The Best Episodes of Mad About You Season 5

With Mark Devanow in Europe, a pregnant Jamie and Paul have to look around for a gynecologist, and Debbie tries to set them up with her girlfriend. Meanwhile, the elder Buchmans finally get to meet Debbie's ""friend.""

Director: Michael Lembeck

Writer: Victor Levin, Larry Charles

Jamie tries to stay awake, avoid coffee and continue to manage Brockwell's campaign. Meanwhile, while Paul is trying to figure out how to use a sizeable grant that has come his way, his Uncle Phil asks Paul and Ira to visit him in Brooklyn.

Director: Michael Lembeck

Writer: Victor Levin, Richard Day, Larry Charles, Jenji Kohan

Months after setting it up, Paul and Jamie decide to keep their appointment with the therapist Fran referred them to, but doing so delays Paul's shoot of his parents' reminiscences, with some interesting consequences.

Director: Michael Lembeck

Writer: Richard Day

Having chosen the residents of Apartment 11-D as its parents, the baby in the making deals with musical interludes and parental cooing, and with lots and lots of choice moments from their years together. In other words, a clip show.

Director: Michael Lembeck

Writer: Leslie Caveny

Filming of Paul's documentary takes him and Burt back to their old apartment building for the day, and events conspire to make Paul late for an appointment at Joan's office to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time.

Director: Michael Lembeck

Writer: Victor Levin, Larry Charles, Ron Darian

The Stemples arrive at Paul and Jamie's for a two-day visit, armed with a surprise, and another soon follows.

Director: Michael Lembeck

Writer: N/A

The Buchmans decide the time and place of their grand announcement, but the leaks start early during Thanksgiving week.

Director: David Steinberg

Writer: Richard Day

While Ira counsels against it, Paul contemplates abstinence until July. However, Jamie has other ideas and talks Paul into a trip upstate where they chance upon a dessert item with magical powers.

Director: David Steinberg

Writer: Victor Levin

Paul so likes playing the mystery man at a local gym that he talks Jamie out of working there, whereupon she hands over her free pass to a homeless acquaintance from the neighborhood.

Director: Michael Lembeck

Writer: Victor Levin, Richard Day, Larry Charles

Jamie finally lets her coworkers and Lance know about the baby, while Ira, turning money man and producer for ""Buchman,"" actually managers to produce a narrator, at least in voice.

Director: David Steinberg

Writer: Larry Charles, Ron Darian

A politically incorrect Jamie pays the price for commenting about Ryan's ability as a budding violinist, while a simmering Paul works up the nerve to confront their therapist about her overcharging ways.

Director: David Steinberg

Writer: Jenji Kohan

The perils of engaging Paul and Jamie's handyman are visited upon Lisa, whose fiance is more than willing to finance Paul's over-budget documentary project.

Director: David Steinberg

Writer: Richard Day

Nat's sister, an astrologer, is in town and agrees to do charts for Lisa, Ira, Paul and a very reluctant Jamie.

Director: David Steinberg

Writer: Larry Charles, Jenji Kohan

The Buchmans promise to name their baby, if it's a boy, after Paul's ailing Uncle Phil, then find out his real name. Meanwhile, Paul is suddenly sure of the baby's sex.

Director: David Steinberg

Writer: Richard Day, Larry Charles

Paul's great-uncle Marty dies on camera as he is being interviewed for ""Buchman"" and his cryptic last words lead to a few unexpected disclosures among the Buchman clan.

Director: David Steinberg

Writer: Victor Levin

An enforced bed-rest of two to three days for Jamie means that Paul has to attend to her every need, and also deal with lack of heat in their apartment AND a kidnapping.

Director: Gordon Hunt

Writer: Victor Levin

To escape Jamie's baby shower, Paul hits the road with Ira and Marvin in the latter's van, but his urge to tell insensitive jokes quickly leads to trouble.

Director: David Steinberg

Writer: Paul Reiser, Richard Day, Larry Charles

Paul talks an unwilling Jamie into quitting her job at the mayoral campaign, but he is less successful in dealing with an exotic bird that flies into their lives.

Director: Gordon Hunt

Writer: Richard Day

A very pregnant Jamie insists on helping out at David (Paul's cousin) and Jared's new coffee shop, with disastrous results. Meanwhile, Ira and Paul help a pregnant woman on a bus.

Director: Gordon Hunt

Writer: Richard Day

Paul and Jamie flunk out of a birthday class that Joan has managed to get them enrolled in. Meanwhile, ""Buchman"" is being held hostage by the elder Buchmans.

Director: Michael Lembeck

Writer: Larry Charles

Paul and Jamie are advised by their lawyer to select guardians for the baby in case of their death. But, to their astonishment, rejections pile up. Meanwhile, Jamie is flattered by the attentions of an 18-year-old Bobby Rubenfeld.

Director: Michael Lembeck

Writer: Victor Levin

Theresa and Sylvia vie for the new crib honors, with predictable consequences. On another front, Paul wins big at poker but is paid off by Marvin in the form of specially-priced household chores.

Director: Gordon Hunt

Writer: Richard Day

As Paul's documentary gets a surprisingly good review at a film festival, Jamie thinks she is going into labor. So they rush to the hospital, only to find out it was a false alarm. This happens several more times, until it's finally for real.

Director: Gordon Hunt

Writer: Larry Charles

Jamie runs into an old flame in a cab on the way to the hospital. Meanwhile, Paul gets a grand tour of the innards of Roosevelt Hospital courtesy of a film star. And, oh yeah, the baby arrives.

Director: Gordon Hunt

Writer: Larry Charles