The Best Episodes Written By Bob Bendetson

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(5 votes)

   #1 - Crazy for You

   S3:E610/27/1993

   It's halloween and as usually Tim is up to his old tricks, however Jill plans a prank of her own. Tim gets flowers from a fan named Rose but soon strange things start happpening. She keeps calling him, Wilson thinks she is obesseed with him, Tim tries to hide but it's no use.

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   8.0/10(5 votes)

   #2 - Dollars and Sense

   S3:E911/17/1993

   The boys buy a remote controlled car with stock bonds from their grandmother.

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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #3 - Borland Ambition

   S4:E610/25/1994

   Harry offers to sell Tim 20 percent of his hardware store (that Harry's brother is selling). Jill doesn't let Tim buy it, so Al decides to purchase it. When Al becomes obsessed with the store, this drives everyone crazy, even Ilene when he skips a date with her, and Tim decides to confront him about it.

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #4 - Death Begins at Forty

   S4:E310/4/1994

   Tim begins concerned about his health when his 40th birthday nears and Harry, the owner of Harry's Hardware, has a heart attack.

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #5 - No, No, Godot

   S4:E213/21/1995

   Tim and Al scalp tickets to a hockey game when Tim can't go, but they get arrested and Jill and Ilene come to bail them out. Meanwhile, Mark paper maches Wilson's face when he watches the boys while Tim and Jill are gone.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #6 - Too Many Cooks

   S3:E193/16/1994

   When Irma can't host her show (Cooking with Irma) for a week, she asks Al to fill-in as host and Tim to be his assistant. Tim has a hard time not being the centre of attention, but when Jill shows him that he can assistant her, he decides to continue to help Al. While Randy finds it hard to talk to a girl in his class named Beth.

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   7.2/10(10 votes)

   #7 - Night Train

   S2:E911/16/1987

   Willie and ALF hop on board a freight train in search of adventure.

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8. 

   7.2/10(4 votes)

   #8 - Maybe, Baby

   S3:E19/15/1993

   Jill's sister Carol is having a baby girl. When they talk about the baby's name and Jill is going through the boys' baby toys, she wishes she could have a baby girl. Tim tells Randy and Brad that Jill always wanted a girl so they tell Mark that Jill wished he had been a girl. This upsets Mark and when Jill wants to bake a cake with him, he doesn't want to. When she finds out the truth, she tells Mark that what Randy and Brad told him isn't true. Tim is also upset because he doesn't want another child. But he feels alright again when Jill tells him that they don't have the time for another child.

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   7.0/10(12 votes)

   #9 - On the Road Again

   S1:E1112/8/1986

   Willie loses his temper with ALF during a family camping trip.

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10. 

    6.9/10(16 votes)

    #10 - Looking for Lucky

    S1:E310/6/1986

    When Lucky the cat disappears, everyone pins the blame on ALF.

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    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #11 - Lookin' Through the Windows

    S1:E213/23/1987

    ALF thinks he witnessed a murder at a neighbor's house.

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    6.8/10(10 votes)

    #12 - Mother and Child Reunion

    S1:E131/12/1987

    ALF heads for the garage when Kate's mother pays a visit.

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    6.8/10(10 votes)

    #13 - Going Out of My Head Over You

    S1:E203/16/1987

    Willie and ALF both talk to a psychologist.

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    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #14 - Try to Remember (2)

    S1:E172/9/1987

    The Tanners continue to try and jog ALF's memory, and deal with the police at the same time.

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15. 

    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #15 - Try to Remember (1)

    S1:E162/9/1987

    ALF hits his head and is convinced he is an insurance salesman. The Tanners try reviewing past events to try and jog his memory.

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    6.3/10(32 votes)

    #16 - Blame It on Lisa

    S13:E153/31/2002

    When Homer gets the family's telephone service cut off for refusing to pay for calls made to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Lisa confesses that she was the one who called Rio after sponsoring an orphan who goes missing. She convinces the family to travel to Brazil to look for him. However, once there, they have no luck finding him, and Homer is kidnapped.

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    6.0/10(32 votes)

    #17 - Simpsons Tall Tales

    S12:E215/20/2001

    When Homer refuses to pay a five dollar airport tax to fly to Delaware, the family is forced to ride in a livestock car of a train instead. There they meet a singing hobo who tells three tall tales: Homer as Paul Bunyan. Lisa as Connie Appleseed, a parody of Johnny Appleseed. Bart as Tom Sawyer with Nelson as Huckleberry Finn.

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