The BEST episodes of The Soup season 1

#1 - The “What The?” Awards: Episode Two

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/8/2004

Nominees include Nick and Jessica, who allow cameras to follow them but hate attention; a fully-clothed Janet Jackson; an incoherent Airline passenger in need of a dictionary; and a cradle-robbing Joel Madden of Good Charlotte. Check "recap" for a complete list of winners and losers

#2 - The “What The?” Awards: Episode Three

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/15/2004

Nominees include Cameron Diaz and her newly discovered career in bondage films; For Love or Money and Blow-Out's tear-filled farewells; A foul-mouthed Whoopi Golberg; And Lenny Kravitz for his work in Target commercials. A complete list of nominees coming soon to the "recap" section.

#3 - The “What The?” Awards: Episode One

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/1/2004

Nominees include Jessica Simpson, who learns how to wink; Celebrity parents who give their kids weird names; Colin Farrell's deleted nude scene; And Ben Affleck, who wins tons of money playing poker but somehow manages to lose his pants. Check "recap" for a complete list of winners and losers.

#4 - The Soup: Holiday Special

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/25/2004

Joel introduces the Reality Clip of the Season: An overweight child from Trading Spouses who falls in love with a sandwich. Runners up for Reality Clip of the Season included a contestant on I Wanna Be A Soap Star accidentally hitting a woman in the face with a phone and a creepy woman from Wife Swap getting irrationally upset over her dogs. In honor of Thanksgiving, The Soup gives thanks for bizarre celebrity behavior and celebrity toys that hopefully won't end up in anyone's stocking. Plus, a holiday message from the NBA and Thanksgiving-themed clips.

#5 - November 18, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/18/2004

#6 - November 11, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/11/2004

Joel plays Mischa Barton's new love interest on The O.C.; Joel is inspired by Airline to become a hack standup comic.

#7 - November 4, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/4/2004

#8 - October 28, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/28/2004

#9 - October 21, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/21/2004

Martha Stewart's Prison Diary; Joel falls in love with The Bachelor's awesome water car; The Bennifer is back in "The Curse"; Joel applies to get his home madeover in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

#10 - October 14, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/14/2004

#11 - September 30, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/30/2004

#12 - September 24, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/24/2004

6 Reasons Celebrities Crack Us Up; Joel mocks the winners of The Amazing Race as they cross the finish line; Joel discusses Emmys and celebrity couples with three guest panelists; A translation of James Spader's odd acceptance speech at the Emmys.

#13 - September 17, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/17/2004

7 Reasons Celebrities Crack Us Up; Since Oprah gave her audience cars, Joel decides to give his only audience member a sandwich cookie; Joel heads for the Emmys for some red carpet interviews except that he arrives two weeks too early; An interview with the tiger that attacked Roy Horn of "Siegfried and Roy."

#14 - September 10, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/10/2004

8 Reasons Celebrities Crack Us Up; Jeff Casario finds a way to make the Emmys appealing to sports fans; John Burke interrupts The Soup for breaking news about Britney Spears' chewed gum which is up for auction; Joel interviews to be Victoria Gotti's personal assistant.

#15 - September 3, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/3/2004

Joel goes from Burger King commercials to GAP commercials; Retta reviews the fashion dont's of the MTV Video Music Awards.

#16 - August 27, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/27/2004

The life and times of Regis Philbin; Joel notices a striking resemblance between reality expert Marvin and Marvin of UPN's The Player; Annabelle Gurwitch wants E! to pimp her life. On the gossip side of things, Russell Crowe bites his bodygaurd and Christina Aguilera calls Britney Spears "trash."

#17 - August 20, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/20/2004

Paris Hilton loses her dog and her diary in one week; Avril Lavigne loses her clothes; George Clooney is afraid of losing his hair; And Joel may lose his life for poking fun at the Gotti family.

#18 - August 13, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/13/2004

Halle Berry wants to do Catwoman 2; Jennifer Love Hewitt hates being upstaged by her chest; "The Simpsons" plan a gay marriage; Parodies of Garden State and NBC's Olympics promos.

#19 - August 6, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/6/2004

#20 - July 30, 2004

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/30/2004

First episode to air as "The Soup" It all started in 1991 with the birth of E!'s Talk Soup, a tasty dish that recapped the week in talk shows and launched the careers of it's hosts Greg Kinnear, John Henson, Hal Sparks and Aisha Tyler. Now, over a decade later, E! is introducing the show's new offspring The Soup which looks past talk shows and skewers everything in pop-culture.

#21 - The “What The?” Awards: Episode Four

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/22/2004

Nominees include a rehab-loving Mary Kate Olsen; The men of Big Brother 5 who are into shaving each other; Partners in film Quentin Tarantino and Sofia Coppola; And First Daughter Jenna Bush and her new career. A complete list of nominees coming soon to the "recap" section.