The Best Episodes Written By Bill Prady
Every TV Episode Written by Bill Prady Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Bill Prady Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Bill Prady is "Valet Girl", rated 9/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by Gail Mancuso". "Valet Girl" aired on 11/4/1998 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Brought to You in DharmaVision".
9.0/10 1 votes#1 - Valet Girl
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1998
Greg is forced to make a very embarrassing public admission when he sees the first girl he claims to have slept with and her jealous husband makes some serious threats. Meanwhile, Dharma and Greg attend the wedding of Kitty's housekeeper and offer to park cars as a wedding gift.
Director: Gail Mancuso
Writer: Bill Prady
9.0/10 1 votes#2 - Brought to You in DharmaVision
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1998
Dharma is surprised when both Jane and her parents accuse her of having changed because she is busy attending a society fundraiser with Kitty then alarmed when Kitty congratulates her on having changed to the extent that young socialites thinks she's ""a hoot and a half."" Her identity crisis is confirmed by a visit from the spirit of her Indian friend, George, who directs her to retreat to the Redwoods to find herself and conveys a cryptic message to ""save the young one."" An uncomprehending Greg reluctantly lets her go, persuading her to take Jane with her; then, upon seeing George in a dream, rushes to the woods in Larry's van to save Dharma and Jane, who have adopted a bear cub while remaining oblivious to the nearby presence of its angered mother. Best lines: George to Dharma: ""You might have mentioned that you moved. I scared some skinny guy in the shower half to death!""; Larry, fleeing from the mother bear, slips on something in the woods and mutters, ""That answers that question!""
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Bill Prady
8.0/10 2 votes#3 - Shower the People You Love With Love
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1997
Dharma tries to sprinkle a little TLC in Greg's life by installing a new, deluxe ""Spring Mist 3000"" shower, while Greg finds himself on a testosterone-ridden golfing afternoon with Edward and Larry. Meanwhile, Kitty, misunderstanding the word ""shower,"" readies for a social event with hors d'oeuvres and formal invitations.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Bill Prady
8.0/10 1 votes#4 - Mr. Montgomery Goes to Washington
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1997
After Greg wins a major court case, he is urged to run for Congress. It's an idea that moves Dharma to consult Greg's mother for grooming advice, as a potential political wife. After worrying about Dharma fitting in with the political crowd, Greg embarrasses himself during his first public appearance by emerging from the washroom with his fly undone. But when Dharma tries to boost his confidence with a little back-seat lovin', it becomes front-page news. (""We know he's not a Democrat because he's having sex with his wife, and we know he's not a Republican because he's having sex."") Greg is thrown into a black depression until he realizes that his popularity has soared; then his opponent makes a decisive sexual confession of his own.
Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie
Writer: Bill Prady
8.0/10 1 votes#5 - The Paper Hat Anniversary
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1998
It's traditional to fight on your first anniversary (even if Hallmark doesn't have a card for it): Dharma and Greg stage an argument to escape their parents' planned celebration, but in concocting the excuse Greg says Dharma was being ""flighty,"" and the gloves come off. While they drive out of the city, Dharma retaliates by calling Greg a ""stick in the mud,"" and soon their car is stuck in the mud when he tries to demonstrate how impetuous he can be. (Not very.) They hike to a diner, but find it closed because of a death in the owner's family; just as Greg breaks a pane in the door in order to use the phone, a highway patrolman happens by and the young couple get caught in a charade of being the replacement cook and waitress. There's a nice unspoken continuity with the first season episode in which Greg really did become a short order cook, and it's nice to see him sharing Dharma's role-playing game, even if unwillingly. But Dharma looks tense and unhappy even before Greg accidentally i
Director: Amanda Bearse
Writer: Bill Prady
7.6/10 38 votes#6 - The Spaghetti Catalyst
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2010
When Leonard and Penny aren't speaking, Sheldon goes to extremes to keep them both happy.
Director: Anthony Joseph Rich
Writer: Bill Prady
7.3/10 11 votes#7 - A Pot Smoking Monkey
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/2006
Alan tries to hire his ex-wife's lawyer to help him win custody over the dog he and Kandi shared.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Bill Prady
7.2/10 105 votes#8 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2007
Brilliant physicist roommates Leonard and Sheldon meet their new neighbor Penny, who begins showing them that as much as they know about science, they know little about actual living.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Bill Prady
7.2/10 9 votes#9 - Oldies but Young 'Uns
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/17/1991
Al goes crazy trying to remember the name of a song he heard on the radio.
Director: Gerry Cohen
Writer: Bill Prady
7.0/10 1 votes#10 - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1997
When Greg needs an upgraded security clearance to work on a top-secret case, Dharma and the families are subjected to a background check, which reveals some very interesting information about Larry and Edward. Dharma discovers to her horror that her proud anti-establishment rebel father in not in fact wanted by the FBI as he's always bragged, and embroils Greg and Pete in a scheme to plant a phony file for Larry to steal. Meanwhile, Greg is shaken to discover that Edward never in fact divorced his first wife; and Kitty's reaction to the news is not what anyone would expect.
Director: Gail Mancuso
Writer: Bill Prady
7.0/10 1 votes#11 - Dharma and Greg's First Romantic Valentine's Day Weekend
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/11/1998
A romantic Valentine's Day weekend turns out to be anything but for Dharma and Greg. It all begins when Greg downloads a travel brochure promising a cozy getaway at the Red Rose Inn in upstate snow country. Unfortunately, things don't go quite as planned. En route, they get ticketed for speeding when Greg tries to make up time lost burying a dead animal that Dharma spotted by the roadside. Worse still, when they arrive at the inn they discover it's just an ordinary little house with no snow and only a backyard trailer to accommodate guests. Meanwhile, Kitty misinterprets Larry's talk about an animal-shelter swap meet to mean wife swapping, and she and Edward find themselves strangely disturbed by the idea.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Bill Prady
7.0/10 1 votes#12 - The Official Dharma & Greg Episode of the 1998 Winter Olympics
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1998
While Dharma, Abby and Jane try to help a depressed Kitty struggle through her 50th birthday, Greg, Larry and Edward head off to the slopes to stage their own Winter Olympics. To head off Kitty's stated intention of immediate plastic surgery, the daffy trio persuades her to join them, big wigs and scanty dresses donned, on a mission to flirt at a navy bar. Kitty is an immediate hit - until one of the young men tells her she reminds him of his mother! Meanwhile, tobogganing down a mountainside in a canoe, at night, backwards, turns out to be the father and son bonding experience Greg and Edward never found time for.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Bill Prady
7.0/10 1 votes#13 - Dharma's Tangled Web
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/11/1998
Dropping in on Kitty, Dharma instantly senses what has happened: Kitty and Edward are separating. An appalled Kitty makes Dharma promise not to tell Greg, but this well-meaning deception snowballs as Dharma's sense of guilt develops into a series of escalating fibs that draws in an uncomprehending (and protesting) Jane Seymour. We also learn something important about Dharma's macrobiotic childhood: she's a recovering secret sugar junkie!
Director: Ken Levine
Writer: Bill Prady
7.0/10 1 votes#14 - Spring Forward, Fall Down
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/28/1998
Spring fever hits klutzy Dharma, moving her to dance naked on the roof (in full view of a newscast helicopter and, hence, an appalled Kitty), carpet the apartment with live grass and enter a ballroom dancing contest at the Montgomerys' posh country club. Reluctant Greg insists they should accept that they have no chance of winning and merely enjoy themselves, but Dharma confesses to her parents that for once in her life, she's like to be competitive at all costs. Trouble is, the brunt of her aspirations is borne not by her competition but by Greg.
Director: Gail Mancuso
Writer: Bill Prady
7.0/10 1 votes#15 - It Takes a Village
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1998
Abby and Larry assemble a village, which includes an African spiritual adviser, a troubadour, a storyteller who has taken a vow of silence, a lesbian lactation expert, and Jane to help Dharma and Greg with the baby. Greg is pleased, sort of, until he realizes that this entails everyone living with them during the baby's first formative years. Meanwhile, Kitty takes to her bed, convinced that her life is over now that she has become a grandmother overnight. Dharma promises to help Kitty fulfill her matriarchal ambitions by having ""a whole buttload of kids,"" but is taken aback by Kitty's first dynastic decision: to name the baby after Edward's wealthy uncle Fergus.
Director: Gail Mancuso
Writer: Bill Prady
7.0/10 1 votes#16 - Turn Turn Turn
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1998
Experimenting to see if her parents can be trusted to mind the baby, Dharma and Greg take the baby to the movies with them, but the incessant crying annoys the patrons around them, Dharma's crying. Abby approached Kitty to see if they can agree on a compromise between their family traditions for the baby's naming ceremony, which results in a huge gathering and a minister, a rabbi, and a shaman. (Yes, they tell jokes.) Even Kitty, with the help of Larry's special cookies, gets into the swing of things; and all is happiness until a telegram arrives: Donna has changed her mind and wants the baby back.
Director: Gail Mancuso
Writer: Bill Prady
7.0/10 15 votes#17 - Pig Girls Don't Cry (Pilot)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2015
Miss Piggy is furious that Kermit booked Elizabeth Banks as a guest on her late night talk show Up Late with Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear meets his girlfriend’s parents, and Grammy Award-winning rock band Imagine Dragons performs their new single “Roots”.
Director: Randall Einhorn
Writer: Bill Prady
6.9/10 25 votes#18 - Bliss
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1999
Stardate: Unknown. The Voyager crew is lured into a giant space creature that consumes starships as food, and only Seven and the Doctor may have the ability to save the ship.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Bill Prady
6.8/10 6 votes#19 - Tippecanoe and Taylor, Too
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/2004
Lorelai confesses that part of the charm of breakfast by Luke is breakfast at Luke's; Rory is less than thrilled to discover that the common room in her suite has been overtaken by a huge antique printing press Paris inherited from Asher; Lorelai and Sookie head up Jackson's campaign committee when he decides to run against Taylor for town selectman to put an end to the grocer's petty tyranny over Stars Hollow, but Lorelai has second thoughts when she sees how Jackson's projected landslide victory is affecting Taylor; Rory and Dean have difficulty finding a comfortable place to be alone, compounded by Dean's having to share a car with Lindsay and his reluctance to make his relationship with Rory public; Lane confesses her true feelings to Zack; after all the votes have been counted, Jackson isn't quite certain he wants the job, and Taylor vows not to go away quietly.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Bill Prady
6.7/10 13 votes#20 - Hostile Makeover
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2015
In an attempt to make Miss Piggy happy, Kermit sets her up with Josh Groban who fills her head with ideas on how to make Up Late with Miss Piggy better. Meanwhile, Fozzie is invited to a party at Jay Leno’s house and everyone is annoyed that Bobo is selling cookies for his daughter’s troop.
Director: Randall Einhorn
Writer: Bill Prady
6.5/10 6 votes#21 - How Many Kropogs to Cape Cod?
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2005
Rory starts her internship; Due to low attendance and much to Luke's delight, Taylor decides to close down the museum and sell the house; Richard and Emily invite Logan to dinner, and Lorelai begs to attend; Lorelai meets with an inn investor, which could mean travel in her future.
Director: Jamie Babbit
Writer: Bill Prady
6.0/10 1 votes#22 - Old Yeller
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1998
Transportation becomes an issue for the young couple when Greg insists Dharma can use his car any time she wants but makes compulsive demands on her treatment of the vehicle. (Dharma: ""Honey, I love you, but bite me!"") So Dharma goes to a city auction with Jane and Pete and becomes the proud owner of a 1968 yellow schoolbus. Meanwhile, Abby invites the Montgomerys over for a meat dinner, and reveals that she was once romantically involved with Salazar, the featured artist at Kitty's charity exhibition. An amused Edward challenges the Finkelsteins to attend the function, which is threatened by a freak rainstorm and flood—it's 'Old Yeller' to the rescue!
Director: Gail Mancuso
Writer: Bill Prady
6.0/10 1 votes#23 - The House That Dharma Built
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1998
Gail Mancuso seems to direct all the best episodes, and this is no exception: A friendly game of strip poker between the newlyweds is interrupted by an emergency visit from Larry and Abbie (who are willing to wait a half hour until the sex is finished, an offer Greg can't accept). It turns out that their property is under siege by an unscrupulous developer who happens to be a former, and hated, classmate of Greg's. After Dharma invites the developer and his wife to dinner, then has to fight off his sexual advances, she is forced to accept Greg's viewpoint -- that he is evil -- and to seek a flattered Kitty's advice on how to get rid of him and save her parents' beloved home. The solution involves Jane, Pete, a trampoline, some garbage cans, and the IRS... and a wonderful coda using the trampoline. (In the course of the episode we also learn that Dharma has been both a magician's assistant and a professional casino dealer.)
Director: Gail Mancuso
Writer: Bill Prady