NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - With This Ring... (2)
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 5/19/1994
The real marriage anniversary arrives and Jamie gives Paul a gift - swiss military knife - and receives a gift from Paul - a machine for making sugar products. Both disappointed with their gifts, they go to a store where it turns out that they have totally different opinions about children. Then, when they have lunch with Paul's sister, the Buchmans try to entertain Susan's son Nah while she's on the phone. Paul realizes that having kids is nothing different than having a dog, but Jamie has totally different opinion...
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Danny Jacobson
NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Up in Smoke (2)
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/18/1995
Unable to buy her an anniversary present, with or without everyone else's help, Paul hands Jamie a slip of paper entitling her to a magical night. Things take a decidedly unusual turn after that.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Writer: Jack Burditt, Jeffrey Lane
NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - The Final Frontier (2)
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/24/1999
Mabel's first real film is a biography, looking back at her family's twisted history.
Director: Helen Hunt
Writer: Paul Reiser, Victor Levin
5.9/10112 votesLoading...#4 - The Clip Show
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1996
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
6.2/10113 votesLoading...#5 - Farmer Buchman
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 1/11/1999
Mr. Wicker goes out of town and asks Paul and Jamie to tend his rooftop garden. Mabel loves another baby's rare toy.
Director: Helen Hunt
Writer: N/A
6.3/10109 votesLoading...#6 - Paul Slips in the Shower
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/1998
Paul's life flashes before his eyes when he takes a spill in the shower.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Paul Reiser, Victor Levin
6.3/10103 votesLoading...#7 - Virtual Reality II
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/22/1999
The couple learns that Jamie will be in bed with Mark McGwire via virtual reality.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: N/A
6.3/10104 votesLoading...#8 - Millennium Bug
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 4/26/1999
Jamie's dress is ruined by a dry cleaner who is unwilling to make restitution. Paul has a dream where Einstein gives him a partial solution to the millennium bug. He needs to have the dream again, so he can get the rest of the solution.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: N/A
6.4/10105 votesLoading...#9 - The 2nd Mrs. Buchman
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 3/17/1998
Jamie discovers that Paul was married before--if only to get an old Russian woman U.S. citizenship. Jamie's upset that she is, indeed, the second Mrs. Buchman. Meanwhile, Paul is an umpire for his father's senior-citizen baseball game, and a fight erupts between father and son over a call.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: N/A
6.5/10109 votesLoading...#10 - On the Road
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/18/1997
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
6.5/10112 votesLoading...#11 - The Baby Video
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/1998
Paul, Jamie and Ira decide to make a baby video. However, Paul starring as the Sandman frightens kids and turns them off to the concept. Meanwhile, Paul's parents tell him he has a half-brother.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Writer: N/A
6.5/10108 votesLoading...#12 - Fire at Riff's
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/1998
Paul convinces Jamie to quit her job. Joan is posing for ""The 20 Most Eligible Bachelorettes in New York"" for a magazine and Debbie is jealous. Paul, Jamie, Ira, Joan and Debbie go to Riff's, where a fire breaks out while Paul is in the bathroom. Ira saves Ursula's life while Jamie, Debbie and Joan run out, leaving Paul in the bathroom. Joan asks Debbie to marry her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10113 votesLoading...#13 - The Finale
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 5/19/1998
Paul and Jamie search for a full-time nanny, and Paul finds one in the form of Nancy Bloom, a caterer he inadvertently got fired from the production of a documentary about ""The Making of Titanic.""
Director: Gordon Hunt
Writer: Victor Levin
6.5/10111 votesLoading...#14 - Murray at the Dog Show
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 4/26/1999
Sheila declares Paul and Jamie cured. However, Murray is still traumatized by the earlier puma attack, so Paul and Jamie enter him in a dog show.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Writer: N/A
6.6/10109 votesLoading...#15 - Mother's Day
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/1998
Paul tries to pick a Mother's Day present for Jamie, but Ira and Marvin have better ideas: a rocking chair and a message displayed on the Times Square video screen. Sylvia is jealous of Jamie's gifts and fakes injury to steal attention.
Director: Helen Hunt
Writer: N/A
6.6/10104 votesLoading...#16 - Tragedy Plus Time
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/27/1998
Jamie's ex-boyfriend dies and leaves everything to her. Debbie has second thoughts about marrying Joan.
Director: Gordon Hunt
Writer: N/A
6.7/10114 votesLoading...#17 - The Coin of Destiny
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 3/24/1998
When Paul innocently flips a coin to make a decision, Paul's former producer overhears a conversation that puts Paul and Jamie in the limelight with the tabloid program ""Hard Copy."" Also, Ira finds that he's the prime suspect in a paternity case, and Paul's parents try their luck in Atlantic City.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Writer: N/A
6.7/10107 votesLoading...#18 - Win a Free Car
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 1/18/1999
To save the store, Ira plans to give away a car to the person who keeps their hand on it the longest. Since he can't afford it, he wants all of the contestants to be ringers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10108 votesLoading...#19 - Separate Beds
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 5/3/1999
Paul and Jamie discover the extra comfort of sleeping apart. Marvin is wrestling part time and Ira becomes his manager.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Nickman
6.7/10107 votesLoading...#20 - The Dirty Little Secret
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 5/17/1999
When Debbie compiles Buchman and Stemple family trees, she learns that Paul and Jamie are actually cousins.
Director: Gordon Hunt
Writer: Elin Hampton
6.8/10112 votesLoading...#21 - 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
6.8/10112 votesLoading...#22 - The Recital
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/1997
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
6.8/10114 votesLoading...#23 - The Touching Game
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/15/1997
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
6.8/10109 votesLoading...#24 - The New Friend
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1997
Paul and Jamie meet a new neighbor, Sarah, a divorced mother of three who manages to teach Jamie a more casual style of parenting. Also, Paul and Jamie conspire to set up Sarah on a blind date with Ira.
Director: Gordon Hunt
Writer: Lissa Levin
6.8/10104 votesLoading...#25 - Breastfeeding
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 1/6/1998
Jamie is reluctant to stop breast-feeding exclusively, but she knows it's time for the baby to learn to feed from the bottle, while Paul is excited to be able to feed the baby for the first time. Meanwhile, Jamie's upset to learn that her mom is dating a much younger man, a dancer from ""Lord of the Dance.""
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Lissa Levin
The Worst Episodes of Mad About You
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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
Worst Episodes Summary
"With This Ring... (2)" is the worst rated episode of "Mad About You". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Tom Moore and written by Danny Jacobson, it aired on 5/19/1994. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Up in Smoke (2)".