9.1/10264 votesLoading...#1 - Camp
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2004
Brendon, Jason and Melissa attend Camp Campingston Falls for the summer, home to stifling heat and crappy music counsellors. Meanwhile, McGuirk's camping trip with The Crywalkers, a sensitive men's group, turns out to be not entirely about the free food.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.8/10135 votesLoading...#2 - Focus Grill
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/2004
The kids test their latest film in front of a rather hostile focus group. Meanwhile Coach McGuirk helps Paula pick out and assemble an extremely large grill for the Small family.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: Brendon Small
8.6/10108 votesLoading...#3 - Time to Pay the Price
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/10/2002
Brendon, Jason and Melissa get in BIG trouble at school and have to go to a 'scared straight' program at the local prison. Meanwhile, Paula stumbles across a huge pile of the kids' old movies and incredibly, she watches them. What's more, she discovers an odd motif that runs through every film.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.5/10136 votesLoading...#4 - Mortgages & Marbles
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/30/2001
Coach McGuirk decides to buy a condo, but getting approved for a mortgage proves to be difficult. He probably shouldn't have moved out of his old place until he found a new one. Meanwhile, Brendon decides to make an educational film for kids.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: Bill Braudis, Brendon Small
8.5/10105 votesLoading...#5 - Bad Influences
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 8/18/2002
The camera does add 10 pounds, but so does bingeing on junk food. Brendon and Jason are gaining weight at an alarming rate, so in order break the 'fat-enabling' cycle, they decide never to see each other again.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.5/10100 votesLoading...#6 - Stowaway
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/2002
The kids decide to run away to Europe and become ex-patriot artists, but find their plan is a little lost at sea. Back home, McGuirk's car breaks down and he has no money to fix it. He asks Tom Wilsonberg, author of 'Starting Early: The New World of Corporate Kids,' for financial advice. Tom's answer? Gambling.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.5/10128 votesLoading...#7 - Coffins and Cradles
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 5/25/2003
The kids are preparing for Halloween, Linda (Brendon's new stepmother) is preparing to have a baby, and Coach McGuirk is preparing to have the romantic night of his life. Despite all this, no one is prepared when things start to go wrong.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.4/10104 votesLoading...#8 - Storm Warning
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/3/2002
Coach McGuirk tries to convince Paula to pose as his fiance while his sister visits. Meanwhile, Paula needs to get her novel to her agent before he goes on vacation. On the filmmaking front, the kids try to decide whether they want to make a mockumentary about making a movie or a mock, making-of-a-mockumentary movie or just a movie.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.4/10130 votesLoading...#9 - Everybody's Entitled to My Opinion
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 11/11/2003
Brendon begins writing reviews for a movie website called movie-winner-or-weiner.com. Jason and Melissa are excited because Brendon gets passes for all of them to see the premiere of 'All That Violence'. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk wreaks havoc because he's finally got a friend 'on the inside'.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.4/10124 votesLoading...#10 - Curses
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 2/22/2004
Brendon gets in trouble for making a movie about a foul-mouthed robot. The neighborhood kids love it; the parents hate it, and Paula orders Brendon to re-shoot and make a G-rated version. Meanwhile, Melissa gets jealous when her dad, Erik, wants to date a woman from his journal writing class.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.3/10146 votesLoading...#11 - Director's Cut
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/2/2001
Duane has written a rock opera based on Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis,'and he wants Brendon to direct. But the collaboration has a few bugs.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: Loren Bouchard, Bill Braudis, Brendon Small, Janine Ditullio
8.3/10116 votesLoading...#12 - The Party
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/2002
The kids are invited to Fenton Muley's birthday party. Brendon has been asked to make a special film for the occasion, but has a hard time praising Fenton since he can't stand him.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.3/10112 votesLoading...#13 - The Wedding
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 3/31/2002
The big day is here: Brendon's dad is marrying his girlfriend. A rash is slowly covering Brendon's body, but otherwise he's doing okay. Paula's friend Stephanie is in town for the wedding and takes a liking to Coach McGuirk.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.3/10120 votesLoading...#14 - Shore Leave
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 8/4/2002
Erik is worried that Melissa doesn't have enough friends who are girls so he enrolls her in The Fairy Princesses. Meanwhile, Brendon gets invited to spend the weekend with Fenton, whom he didn't even know he was friends with. Both Brendon and Melissa have what they consider to be the worst weekends of their lives.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.3/10109 votesLoading...#15 - Renaissance
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/2002
Brendon, Jason and Melissa are performing the musical 'King Arthur Meets Robin Hood' at a medieval fair organized by Mr. Lynch. Tensions soon arise between the fair and the sci-fi convention next door. Can Brendon bring peace to the warring factions? Also, can Coach McGuirk stay in character as a medieval blacksmith?
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.3/10101 votesLoading...#16 - Guitarmageddon
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/2002
The kids ignore the fact that they have no musical experience or talent and decide to start a band, recording their first single, 'Freaky Outie.' At the same time, Duane enters a guitar contest where he will face his archrival, Jimmy Monet.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.3/1095 votesLoading...#17 - Definite Possible Murder
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 3/21/2004
Brendon, laid-up in his room with a broken leg, thinks that the man who just moved in next door may be a murderer. McGuirk trains to become a bartender.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.2/10102 votesLoading...#18 - Pizza Club
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/24/2002
Paula tries to get a role in one of Brendon's films about a little girl named Little Malooloo who has two fathers. McGuirk feels left out by the regular pizza club meetings that Brendon has with his dad.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.2/1095 votesLoading...#19 - Four's Company
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/2002
Melissa gets a new French-accented boyfriend, and Brendon and Jason get jealous when her love life starts to interfere with their busy production schedule--and the casting of their Susan B. Anthony biopic. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk transforms into to a social planner.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.2/10100 votesLoading...#20 - Heart Smashers
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/2004
Brendon tries to break up with Fenton; Paula tries to break up with her new boyfriend; McGuirk's chest tries to break up with McGuirk.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.2/10118 votesLoading...#21 - Psycho-Delicate
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 2/15/2004
Brendon, Jason and Melissa try their hand at a Hitchcock-style thriller. They want to get into a film festival run by a local video store clerk. Coach McGuirk spends all his time at a diner, trying to woo a roller-skating waitress/actress named Fred. Meanwhile, Paula tries to get a refund from her hairdresser.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.2/1093 votesLoading...#22 - Cho and the Adventures of Amy Lee
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/2004
When Brendon scores a lucky goal in a soccer game, he runs a foul of Cho, the best goalie in the league. Jason thinks Cho's a bully, Melissa thinks he's hot, but Brendon is caught up in the middle of doing nice things for people and changing their lives.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.1/10116 votesLoading...#23 - Life Through a Fisheye Lens
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/23/2001
Brendon wants to buy a fisheye lens, but the Smalls are on a budget. He is forced into the working world when his mother refuses to extend his line of credit.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.1/10122 votesLoading...#24 - School Nurse
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/30/2001
The new school nurse has everyone's attention. Coach McGuirk and Jason eye her as a love interest; Brendon sees her as his ticket to getting out of class.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: Bill Braudis, Brendon Small
8.1/10119 votesLoading...#25 - Identifying a Body
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2002
Brendon is doing a good job trying to raise money for the school walk-a-thon, but Coach McGuirk is doing a better job spending it. No worries! Coach's long-lost Uncle Pedro has died and left something for him in his will.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Home Movies
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Best Episodes Summary
"Camp" is the best rated episode of "Home Movies". It scored 9.1/10 based on 264 votes. Directed by Loren Bouchard and written by N/A, it aired on 1/11/2004. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Focus Grill".