The Worst Episodes of The John Larroquette Show
Every episode of The John Larroquette Show ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The John Larroquette Show!
The John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John Larroquette following his run as Dan Fielding on Night Court. The series takes place in a seedy bus terminal in St. Louis, Missouri and originally focused on the somewhat broken people who worked the night shift, and in particular, the lead character's battle with alcoholism.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "The John Larroquette Show" is "Copies", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by David Trainer and written by N/A. "Copies" aired on 10/16/1996 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Isosceles Love Triangle".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - Copies
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1996
Dexter's estranged father comes to see John's autobiographical play about father-son issues, continually rewritten after comments by the copy shop attendant.
Director: David Trainer
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/10 35 votes
#2 - Isosceles Love Triangle
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1996
After John gives Eggers advice on how to get the man of her dreams, she uses the opportunity to get him to agree to be her date for a Halloween party. Meanwhile, Gene must prove his mettle by cleaning up a toxic chemical spill.
Director: David Trainer
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/10 45 votes
#3 - The Defiant One
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1995
John's mouthing off to the police lands him in jail with musician-author Kinky Friedman, Catherine learns about Carly's past, Eggers practices her mothering skills on Mahalia's daughter Lucy.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/10 42 votes
#4 - More Changes
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1995
John finally proposes to Catherine, she accepts, and everyone shows up for the wedding -- except the bride and groom. John accepts Carly's eager proposition to come home with her for the evening. But he disappoints Carly by proclaiming that he still loves Catherine. Mahalia advises John to call a psychiatrist, but after John reveals his deepest feelings--and his identity--he's mortified to realize that he's talking to radio psychiatrist, Dr. Frasier Crane live on the air. Determined to win Catherine back, John asks Catherine to marry him. Meanwhile, the St. Louis, Missouri Crossroads Bus Terminal begins closing at midnight.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
- 6.8/10 38 votes
#5 - Mother of the Year
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1996
Thanks to John's contest-winning, double-edged essay, Mahalia is named Mother of the Year and faces a custody battle for her kids. The article spurs a home visit from a suspicious child welfare investigator (guest Adams) -- just when taskmaster ""El Capitan"" John is babysitting -- and a custody hearing in which Mahalia and John face off against Mahalia's ex, Stewie, Sr.
Director: David Trainer
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10 36 votes
#6 - Bathing with Ernest Hemingway
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1996
Attempting to share John's love of literature, Carly signs up for a course on Ernest Hemingway. In exchange, John agrees to a fitness programme -- with Eggers as his all too personal trainer.
Director: David Trainer
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10 38 votes
#7 - Some Call Them Beasts
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/27/1996
John makes a bad impression upon meeting his favorite author Jackson Bishop, but Dexter's friendship with the writer leads to a second chance for John -- and a second faux pas when he succumbs to a seductive model who, unbeknownst to John, is Jackson's wife.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10 35 votes
#8 - Independence Day
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/23/1996
Mahalia accidentally gets the byline for John's article on racial equality, but when the piece wins a prize of an electric car, John happily assumes the role of ""Mr. Sanchez,"" a ""light-skinned"" Hispanic. Continuing the charade, John tries to impress a sexy Basque activist and ends up leading a radical Basque political group. Upset that John is capitalizing on the troubles of a minority group for glory and romance, Mahalia gets revenge by conspiring with the Basques to fool him into appearing as Abraham Lincoln in her son's school play. Meanwhile, when Gene asks Dexter to be his infant son's godfather, Dexter realizes that he was never baptized. Fearing that he will go to hell when he dies, Dexter convinces a street preacher to baptize him. Unfortunately, the marauding elephant scares the preacher away and sprays Dexter with holy water -- which he interprets as a sign from God.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10 40 votes
#9 - Untying the Knot
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1996
Picking up from last season's cliffhanger, this season's premiere polishes off the nuptials between John and Carly. In short order, at the bus station reception, Catherine drops the bombshell to the glowing groom that she's pregnant with John's child — portending a connubial future that's no piece of cake. As a stop-gap solution to the staggering dilemma, the odd trio move in together, and soon see that three is anything but company.
Director: David Trainer
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
- 7.2/10 38 votes
#10 - Wasted Lives
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/29/1994
John accidentally gets high on marijuana brownies, Hampton gets an unusual request from his long-estranged father, actor Joe Pesci studies a homeless man living at the bus station as research for a role.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
- 7.2/10 37 votes
#11 - The Job
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1994
John, Mahalia, Dexter and Heavy Gene apply for a better playing job at a New Orleans bus station.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10 37 votes
#12 - Time Out
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/1995
Old flames resurface after John and Catherine agree to take a break to assess the direction of their relationship.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.2/10 41 votes
#13 - Black and White and Red All Over
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/30/1996
After John writes a scathing negative newspaper review of performance artist Amanda Cox, she professes respect for his critical opinion and seductively lures him to her loft -- where she exacts her revenge with an unforgettable show involving John and a concealed live audience. Unfortunately, Catherine and her mother, Louise Merrick are part of that audience. John vows revenge with some trickery of his own but is again humiliated. Meanwhile, Catherine bribes her friends at the bus terminal to exaggerate her status to make her mother proud; and Hampton practices being a Buckingham Palace guard.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10 41 votes
#14 - Here We Go Again
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/12/1996
A parody of Sunset Boulevard, with Betty White as the Norma Desmond of TV who has written ""Golden Girls: The Musical"" and entices John into rewriting it, with Catherine as lyricist, and staging it in the bus terminal (with John press ganged into the role of Dorothy when Catherine mysteriously goes missing).
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
- 7.3/10 40 votes
#15 - Pros and Cons
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/5/1993
A fellow con artist from John's drinking days offers to cut him in on a lucrative real-estate scam; a bounty hunter is taking an incredibly naive Mississippi teenager to face a ten-year sentence.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Bill Richmond
- 7.3/10 38 votes
#16 - John and Carol
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1994
Carol is furious when Tony leaves her to stay with John; Mahalia worries about her brooding son Dante.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 37 votes
#17 - Even More Changes
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1995
John reconciles with Catherine, who takes on a new enterprise by buying the bus bar from Carly and turning it into a jazz club; the entire crew switches to the day shift; and Eggers introduces her beloved dog -- which turns out to be a wild wolf.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
- 7.3/10 38 votes
#18 - Rachel and Tony
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1995
John's daughter and son hit town at the same time, and John decides to tell each of them about the other's existence. John's children by different mothers, Rachel and Tony, each unaware that the other exists, meet at the bus terminal. Rachel is in town for a memorial concert by the band Grateful Dead, and Tony has ended his studies at Yale University, although he claims he's on vacation. Not knowing that they're related, they become attracted to each other. When they go on a date, John panics and tries to find them before they become physically involved. Meanwhile, Mahalia persistently tries to seduce an attractive traveler, despite his protests that he is not available. Feeling guilty, she goes to confession at church and finds out he's a priest.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.4/10 37 votes
#19 - You Bet Your Life
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1995
A canine is the centerpiece of the bus station's new security system, Catherine and John try living together, and John's former art professor show up to announce he has incurable cancer and intends to commit suicide.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10 39 votes
#20 - And the Heat Goes On
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 8/29/1995
John searches for a lost package and Carly mulls a marriage proposal.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10 36 votes
#21 - Night Moves
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 12/12/1995
After a burglary in the apartment building where John and Catherine live, he seizes the chance to play on her vulnerability; Dexter's mom and Cathy's beau have something in common. Catherine is very scared when a thief breaks into the building she lives in. John exaggerates the danger, figuring that if she's frightened she'll want him around. Meanwhile, Carly introduces everybody at the terminal to her millionaire boyfriend, Karl. To Dexter's dismay, his visiting mother recognizes Karl from when she worked as his nanny.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 42 votes
#22 - Celibate!
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/1993
John is not about to celebrate when his sponsor orders him to be celibate -- especially when it's for six long months.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 40 votes
#23 - The Unforgiven
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/1993
John takes stock of himself while helping a runaway teen realize that she can go home.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 39 votes
#24 - Jumping Off the Wagon
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/12/1993
Badgered by an extortionist, bedeviled by a work slowdown and befuddled by his sponsor's drinking, John feels like he's teetering on a ""tightrope of sobriety.""
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Brenda Hampton
- 7.5/10 40 votes
#25 - There's a Mister Hitler Here to See You
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1993
John's given food for thought when an old writer friend bases his first book on John's bacchanalian past, a neo-Nazi named Steve Hitler demands to charter a bus, with support from the ACLU, and a sleazy health inspector threatens Dexter with blackmail.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A