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
8.8/10134 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
8.6/10104 votesLoading...#3 - 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
8.6/10107 votesLoading...#4 - 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...#5 - 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
8.5/10103 votesLoading...#6 - 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
8.5/1099 votesLoading...#7 - 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...#8 - 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
8.5/10123 votesLoading...#9 - 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
8.4/10111 votesLoading...#10 - 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
8.4/10108 votesLoading...#11 - 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
8.4/10100 votesLoading...#12 - 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
8.4/10130 votesLoading...#13 - 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
8.3/10145 votesLoading...#14 - 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
8.3/10115 votesLoading...#15 - 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
8.3/10119 votesLoading...#16 - 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
8.3/1094 votesLoading...#17 - 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
8.3/1099 votesLoading...#18 - 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
8.3/1094 votesLoading...#19 - 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
8.2/10103 votesLoading...#20 - Therapy
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/24/2002
Brendon goes to family therapy with Andrew and Linda to learn 'gentle talk.' Brendon doesn't like the therapy, and when the therapist begins to analyze his movies, he likes it even less.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.2/10105 votesLoading...#21 - Class Trip
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/3/2002
A class trip to a hotel provides a great opportunity for some 'on location' footage. It sounds like a great plan until Paula is asked to chaperone the trip with Mr. Lynch. Coach McGuirk has to get a second job to pay for damages resulting from a fight with the office coffeemaker.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.2/10110 votesLoading...#22 - History
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/10/2002
Mr. Lynch is tutoring Brendon, who is failing History. His lack of historical perspective is evident through his movies, which star the evil George Washington, the evil Picasso and the evil Annie Oakley.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.2/10102 votesLoading...#23 - 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
8.2/1094 votesLoading...#24 - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 8/11/2002
A kitchen fire at the Smalls is nothing compared to the flaring tempers triggered when both of Paula's newly separated parents move in. To make matters worse, Coach McGuirk volunteers to 'renovate' the kitchen. Meanwhile, Brendon, Jason and Melissa make a crime drama called 'Mulligan and Winooski' about two cops.
Director: Loren Bouchard
Writer: N/A
8.2/1095 votesLoading...#25 - Broken Dreams
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/2002
In a suspicious coincidence, Melissa and Jason each break their arms. This may affect the current film in production, but Brendon is also worried that he is dumb, or at the very least, that Melissa is smarter than he is. Meanwhile, McGuirk wants desperately to become a lifeguard.
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".