The Worst Episodes of My Mother the Car

Captain Manzini offers Dave one last chance to sell his antique car before using a molecular compressor to shrink it to the size of a small toy.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: Chris Hayward

In a desperate effort to get the car away from Dave, Captain Manzini resorts to: Operation Unscrupulous, replacing the car with an exact replica.

Director: N/A

Writer: George Kirgo

Dave's mother in-law arrives for a visit and it's soon apparent that there is one mother too many on the scene.

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Captain Manzini's uncle Louie, the head of a secret organization called DURC, says his hypnotic drug will make Dave agreeable to any request such as selling Mother.

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Captain Manzini goads Dave into racing the car against England's foremost distance walker with Mother as the stakes.

Director: N/A

Writer: Chris Hayward

Dave returns from work too exhausted to think straight and he accidentally lets it slip that the car is really his mother.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: James L. Brooks

Prudish building owner, Henry Heckendorn asks Dave to help him try to close the Greek Grotto, a notorious night club but Dave's mother suspects Heckendorn's motives.

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Captain Manzini transforms a Swedish sailor into a lookalike, talkalike replica of Dave and smuggles him into the Crabtree household.

Director: N/A

Writer: Arnold Margolin

Dave fears for his mother's safety when car strippers are reported in the neighborhood.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: Chris Hayward

Lawyer Dave Crabtree's troubles begin with the purchase of a decrepit 1928 Porter that claims through the radio to be his mother. Wife, Barbara doesn't want the old wreck but it has an overwhelming appeal for Captain Manzini, a very persistent antique car collector.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: Chris Hayward

When Dave neglects to set the parking break after parking on a hill, Mother rolls into an open van that is bound for Mexico.

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How can a car prevent a murder? That's what Mother has to figure out after she overhears three thugs plot the assassination of a visiting dignitary.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

After being married for 8 years, Barbara and Dave decide to go on a honeymoon. However, Barbara's mother, an astrology nut, warns them of impending danger.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: Chris Hayward

As Dave drives up the mountains, Mother gets higher and higher from the alcohol in her antifreeze.

Director: Sidney Miller

Writer: Robert C. Dennis

While driving the kids to camp, Dave is stopped by a sheriff who asks him for his driver's license and discovers that it has expired.

Director: N/A

Writer: Arnold Margolin

Dave hears that Captain Manzini is dying but Mother warns him that Captain Manzini is up to something.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: George Kirgo

When the housework gets Barbara down, Dave surprises her by hiring a maid who's unbearably efficient.

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A gun totting jewel thief and his moll are using the Crabtree house as a hideout.

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Mother is furious when she learns that Dave intends to let Barbara choose her own Christmas present.

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Mr. Kroot, the postman, know two thing about Dave. He saw Dave cementing the garage floor and also heard him say something about his mother not complaining anymore. So Kroot concludes that Dave has done his old lady in.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

It's mutual love at first sight for Mother and wealthy Conrad Byron who offers to trade him limousine and chauffeur for Dave's car.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: James L. Brooks

Dave's mother badgers him into patching up the quarrel between the battling newlywed couple who lives next door.

Director: N/A

Writer: Arnold Margolin

A collision with a truck leaves Mother with amnesia and Dave with a problem, how to bring back a car's memory.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: Arnold Margolin

Dave's mother wants to celebrate her birthday by seeing a surf movie featuring her favorite actor, at a chilly open-air theater.

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The future looks mighty bleak for Dave's mother when Barbara wins a new limousine in a supermarket drawing.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A