7.6/10119 votes#1 - New Sleep-Walking PLUS
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1995
Jamie is enthralled by it, Paul doesn't remember it, Murray didn't see it, and Ira laughs at it--another night and the day after in the Buchmans' lives. Meanwhile, Paul finds employment at the Explorer Channel.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Paul Reiser
7.4/10112 votes#2 - The Parking Space
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1995
After a four year wait, the Buchmans finally have dibs on a parking space in a nearby garage, but still no car.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: N/A
6.8/10112 votes#3 - The Test
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1995
A long wait at the bus stop leaves time for the Buchmans to take a Cosmopolitan marriage test. (Clip show).
Director: Michael Lembeck
Writer: N/A
7.6/10110 votes#4 - The Good, the Bad and the Not-So-Appealing
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1995
Inspired by a Martha Stewart idea, Sylvia organizes a high-noonish tag-what-you-want lunch for her family, complete with a shoot-out in the kitchen with Jamie.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Victor Levin
7.4/10115 votes#5 - I Don't See It
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1995
At first, Paul has only a vague notion he knows who Jamie's interview at City Hall is with, but he figures it out and complicates matters when Jamie and Fran are about to land an important account.
Director: Gordon Hunt
Writer: Brenda Hampton
7.2/10124 votes#6 - Yoko Said
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1995
Yoko Ono is in town for some film happenings and Paul tries to do something different for the Explorer Channel with her help.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Paul Reiser
7.1/10118 votes#7 - An Angel for Murray
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1995
With Murray around, the Buchmans are no dinks, so when Lisa demurs they are obligated to hire a professional to walk Murray. And Murray seems to prefer the newcomer to Paul.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Seth Kurland
7.2/10112 votes#8 - The Couple
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1995
Three lies, two shows and a realization as Jamie and Paul figure out ""why it will never happen"" to them, or so one is led to believe when their new friends turn out to be not quite what they pretend to be.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: N/A
7.3/10124 votes#9 - New Year's Eve
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/1995
Paul and Jamie are obliged to spend New Year's Eve apart for the first time, but strange happenings in Times Square have a will and a way all their own.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Shana Goldberg-Meehan, Scott Silveri
7.4/10124 votes#10 - Ovulation Day
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/7/1996
Paul and Jamie try to time a love-in-the-afternoon rendezvous back at their apartment, but his family shows up at the most inopportune time, with Debbie springing a big surprise: she's gay.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Danny Jacobson, Victor Levin
7.5/10121 votes#11 - Get Back
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/1996
Jamie throws out her back during adventurous sex on the floor, leaving Paul to help out with her duties at City Hall while also trying to get his father to an optometrist's appointment.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Shana Goldberg-Meehan
7.4/10131 votes#12 - Dream Weaver
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/4/1996
A night of cascading dreams of Paul and Jamie's, featuring ostriches, ducks and a party with the frug, with lots of interpretation and a poem (and a half) by Henry Gibson.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: N/A
7.4/10112 votes#13 - Hot and Cold
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/18/1996
Ira resumes gambling, wins a lot, hands out generous presents and then takes a $4,000 bath--no problems for him, but a couple for the Buchmans.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Danny Jacobson
7.4/10110 votes#14 - Fertility
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/25/1996
Paul and Jamie embark on an organic fertility enhancement program with Mark's help, plus a day off at a fancy local hotel at Fran's suggestion.
Director: Gordon Hunt
Writer: Larry Charles
7.5/10116 votes#15 - Everybody Hates Me
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 3/10/1996
Jamie tries a new look with interesting consequences, while Ira feels betrayed at the love game, let down by his quality wingman Paul, who digs himself a big hole discussing beauty.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Victor Levin
7.3/10113 votes#16 - Do Me a Favor
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/1996
The saga of a daisy-chain of favors, triggered by the young daughter of Ira's girlfriend wanting an autographed picture of the mayor, and complicated by Paul and his fancy new camera.
Director: Gordon Hunt
Writer: Ron Darian
7.1/10118 votes#17 - The Glue People
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/24/1996
After talking to Fran, Ira and Mark the Buchamns realize that their friends are in a big fight due to Fran & Ira's recent relationship so Jamie decides to take everybody to dinner to straighten things up between everybody. Lance Brockwell decides to candidate for town major, so Jamie and Fran become the campaign managers. However, Jamie is not happy due to Paul's belief that Giuliani would be a better major. When Jamie asks Paul to make a campaign commercial, it turns out to be so great that everybody gets on Brockwell's side for which Paul is not too happy for.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Victor Levin
7.5/10112 votes#18 - The Sample
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/31/1996
The next step in the Buchman baby saga is trying to find out if Paul is the reason Jamie is unable to conceive. They rush to the hospital, but everything seems to be trying to stop them. First, they must wait for their neighbors to come to the elevator and then, when their car gets stolen, Paul must do his 'sample' all over again which is also interrupted by a car chase on tv which results to be Buchmans car chased by the NYPD bomb squad.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Victor Levin
7.2/10113 votes#19 - The Procedure
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/14/1996
Jamie undergoes a minor diagnostic procedure and is quite smitten by her doctor so as Fran. Meanwhile, Paul's job is on the risk when the head people from his office find out that he did a commercial for Brockwell, due to crashing his contract rule. When Hollis walks in on Ira and Paul talking, Ira presents himself as Paul's agent and later saves Paul's job at the Explorer Channel.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Larry Charles
6.9/10110 votes#20 - The Weed
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/21/1996
Jamie tries to plan for a weekend getaway in Pennsylvania Dutch country, but Paul is preoccupied with his current documentary project about a weed to be interested. Meanwhile, Fran and Mark decide to get on the getaway that Jamie planned. Paul gets too stressed with his job and keeps on fighting with Hollis which leads them both to a surprising reaction of their boss.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Larry Charles
7.5/10113 votes#21 - The Award
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/28/1996
Nominated once again for the Silver Sprocket, a reluctant Paul is coaxed into a tuxedo by Ira and expects to attend the ceremony with Jamie at his side to counter the weasels from the Explorer Channel and find new connections for new jobs. Of course, things don't quite work out that way.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Larry Charles, Ron Darian
7.3/10122 votes#22 - The Finale (1)
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/5/1996
After a week's reflection and ignoring Ira's emphatic advice not to, Paul decides to tell Jamie about his walk around the block with a female filmmaker he met at the Silver Sprocket Awards, except Jamie blurts out first the matter that has been on her mind all day: Berkus came on to her.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Victor Levin, Larry Charles
7.3/10124 votes#23 - The Finale (2)
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/19/1996
Ira and Lisa try to engineer the Buchman reconciliation, except it proves easier to resolve the scheduling conflict between Burt and Sylvia's 45th anniversary party and Lisa's engagement party.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Paul Reiser, Victor Levin, Larry Charles
7.6/10140 votes#24 - The Finale (3)
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/1996
Paul and Jamie take a walk through the park to talk their differences out by themselves. They succeed, and return to their apartment, where Jamie springs a surprise on Paul.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Paul Reiser, Victor Levin, Larry Charles
The Best Episodes of Mad About You Season 4
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Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"New Sleep-Walking PLUS" is the best rated episode of "Mad About You" season 4. It scored 7.6/10 based on 119 votes. Directed by David Steinberg and written by Paul Reiser, it aired on 9/24/1995. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Parking Space".