9.7/103 votes#1 - Stay Out of the Basement (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/2025
As Anthony continues his research, Trey breaks into his basement lab, unleashing unexpected horrors.
Director: Rob Letterman
Writer: Hilary Winston
9.5/102 votes#2 - Stay Out of the Basement (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/2025
Two siblings unearth a link between a family tragedy and a long-dormant threat.
Director: Rob Letterman
Writer: Hilary Winston
9.0/101 votes#3 - Invasion of the Body Squeezers
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/10/2025
The teens band together to save themselves, their neighbourhood and the world.
Director: Rob Letterman
Writer: Hilary Winston
8.8/1036 votes#4 - For a Few Paintballs More (2)
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/12/2011
As the paintball war is revealed to be a City College plot, Jeff and Troy vie for control of Greendale's ragtag army, while Pierce betrays the group.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Hilary Winston
8.7/103 votes#5 - Remedial Archeology
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/19/2024
Tyrannis buys a magic shell. Shlub takes Deliria to a monster wedding.
Director: Otis Brayboy
Writer: Hilary Winston
8.1/109 votes#6 - Y2K
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/23/2006
When Earl is attempting to cross number 24 ("Stole a red 'Take-a-number' machine” ) off his list, Randy tries to get Earl to back down by trying to make him remember, through a flashback, how they got the machine around New Year’s Eve 1999. Darnell convinces the gang to believe that Y2K will signal the end of the world and they, happily, will be the last people on Earth.
Director: Marc Buckland
Writer: Hilary Winston
8.1/1011 votes#7 - Faked My Own Death
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2005
When Earl meets a tough biker chick at a Halloween party, it looks like a match made in heaven--but when the costumes come off, the mismatch becomes apparent and Earl takes drastic measures to get out of the relationship. Now, years later, Earl must find a way to make amends for deceiving the girl.
Director: Tamra Davis
Writer: Hilary Winston
8.0/106 votes#8 - The Birthday Party
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/15/2007
Earl wants to use his birthday to look back on all the good he's done over the past year, but at his party, everyone seems to want to talk about his past misdeeds instead.
Director: Eyal Gordin
Writer: Hilary Winston
8.0/1035 votes#9 - Pascal's Triangle Revisited
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/20/2010
As the end of the school year finds Jeff at the apex of a romantic triangle, Annie ponders moving away with her hacky sack-playing boyfriend.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Hilary Winston
8.0/101 votes#10 - Grinches Be Crazy
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/2011
Max agrees to dress up as Santa for Penny's charity event. Jane accidently gives housekeeper Gita the envelope stuffed with money for their big Xmas getaway to Turks & Caicos, instead of the $200 Christmas tip she had planned. Dave cashes in all the homemade coupons Alex gave him as gifts from past Christmases.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.9/1035 votes#11 - Beginner Pottery
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/18/2010
A pottery class he takes for an easy A reveals Jeff's deep-seated need to succeed.
Director: Anthony Russo
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.9/1033 votes#12 - The Psychology of Letting Go
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2010
A death provokes a fierce debate about Pierce's religious beliefs. Britta and Annie are at odds over tactics in the Gulf oil spill fund-raising drive.
Director: Anthony Russo
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.7/1045 votes#13 - Football, Feminism and You
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/2009
Annie's dream of being the ex-football star's girlfriend is in jeopardy when Jeff is blackmailed into getting Troy to join Greendale's football team.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.7/106 votes#14 - Larceny of a Kitty Cat
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/2006
Earl scratches number 56 off his list when he must return a prize winning cat back to its owner after sabotaging a cat show in Joy's favor. Meanwhile Randy forms an attraction with the cat’s owner.
Director: Millicent Shelton
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.5/104 votes#15 - Give Yourself Goosebumps
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/2023
Trapped in a strange reality, the teens work together to get back to the real world.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.4/1032 votes#16 - Celebrity Pharmacology
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/2011
Pierce's efforts to bribe director Annie may undermine the theater group's antidrug play; Jeff's texting prank puts Britta in an awkward situation.
Director: Fred Goss
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.4/105 votes#17 - Midnight Bun
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/2007
Joy enlists the help of Darnell to expediate the baby's birth. Meanwhile, Frank escapes from prison when Randy takes the convicts out for ice cream. Elsewhere, Catalina baby-sits Dodge and Earl Jr.
Director: Eyal Gordin
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.4/105 votes#18 - Chaz Dalton's Space Academy
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/5/2009
Earl works on a list item that has to do with Chaz Dalton, his childhood hero. Meanwhile, Darnell tries to help Joy make friends using the internet.
Director: Marc Buckland
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.4/1042 votes#19 - The Politics of Human Sexuality
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/2009
With his high-price "escort" girlfriend on his arm, Pierce pressures Jeff into asking Dean Pelton's airhead secretary to double date at the STD Fair.
Director: Anthony Russo
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.3/106 votes#20 - We've Got Spirit
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/2008
To cross Randy off his list, Earl takes his brother to cheerleading camp. Once there, the tight cheer pants and their lack of flexibility are not their only problem. They also have to deal with Kimmi Himmler, the camp owner with a deeply scarred face and milky eye - both a result of a badger accident suffered while cheering in high school. When Himmler wants the brothers out of her camp, Earl goes to drastic measure to make sure that Randy's cheerleading dreams will come true. Elsewhere, Joy is hurt when her son Dodge indicates that Catalina is the most beautiful woman in Camden.
Director: Eyal Gordin
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.2/105 votes#21 - Camdenites (1)
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/2008
Earl discovers that helping the women he wronged on his list causes karma to improve his marriage to Billie.
Director: Michael Fresco
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.0/102 votes#22 - Dr. Ken's Banquet Snub
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2016
When a neighbor girl stands outside the kitchen window staring at Albert, Molly and D.K. try to scare her off. Meanwhile, Ken is surprised when he learns that Pat, instead of him, is asked to emcee this year's annual Welltopia banquet; and Clark and Damona debate relationship styles as it relates to their individual partners.
Director: Phill Lewis
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.0/102 votes#23 - Ken's Apology
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2016
When Ken wants to apologize to a patient for missing an important medical detail, Pat advises against it, and the situation gets out of hand. Meanwhile, D.K. shakes things up at Dave's parent/teacher conference.
Director: Anthony Joseph Rich
Writer: Hilary Winston
6.0/101 votes#24 - Dave's Sex Talk
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/8/2016
Dave gets an impromptu birds-and-the-bees talk from Julie after Ken has been avoiding it, but he's not off the hook with Allison when she learns he took full credit. Meanwhile, Clark gets dubious advice from Pat.
Director: Eric Dean Seaton
Writer: Hilary Winston
5.5/102 votes#25 - Contagion
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/18/2024
Tyrannis and Deliria go up north to find the dragon that is causing a plague; but when Deliria is infected with it, Ty must save his kingdom and his mom. Meanwhile, Hippo works on a cure to save the infected Krapopolis residents.
Director: Dominic Polcino
Writer: Hilary Winston
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"Stay Out of the Basement (2)" is the best rated episode written by Hilary Winston. It scored 9.7/10 based on 3 votes. It was directed by Rob Letterman. It aired on 1/10/2025 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Stay Out of the Basement (1)".