8.7/10146 votesLoading...#1 - Happily Ever After
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/6/2004
Eli takes pity on Phil's latest get-rich-quick scheme; Warren, Mark and Jimmy create a hilarious Ed and Carol tribute video for the rehearsal dinner, but Shirley is the one who really brings down the house with a special song; Mike feels a little lost as the best man in the face of the extensive groomsman experience and contacts displayed by Ed's cousin Mitch; Molly opens the door when a possible opportunity comes knocking; Ed gets a behind-the-scenes inspiration for a wedding day $10 bet from a surprising source; Ed and Carol hatch some truly hairbrained ideas in their quest for the appropriate theme for their wedding until Ed's inspiration leads them to the perfect place to start the next phase of their lives.
Director: Rob Burnett
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
8.5/10123 votesLoading...#2 - Prom Night
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/23/2001
At the same time Ed receives a visit and a job offer from his old collegue, Carol invites him to the Stuckeyville HS junior prom; To avoid the embarrassement of not having a date, Warren seeks out an escort service; Phil attempts a string of comical practical jokes to get on a TV show.
Director: Marc Buckland
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
8.4/10134 votesLoading...#3 - Captain Lucidity
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/2003
Ed tries lucid dreaming to figure out if he should pursue a relationship with Frankie.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
8.4/10128 votesLoading...#4 - The Decision
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/11/2003
Eli, Phil and Shirley take over preparations for Stuckeybowl's 75th birthday party; Carol completely freaks out when Ed tells her that Molly stole her journal and read parts of it to him, but she can't resist asking Molly about his reaction; bored with their friends' dinner parties, Mike and Nancy accept an invitation to a kegger from Stacie and Jenny, coeds they find stranded by the side of the road with a flat tire; over his better judgment, Eli takes Phil's advice to invite Vivian to the party, and gets turned down; while one college party and its hangover are enough for Nancy, Mike decides to take the plunge again by attending ""Luau Night"" after helping Stacie and Jenny study for their chemistry exam, but gets more than he bargained for when he's forced to turn down Stacie's proposition; Shirley comes up with the right person and the right motivation, and Eli finally gets up the courage to approach a pretty woman at the party; Warren's band gets booked to play at the festivities an
Director: Rob Burnett
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
8.3/10160 votesLoading...#5 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/2000
Ed Stevens has just been fired for misplacing a comma in a 500 page contract, which cost his law firm employer millions of dollars. When he arrives home to give his wife the bad news, he finds her in bed with the mailman. He decides to pack it all in and head back to his hometown of Stuckeyville, Ohio. When he runs into Carol Vessey, the girl of his high school dreams who is now an English teacher at Stuckeyville High School, he decides to stick around and purchase the local bowling alley, where he sets up a law practice.
Director: James Frawley
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
8.2/10119 votesLoading...#6 - Last Chance
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/2002
Ed wrestles with his nervousness about taking what he believes to be his last chance to tell Carol exactly how he feels after he discovers that she and Dennis are going away for the summer together and that Dennis plans to propose during the trip; Warren and Mark compete for Diane's affection; Stuckeyvillians vie for the title of ""The Most Talented Person in Stuckeyville"".
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
8.1/10134 votesLoading...#7 - Pretty Girls and Waffles
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/2000
Ed defends a secretary being sued over a payroll error; Carol decides that she and Nick have to end their relationship; Mike is reviewed by his superior; Molly selects talent over beauty in casting the school play.
Director: Kevin Dowling
Writer: Rob Burnett
8.0/10144 votesLoading...#8 - Live Deliberately
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/2001
A brush with death inspires a local man to change his life and do things he's never done before such as scale a wall, bowl naked, and go out with Molly. Meanwhile, Ed tries to recapture his youth by doing things he did when he was 18, and Warren becomes inspired by Thoreau's call to ""simplify"".
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
8.0/10129 votesLoading...#9 - The New World
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/2001
Ed represents Dennis in a minor fender-bender case, but when the other party's lawyer asks for an exorbiant amount of money, Dennis insists they settle in order to close the case; Ed tries to resurrect the annual Thanksgiving Day parade; Nancy declares war on her fellow ""cookie moms"" when she is sabotaged while launching her own cookie line.
Director: Sandy Smolan
Writer: Chris Dingess
8.0/10124 votesLoading...#10 - The Wedding
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2002
The families converge for the wedding, and Carol begins to have second thoughts after talking to her father about her parents' courtship; Warren enlists the help of Carol's sister Stella in writing a song for the bride, and the two hit it off better than Warren could have dreamed, leading him to seek out Eli for advice about women; Ed decides not to attend the wedding, but Carol begs him to reconsider; Jennifer encourages Ed to break up the wedding and he decides to go for it and ride up to the church on a white steed, but the horse he ends up with has other ideas; Dennis makes a painful decision to tell the truth at a crucial moment.
Director: Vincent Misiano
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.9/10135 votesLoading...#11 - The World of Possibility
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/2000
Carol's childhood diaries prove useful when the town's premier magician, Stuckeyville Stan, sues a competitor for revealing his secrets; Nancy becomes threatened by the baby's nanny.
Director: Marc Buckland
Writer: Rob Burnett
7.9/10251 votesLoading...#12 - Your Life Is Now
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/2000
The return of former high football star, Troy McCallum, brings out feelings of resentment in both Ed and Carol. Meanwhile Ed tries to help high school student Warren, whose nerd vs. jock conflict mirrors his own.
Director: Marc Buckland
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett, Mike Schwartz
7.9/10120 votesLoading...#13 - Memory Lane
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/2002
The news that Dennis and Carol have moved in together has Ed scrambling to find the perfect way to revisit the past and win her back; Dennis decides to run for president of the senior class after disapproving of the frontrunner; Warren embarks on his first real date with Diane, only to find that the feelings they have aren't exactly romantic.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.9/10123 votesLoading...#14 - Trapped
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2002
Tired of the continuing Carol/Ed saga, the pair's friends trap them in Stuckeybowl until they finally work things out, one way or another.
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.9/10141 votesLoading...#15 - Pressure Points
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/23/2004
As Carol and Ed are finally seeing Liz off, they get mugged, leading Ed to question whether he could have prevented it; Russ pays Mike and Nancy a visit after his wife kicks him out for cheating; Phil sets up a ridiculous and elaborate security system in the aftermath of the robbery; Kate offers Eli another gig at the radio station, but Jennifer isn't happy about Eli's spending time away from her; Liz's continued presence in Stuckeyville as a result of the mugging begins to wear mightily on Carol, so Ed asks Liz to leave; after Kate is fired for backing up his decision not to grant a listener's request, Eli devises a scheme to get her rehired, which dovetails nicely with Russ's plan to win back his wife's affections.
Director: Michael Slovis
Writer: N/A
7.8/10131 votesLoading...#16 - Just Friends
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/2000
Ed goes up against his old law firm in a case involving four friends who wrote up a contract on a bar napkin. At the same time, he must pick a manager for Stuckeybowl and deal with being ""just friends"" with Carol. Nancy and Mike fuss over who takes care of the baby at night.
Director: Marc Buckland
Writer: Jon Beckerman
7.8/10124 votesLoading...#17 - Home Is Where the Ducks Are
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/2000
Carol shocks Ed by announcing that she is leaving Stuckeyville to become a writer; Ed concocts Stuckeyville's first-ever Festival of Ducks to boost the town's reputation; Phil becomes mentor to a young bowler.
Director: Bethany Rooney
Writer: Jon Beckerman
7.8/10122 votesLoading...#18 - Closure
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/2001
Carol asks Ed to help her friend Sonja, whose husband Andy wants a divorce after discovering that Sonja had advertised herself in a mail-order-bride catalog before they met. Sonja is about to be deported to her native Brazil, since they live in a no-contest divorce state and Andy can get a divorce immediately. As Ed gets more involved in the case, he re-evaluates his own failed marriage and invites Liz to visit him so that they can mend fences. Mike continues to be beleaguered by Dr. Jerome, who refuses to relinquish his practice until Mike reads all the volumes of medical knowledge Dr. Jerome has amassed in his career. He also has a friend pose as a patient who needs an emergency appendectomy but refuses to listen to Mike and walks out of his office. When Dr. Jerome takes Mike along to see a terminally ill patient, Mike realizes that Dr. Jerome isn't such a bad guy after all. Molly and Jim continue to wend their way through the trials and tribulations of dating. After Jim cancels a da
Director: Melanie Mayron
Writer: Tom Spezialy
7.8/10121 votesLoading...#19 - Ends and Means
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/30/2002
Ed represents a woman who embezzled money from her insurance company employer to pay for a claimant's liver transplant, and breaches his own ethics to keep her out of jail. Nancy tries and fails at a new career as a substitute teacher, and realizes that she'd like to become a guidance counselor. For once, Phil gets it right when he turns a child's birthday party at the Stuckeybowl into a celebrity roast, which ends up being a bigger hit than Ed anticipated.
Director: Kevin Dowling
Writer: Tom Spezialy
7.8/10117 votesLoading...#20 - Frankie
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/2003
As Ed takes the case of a injured high school football player who's suing another player for unnecessary roughness, he meets an enthusiastic law school graduate eager for a job; Eli helps Warren and Diane give Mark his last great meal before surgery; Molly does her best to be the coolest principal ever.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Jessica Queller
7.8/10123 votesLoading...#21 - The Movie
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 4/4/2003
When Carol is discouraged after Ed spurns her feelings as ""not real"", Molly becomes the catalyst in helping Ed to rethink his position; Ed helps an old friend achieve his dream of making a movie; Nancy and Mike dip their toes into show business as Mike and Phil pester the star of the movie; claiming that it's never over between Ed and Carol, Frankie flees to Houston to visit Leon; Warren is heartbroken when Stella decides to return to Boston to finish school.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.8/10125 votesLoading...#22 - New School
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2003
Ed and Carol stumble through the first days of their changed relationship; Mike and Nancy have their hands full with a new puppy and its dishonest breeder; Eli is bewitched by an attractive and talented pie maker.
Director: Don Scardino
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.8/10115 votesLoading...#23 - Home For Christmas
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/2003
With only a few days left until Christmas, Ed's getting ready to move back to New York with Carol, however an unexpected "friend" returns from Ed's past. In the meantime, Mike and Nancy are anxious to get back into their home in time for Christmas, and Mr. Hagadorn's annual Christmas yard display is under attack from a neighbor.
Director: Tim Matheson
Writer: N/A
7.7/10117 votesLoading...#24 - Opposites Distract
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/17/2001
Ed locks horns with a sassy new D.A. while defending a man charged with breaking the law by putting dimes in parking meters; Molly chides Carol for taking Ed's attention for granted; Phil searches for his own personal catch phrase; Nancy must decide whether she wants to accept a promotion at work.
Director: Tim Van Patten
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.7/10124 votesLoading...#25 - Exceptions
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/28/2001
Ed and Carol finds themselves on opposite sides when he represents a gym coach who is flunking one of her best students; Dr. Jerome continues to humiliate Mike; Shirley starts working as Ed's legal clerk.
Director: Kevin Dowling
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett, Michele Fazekas
The Best Episodes of Ed
Every episode of Ed ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Ed!
After his wife leaves him and he's fired from his job at a high-profile New York city law firm, Ed Stevens moves back to his...
Genres:DramaComedy
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Happily Ever After" is the best rated episode of "Ed". It scored 8.7/10 based on 146 votes. Directed by Rob Burnett and written by Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett, it aired on 2/6/2004. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Prom Night".