8.0/1053 votesLoading...#1 - Bar Mitzvah Crashers
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/2006
After a Jewish family arrive in the neighborhood, Bernie urges Jordan to befriending the son, David. Though hesitant at first Jordan begins to develop a friendship with his new neighbor. Not long after-wards David invites Jordan to attend his cousin's bar mitzvahs with him. After receiving various expensive parting gifts Jordan and David decide to crash bar mitzvahs of people to whom they do not know in order to receive more gifts. Before long it's time for David's bar mitzvahs but Jordan comes to a dilemma because this happens to be the same day of a very wealthy boy's bar mitzvahs. So Jordan must beside between friendship or material possessions.
Director: Linda Mendoza
Writer: Michael Caine, Angela Yarbrough
7.9/1063 votesLoading...#2 - If I Were N-Riched Man
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/3/2002
After hearing Bernie use inappropriate language at home, Bryana goes to school and repeats it—much to the horror of her teacher. Soon after, a social worker shows up at the house to discuss Bernie's hostility problems.
Director: Ken Whittingham
Writer: Warren Hutcherson
7.8/1060 votesLoading...#3 - Sweet Home Chicago (2)
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/2002
Bernie takes the family on a tour of his old stomping grounds. Vanessa attempts to find her mother.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Steve Tompkins, Teri Schaffer, Larry Wilmore
7.7/1051 votesLoading...#4 - Raging Election
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/26/2003
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
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Steve Tompkins
7.7/1040 votesLoading...#5 - Who's Your Mama?
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/31/2006
Bryana's daddy Bryan helps out around the house and the kids start preferring him over their Uncle Bernie causing Bernie Mac to take offense. Baby Girl gets called flat-chested at school and Bryan and Bernie fight over who gets to buy her a new bra. Jordan competes for "best smile" at school.
Director: Linda Mendoza
Writer: Jerry Collins
7.6/1054 votesLoading...#6 - Kelly's Heroes
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/2002
When Kelly's girlfriend throws him out, Bernie lets him stay at the house.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Steve Tompkins
7.6/1052 votesLoading...#7 - Bernie Mac Rope-a-Dope
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/2003
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.
Director: Ken Kwapis
Writer: Kriss Turner
7.6/1044 votesLoading...#8 - Family Reunion
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 2/8/2004
Bernie and Wanda host a Mac family reunion barbecue for about 50 of Bernie's extended relatives who invade L.A. for the weekend. At first, Bernie is excited and looks forward to bonding with his relatives and strengthening their family ties, but when his Aunt Sis starts to pester him about co-hosting a cooking show with her on the Food Network, cousin Lou starts to harass him, and his older brother Carl questions the way he and Wanda are raising the children, Bernie starts to question why he agreed to host the reunion in the first place. Meanwhile, Vanessa and Shonte, a distant cousin by marriage, flirt with each other until Bernie informs them that they are more closely related than they thought.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Writer: Teri Schaffer
7.6/1041 votesLoading...#9 - Prison Break
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/2005
After misbehaving yet again, Bernie punishes Bryana and Jordan severely. Yet again Wanda thinks he's being too hard on them. But in the end, she catches on. Vanessa turns out to be the sneakiest of them all.
Director: Keith Truesdell
Writer: Antonia F. March, Jacqueline McKinley
7.5/1071 votesLoading...#10 - Bernie Mac, Ladies Man
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/28/2001
When Wanda plans a play date for a group of kids, Bernie ends up winning over the moms for the afternoon and becoming defensive about his masculinity.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: N/A
7.5/1061 votesLoading...#11 - The King and I
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/30/2002
when Bernie realizes that anything he says to Jordan and Bryana first goes through Vanessa, he decides to stop fighting the situation and let Vanessa be responsible for the kids.
Director: Ken Kwapis
Writer: Steve Tompkins
7.5/1050 votesLoading...#12 - The Sweet Life
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/11/2002
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.
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Writer: Paul Lieberstein
7.5/1040 votesLoading...#13 - Leaving Los Angeles
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 3/12/2003
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.
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Writer: Marc Abrams, Michael Benson
7.5/1040 votesLoading...#14 - Love Thy Nephew
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 12/7/2003
When a litigious neighbor asks Bernie to tear down the treehouse he built for Jordan, it leads to an all-night standoff. Meanwhile, a relentless Bryanna tries to put a bumper sticker that represents her good grades in school on Wanda's car, but Wanda tries different ways to put the sticker anywhere but on her car.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Writer: Teri Schaffer
7.5/1034 votesLoading...#15 - Exercise in Fertility: Part 1
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/2006
After several failed attempts, Bernie and Wanda realize that making a baby is harder than they thought, and Wanda begins to question their fertility.
Director: Linda Mendoza
Writer: Marc Abrams, Michael Benson
7.5/1050 votesLoading...#16 - Bernie's Angels
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/14/2006
The kids' carelessness causes Bernie to have a near-death experience.
Director: Ken Kwapis
Writer: Steve Tompkins, Teri Schaffer
7.4/1072 votesLoading...#17 - The Main Event
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/2001
Jordan is tormented by bullies at school, so Bernie teaches him some moves that unfortunately turn Jordan into a monster.
Director: Linda Mendoza
Writer: Marc Abrams, Michael Benson
7.4/1069 votesLoading...#18 - A Christmas Story
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/19/2001
The kids get a dog from the pound, thinking it will be the perfect present for Bernie. Bernie finds the dog, hides it, thinking it is the perfect present for the kids. They think he took it back to the pound, so they try and get revenge.
Director: John Fortenberry
Writer: Marc Abrams, Michael Benson
7.4/1064 votesLoading...#19 - Keep It on the Short Grass
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2002
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.
Director: Ken Kwapis
Writer: Michael Benson, Marc Abrams
7.4/1044 votesLoading...#20 - Welcome to the Jungle
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/2002
Jordan's homework of caring for a snake has Bryanna clamoring for her own pet. Wildlife expert Jules Sylvester counsels Bernie.
Director: Allison Liddi-Brown
Writer: Bobby Gaylor
7.4/1045 votesLoading...#21 - Pink Gold
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 3/19/2003
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.
Director: Michael Spiller
Writer: Warren Hutcherson
7.4/1047 votesLoading...#22 - Nut Job
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/30/2003
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.
Director: Ken Kwapis
Writer: Paul Lieberstein
7.4/1044 votesLoading...#23 - For a Few Dollars More
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/14/2003
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
Director: Ken Whittingham
Writer: Bobby Gaylor
7.4/1040 votesLoading...#24 - Road to Tradition
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 12/14/2003
Bernie tries to instill a sense of old-school Christmas tradition in the kids but when they become obsessed with gift-getting Bernie decides to cancel Christmas altogether. Meanwhile, new Senior VP Wanda overcompensates for her promotion by trying to find a gift for everyone on her staff which distracts her from catching the Christmas spirit.
Director: Ken Whittingham
Writer: Jerry Collins
7.4/1041 votesLoading...#25 - Love Bug
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 1/11/2004
When Vanessa brings home her first boyfriend, Reggie, Bernie gets to work on scaring the guy off but quickly realizes that Reggie is a good influence on Jordan and could lead him away from bug collecting and into sports and girls. Bernie decides he can take advantage of the situation and let Vanessa think she has a boyfriend while also giving Jordan a role model. When this prevents Vanessa and Reggie from spending any alone-time together, Vanessa decides to break up until Bernie uses reverse psychology on her to get them back together. Meanwhile, Wanda decides to clear space in her closet and give some shoes to the Salvation Army, but letting go is harder than she thought it would be.
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Writer: Kate Angelo
The Best Episodes of The Bernie Mac Show
Every episode of The Bernie Mac Show ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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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Network:FOX
Best Episodes Summary
"Bar Mitzvah Crashers" is the best rated episode of "The Bernie Mac Show". It scored 8/10 based on 53 votes. Directed by Linda Mendoza and written by Michael Caine, Angela Yarbrough, it aired on 2/3/2006. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "If I Were N-Riched Man".