8.2/10339 votes#1 - Growing Up
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1990
The family attends Jack's company picnic. Kevin is not looking forward to seeing Mimi Detweiler, who used to have a crush on him. Wayne's new girlfriend Angela annoys everyone but Wayne. Kevin beans Jack with a baseball at the father-son baseball game. Karen leaves for college.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: Bob Brush
8.2/10339 votes#2 - Ninth Grade Man
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1990
Winnie is nervous about starting a new school, so she gets Kevin to promise to think about her every hour on the hour. Kevin finds this promise harder to keep than he thought when he loses his locker to Tony Barbella, is enrolled in shop class and meets a new girl in French class, Madeline.
Director: Daniel Stern
Writer: N/A
8.0/10319 votes#3 - The Journey
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1990
News of a 10th-grade girls' slumber party has Kevin and his friends traveling across the city, believing they'll be invited in if they bring beer.
Director: Peter Werner
Writer: Jeffrey Stepakoff
8.6/10338 votes#4 - The Cost of Living
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1990
When Kevin learns that Paul gets a weekly allowance of five dollars and that there is money to be made being a caddy, he goes to work for the first time.
Director: Nick Marck
Writer: N/A
8.4/10338 votes#5 - It's a Mad, Mad, Madeline World
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1990
Kevin has to cancel a date with Winnie to finish a homework assignment with Madeline, who has already kissed him once. To make matters worse, when he flees Madeline's, he drops a bracelet that Winnie had engraved for him.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: Eric Gilliland, Jeffrey Stepakoff
8.2/10323 votes#6 - Little Debbie
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1990
Paul's sister Debbie needs someone to take her to a cotillion and Kevin is guilted into the task. Meanwhile, Paul, Doug and Randy go to the football game to watch cheerleader Donna Delgado.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: Mark B. Perry
8.3/10328 votes#7 - The Ties That Bind
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1990
When the family needs money, Jack demands a raise and gets it. But his new position means travelling across the country and it looks like he might miss Thanksgiving.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Mark B. Perry
8.3/10307 votes#8 - The Sixth Man
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/28/1990
Kevin is worried that Paul will look foolish when he's drafted to the basketball team, but it appears that Paul is only at his worst when he plays Kevin.
Director: Nick Marck
Writer: David Chambers
8.2/10327 votes#9 - A Very Cutlip Christmas
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/12/1990
Kevin discovers a soft-spot inside Cutlip when he sees him playing Santa Clause at a local mall.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: N/A
7.8/10301 votes#10 - The Candidate
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/9/1991
Kevin enters the race for student-council president, head-to-head with nemesis Becky Slater.
Director: Neal Israel
Writer: Eric Gilliland
8.7/10363 votes#11 - Heartbreak
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/23/1991
Kevin is excited when a joint field trip is organized with Winnie's school. But things do not work out so well when Kevin has a hard time tearing Winnie away from her new friends. Things go from bad to worse when Winnie tells Kevin she has met someone else.
Director: Andy Tennant
Writer: David Chambers
8.8/10375 votes#12 - Denial
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/30/1991
News of Kevin's break-up with Winnie has spread quickly throughout Robert F Kennedy Junior High. Kevin is still in denial though and has Paul organise a party at his place so that Kevin can get Winnie alone. In an effort to make Winnie jealous, Kevin turns up with Madeline on his arm. When Kevin finally does get Winnie alone, she tells him she needs him to be her friend, but only her friend.
Director: Richard Masur
Writer: N/A
7.6/10304 votes#13 - Who's Aunt Rose?
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/1991
Kevin learns the importance of family when Grandpa Arnold returns to town for Aunt Rose's funeral.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: Mark B. Perry
7.6/10301 votes#14 - Courage
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/13/1991
Kevin has a small crush on Dr. Tucker's dental hygienist, Miss Hasenfuss. She makes him feel like a man, though that all changes when she calls him in for his first cavity filling.
Director: Daniel Stern
Writer: Mark B. Perry
7.7/10301 votes#15 - Buster
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/1991
Kevin's dog Buster needs to get fixed to stop his incessant barking, but the dog wants to avoid that at all costs.
Director: Nick Marck
Writer: Mark B. Perry
8.0/10297 votes#16 - Road Trip
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/6/1991
Kevin and his father endure a disastrous trip together to buy a suit for Kevin. They get lost and argue over the radio station and Kevin embarrasses Jack at a diner they stop at.
Director: Ken Topolsky
Writer: David Chambers
8.1/10290 votes#17 - When Worlds Collide
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/20/1991
Kevin's quest to remain cool is shattered when Norma takes a job at his school. He tries to rebel by stealing a hallpass for Tony Barbella, but Norma catches him in the act. When Norma acknowledges him during a fire drill and the other kids laugh, Kevin decides it is time to ask his mother to stop noticing him at school.
Director: Lyndall Hobbs
Writer: Eric Gilliland
8.4/10311 votes#18 - Separate Rooms
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 4/3/1991
When Kevin and Wayne decide it's too cramped for two grown boys in their bedroom, they decide one of them should be allowed to move into Karen's room, now that she's away at college. The trouble is, who is going to be the one to go?
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: Bob Brush
7.9/10301 votes#19 - The Yearbook
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/10/1991
Kevin finds himself in the in-crowd when he is invited to write witty captions for the photos in the yearbook. But when it comes to writing one for the fat kid in school, Peter Armbruster, Kevin has a hard time figuring out what is funny and what will hurt Peter.
Director: Neal Israel
Writer: David Chambers
8.9/10454 votes#20 - The Accident
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/24/1991
Kevin sees Winnie for the first time since they broke up. He discovers that she a Roger have split up, too. When Winnie is in a car accident, Kevin rides over to see her at home, but her parents say she doesn't want to see him. Kevin leaves, but returns and climbs up to Winnie's bedroom window. They tell each other, "I love you."
Director: Richard Masur
Writer: N/A
8.4/10306 votes#21 - The House That Jack Built
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/1/1991
Jack wants to help Karen out by fixing up the house she is now living in. But father and daughter go head-to-head when he discovers she is living there with a man.
Director: Ken Topolsky
Writer: Mark B. Perry
8.3/10298 votes#22 - Graduation
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1991
As Kevin graduates from Junior High, he wants to believe nothing will change, but he learns that things can and do change when he discovers Paul is going to a private school in the coming year. Winnie is also anxious about the future. And Kevin has to drive Mrs. Heimer to the hospital when she goes into labor.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: Bob Brush
7.6/10283 votes#23 - The Wonder Years
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/1991
A clip show of highlights from Kevin's years in Junior High. Including clips from "Don't You Know Anything About Women," "The Glee Club," "Just Between You and Me... and Kirk and Paul and Carla and Becky," "Summer Song" among others.
Director: Nick Marck
Writer: Mark B. Perry
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Growing Up" is the best rated episode of "The Wonder Years" season 4. It scored 8.2/10 based on 339 votes. Directed by Michael Dinner and written by Bob Brush, it aired on 9/19/1990. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Ninth Grade Man".