The Best Episodes Written By Tom Kapinos
Every TV Episode Written by Tom Kapinos Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Tom Kapinos Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Tom Kapinos is "The Raw & the Cooked", rated 8.2/10 from 19 user votes. It was "directed by David Von Ancken". "The Raw & the Cooked" aired on 10/19/2008 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "La Petite Mort".
8.2/10 19 votes#1 - The Raw & the Cooked
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2008
Hank proposes to Karen right before a dinner party, to which Mia, Charlie, Marcy, Lew Ashby, Sonja and Julian are invited. Drugs and special circumstances turn the evening in an unexpected direction.
Director: David Von Ancken
Writer: Tom Kapinos
8.1/10 17 votes#2 - La Petite Mort
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/2008
Hank completes his biography of Ashby. Charlie is reduced to working at a car dealership. Sonja gives birth. Karen accepts a job offer back home in New York, forcing Hank and Becca to make painful choices.
Director: Bart Freundlich
Writer: Tom Kapinos
8.0/10 22 votes#3 - California Son
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/1/2007
Hank's father dies. Despite the memories of his father floating to the surface, he doesn't want to go to the funeral. To ease his pain, he goes to bed with a hooker named Trixie, despite the fact he doesn't have enough money to pay her. Meanwhile, Karen does her best to help him overcome the pain.
Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Tom Kapinos
8.0/10 18 votes#4 - The Last Waltz
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/29/2007
As Karen's wedding to Bill nears, Hank struggles with accepting what appears to be inevitable. Bill informs Mia that he will not allow her book to be published and Hank has a unique solution to dealing with Becca's surprise visitor.
Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.9/10 28 votes#5 - Hell-A Woman
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/20/2007
Hank begins his blogging job at Hell-A-Magazine. Karen is able to set Hank up with her friend Sonja by disguising the get together as a family dinner. At dinner, Becca reveals how Hank met Karen.
Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.9/10 20 votes#6 - The Apartment
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/2009
Hank's in for a hedonistic night to remember when Jackie and two stripper friends arrive at his doorstep, unannounced. The next morning, before Hank can escort his new friends from the apartment, Charlie shows up with a verbally abusive Rick Springfield. Hank’s forced to hide the hung-over party girls all over the house after Jill and Felicia pay surprise visits. The charade reaches its boiling point when Dean Koons arrives on the scene, resulting in a messy catharsis by fire.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.9/10 18 votes#7 - Mia Culpa
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/2009
As the Moodys at last prepare to move to New York, Becca tells Hank about an intimate coming of age experience she had. Hank’s stunned when Mia shows up at the house unannounced, in town with her slimy boyfriend / manager PAUL for a book signing. Hank fails to prevent Mia and Paul from hatching a devious publicity stunt, forcing Hank to finally share the long-buried heartbreaking secret with Karen. gives Charlie a career opportunity of a lifetime, but Charlie must confront the fact that he might be losing Marcy for good.
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.8/10 21 votes#8 - Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/17/2007
Hank spends the night with a sexy surfer girl and in return she robs him. Mia wants more of Hank's writing to pass her class, instead he offers her to help her with her own writing. Charlie wants to spice up the sex life with his wife, but she is not as fond of spanking as Dani is.
Director: Ken Whittingham
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.7/10 3 votes#9 - Longest Days
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/31/2016
Janine's visit continues to shake things up for the Staton-House Band and their crew. Wes treats Winston to a guitar lesson from a rock legend.
Director: Jonathan Kasdan
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.7/10 599 votes#10 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/25/2016
Upon leaving hell, Lucifer Morningstar retreats to Los Angeles for a more exciting life. When the murder of a friend connects him with LAPD detective Chloe Decker, Lucifer becomes intrigued with the idea of punishing criminals, sending the devil himself into a struggle between good and evil.
Director: Len Wiseman
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.7/10 32 votes#11 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/13/2007
A transplanted author suffers from writer's block and is disappointed that his novel has been turned into a romantic comedy for the big screen. He also learns his ex is engaged and that their 12-year-old daughter is acting on her “emerging sexuality.”
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.6/10 21 votes#12 - The Devil's Threesome
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/15/2007
A new threesome including Hank and Charlie evolves from a meeting at the gym, while Karen and Marcy have a girl's night out at which they decide to surprise Hank and Charlie.
Director: John Dahl
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.6/10 17 votes#13 - In Utero
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/2008
Hank awaits test results and reflects on his early days with Karen; Charlie begs Daisy to move out.
Director: David Von Ancken
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.5/10 17 votes#14 - In a Lonely Place
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2008
Hank attempts to find a love interest for Becca's teacher. Charlie uncovers Marcy's secret which could have fatal effects on their finances.
Director: Jake Kasdan
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.5/10 16 votes#15 - The Trial
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 3/13/2011
A nervous Hank discovers that he's got good reason to panic when his trial turns into an all-out character assassination, with even friendly witnesses Charlie and Karen unable to portray him as anything other than a drunken, oversexed lout.
Director: Seith Mann
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.4/10 25 votes#16 - The Whore of Babylon
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/27/2007
At a book signing, Hank gets into a scrap with the disgruntled director of the film based on his novel, and later runs into a woman whom he embarrassed and insulted on a blind date. Mia attempts to steal some of Hank's work to use for her high-school creative-writing class.
Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.4/10 17 votes#17 - The Great Ashby
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2008
Hank finds himself in jail after assaulting a mouthy police officer. Karen, still upset at Hank for his accident at the party, refuses to bail him out. Meanwhile, Charlie gets fired after his former assistant, Dani, plays the agency president a montage of Charlie’s self-pleasuring office sessions.
Director: David Von Ancken
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.4/10 18 votes#18 - Wish You Were Here
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2009
With Karen gone, Hank has to deal with a more and more rebellious Becca. Meanwhile, Charlie and Marcy move back together though they still plan to divorce each other.
Director: David Duchovny
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.3/10 16 votes#19 - Suicide Solution
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/2011
Hank is told he faces 3 years in prison because the DA wants to make an example of him. There are signs Marcy is pregnant. Hank tries to fix things with Becca. The episode ends as Hank high on drugs and liquor writes a letter to Becca and then passes out.
Director: David Duchovny
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.3/10 15 votes#20 - Home Sweet Home
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/2011
Hank takes advantage of the misperception that he tried to commit suicide and moves back home with Karen and Becca, but his daughter knows the truth; Charlie sets out to reach a sexual benchmark while a wealthy producer pursues Marcy.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.3/10 15 votes#21 - Freeze-Frame
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/2011
After a personal grooming mishap, Charlie discovers that his vasectomy was botched and that Marcy's baby could be his; Hank's relationship with lawyer Abby gets more personal but a good deed yields a compromising photo that could ruin Hank's life.
Director: Beth McCarthy-Miller
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.3/10 15 votes#22 - ...And Justice for All
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 3/27/2011
As Hank awaits sentencing, the lines between his real life and the movie based on his life blur as the film's star hits on his ex-wife and he feels stirrings of passion for the actress hired to play Karen.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.2/10 18 votes#23 - Slip of the Tongue
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2008
After reuniting at the end of Season One, Hank and Karen decide to pack up and head to New York. As part of the reconciliation, Hank undergoes a grueling vasectomy at Karen's request. Hank has an accident when he confuses a partygoer for Karen. Hank gets arrested for driving under the influence and assaulting an officer.
Director: David Duchovny
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.2/10 16 votes#24 - The Recused
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 2/20/2011
Forced by her relationship with Hank to recuse herself as his lawyer, Abby pitches the case to a senior partner on the golf course; Hank is dismayed by Karen's growing relationship with artist Ben; Marcy and Stu ask Charlie to help them pitch a TV project.
Director: Michael Weaver
Writer: Tom Kapinos
7.1/10 17 votes#25 - Slow Happy Boys
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2009
Hank has the apartment all to his bad self when Becca visits Karen in New York. Hank's old buddy from Long Island pays a visit. Hank shows him an epic time. Hank and his talented pupil Jackie take their student / teacher relationship to the next level. Charlie and Marcy are finally hitting the sheets again.
Director: David Von Ancken
Writer: Tom Kapinos