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The Best Episodes of The Bernie Mac Show

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The Best Episodes of The Bernie Mac Show

The Bernie Mac Show is an American sitcom that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001 to April 14, 2006. The series...

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  1. Background image for Raging Election
    7.6/10(57 votes)

    #1 - Raging Election

    S2:E13

    Bernie and Wanda attend Vanessa's parent night at her school. They are shocked to find that her teacher likes her, and thinks she is not being challenged enough, so he suggests she run for class president. Jordan is upset when he puts his time into making a dung beetle project, but ends up only getting the huge pile of dung done. So Bernie decides to help Jordan on his next project, which turns out to be a VERY detailed model of an old building, but Bernie does all the work. Vanessa also asks Bernie to help her on her campaign, so Bernie appears as many characters in her video of why she should be allected. It goes over so well that Vanessa asks Bernie to compete in the school talent show, to help along her campaign. Meanwhile, Jordan's project turns out great, but Bernie doesn't know that Jordan has decided to make a few extra things. He changes the roof, throws in some plastic people, and sets it on fire, laughing hysterically. Bernie trips on pieces of it, trying to put the fire out

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  2. Background image for The Sweet Life
    7.4/10(55 votes)

    #2 - The Sweet Life

    S2:E9

    Don Rickles plays a neighbor who dispenses some unorthodox advice when Bernie is told he has high cholesterol. Though it's a sore shoulder and badgering from Wanda that sends Bernie to the doctor, he comes away sore at the physician for weighing him down with bad news. The problem can be controlled through diet and exercise, but that would mean avoiding the finer things to which Mac is accustomed... like fries from Royal Burger. But neighborly Don Rickles suggests that stress is the real problem, and what causes stress? Why, dieting, of course! And that's the case Bernie presents to an incredulous Wanda.

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  3. Background image for Bernie Mac Rope-a-Dope
    7.4/10(57 votes)

    #3 - Bernie Mac Rope-a-Dope

    S2:E11

    Wesley Snipes takes a genial comic spin as Wanda's easygoing boss, Duke, who invites the couple to a dinner party. Feeling as if the kids are ""turning my brain into mush,"" Bernie relishes this rare opportunity for adult conversation. But playing a parlor game underscores just how much being around the kids has influenced Bernie — asked to name something that flies, he submits ""Tinkerbell"" — and he takes some, well, kidding, from the Duke. Back at home, Vanessa baby-sits her siblings and takes matters into her own hand when Jordan gets troublesome.

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    Director:Ken Kwapis
  4. Background image for Leaving Los Angeles
    7.4/10(45 votes)

    #4 - Leaving Los Angeles

    S2:E14

    After taking the kids to the movies, Las Vegas-bound Bernie is further delayed by scenes that grow out of what they saw there, but weren't supposed to see.

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  5. Background image for Keep It on the Short Grass
    7.3/10(72 votes)

    #5 - Keep It on the Short Grass

    S2:E1

    It's Bernie who acts like a kid when Wanda teams with him in a charity golf tournament. Bernie sees it as a grudge match against the host, Matt Damon, who has been claiming he consistently outshot ""Mac Man"" while they were filming Ocean's Eleven. Bernie savors the thought of beating the Oscar winner in public—but his confidence wavers when he learns that Damon's warriorlike playing partner in the best-ball event is Lucy Lawless.

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  6. Background image for Welcome to the Jungle
    7.3/10(49 votes)

    #6 - Welcome to the Jungle

    S2:E5

    Jordan's homework of caring for a snake has Bryanna clamoring for her own pet. Wildlife expert Jules Sylvester counsels Bernie.

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  8. Background image for Being Bernie Mac
    7.3/10(47 votes)

    #7 - Being Bernie Mac

    S4:E3

    Bernie is hoping for some peace and quiet as he prepares for a performance that night, but he must deal with the kids when Wanda's business meeting runs long.

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  9. Background image for Pink Gold
    7.2/10(50 votes)

    #8 - Pink Gold

    S2:E15

    Chris Rock and Jay Leno guest star, as Bernie takes a long-standing grudge against Rock all the way to The Tonight Show. Upset after seeing Rock get preferential treatment at a doctor's office, Bernie's blood boils even more when his poker buddies fall all over his fellow comic, who drops by to tell Bernie that they will be co-hosting an awards show. That's not cool with Bernie, who maintains that back in their early days as stand-ups, Chris once told a joke on stage that Bernie had told him just moments before. The situation comes to a head when they're booked on Leno, who's unaware of the rift between the two.

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  10. Background image for Chess Wars
    7.2/10(47 votes)

    #9 - Chess Wars

    S2:E16

    Bernie uses principles of chess to check the kids' desires, but Jordan's no pawn as he moves to achieve his goal: a paintball gun!

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  11. Background image for Maid Man
    7.2/10(45 votes)

    #10 - Maid Man

    S2:E18

    Bernie Mac gets a maid for himself only but the kids use the maid behind his back.

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    7.2/10(51 votes)

    #11 - Nut Job

    S2:E19

    After enrolling his kids in a slew of extracurricular activities, Bernie suddenly finds his own free time disappearing when he is selected to be an activities suprvisor.

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  13. Background image for For a Few Dollars More
    7.2/10(48 votes)

    #12 - For a Few Dollars More

    S2:E22

    Bernie finds out Jordan has never had a birthday party. He can't believe his mom never gave him one. He decides to give Jordan a very special 10th birthday. Jordan gets excited and as he hands out the invitations at school, finds out another boy, Billy, is having a birthday party on the same day. Since Billy's birthday theme was more interesting, the kids tell Jordan they will not be going to his party. Bernie calls Billy's dad to try and work something out but Billy's dad is not very cooperative. Bernie hires a party planner and they decide to have an alien birthday party with a surprise at the end. The kids really want to know what the surprise is, so they plan on going to Jordan's party. Billy's dad calls Bernie to talk about this but Bryanna answers the phone. Upset because Jordan was getting a better party then she did, she tells Billy's dad the surprise is an alien. Billy's dad tells all of the kids and on the day of Jordan's party, no one shows up. Bernie and Billy's dad fight b

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  14. Background image for Big Brother
    7.2/10(47 votes)

    #13 - Big Brother

    S4:E1

    Vanessa confronts Bernie for looking through her things; Bernie buys security cameras to see what the family's doing, which more he bargained for. Guest appearance by Snoop Dogg.

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    7.2/10(49 votes)

    #14 - The Big Picture

    S4:E14

    Bernie hires a personal assistant. WWE World Heavyweight Champion Triple H becomes the victim of Jordan's prank phone calls.

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  16. Background image for Mac Local 137
    7.1/10(53 votes)

    #15 - Mac Local 137

    S2:E4

    Bernie is sick of the kids tearing up the house, so he decides to make them clean up everything they've ruined. The kids go along with the plan until they realize Bernie isn't paying them extra for their labor. The kids decide to go on strike. When the house turns into a sty, Bernie hires scabs (neighborhood kids) to do the work.

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  17. Background image for Bernie Mac Dance Party
    7.1/10(53 votes)

    #16 - Bernie Mac Dance Party

    S2:E6

    Vanessa is slow to invite Bernie to a father-daughter dance, but quick to treat him like a stranger once there.

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  18. Background image for The Incredible Bulk
    7.1/10(44 votes)

    #17 - The Incredible Bulk

    S2:E17

    Tired of having to run to the store all the time for the kids, Bernie Mac's friends introduce him to Cost Depot. At first this solution is so simple/fun but it soon gets very addicting.

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  19. Background image for The Music Mac
    7.1/10(47 votes)

    #18 - The Music Mac

    S4:E15

    Bernie wants to encourage Vanessa's burgeoning musical talent. Guest appearance by Isaac Hayes.

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  20. Background image for Carfool
    7.0/10(52 votes)

    #19 - Carfool

    S2:E3

    Bernie is delighted that the kids are in a carpool because it means he will only have to drive them to school two days a week. The delight is short-lived when the carpool becomes more complicated. Jordan teases one of the boys in the car, so Bernie makes Jordan set up a playdate with him. Eventually the boy starts blackmailing Jordan to be his friend, and the boy's father won't stop bothering Bernie.

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  21. Background image for Sin Cup
    7.0/10(54 votes)

    #20 - Sin Cup

    S2:E10

    Bernie and Jordan square off in a battle not quite of biblical proportions, but certainly of biblical content, as the youngster craftily uses the Good Book for manipulation when he believes he's being unduly punished. After a priest at school misinterprets Jordan's innocent questions about religion, he warns Bernie, who sentences the boy to intensive Bible study. But that backfires when Jordan cons younger sister Bryanna into being the standard-bearer for a crusade against sin—keeping his own hands clean when Bryanna dumps Bernie's liquor; rips up his celebrity photos (to combat idolatry); and tells on Wanda when she fibs.

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  22. Background image for Who Gives This Bride
    7.0/10(44 votes)

    #21 - Who Gives This Bride

    S4:E6

    Bernie's sister announces that she and her fiance, Monroe (Cedric Yarbrough) are eloping to Las Vegas. Wanda offers to have the wedding at the Mac house.

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  23. Background image for Manchild in Vanessa Land
    7.0/10(41 votes)

    #22 - Manchild in Vanessa Land

    S4:E10

    Vanessa's new boyfriend is 18 years old, and has a child by a former girlfriend; Bernie confronts Vanessa about her new boyfriend and gets under her skin about it; Bernie reveals to Wanda that he thinks Vanessa is having sex.

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  24. Background image for The United Front
    6.9/10(47 votes)

    #23 - The United Front

    S2:E8

    Bernie enlists Wanda to join him in a "united front" to be tougher on the kids, but she doesn't like getting the same cold shoulder they give him.

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  25. Background image for The Other Sister
    6.9/10(48 votes)

    #24 - The Other Sister

    S2:E20

    Bernie's sister, Benita, comes to visit, and all havoc starts. She first tells Bryana that she cannot play Snow White in the school play because she is black. She also buys a cell phone for Vanessa, that Bernie did not allow. Meanwhile, Jordan is obsessed with Benita when she walks around the house in her robe.

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  26. Background image for Stiff Upper Lip
    6.9/10(43 votes)

    #25 - Stiff Upper Lip

    S4:E2

    Bernie decides that 8-year-old Bryana is too old to be riding her bike with training wheels. She crashes, and a guilty Bernie volunteers to take her class to the museum. Jordan steals an old cast from the hospital and wears it at school to get out of gym class.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Raging Election" is the best rated episode of "The Bernie Mac Show". It scored 7.6/10 based on 57 votes. Directed by Lee Shallat Chemel and written by Steve Tompkins, it aired on 2/26/2003. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Sweet Life".