3.6/1047 votesLoading...#1 - A Kiss is Just Amiss
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1998
Shaken from witnessing Jack and Maddy's kiss, Susan shares her disappointment with Vicki---who shares it with the whole office. Meanwhile, Vicki tries to get closer to Ben.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Christopher Vane
- 4.8/1068 votesLoading...
#2 - I'll See That and Raise You Susan
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1997
A poker game turns into a high-stakes bottlecap-tossing competition, and Jack's old roommate, Cooper; hits the jackpot at Jack's expense: Jack loses the magazine to him. And that's not all - he may lose Susan to the new boss as well.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 5.4/1022 votesLoading...
#3 - Daddy Piper
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/9/1998
Hospitalized, Jack puts Susan in charge of the magazine---much to the chagrin of Maddy, whose father, an esteemed journalist, is visiting.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dan O'Shannon
- 5.6/1031 votesLoading...
#4 - A Boy Like That
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/24/1997
Luis is reunited with his younger brother, who arrives from Cuba all grown up---and with news of his lifestyle that troubles Luis. Meanwhile, Susan learns of Kip's engagement.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: Gary Dontzig, Steven Peterman
- 5.7/1022 votesLoading...
#5 - Next Stop, Heaven
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1997
Family conflict rises to the top of the agenda at the funeral of Susan's grandfather, since Liz wants a traditional funeral while Nana wants a party to celebrate her spouse's wonderful life, and Susan is too busy organizing a tribute to her grandfather to deal with her own grief. Meanwhile Vicky, Todd and Luis go to the wrong funeral home and find themselves comforting the wrong widow; and Jack becomes the reluctant owner of a very, very ugly dog.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 5.7/1025 votesLoading...
#6 - Car Trouble
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/1998
Believing Luis was discriminated against at a car-rental agency, Susan launches an undercover investigation. Meanwhile, Vicki gets hung up in customs while returning from Israel.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 5.7/1025 votesLoading...
#7 - Ready ... aim ... Fong!
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1998
Todd and the gang attend a Shawn Colvin performance, but the singer recalls Todd from his scathing review a year earlier. Meanwhile, Susan's apartment gets robbed, so she decides to get a gun.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: Chuck Tatham
- 5.7/1025 votesLoading...
#8 - A Tale of Two Pants (1)
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/4/1998
Susan's sent to interview a congressman---who makes a pass at her; Vicki plans a glitzy wedding; the guys hope to cash in by selling yellow bell-bottoms.
Director: Roger Christiansen
Writer: N/A
- 5.7/1022 votesLoading...
#9 - The First Picture Show
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/17/1999
Luis has his first photography exhibition at an art gallery managed by Susan's friend. At the opening party, Susan notices that the buyers are intimidated, so she purchases one of Luis' paintings to spur business--not realizing that the artwork is much too expensive. Fortunately, a collector later offers her almost twice as much money for the photograph. Feeling guilty but needing the cash, Susan agrees. However, Luis is so proud and grateful that Susan bought his work that she cannot tell him that she sold it. She breaks into his apartment to steal the negative and make a copy so Luis won't notice the photograph isn't hanging on her wall. After Luis finds out what really happened, he is glad his art is worth so much money, and he convinces Susan to just be honest with him. Meanwhile, Todd is perturbed when Jack dates Todd's sexy visiting sister Oxnard. Behaving like an overprotective father, Todd tells Jack not to have sex with Oxnard. However, Todd needn't worry--Jack is strangely re
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1023 votesLoading...
#10 - Yule Never Know
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1997
Susan twists Jack's arm to participate in the holiday choir she's organizing---then she has her regrets, in more ways than one.
Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1022 votesLoading...
#12 - The Thanksgiving Episode
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1998
When Grandmother Richmond invites Jack and Susan to her mansion for Thanksgiving, Jack initially refuses. He hasn't been friendly with his parents since he started dating Susan, whom they hate for abandoning her former fiancé, Jack's brother, on her wedding day. Jack and Susan agree to attend only after learning that the parents will not be there. However, Grandmother Richmond tricked Jack -- his parents do come -- in order to force the family to reconcile. As Jack and his parents' bickering escalate, Susan tries vainly to make peace. Jack finally defiantly blurts out that he plans to move in with Susan. At first, Susan is angry with Jack for announcing something that they have hardly discussed. But later, she agrees that it's a good idea. Meanwhile, Todd and Luis persuade Grandmother Richmond to let them come to the mansion as well--but they end up playing a perilous game with the family's crazy, gun-toting Uncle Bert. Also, Vicki reluctantly helps Ben and a volunteer staff to serve T
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: Chuck Tatham
- 5.8/1022 votesLoading...
#13 - Merry Ex-Mas
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1998
Susan is distraught because she kissed the realtor, and asks Luis to help her make things up with Jack. Jack spends the night with another woman, and when Luis arrives, agonizes whether to tell Susan: Luis advises against. Maddy goes to a party in a $3000 dress. Todd dates the female cantor from Ben's temple, who expresses herself in such a vocal manner that she loses her voice by the end of the evening, causing Vicki to become distraught, as a TV crew is coming to film the cantor. Meanwhile, Maddy suffers a dramatic allergic reaction to the food at the party that causes her to bloat enormously, and stretch the dress so much she can't take it back to the shop as she was planning. Jack eventually decides he has to tell Susan, and she reluctantly decides they should end their relationship.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1022 votesLoading...
#14 - Wedding-Bell Blues
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/11/1999
After a brief vacation in Las Vegas, Nevada, Luis astounds everyone by announcing that he married a pretty Honduran woman, Rosie. Meanwhile, Susan is still recovering from recently ending her relationship with Jack. When Susan observes Rosie secretly meeting a man and tells Luis about it, he accuses Susan of being influenced by her own bad luck in love. But Rosie soon admits that the man is her boyfriend and that she only married Luis to gain U.S. citizenship. Susan commiserates with Luis. After Maddy cancels a coveted appointment with an extremely exclusive hairstylist, Lukaro, Vicki tries to convince him to work on her hair instead. Lukaro punishes Vicki for her stubbornness by styling her hair to look exactly like Maddy's. Also, Todd enrolls in a program to help fatherless youths. Unfortunately, his protégé is a childish 35-year-old man, Andy. Todd helps Andy mature by introducing him to a real youngster who needs guidance.
Director: Leonard R. Garner, Jr.
Writer: Christopher Vane
- 5.9/1030 votesLoading...
#15 - Love and Divorce American Style (1)
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/13/1997
Susan gets involved in a new romance with a guy who has two kids---one of whom takes an immediate dislike to her. Meanwhile, Jack takes a stand with Margo.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1024 votesLoading...
#16 - It's My Nana and I'll Cry If I Want To
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1997
Vicki goes to dinner with Nana---and they become fast friends; Todd's hippie parents show up with some unexpected news.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Chuck Tatham
- 5.9/1025 votesLoading...
#17 - A Tale of Two Pants (2)
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/4/1998
When the congressman turns the tables on Susan, she finds herself in the middle of a scandal, searching for a way to clear her name.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1026 votesLoading...
#18 - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Susan's Party
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1998
Jack misses Susan's Halloween party and then won't explain his whereabouts to protect Maddy, who called him from jail when she was arrested for drunk driving, leaving Susan furious until a reluctant Maddy confesses part of the truth. At Susan's party her landlady Mrs. Fong wears a remarkably convincing Dr. Joyce Brothers costume (who guest stars as herself); no one can figure out what Susan's costume is supposed to be; superstitious Luis is upset when he learns Todd is dating a real witch; and Nana encourages Pete's partner Hank to strike a new attitude which Pete does not appreciate.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Chuck Tatham
- 5.9/1023 votesLoading...
#19 - Seems Like Old Times
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1998
After a tremor shakes things up at the Gate, the staff rescue from the stalled elevator a shaken Lily, a nonagenarian survivor of the 1906 earthquake who shares her off-the-wall story (told via flashbacks featuring the cast) about Lily's mother, an aspiring singer (Susan); a lovesick busboy (Jack); a fortuneteller (Nana); two cough-drop moguls (Todd and Luis); and Enrico Caruso. This is the kind of lame fantasy episode that usually spells the demise of a sitcom, but it does have a fairly terrific dance sequence.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1025 votesLoading...
#20 - The Apartment Hunt
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1998
As Susan and Jack search for an apartment together, Susan wonders if Jack is really interested in living with her. His blood pressure rises whenever the subject is discussed, and he finds something to dislike in 22 consecutive places that Susan loves. Finally, when Susan makes an appointment with a handsome real-estate agent to look at the most fabulous apartment of all, Jack does not come at all. To her surprise and embarrassment, an upset Susan finds herself kissing the agent. Later, when Susan confronts Jack about his attitude and confesses what she did, Jack becomes furious. Meanwhile, Todd and Vicki vie for the favor of Mrs. Fong, the landlady of Susan's current apartment. Each wanting the choice apartment when Susan moves out, they competitively do errands and pamper Mrs. Fong. Also, Maddy reluctantly asks Luis to take her photograph as a present for her mother, but Luis must make extreme efforts to get Maddy to smile for the camera.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1024 votesLoading...
#21 - Revenge of the Gophers
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/15/1999
Susan doesn't recognize her former classmate, Cindy, who renews her friendship with Susan. Cindy recounts how Maddy terrorized both Susan and her in school. She confesses that she was depressed and went to a therapist for years due to one particularly traumatic prank, which she assumes Maddy instigated. To her horror, Susan remembers that she played the prank on Cindy accidentally, intending it for Maddy. Susan never knew how devastating it was on Cindy. Nana tells Susan not to admit her guilt because Susan's friendship is the only good thing Cindy has to remember from school. When Cindy arrives at The Gate to retaliate on Maddy, Susan tells Cindy it wasn't Maddy's fault. However, Susan still helps Cindy extract her revenge on Maddy. Meanwhile, when Vicki blithely gives away her deceased husband's clothes and possessions, Luis worries that she is suppressing her sadness. Todd finds that wearing Ben's outfit makes him feel spiritual, but Vicki keeps mistaking Todd for Ben. In a disorien
Director: Roger Christiansen
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1024 votesLoading...
#22 - First Date
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/1999
Oliver freaks out when Susan calls him her ""boyfriend""; Ian thwarts Vicki's plot to party on company time.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: David Babcock
- 6.0/1028 votesLoading...
#23 - Lie! Lie! My Darling
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1996
To get out of dinner with her parents, Susan tells her mom a little white lie---and gets caught in it.
Director: Shelley Jensen
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1029 votesLoading...
#24 - Love and Divorce American Style (3)
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/27/1997
Susan makes a decision about moving in with Adam; Jack rebounds into a new relationship; Todd receives threats after writing a scathing review of Menudo.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1024 votesLoading...
#25 - 5,947 Miles
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/20/1998
Kenny flies in for a visit---and proceeds to smother Susan with attention; the gang plots to surprise Luis with a visit from his mom, all the way from Cuba.
Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Suddenly Susan
Every episode of Suddenly Susan ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Suddenly Susan!
Suddenly Susan is an American television sitcom. Shields plays Susan Keane, a glamorous San Francisco magazine writer who begins to adjust to being single, and...
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"A Kiss is Just Amiss" is the worst rated episode of "Suddenly Susan". It scored 3.6/10 based on 47 votes. Directed by Tom Moore and written by Christopher Vane, it aired on 1/5/1998. This episode scored 1.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "I'll See That and Raise You Susan".