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The Best Episodes of Unhappily Ever After

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A not-so-happy family is divided further when the father gets a schizophrenic disorder. Jack Malloy is the hallucinating father who works at a used car lot. Jennifer "Jennie" Slattery Malloy is the mother who hates

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    Unhappily Ever After Season 3 Episode 10 - Eating Hollywood
    7.8/10(26 votes)

    S3:E10

    When the family goes to The House of Hollywood restaurant, Jennie expects to see stars, but only sees Erik Estrada, who she doesn't recognize.

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  2. Unhappily Ever After Season 4 Episode 7 - Ryan, Vampire Slayer
    7.8/10(18 votes)

    S4:E7

    After being denied by Bunny Mufflewits for a date, Ryan gets the mark to be a vampire slayer and uses Tiffany and Ross for bait.

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  3. Unhappily Ever After Season 1 Episode 3 - Jack's First Date
    7.6/10(44 votes)

    S1:E3

    Mr. Floppy thinks that Jack should start dating. While Jack, Jennifer, Ryan, and Tiffany go to Howe High's back to school night, Jack tries to send out ""the vibe"" to the women there. Amazingly he gets a date with Miss Taylor (Ryan's Civics Teacher), whom all the male teachers and students, and half the female teachers are after. Jennifer agrees to lend Jack the car for the date, but is less than supportive of him. When Jack comes to pick up the car, Jennifer and the car aren't there-- she and Maureen have taken it to the otherside of the block. Jack ends up meeting Miss Taylor 3 hours late, and Ryan's friend the paperboy ends up going home with her.

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  4. Unhappily Ever After Season 5 Episode 13 - Taffy's Boy
    7.6/10(20 votes)

    S5:E13

    A rich, overwight girl named Taffy has a crush on Ryan, so he dates her for her money.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Unhappily Ever After Season 1 Episode 6 - Run
    7.5/10(32 votes)

    S1:E6

    Jennie, Ross, and Ryan are sick in bed with colds, and Tiffany has two days until the Alphi Pi Psi party at the local university, where she plans to mingle with the geeks since ""today's big dufus is tomorrow's Bill Gates."" Jennifer calls Jack over so that he can pick up food and tampons, and get the car from the mechanic. Mr. Floppy makes Jack to take him along so that he won't be bored in the apartment, and then convinces Jack to escape to Mexico. Jack turns back home after a ""conscious attack,"" gets yelled at for buying the wrong flavor lollipops, and is stopped from running to Mexico again because he ran out of gas in the driveway. Jack and Jennifer have sex in the front seat of the car at the end.

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  6. Unhappily Ever After Season 2 Episode 14 - Meter Maid
    7.5/10(26 votes)

    S2:E14

    Jack is thrown in jail when Jennie punches a meter maid. Jennie won't bail Jack out and things are terrible around the house without him.

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  7. Unhappily Ever After Season 3 Episode 4 - The Temptation of Jack
    7.5/10(30 votes)

    S3:E4

    After Jennie makes Jack go talk to Morgana, Sable's mother, Morgana tries to seduce Jack. Meanwhile, Ryan becomes Sable's boyfriend, but it seems more like he's her slave.

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  8. Unhappily Ever After Season 4 Episode 5 - We Got Next
    7.5/10(23 votes)

    S4:E5

    Mindy, a girl on the basketball team with a crush on Ryan, beats him in basketball. Ryan is embarassed when Mindy tells the whole school, so he challenges her to a rematch witht he school watching.

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  9. Unhappily Ever After Season 4 Episode 11 - The One Kevin's Directing
    7.5/10(21 votes)

    S4:E11

    Barbara, the attractive new girl at Northridge Junior Colege who is a network executive, flirts with Jack. Jennie and Tiffany tell Jack to flirt back so that they can get a network meeting.

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  10. Unhappily Ever After Season 4 Episode 13 - Ryan's Labour Lost
    7.5/10(21 votes)

    S4:E13

    Ryan must work as the night janitor to pay off a school computer he destroyed. He finds the answers to an exam in the trash can and starts selling them to other students.

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  11. Unhappily Ever After Season 2 Episode 4 - Rocky VI
    7.4/10(26 votes)

    S2:E4

    When Jennie gets in a fight with Susan, a neighbor, she has Jack fight Vic, Susan's husband.

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  12. Unhappily Ever After Season 3 Episode 20 - Shampoo
    7.4/10(24 votes)

    S3:E20

    Tiffany's advice causes Ryan to get lots of women at his new job as a hairdresser. Jack worries that Ryan is gay because of his new job, but respects him when he sees the women Ryan is getting.

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  13. Unhappily Ever After Season 3 Episode 21 - College!
    7.4/10(21 votes)

    S3:E21

    Jack goes to a loan shark for the $18,000 for Tiffany to go to Harvard. But Tiffany turns down the Harvard scholarship and decides to go to Northridge Junior College with Ryan when she meets Professor Alfred, a professor there. She soon finds Professor Alfred is going to teach at Harvard and Mr. Monteleone is taking his spot.

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  14. Unhappily Ever After Season 4 Episode 6 - Sorority Girl
    7.4/10(24 votes)

    S4:E6

    To join a sorority, Tiffany and Amber have to be slaves to Ryan. Ryan doesn't notice that his sorority is gay. Seeing Ryan and Tiffany enjoying college, Jack puts down that he is a college graduate on his resume and he becomes a doctor and an accountant.

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  15. Unhappily Ever After Season 4 Episode 15 - Chaste Makes Waste
    7.4/10(21 votes)

    S4:E15

    Tiffany plans on losing her virginity to her new boyfriend, but she finds he is saving himself for marriage.

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  16. Unhappily Ever After Season 4 Episode 20 - The Old West
    7.4/10(23 votes)

    S4:E20

    When Tiffany finds an old western book while planting some flowers, she thinks of what it would be like to live in those times.

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  17. Unhappily Ever After Season 5 Episode 11 - Secrets
    7.4/10(20 votes)

    S5:E11

    Ryan tells Tiffany he slept with Penny, a girl she hates, but Tiffany has trouble keeping it a secret.

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  18. Unhappily Ever After Season 1 Episode 8 - Boxing Mr. Floppy
    7.3/10(36 votes)

    S1:E8

    Jennifer wants to get into the Betty Ford Clinic so that she can meet a rich drunk, and tells Jack he'll have to take the kids when she is away for the week. He'll have to pay for her visit or he'll have the kids forever. Jack takes the kids for the night and Ross cuts off Mr. Floppy's foot so that he can have a good luck charm to break his string of bad luck. Ryan steals the foot from Ross, and uses it get a date with Cindy Stalling (whom he dreams of every night). Moments later Tiffany steals it from him, and he promptly loses Cindy, but Tiffany finds a diamond ring in her sandwich. Jennifer gets tips from Maureen on how to fit in at the Clinic. Jennifer takes the foot from the kids and won't give it to Jack because it got her into Betty Ford. Jack unsuccessfully tries to offer Mr. Floppy a new foot from a different stuffed animal, then breaks into Jennifer's house and gets noticed by everyone. Never the less, he steals the foot from Jennifer, and she promptly gets bumped from the Cl

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  19. Unhappily Ever After Season 3 Episode 11 - High and Dry
    7.3/10(23 votes)

    S3:E11

    Jack and Jennie think Ryan is on drugs when they finds globs and globs of his sweat in the car.

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  20. Unhappily Ever After Season 3 Episode 19 - Little Ice Cream Shop of Horrors
    7.3/10(21 votes)

    S3:E19

    Tiffany must work at an ice cream parlor.

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  21. Unhappily Ever After Season 5 Episode 12 - Royal Flush
    7.3/10(21 votes)

    S5:E12

    Jack sells expensive toilets illegally so Ryan and Tiffany can buy a Porsche.

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  22. Unhappily Ever After Season 5 Episode 17 - Tiffany Burger
    7.3/10(25 votes)

    S5:E17

    Jimbo, a fast food millionaire with a burger joint, hires Ryan only to try and win Tiffany's heart by making a burger called the Tiffany Burger.

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  23. Unhappily Ever After Season 5 Episode 22 - Le Morte D'Floppy
    7.3/10(24 votes)

    S5:E22

    In the final episode, Tiffany is finally accepted into Harvard but without financial aid. To get enough money for Tiffany, he becomes a successful used car salesman and soon moves up to selling new cars and cars to celebrities. But Mr. Floppy dies because Jack is so caught up in his work, he won't pay attention to him. But drinking beer with Jak brings Floppy back.

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  24. Unhappily Ever After Season 1 Episode 5 - Jack the Ripper
    7.2/10(34 votes)

    S1:E5

    Since Jack's boss (Jennifer's father) won't give him a car, he decides to buy a moped. Jennifer finally convinces her mother, who came six weeks ago for a two week visit, to go home. As Maureen walks out the door, Jack runs into her with the moped, which of course causes her to continue staying with Jennifer. Jennifer decides that in order to prevent Maureen from suing Jack and getting all of Jennifer's stuff, that Jack should call her ""mom"" (which he has never done). Features a wonderful daydream medley of scenes where Jack imagines killing Maureen at various stages in his life.

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  25. Unhappily Ever After Season 1 Episode 11 - Daddy's Little Girl
    7.2/10(31 votes)

    S1:E11

    Tiffany wants to spend the night at the lake with her friends, including her date Beau. Jack forbids her because he still sees her as a little girl, and does not want her to be taken advantage of. Ryan keeps trying to talk to Jack about his own date, whom he describes as older, an occultist, and criminally insane, but both Jack and Jennifer ignore him. Later, Jack feels about forbidding Tiffany to go, but both Mr. Floppy and Jennifer agree that he made the right decision. Tiffinay then sweet-talks Jack into allowing her to spend the night at the lake. Jennifer gets mad, and they go out in an attempt to retrieve Tiffany

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Best Episodes Summary

"Eating Hollywood" is the best rated episode of "Unhappily Ever After". It scored 7.8/10 based on 26 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/17/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Ryan, Vampire Slayer".