7.3/10782 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/4/2015
It's 1995 and 11-year-old hip-hop loving Eddie Huang has just moved with his family from Chinatown in Washington D.C. to suburban Orlando. They quickly discover things are very different there. Orlando doesn't even have a Chinatown -- unless you count the Huang house.
Director: Lynn Shelton
Writer: Nahnatchka Khan
7.6/10661 votes#2 - Home Sweet Home-School
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/4/2015
Jessica thinks school must be too easy for the boys and gives them extra homework; Louis tries to get Jessica to ease up on her strict approach.
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7.8/10630 votes#3 - The Shunning
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/10/2015
When the cul-de-sac plans a block party to celebrate NASCAR, Louis urges the family to use the event to make new friends (and promote Cattleman’s Ranch Steakhouse). But Jessica has problems fitting in, especially after she befriends a beautiful trophy wife the roller blade moms don’t like. Meanwhile, Eddie schemes to win the respect of the neighborhood kids
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7.7/10565 votes#4 - Success Perm
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/10/2015
A visit from Jessica's sister and her affluent husband creates out-of-control family rivalry.
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7.5/10514 votes#5 - Persistent Romeo
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/2015
Louis has to hire a professional instructor to give the restaurant staff a sexual harassment seminar after Jessica's attempts fall flat. Meanwhile, Eddie tries to pass off the seminar's instructional tape as a "dirty movie" to his friends in an attempt to impress them and get them to come to his house for a sleep over
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7.6/10516 votes#6 - Fajita Man
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/2015
Eddie takes a job at the restaurant so he can earn money for a new video game.
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7.3/10480 votes#7 - Showdown at the Golden Saddle
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/3/2015
A billboard for the restaurant is struck by vandalism. Eddie tries to get a girl's attention.
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7.4/10451 votes#8 - Phillip Goldstein
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/2015
Eddie tries to befriend the only other Chinese kid in school, but he's in for a letdown after he finds out that they have nothing in common; Louis feels betrayed when Mitch accepts a job at the rival Golden Saddle.
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7.4/10430 votes#9 - License to Sell
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/24/2015
Jessica worries she can't compete with a top realtor and puts off taking the exam for her license.
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7.8/10467 votes#10 - Blind Spot
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/31/2015
Jessica's college boyfriend, Oscar Chow, comes to visit. She's a bit miffed that Louis isn't a little more jealous....but she's got a blind spot and is completely oblivious to the fact that Oscar is gay. Meanwhile, Eddie goes to great lengths to get out of the school science fair.
Director: Claire Scanlon
Writer: David Smithyman
7.5/10429 votes#11 - Very Superstitious
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/7/2015
Jessica’s superstitions get the best of her when she sells a house with the address 44 West 44th Street – the number 4 being bad luck in Chinese culture. At the urging of the new school counselor, Eddie decides to run for school president, but Jessica’s bad luck gets the best of him too when a white lie spirals out of control.
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7.2/10425 votes#12 - Dribbling Tiger, Bounce Pass Dragon
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/14/2015
Louis and Jessica get pressured into volunteering at the kids’ schools because of budget cuts. Eddie sees a whole other side of his dad when Louis – a former semi-pro basketball player back in Taiwan — coaches the basketball team, while Emery and Evan see a side of Jessica they wish they hadn't when she grudgingly takes on producing their school play, and puts her own spin on it.
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7.6/10449 votes#13 - So Chineez
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/21/2015
Jessica fears her family has assimilated so much to life in Orlando that they’ve lost their Chinese identity. So she drives everyone nuts making them reconnect with their culture, from Louis, who she insists decline an invite to join the country club, to Eddie, who she makes do a report on China for his World Day project.
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The Best Episodes of Fresh Off the Boat Season 1
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A '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando, being raised by an immigrant father obsessed with all things American...
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Fresh Off the Boat" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 782 votes. Directed by Lynn Shelton and written by Nahnatchka Khan, it aired on 2/4/2015. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Home Sweet Home-School".