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The Best Episodes of Jesse

Every episode of Jesse ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Jesse!

Jesse Warner is a 26-year-old single mother juggling between her job, her dreams and her family responsibilities.
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC

Best Episodes Summary

"Kurt Slips, Niagara Falls" is the best rated episode of "Jesse". It scored 7.2/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Mark Wilding, it aired on 1/6/2000. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Crazy White Female".

  • Kurt Slips, Niagara Falls
    7.2/1021 votes
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    #1 - Kurt Slips, Niagara Falls

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/2000

    Diego gets passed up for a teaching position so Irma takes him to Niagara Falls to cheer him up but scares him off. She tells him she's going to change into something more comfortable but comes out in a wedding dress and proposes to him. That leads Diego to go back to Buffalo and apologize to Jesse for having proposed to her when he came back to Buffalo from California. He now knows how it feels to get asked out of the blue to marry someone. Jesse and Diego get back together but hold off on getting married. Kurt slips a disk in his spine while trying to lift a heavy box at work. At the hospital Jesse gets asked out by the attending doctor but passes on his offer when Diego shows up and wants to get back together. Dr. Danny feels uncomfortable around the attending doctor.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Mark Wilding

  • Crazy White Female
    6.8/1020 votes
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    #2 - Crazy White Female

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/1999

    Diego feels that Gwen is becoming increasingly clingy, but Jesse thinks she is just being nice, until Gwen transforms herself into a Jesse look-alike. John Warner Sr. dates an old friend, Mary Anne that he meets up with after thirty years.

    Director: Joe Regalbuto

    Writer: N/A

  • A Side of Chile
    6.7/1021 votes
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    #3 - A Side of Chile

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1998

    Diego moves next door to Jesse Warner and her family, and asks her out.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: N/A

  • My Best Friend's Wedding
    6.7/1020 votes
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    #4 - My Best Friend's Wedding

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/25/2000

    Facing deportation again Diego marries Linda because Jesse didn't want to but then she changes her mind but it's too late.

    Director: Kevin S. Bright

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mischievous Elf
    6.6/1021 votes
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    #5 - The Mischievous Elf

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/1999

    Jesse decides to go back to high school. Her teacher asks her out and she doesn't know if she should say yes because he's her teacher. She finally decides to go out with him but finds out that he's a weirdo so she dumps him. Diego dates a student.

    Director: Amanda Bearse

    Writer: Dan Sterling

  • Jesse's Flat Tire
    6.6/1018 votes
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    #6 - Jesse's Flat Tire

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1999

    Jesse and Diego's relationship is fired up again while trying to change a flat tire on Jesse's car.

    Director: Andrew Tsao

    Writer: Mark Wilding

  • Hickory, Dickory, Death
    6.5/1020 votes
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    #7 - Hickory, Dickory, Death

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/1999

    Although they have split up, Jesse turns up for a date with Diego that they arranged long before, only to find him about to go out with his new girlfriend. Jesse deals with it by acting it out her fantasies of a forties film noir.

    Director: Joe Regalbuto

    Writer: Gabrielle Allan

  • The Rock
    6.5/1017 votes
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    #8 - The Rock

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/2000

    Linda doesn't want to go to her high school reunion because she doesn't feel she's accomplished anything since graduating.

    Director: Shelley Jensen

    Writer: N/A

  • Jesse Gives Birth
    6.4/1017 votes
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    #9 - Jesse Gives Birth

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/2000

    Jesse recounts the events leading to the birth of Little John when Diego tells her he wants a big family.

    Director: Gary Halvorson

    Writer: N/A

  • Diego's First Sleepover
    6.4/1015 votes
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    #10 - Diego's First Sleepover

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/16/2000

    Little John accidentally sees Jesse naked when Diego spends the night and Carrie challenges Linda to a boxing match.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Nancy Steen

  • Live Nude Girl
    6.3/1020 votes
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    #11 - Live Nude Girl

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1998

    Jesse learns that Diego once had a relationship with the nude model he's been painting at his house.

    Director: Robby Benson

    Writer: Stephen Nathan

  • My Casual Friend's Wedding
    6.3/1018 votes
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    #12 - My Casual Friend's Wedding

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/28/1999

    Jesse, Linda and Carrie go to the wedding of a former high school classmate and Jesse is asked to be the maid of honor because the bride's sister couldn't make it. Jesse agrees. Linda makes out with a guy in the coat checkroom only to find out later that he's the groom. Jesse goes to talk to him to set him straight but the bride walks in as Jesse is giving him a hug and she thinks that Jesse is the one that was making out with him. When Jesse tries to cover for Linda, Linda says that it was actually her that made out with him. Then practically every woman in the room says that they also made out with him.

    Director: Robby Benson

    Writer: Nancy Steen

  • Touched by an Angel
    6.3/1017 votes
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    #13 - Touched by an Angel

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1999

    Darren suggests a Charlie's Angels theme for the bar. Diego invites Jesse round to dinner, but it is a disaster, capped by her being so fearful that things won't work out well between them that it ruins what is left of the evening. It takes Diego some time to convince her that things could work out better.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Jesse as Nurse, Fills In: Diego Throws Ice at Children
    6.3/1019 votes
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    #14 - Jesse as Nurse, Fills In: Diego Throws Ice at Children

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/23/1999

    Jesse revives a squirrel and then it runs rampant; however, when they find it's dead. Diego has a snow fight with Little John and his friends.

    Director: Shelley Jensen

    Writer: Dan Sterling

  • Cecil, the Angry Postman
    6.2/1020 votes
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    #15 - Cecil, the Angry Postman

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/4/1999

    When Jesse writes a love letter to Diego she never plans to send and little John sends it she tries to retrieve it. But she angered the mailman because he doesn't put the mail in the right mail slots and now to anger her he refuses to give her the letter she wrote to Diego because it's addressed to him not her. She then tries to put her arm in the mail slot and retrieve it but she gets stuck.

    Director: Amanda Bearse

    Writer: N/A

  • First Blood
    6.2/1016 votes
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    #16 - First Blood

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 5/25/2000

    Kurt tries to teach Jesse to be a phlebotomist, Diego doesn't get his professorship and he has to share his studio with a British guy who's really rude and doesn't respect his space. Diego gets fired for smashing a nude painting of Jesse over Dawson's (the British guy) head.

    Director: Gary Halvorson

    Writer: Wil Calhoun

  • Jesse vs. Kurt
    6.1/1018 votes
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    #17 - Jesse vs. Kurt

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1999

    Kurt starts a rumor that Jesse is a thief. Linda thinks that Diego is in love with her after he accidentally sees her naked.

    Director: Kevin S. Bright

    Writer: N/A

  • My Boyfriend Went to Chile and All I Got Was This Lousy Moustache
    6.1/1015 votes
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    #18 - My Boyfriend Went to Chile and All I Got Was This Lousy Moustache

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/2000

    Diego returns from Chile with a moustache and decides to shave it off when Jesse asks him but changes his mind when Dr. Danny tells him he's whipped. Linda gets a job as a campus security guard and takes her job too seriously.

    Director: Gary Halvorson

    Writer: N/A

  • The Dump
    6.1/1015 votes
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    #19 - The Dump

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/2000

    Diego has the winter blahs and Jesse tries to cheer him up by buying tickets for them to Bermuda but Diego's passport was hidden in his old fridge and that was sent to the dump. They head to the dump to try to find but have no luck so Jesse gives the tickets to Danny and Carrie.

    Director: Gary Halvorson

    Writer: Gabrielle Allan

  • The Best Deal Possible
    6.0/1018 votes
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    #20 - The Best Deal Possible

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/1999

    Diego and Jesse pretend to be husband and wife while shopping for a car. Also now that Junior talks, he and Darren try and pick up girls.

    Director: Michael Lembeck

    Writer: Dan Sterling

  • Jesse's New Job
    6.0/1018 votes
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    #21 - Jesse's New Job

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1999

    Jesse tells Diego she can't marry him. Then we go forward four months and Jesse gets a job as a nurse's aid but quits when she can't handle it. She does however get it back later. Diego returns having quit his job at UCLA because he got his old job back since funding was given for the art department. He surprises Jesse by popping the question again but she still says no.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Wil Calhoun

  • Jesse's Coat a Useful Crutch, Diego's Kitchen Not So Much
    6.0/1016 votes
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    #22 - Jesse's Coat a Useful Crutch, Diego's Kitchen Not So Much

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2000

    Jesse earns a blue jacket at work. She wanted it because nobody believes she works there. Diego accidentally sets his house on fire but thinks it was Linda's fault because of the mess she refuses to clean up in the kitchen.

    Director: Gary Halvorson

    Writer: Dan Sterling

  • Goober Up the Nose
    5.9/1018 votes
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    #23 - Goober Up the Nose

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1998

    Jesse's movie date with Diego ends up in the emergency room when she gets a piece of candy stuck in her nose.

    Director: Robby Benson

    Writer: N/A

  • Bees Do It, Birds Do It, But Not in a Car
    5.9/1018 votes
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    #24 - Bees Do It, Birds Do It, But Not in a Car

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1998

    Jesse's been taking it real slow in her relationship with Diego, but things begin heating up and she may not wish to cool them off.

    Director: Robby Benson

    Writer: Stephen Nathan

  • Boo! He's Gone
    5.9/1018 votes
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    #25 - Boo! He's Gone

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1998

    Diego decides that if Jesse wants Roy he won't stand in the way. So he goes to Roy's to tell him, but he catches Roy with another woman. He tries to tell Jesse but she won't listen, that is until Junior finally speaks and tells her it's true. She throws Roy out.

    Director: Joe Regalbuto

    Writer: N/A