7.3/10201 votes#1 - Elka's Choice
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/30/2011
Elka faces a choice of three suitors: her fiancé, Fred ; her ex-boyfriend Max; and Bobby, the husband she thought was dead. Meanwhile, Victoria gets some mileage out of her marriage to Joy in a TV appearance.
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8.1/10232 votes#2 - Beards
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 12/7/2011
Victoria brings Joy, Melanie and Elka along for the ride when she's a guest speaker on a gay cruise, where Melanie has a surprise reunion with her estranged sister, and Victoria and Joy's lesbian facade could come crashing down when they meet the ship's handsome captain.
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7.6/10201 votes#3 - Funeral Crashers
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 12/14/2011
Elka teaches the ladies how to go funeral crashing to find the dress lost by Melanie's dry cleaner; Elka has a reunion with a man from her past.
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7.4/10191 votes#4 - Happy Fat
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 12/21/2011
The ladies treat their neighbors to makeovers, while Elka adjusts to dating a younger man.
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8.0/10209 votes#5 - One Thing or a Mother
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 12/28/2011
The ladies host a dinner party to solve their dating dilemmas, which include Roy's mother's hatred of Elka, Victoria's hand-model boyfriend and Melanie's boyfriend's resemblance to Winnie the Pooh.
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8.0/10190 votes#6 - How Did You Guys Meet, Anyway?
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 1/4/2012
How Did You Guys Meet, Anyway?
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7.4/10178 votes#7 - Two Girls and a Rhino
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 1/11/2012
Joy and Elka camp out at the zoo to help save an endangered species of rhinoceros. Meanwhile, Melanie dates a senator; and Victoria goes out with a janitor.
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7.6/10183 votes#8 - God and Football
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 1/18/2012
On Elka's (and Betty White's) 90th birthday, Melanie takes her to the Browns' locker room and ends up dating the kicker. Joy and Elka get some surprising medical news. And after a near-death experience Victoria's convinced that Elka is God.
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8.0/10201 votes#9 - Love is Blind
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/25/2012
Victoria's daughter, Emmy, arrives for a visit with the news that she and Melanie's son, Will, are engaged. Meanwhile, Joy's blind boyfriend thinks she's 26; and Elka has a ball prank calling the New York Yankee's third baseman.
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8.2/10195 votes#10 - Life with Lucci
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 2/1/2012
Victoria's enemy Susan Lucci comes looking for support after the cancellation of "All My Children," but Victoria warns her friends that the soap star is not to be trusted. Meanwhile, Elka talks hoops with Baron Davis of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers.
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7.2/10184 votes#11 - I'm with the Band
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2/8/2012
Victoria takes a trip down memory lane when her old flame Johnny Revere comes to Cleveland to record a song for charity. Meanwhile, Elka wants a lock of a singer's hair for a good cause; Joy wonders what life is like as a rock star; and Melanie chases a musical idol.
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- 7.6/10173 votes
#12 - Lost Loves
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/15/2012
Valentine's Day inspires the women to look for their lost loves, including the man who jilted Joy at the altar.
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8.2/10197 votes#13 - Tangled Web
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 3/7/2012
The ladies seek refuge at a lake house after Victoria loses a poisonous spider that belongs to her ex-husband; Melanie's potential new beau turns out to be Joy's former fiancé.
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7.5/10185 votes#14 - Hot & Heavy
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 3/14/2012
Eyeing an opportunity to win a Newsie Award, Victoria dons a fat suit at Overeaters Anonymous, and Elka comes along to claim she lost 600 pounds. Meanwhile, Joy dates a man who's not exactly her type; and Melanie meets a new guy in an unusual place.
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8.0/10208 votes#15 - Rubber Ball
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 3/21/2012
When Melanie, Joy, and Victoria try to join a prestigious Cleveland country club, they discover that Elka has a long history with the clubs president and he's bent on revenge.
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8.1/10208 votes#16 - Everything Goes Better With Vampires
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 3/28/2012
Melanie dates a professor who makes her feel dumb; Victoria wants to get rid of the housekeeper; Elka's frustrated by her writing partner; Joy goes out with a guy she thinks is Rick Springfield.
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7.6/10185 votes#17 - Claus, Tails & High Pitched Males: Birthdates 3
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 4/11/2012
On another round of "birthdates," Elka thinks her date is Santa Claus; Victoria is reunited with Capt. Lebeau; Melanie goes out with a guy with a high-pitched voice; and Joy is a man's first date since leaving the priesthood.
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7.6/10173 votes#18 - Cruel Shoes
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/18/2012
Victoria tries designing shoes and uses Melanie and Joy as runway models, but Elka is more anxious to see the latest in tracksuits. Meanwhile, Joy dates a man who lives life to the fullest.
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7.6/10181 votes#19 - Bye George, I Think He's Got It!
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/25/2012
Elka's twin sister returns for a visit; Joy accepts a proposal from her terminally ill boyfriend; a billionaire wants a makeover from Melanie and Victoria to make him attractive to women.
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8.0/10183 votes#20 - The Gateway Friend
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/2012
The ladies need to get a friend visiting from Los Angeles back together with her boyfriend—a popular Beverly Hills dermatologist—if they hope to ever have another appointment with him.
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8.0/10158 votes#21 - Some Like it Hot
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/2012
The cast and crew look back at the favorite moments and best bloopers from the third season.
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7.6/10173 votes#22 - Storage Wars
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/2012
An abandoned storage unit up for bid contains an important historical artifact that calls for Artie Firestone's expertise. Meanwhile, Joy befriends a truck driver and learns how to operate a CB.
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8.0/10191 votes#23 - What's Behind the Door
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/30/2012
When Victoria wants to turn her cancelled soap opera into an app, she has to get the series creator on board. They enlist the cast, including the actor who played Honor St. Ravens ex-husband, to film a new episode picking up where the finale left off.
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Writer: Alex Herschlag
7.7/10174 votes#24 - Blow Outs
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 6/6/2012
When Melanie's hair blow out lasts unusually long, Joy and Victoria demand to know who's blowing her. When Melanie tries to keep it a secret from them, tensions arise amongst our ladies and the two rival hairdressers at Elka's favorite salon.
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The Best Episodes of Hot in Cleveland Season 3
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Elka's Choice" is the best rated episode of "Hot in Cleveland" season 3. It scored 7.3/10 based on 201 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/30/2011. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Beards".