The WORST episodes of Ally McBeal
Every episode of Ally McBeal ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Ally McBeal!
Ally McBeal is a young attorney who joins a prestigious law firm with a highly sexual environment and whose staff includes Ally's ex-boyfriend. The series contains fantasy sequences, flashbacks and voiceovers to reveal what Ally is really thinking. Many episodes contain an appearance by singer Vonda Shepard, who performed the show's theme song.
#1 - Sideshow
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/1999
Ally consults Tracy for advice now that she and Billy have kissed.
#2 - The Affair
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1997
The widow of Ally's former law professor asks Ally to speak at his funeral, not knowing she once had an affair with him.
#3 - Troubled Water
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/22/1999
Ally's Thanksgiving turns into a debacle when she invites her colleagues and her parents to her apartment for dinner.
#4 - Heat Wave
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/15/1999
Risa Helms sues Ally for inflicting emotion distress; Georgia expresses outrage when Billy hires a sexy twenty-year-old as his new assistant; Ling tells Fish that she has been faking in bed.
#5 - Seeing Green
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/8/1999
A psychiatrist prescribes Ally medication in an effort to end her Al Green hallucinations; Cage and Nelle represent a student who was suspended from school after he kissed a co-ed; Billy attends a male sensitivity class.
#6 - Changes
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/29/1999
Billy and Cage represent a woman who claims her employees sexually harassed her after she slept with her boss and, despite her lack of experience, became editor-in-chief of a magazine.
#7 - The Green Monster
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/1999
Ally hires a male escort in hopes of making Greg jealous; Fish and Cage represent a woman who destroyed her husband's most cherished possessions after she discovered he was having an affair; Billy objects to Georgia's revealing attire.
#8 - One Hundred Tears Away
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1997
Ally is arrested for tripping a woman in a supermarket, then faces a Bar Association hearing on her emotional competence to practice law.
#9 - The Blame Game
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/1998
As Ally, Cage and Georgia try a case about liability in an airplane crash, Ally is reunited with male model Glenn, her recent one-night-stand, who makes her feel guilty about using him as a sexual object.
#10 - Pursuit of Loneliness
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/21/2000
Ally rebuffs the advances of a coffee shop worker; a man going through a divorce attempts to annul his marriage on the grounds that he unknowingly wed a lesbian; Billy tells Sandy about his feelings for her.
#11 - Happy Birthday, Baby
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/6/1998
Ally is mortified when her friends throw her a surprise birthday party. A man with a foot fetish refuses to use insanity as a defense.
#12 - The Promise
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1997
Ally saves an obese man's life, only to become the object of his affection.
#13 - Compromising Positions
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1997
Ally meets the firm's other founding partner when she defends him on charges of soliciting a prostitute, and feels like a prostitute herself when Fish asks her to date a prospective client.
#14 - The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/26/2001
A couple about to marry find their relationship thrown into turmoil when their attorneys -- Jackson and Larry -- bicker over a prenuptial agreement; a man attempts to have his father declared incompetent on the grounds that he's too happy.
#15 - The Inmates (1)
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/27/1998
The firm joins forces with Bobby Donell and his staff when a client is accused of killing her husband; Renee is arrested for assault; a waiter alleges he was fired because he isn't gay. (Crossover event - The Practice - 2x26 - Axe Murderer (2))
#16 - Sex, Lies and Politics
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/1/1999
Cage and Ling represent a bookstore owner who was driven out of business by a politician who claimed that the store sold pornography. Ally and Billy deal with the aftermath of their kiss.
#17 - Theme of Life
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/9/1998
Ally defends a doctor accused of transplanting a pig's liver into a woman without her permission; Ally and Georgia square off in a kickboxing match; and Whipper dumps Fish for toying again with Janet Reno.
#18 - Saving Santa
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/13/1999
Cage faces off against Georgia when a department store Santa claims he was fired because he is too fat.
#19 - Car Wash
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/25/1999
Ally has sex with a total stranger inside a car wash; a bride-to-be seeks the firm's help when her minister catches her making love to someone other than her fiancé; Renee launches her own law practice.
#20 - The Playing Field
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/16/1998
Ally faces off against a child prodigy-attorney; a woman claims she is the victim of harassment because, unlike her female co-workers, she refused to use sex as a means of advancing her career.
#21 - The Kiss
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1997
Ally has a confusing first date with client Ronald Cheanie... and teams up with Georgia to represent a television anchorwoman fired because of her age and sex.
#22 - Fear of Flirting
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/2001
Jenny represents Raymond in a sexual harassment case; complications arise when Raymond expresses an interest in dating Jenny and Glenn expresses an interest in dating Ally; Fish moves into the hole behind Cage's toilet when Cage mysteriously disappears.
#23 - Buried Pleasures
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/1/1999
Ling has a dream about kissing Ally; Billy and Renee defend a woman being sued by female co-workers for being too sexy; Cage believes that Nelle enjoys being spanked.
#24 - Drawing the Lines
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1997
The firm helps the wife of a rich man negate a prenuptial agreement; Elaine's sexual harassment complaint comes to a head; and Ally and Billy negotiate personal boundaries in their still-tenuous friendship.
#25 - Pyramids on the Nile
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/1999
A company fires two employees for breaking its "date and tell" office policy. Billy grows jealous when he sees Greg and Ally kissing. Ling asks Fish to hire her as counsel.