7.6/1044 votesLoading...#1 - 9012-Uh-Oh
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/2004
Thanksgiving day brings up memories of ten years ago, when Faith hosts a holiday dinner at her Hollywood apartment. She goes to great lengths to impress her parents, Jack and Mary Jo, including posing as Brian Austin Green's girlfriend. Happiness turns to sadness, however, when the family learns of Mary Jo's secret: she is dying.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Joanna Johnson
7.5/1037 votesLoading...#2 - Faith Knows Squat
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/2/2006
After a loud, late-night dancing session by Faith and “The Gooch” pushes Hope and Charley over the edge, they suggest that the couple find their own home. Unfortunately Charley and Hope learn that a local real estate technicality makes Faith the legal owner of her garage apartment – unless she has paid them rent. So Charley tries to squeeze a single rent check out of Faith, but the truth comes out and Faith declares an all-out war on Hope and Charley to keep her place – and they join in an outrageous battle of one-upsmanship.
Director: Michael Dorn
Writer: N/A
7.1/1033 votesLoading...#3 - The Dolly Mama
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2004
To prove to Hope that she can be responsible, Faith practices motherhood on an electronic baby. It's all going well until she accidentaly exchanges the doll for a real infant.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: N/A
6.9/1031 votesLoading...#4 - Daytime Emmys (1)
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/14/2004
Faith's surprise Daytime Emmy nomination sends the Fairfields to New York City for a reunion with Faith's "The Sacred and the Sinful" colleagues. They're not her friends.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Jennie Snyder Urman
6.9/1031 votesLoading...#5 - Do I Look Frat in This?
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/2004
Faith and Sydney get jobs at a clothing store. The young Shanowski decides to lose her virginy to the college-age manager, leading Hope and Fath to crash a frat party to keep Syd from making a big mistake.
Director: Don Scardino
Writer: Jennie Snyder Urman
6.9/1030 votesLoading...#6 - Another Car Commercial
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/2005
Auto dealer Handsome Hal refuses to exchange Faith's lemon of a car unless she can get former baseball star, Gary ""The Gooch"" Gucharez, to do a commercial. Faith tricks the reluctant Gooch, but later regrets it.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: N/A
6.8/1029 votesLoading...#7 - Phone Home for the Holidays
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/2003
Hope and Faith's playboy father Jack arrives for Thanksgiving with his latest girlfriend. She's "out of this world," he says to his daughters. She says she was abducted by aliens. Jack also has a surprise for Charley: he has taken up shiatsu massage, and his "favorite" (read: only) son-in-law is "customer numero uno."
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: John Hoberg, Kat Likkel
6.8/1027 votesLoading...#8 - Anger Management
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/2003
A "big misunderstanding" (it really is) with the mother of one of the boys in Charley's basketball team lands Hope and Faith in an anger-management class. But does Hope really have a "Faith-management problem"? Meanwhile, Charley might be the anti-handyman, but that's not stopping him from trying to fix the garbage disposal in the kitchen sink.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Mark Driscoll
6.8/1033 votesLoading...#9 - O' Sister, Where Art Thou?
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/2005
Hope & Faith cater a party at a retirement home And Faith inadvertently helps a resident escape. Hope must work through trust issues with her capricious sibling and, in the meantime, help an escapee mend fences with her sister.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jennie Snyder Urman
6.8/1035 votesLoading...#10 - 21 Lunch Street
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/2005
Hope and Faith start to work at Sydney's school as lunch ladies, which causes Sydney to freak out. Things go from bad to worse when Hope and Faith begin to spy on Sydney, thinking that Sydney is involved in a romantic relationship with a teacher. Also Hope begings to change the household by eating healthy.
Director: Scott Ellis
Writer: N/A
6.7/1031 votesLoading...#11 - The Un-Graduate
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/2003
Faith goes back to high-school for her degree after it comes out that she failed French and never actually graduated. But a note passed in class leads Sydney's new beau to think more about Faith than French.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Andrew Kreisberg
6.7/1027 votesLoading...#12 - Car Commercial
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2003
A car dealer hires Faith for one of his wacky TV commercials. It's wackier than she would have liked. Meanwhile, Charley can't remember all of his and Hope's "cutesy, made-up anniversaries."
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: N/A
6.7/1031 votesLoading...#13 - Hope and Faith Get Randy
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/2003
A high-school flame of Hope's is single again and back in town. He and Faith begin making some music together and that rouses Hope's ire. Meanwhile, Haley and Sydney make a hole in their bedroom wall while wrestling and conspire to cover it up.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: David S. Rosenthal
6.6/1039 votesLoading...#14 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2003
Fallen soap vixen Faith Fairfield creates high drama after moving in with her straitlaced sister and her family.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Joanna Johnson
6.6/1027 votesLoading...#15 - The Wedding
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/2004
Charley's brother Andrew is getting married, and their mother fears that Hope will ruin the nuptials. There's a history here: She blames Hope for wrecking Andrew's first wedding (the bride ran out of the church following a poem Hope read), and this one won't go smoothly, either.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: N/A
6.6/1031 votesLoading...#16 - Madam President
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/23/2004
The opposition to Hope's campaign for president of the Glen Falls Neighborhood Association is Faith-based: she insulted a man, so he runs against her. He'll find a potent campaign weapon. Meanwhile, Charley tries to engineer Sydney's social life.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Mark Driscoll
6.6/1027 votesLoading...#17 - The Diner Show
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/2004
A waitress becomes a colleague of Hope and Faith (they couldn't pay their bill). The reason they're in the diner in the first place: Faith wants to impress a director who's filming on location and eats there every night. Back at home, meanwhile, Charley crashes a party, only he doesn't know it, thanks to Sydney and Hayley's quick guest-disappearing act.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Andrew Kreisberg
6.6/1030 votesLoading...#18 - Queer as Hope
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2004
When Justin is caught smoking and Hayley steals frogs that are ready to be dissected, Hope starts to worry that everyone will think she's a bad mother. This fear comes to life when Faith tries to rent an apartment from a lesbian landlord by passing herself and Hope as lovers. When their picture ends up in the newspaper with the headline ""local lesbians,"" Hope's bid for three time mother of the year is in jeopardy.
Director: Don Scardino
Writer: Joanna Johnson
6.6/1026 votesLoading...#19 - Aru-bah Humbug
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/2004
Faith accidentally says that ""Santa"" is not real, and Justin overhears it. So Faith wants Justin to believe in him by climbing in the chimney, but those plans go sour when Faith gets stuck in the chimney.
Director: Don Scardino
Writer: N/A
6.6/1029 votesLoading...#20 - The Gooch
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/2005
Faith is attracted to her new neighbor, Gary ""the Gooch"" Gucharaze, a former baseball player. The notorious ladies' man, however, has no interest in her, leading Faith to go to great lengths to spy on him. The episode brings together Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, who, noy only played a married couple on All My Children, but are married in real life.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: N/A
6.6/1028 votesLoading...#21 - Carmen Get It
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/2005
Faith feuds with The Gooch's ex-girlfriend, Carmen, for his affection. And, after overhearing a life-altering message for The Gooch, Hope helps Faith scale a mountain to deliver the news to the man she loves.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: N/A
6.6/1038 votesLoading...#22 - Wife Swap (1)
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/2005
Part 1 Hope's life goes out of control when Faith submits Hope as a ""Wife Swap"" candidate. Hope gets switched with Cynthia (special guest-star Wynonna Judd.) Cynthia is a rich, spoiled, self-indulgent, Manhattanite. When Hope gets used to the fabulous life, Cynthia finds housework abhorrent -- but not nearly as abhorrent as living with Hope's sister, Faith.
Director: Dennis Dugan
Writer: Joanna Johnson, Jennie Snyder Urman
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#23 - The Marriage (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2005
After years of being on the single merry-go-round and searching for her soul mate, Faith receives proposals from not one, but two ardent boyfriends - Gary "The Gooch" Gucharez", the sexy former baseball star, and Larry, the romantic and handsome TV news anchor. Will she take the plunge? Will she say "I do"? Yes! But does Hope approve of her sister's decision? It isn't all rose petals on the way to the altar on the Season Premiere of "Hope & Faith"!
Director: Scott Ellis
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1025 votesLoading...
#24 - Jay Date
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/25/2006
When the family finds Jay depressed on his birthday over his last break-up, both Hope and Faith jump at the chance to fix him up with a new girlfriend. Hope beats Faith to the punch, introducing him to Betsy, her pleasant, unexciting PTA friend. But Faith answers back with her sexy, spontaneous friend, Amber, whom she’s intent on pushing on Jay. Although Faith initially gloats when Jay hits it off with Amber, she’s shocked and embarrassed when she discovers Amber’s hidden agenda, so she enlists Charley and Hope to help solve the dilemma.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/1025 votesLoading...#25 - Summary Judgment
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2003
Faith, in debt to her former studio because she "accidentally" set fire to a set the day she was fired, needs money, so Hope hires her as her assistant. A happy homemaker she isn't.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Joanna Johnson
The Best Episodes of Hope & Faith
Every episode of Hope & Faith ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Hope & Faith!
Hope, a down-to-earth, happily married mother of three has her tidy world turned upside down when her celebrity sister moves in. Faith was living the...
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Best Episodes Summary
"9012-Uh-Oh" is the best rated episode of "Hope & Faith". It scored 7.6/10 based on 44 votes. Directed by Gil Junger and written by Joanna Johnson, it aired on 11/26/2004. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Faith Knows Squat".