7.9/10126 votes#1 - Misfit Love
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/2001
After learning that one more expense and the family will lose their medical coverage, Bob futilely urges the family to be extra careful. Milo finally manages to get himself enrolled in public school, where he meets and falls in love with a very unique student.
Director: Vincent Waller
Writer: Jace Richdale
7.5/10106 votes#2 - Narcoleptic Scottie
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/8/2001
Milo soon grows attached to a stray Scottie dog the Oblongs take in, but the pet brings out the animal in the hyperactive boy, and the family gives the pooch away to Bob's boss, George, thinking he'll have a good home. But when his new owners soon tire of him, Scottie finds himself in an animal testing lab, sniffing perfume with narcoleptic side effects. So the Oblongs set out to rescue Scottie before it's too late.
Director: Bob Jaques
Writer: Scott Buck
7.5/1098 votes#3 - Milo Interrupted
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/15/2001
After a disturbance in the Hills is blamed on Valley kids, the Valley's mayor appoints a child-services czar to improve parenting skills. Elsewhere, Milo learns that his freaky friend Helga has been abandoned by her parents and he is forced to spend every evening with his lonely pal. But Bob and Pickles suspect their son's late-night antics may be because he is on drugs... more than his numerous prescribed pharmaceuticals, that is. And Chip and Biff walk in on their parents at the wrong time. . .and end up having to scrub their corneas.
Director: Kelly Armstrong
Writer: Ben Kull
7.4/1095 votes#4 - Bucketheads
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/22/2001
To keep dry in the rain, Pickles puts a bucket on Milo's head and sends him off to school. Funzie, the cool guy, thinks Milo's bucket is hip, so the next day, everyone's wearing a bucket on their heads. Milo finds himself running with the in-crowd, so he sets out to launch a strange new line of apparel -- with disastrous results.
Director: Joe Horne
Writer: Scott Buck
8.2/10103 votes#5 - Heroine Addict
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/29/2001
Pickles decides to quit smoking, but she replaces one addiction with another when she channels her nervous energy into becoming a reckless thrill-seeker. Her decision comes much to the dismay of Bob, who worries about her safety, and Milo, who resents her unseating him as the crazy one in the family.
Director: Monte Young
Writer: Scott Buck, Joey Soloway
7.4/1087 votes#6 - The Golden Child
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/6/2001
Bob fears his career is going nowhere. That is, until marketing genius Milo's sales take off for his new energy drink, "Manic," which improves Bob's co-workers' productivity. But the real secret of his success is found out when Bob's company anoints Milo as their new CEO.
Director: Linda Miller
Writer: Leonard Dick
7.5/1091 votes#7 - Flush, Flush, Sweet Helga
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/13/2001
Milo and his friends crash a party thrown for the Mayor's daughter, Debbie Bledsoe, and they cause the Debbie's new locket to be tossed into the sewer. The zaftig Helga goes after the gift and gets lodged in the pipe, plugging it up like a human cork. The hill people and rescuers work feverishly to rescue... the locket, and leave Helga blocking the main water line -- just one flush away from the great beyond. Helga causes a disruption in the water supply to valley, but the hill people pay no attention -- until their water is cut off too.
Director: Monte Young
Writer: Jace Richdale
8.2/10100 votes#8 - Disfigured Debbie
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/20/2001
Milo runs for school president against Debbie Klimer, leader of the snobby Debbies, and he loses -- but then his opponent suffers a freak accident. The Klimer family fakes young Debbie's death while she goes under the plastic surgeon's knife, but the operation is less than successful and Debbie returns looking like The Phantom of the Opera. Shunned by her upscale family and friends, The Oblong clan and the valley kids take in the reject Debbie as one of their own. But when Debbie's cheerfulness starts getting on everyone's nerves, the valley kids turn to the freakish school nurse to get Debbie back with the in-crowd.
Director: Joe Horne
Writer: Joey Soloway
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Misfit Love" is the best rated episode of "The Oblongs" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 126 votes. Directed by Vincent Waller and written by Jace Richdale, it aired on 4/1/2001. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Narcoleptic Scottie".