- 10.0/101 votes
#1 - Comedy Of Errors
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1989
Dorothy finds a list of things that she wanted to accomplish before a certain age and finds that she hasn't accomplished many of them. So she decides to go after one of them, entertaining people. This leads her to sign up to do a stand up routine at a nightclub. Meanwhile, Blanche finds herself battling the IRS.
Director: Terry Hughes
Writer: Don Reo
- 10.0/101 votes
#2 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/2/1993
Recovering alcoholic John Hemingway takes the job of night manager in a seedy bus station, where a robbery and a missing bus test his resolve to stay sober.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
- 10.0/101 votes
#3 - Thirty Day Chip
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/1993
John goes 30 days without alcohol, and wants to get back together with his wife. Before he can reach her, she serves him with divorce papers.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
- 9.0/102 votes
#9 - Graduation (2)
Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 5/21/2003
Junior finally graduates, and his parents give him a trip to Japan as a gift – and as a way to separate Junior and Vanessa, who are planning on moving in together and getting married as soon as they start college. Both Kady and Clare admit their sadness on Junior leaving, and Michael and Jay feel proud of having raised a semi-successful child. They go out to relive some of their memories and when they come back late at night they find Junior and Vanessa sitting in the kitchen. He's decided not to go to Japan anymore. Vanessa is pregnant.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Don Reo
- 8.5/102 votes
#10 - Graduation (1)
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 5/21/2003
Jr.'s graduation is coming up, and he breaks the news to his family that he wants to go to college. At first shocked, Michael decides to help him make a good interview, but his anxiety and lack of good sense makes him look like a complete moron. He even tries to bride the interviewer, when he's finally asked to leave Jr. alone. The kid does reasonably good. A few days later a letter arrives at the Kyles, saying that Jr. got accepted but has to take summer school classes. Meanwhile, Clare wears a blond wig to call her parents attention, thinking she has been forgotten now that Jr. is on the spot. And Franklin applies to the soon available son spot on the Kyle family.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Don Reo
- 8.3/103 votes
#11 - Movie Tonight
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1977
Colonel Potter hopes a Western will be the cure for the 4077th's morale problem. But during the show, the staff of the camp is forced to make its own entertainment during the frequent film breakages.
Director: Burt Metcalfe
Writer: Don Reo
- 8.0/102 votes
#12 - Jr. Sells His Car
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/2004
Jr. restores his prized 1964 Impala, but then he and Vanessa surprise everyone when they decide to sell it in order to have money for their new baby. Meanwhile, Franklin seeks advice from Michael on how to act more like a normal kid.
Director: N/A
Writer: Don Reo
- 8.0/102 votes
#13 - Fantasy Camp (1)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2004
Michael can't focus on much else after learning that he'll be going to sports legend Michael Jordan's fantasy basketball camp in Las Vegas. Everyone shares his excitement – but for different reasons – and finds some reason as to why they should tag along. Once there, Michael learns that there's been a mix-up with the game schedule, so he resorts to some inventive ploys of his own to ensure he gets to play his idol.
Director: Dean Lorey
Writer: Don Reo
- 8.0/101 votes
#14 - Find Out Who Your Friends Are
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 6/16/2017
Emotions run high when Abby and Heather fight, leaving Colt caught in the middle. Rooster faces the consequences of blowing off work.
Director: David Trainer
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.5/102 votes
#15 - From Dummy to Daddy
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2003
After hearing the shocking news that their son Junior is going to become a father, Michael and Jay freak out. They try to talk with him and help him realize he can't support a family living in their garage and having no job, so Michael offers him a job at his firm. Due to Michael's teasing with the boy, he gets late for his first day and Michael fires him after his second tardiness. But seeing that his son needs all the help he can get, Michael gives him another chance. Meanwhile, Tony feels guilty about having spicy thoughts about Claire and Franklyn is still out for Junior's spot on the Kyle family.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.5/102 votes
#16 - Fantasy Camp (2)
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2004
Michael can't focus on much else after learning that he'll be going to sports legend Michael Jordan's fantasy basketball camp in Las Vegas. Everyone shares his excitement – but for different reasons – and finds some reason as to why they should tag along. Once there, Michael learns that there's been a mix-up with the game schedule, so he resorts to some inventive ploys of his own to ensure he gets to play his idol.
Director: Dean Lorey
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.5/102 votes
#17 - The Bahamas (1)
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/2005
When the Kyles arrive at the Atlantis, Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas for their family vacation, Michael announces that all he wants to do is get some rest and relaxation-by himself. But no sooner does he settle into his lounge chair for some peace and quiet than his talkative and annoying golf buddy, Jimmy (David Alan Grier), shows up and insists that they spend time together. Michael is relieved to find a way out when Jay invites him to the isolated Magic Island so they can have some romantic fun. As their day winds down and it's time to leave, the boat never shows up to take them back and the couple find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Director: Dean Lorey
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.5/102 votes
#18 - The Bahamas (2)
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/1/2005
While at the Atlantis, Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas for a family vacation, lovebirds Michael and Jay find themselves stranded on the isolated Magic Island - along with a rapidly rising tide -- and the only other person there who can help them is Michael's talkative and annoying golf buddy, Jimmy (David Alan Grier) -- who refuses to do so since they weren't willing to spend time with him when they had the chance. Meanwhile, Jr. leaves Vanessa and the baby behind so he can enjoy the resort's activities; Tony and Claire hang out at the beach bar and she realizes too late that her island drink contains alcohol; and Kady and Franklin run into his nemesis, Francesco Mumfordi, who has stolen one of Franklin's theories.
Director: Dean Lorey
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.3/103 votes
#19 - Mom's Away (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/2001
Michael contends with multiple problems, including a positive pregnancy test, a sad six-year-old and Jr's basketball troubles.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.3/103 votes
#20 - Mom's Away (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/2001
Jay visits her mom while Michael starts telling Kady the "story" of her birth. Meanwhile Claire's friend Charmaine is pregnant.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.0/103 votes
#21 - A Little Romance
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/2/2001
Michael's promiscuous brother Ken (Keenen Ivory Wayans) comes to visit with his attractive new girlfriend, Tiara, who contrasts with the way Michael has just realized Jay appears.
Director: Leonard R. Garner, Jr.
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.0/103 votes
#22 - Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/9/2001
Michael's accountant dies suddenly, making him take a whole new perspective about his life. He buys a wig (or a hairpiece as he likes to call it) and starts to demonstrate his love for his family in a weird way. He even buys a motorcycle and an RV, in a misguided effort to live life to its fullest.
Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.0/103 votes
#23 - Perfect Dad
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/2001
Fed up with Michael's parenting style, the children confront their father with a description of the ideal dad.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.0/103 votes
#24 - The Whole World is Watching
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/2001
Michael and Janet's romantic overtures are seen on the Internet after Jr. gets new computer equipment that includes a 24-hour web cam.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.0/103 votes
#25 - Double Date
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/13/2002
Michael agrees to let Claire go on her first date with Tony, but only on condition that it is a double date with Janet and himself.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Don Reo