House
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/2023
Astrid wonders if she's responsible for passing neurodivergent genes on to her daughter, Viv. So, when Astrid and James are consistently late for Viv's early morning meetings with the school counselor, Astrid is determined to get Viv to school on time in order for Viv to get the support she needs. As a family, they come up with a time management plan to get out of the house on time, but something always takes them off track. At Gero's Grocery, James gets hit with some unexpected news.
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The Worst Episodes of Children Ruin Everything
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Astrid and James, who struggle to find a balance between being mom and dad to two kids and being who they were before offspring.
Genre:Comedy
Network:CTV
Worst Episodes Summary
"Drama" is the worst rated episode of "Children Ruin Everything". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/22/2024. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Recognition".