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The Worst Episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Every episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition!

Worst episode
S2E5 The Mackey Family
6.415 votes
Best episode
S2E7 The Vardon Family
9.247 votes
Top season
Season 6
8.8avg
Binge time
8d 6h
199 episodes

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Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 2 Episode 5 - The Mackey Family
    6.4/10(15 votes)
    S2:E5

    A woman who runs an organization to help the needy lives in a very run-down and small house with family and extended family. The design team has a challenge ahead of them but gives a great home.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 1 Episode 5 - The McCrory Family
    6.4/10(14 votes)
    S1:E5

    The McCrory Family is very large. They were living in a very small house. With two sons already, they found out the were going to get triplets. Can EM:HE give them a bigger home for their children?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 2 Episode 20 - The Harvey Family
    6.5/10(12 votes)
    S2:E20

    The Harvey family living in hurricane ravished Florida, are living in a termite infested home with water logged ceilings. Mr Harvey, having been diagnosed with adult epilepsy, cannot work. His wife has to pick up the burden by working 2 jobs. Mr Harvey works by helping his neighbors with odd jobs pro bono. His college age son moves back into the home to help with the bills. The Harveys apply to EM-HE and Ty Pennington and ABC come to the rescue

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 1 Episode 8 - The Hardin Family
    6.8/10(14 votes)
    S1:E8

    Several years ago, when Freedman Hardin II lost track of his father, he decided to go looking for him. As luck would have it, he found him on Father's Day four years ago. Freedman II had a full family and no spare space for his father to sleep, his father lived in a fifth wheel trailer outside their house.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 8 Episode 15 - Brown Family
    6.7/10(12 votes)
    S8:E15

    The team heads to Texas to build a home for a family who lost a teenager in a car accident; singer Justin Bieber and actress Emma Roberts volunteer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 3 Episode 17 - The Kubena Family
    7.0/10(17 votes)
    S3:E17

    A family that lives in a trailer, gets a brand new home in seven days.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 1 Episode 3 - The Cox Family
    7.0/10(14 votes)
    S1:E3

    For years John Cox traveled worldwide to help churches and organizations. Meanwhile, to support her dedicated husband's endeavors, his wife, Wendy, quit her job as a nurse to stay at home and care for their three young daughters. When he received a permanent position as a youth minister, John was able to buy his family their very first home. Now their humble abode has received a complete renovation and been transformed into a real dream house.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 2 Episode 9 - The Burns Family
    7.0/10(12 votes)
    S2:E9

    When Benjamin Burns was born in 1997, he was an apparently healthy baby boy. Six months later, Benjamin's sister was playing with her baby brother and, when he started to fall, she reached out to help him. But when she grabbed his arm, she unknowingly fractured it. In the weeks that followed, routine tasks performed by Benjamin's parents resulted in more visits to the hospital and led to the discovery that his arm had been re-injured and he had a fractured skull.Eventually, Child Protective Services was called and Benjamin was separated for three months from his parents, who were accused of child abuse. Nothing could have been further from the truth, and loving parents Gerald and Ellen Burns spent every resource they had trying to get their son back and prove their innocence. When it was finally diagnosed that Benjamin suffers from Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), a genetic disorder characterized by bones that break easily, the Burns were cleared of the abuse charges and allowed to bring

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 9 Episode 4 - Korpai Family
    6.7/10(8 votes)
    S9:E4

    The team helps build a home for the family of a girl with dwarfism.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 7 Episode 5 - Home Edition: The Montgomery Family
    7.0/10(10 votes)
    S7:E5

    The team rebuilds the house of a man who gave up a lucrative engineering career to start a charity that feeds hungry people in his community.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 3 Episode 2 - The Rodriguez Family
    7.3/10(15 votes)
    S3:E2

    Extreme Makeover: Home Edition builds a handicap accessible home for a soldier who lost one of his legs while in Iraq.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 7 Episode 9 - Marshall Family
    7.0/10(9 votes)
    S7:E9

    "Grey's Anatomy" actor Patrick Dempsey joins Ty and the team as they remodel the moldy and rotting home of a famil whose son was diagnosed with leukemia and who started a campaign to raise money for and awareness of the disease.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 3 Episode 23 - The Py Family
    7.2/10(11 votes)
    S3:E23

    Loving and devoted grandparents William and Carole Py of Philadelphia, PA, and three orphaned grandchildren who were left in their care after their parents died, will receive a beautiful and renovated home in a remarkable seven days thanks to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 4 Episode 7 - The Thibodeau Family
    7.2/10(11 votes)
    S4:E7

    Tama County, IA. The Kibe family are given an extreme makeover.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 3 Episode 11 - The Novak Family
    7.3/10(12 votes)
    S3:E11

    Ty and the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition gang transform the lives of Jeff Novak, a recently widowed Special Education teacher and his three young daughters, Zoey, Harley and Presley of Boardman Township, Ohio, when they rebuild and renovate their damaged

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 4 Episode 3 - The Gilliam Family
    7.3/10(12 votes)
    S4:E3

    The large Rogers family are well-known in their community for their selfless attitudes and strong morals. All the children excel in everything they do, whether it's sports or academics. Betsy was raised in a bi-racial family, and later married into a bi-racial marriage; as a result, she strives to teach her family and community about diversity and respect for others. A well known and much respected figure throughout the community, Betsy is a team mother for both the football and wrestling teams and a second mom to most of the kids in the area. She has passed her selfless values on to her children; her two eldest sons, Christopher and Jonathan, went on a two-week mission trip in Honduras to help build homes for those who live in worse conditions than even they could imagine.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 5 Episode 6 - The Miller Family
    7.2/10(10 votes)
    S5:E6

    The crew renovate the Miller family's home due to Radon poisoning. The family meet David Beckham while in New York, away from their dangerous home.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 4 Episode 24 - The Jacobo Family
    7.3/10(11 votes)
    S4:E24

    Levittown, PA. The Kilgallon family are given an extreme makeover. After her divorce, Marynoel Kilgallon decided to create a better environment for her four children by purchasing a house that was a "fixer upper." As a woman working two jobs and struggling to make ends meet, that was all that she could afford. She thought that a new coat of paint and a woman's touch could make the place a lovely home. But despite her measures to ensure that she'd bought a safe house, it began to fail on her

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 3 Episode 4 - The Harrison Family
    7.6/10(14 votes)
    S3:E4

    With the help of grateful friends and neighbors, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition gives back to Gordon Harrison, a master carpenter who has spent his life giving to others in his community, and to his family.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 7 Episode 1 - Huber Family
    7.5/10(10 votes)
    S7:E1

    In the season premiere, Ty takes the team to rebuild the home of a firefighter and his wife. After scraping every penny the family could get, they were able to cancel out their debts but realised they were unable to fix up their home. As the family head to Hawaii, the team move in and get to work.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 1 Episode 6 - The Harris Family
    7.6/10(12 votes)
    S1:E6

    ""Sweet Alice"" Harris is known for her kindness and watchful eye on the neighborhood. Her house went through some floods though and desperately needed a makeover. But, with the show title being Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, they got a great one.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 3 Episode 25 - The Arena Family
    7.6/10(12 votes)
    S3:E25

    Jim and Gina Arena of Somers, NY, the loving parents of "Jimboy," their only son, whose life and death touched the hearts of everyone in their community, received the remarkable news that they will receive a beautiful and renovated home in just seven days.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 2 Episode 16 - The Harris Family
    7.7/10(12 votes)
    S2:E16

    Six children live in a home that is falling apart. They need the EMHE's team to help them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 4 Episode 20 - The Jones Family
    7.7/10(10 votes)
    S4:E20

    Longs, SC. A family who lost their house and their son within the span of three months will get a new dream home that they can fill with memories and love.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  26. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 3 Episode 3 - The Barrett Family
    7.8/10(13 votes)
    S3:E3

    Billy-Jack and Ann adopted 4 kids who were branded ""un-adoptable"" and gave them a second chance. Living in a 100 year old house with the 4 adopted kids, and there 2 biological kids, the family needed a much larger home. They want to adopt a few more kids, but the law says they can't because they don't have the room. Now Ty, and his team have built the Barrett family a 2 story ranch home, themed around there love for horses, and a seperate school house for home schooling.

    Director:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Mackey Family" is the worst rated episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It scored 6.4/10 from 15 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on October 24, 2004.

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