The WORST episodes of Brotherly Love
Every episode of Brotherly Love ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Brotherly Love!
Joe Roman has come by his self-reliance naturally. His parents divorced when he was little, and his dad”a race car driver”remarried and focused primarily on his new family with his young wife Claire. Joe spent his childhood on the move with his mother, venturing out on his own when he was just 15. A year after his father's fatal accident, Joe returns to Philadelphia to collect his share of his Dad's estate, a car customizing business. His reunion with Claire and his half brothers is a little rocky. Despite her best efforts, Claire is struggling to keep the business afloat. Fifteen-year-old Matt, tormented by a number of teen crises both real and imagined, harbors a lot of resentment toward Joe. And Andy, a wildly imaginative seven-year-old, can't quite hide his need for a father figure. It doesn't take long for Joe to realize how much he's needed, so he accepts Claire's offer to move in and work in the family business. Downstairs in the garage, Joe works alongside
#1 - Girl Crazy
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/18/1997
Julia returns hoping to strike up a relationship with Matt again, but his friends aren't part of her plans. Meanwhile, Andy ""sells his childhood"" at a garage sale.
#2 - Uptown Girl
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1995
Taking Joe's advice nets Andy a new friend, but leaves Matt uncool at school; and Joe is anything but cool when he shirks his responsibilities for a free-spirited woman of independent means.
#3 - Big Mike
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1996
The boys' lovable grandpa Big Mike rolls into town in a big rig and for a time endears himself to Joe---with some promises he can't keep.
#4 - Motherly Love
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1996
Lloyd's RV-driving mom visits as Joe is pushing to enter Andy in a pine-box derby -- to prevent a smarmy business rival's son from beating Matt's previous winning record.
#5 - The Great Indoors
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1996
Andy's excited about wearing his wilderness badge from the Young Pioneers, but his enthusiasm is dampened when a storm cancels his planned camping trip -- which winds up being staged in the garage.
#6 - The Driving Lesson
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1996
A merciless driver's-ed teacher may have Matt's future in mind when he passes out grades, but Joe has only revenge in mind when he rallies Matt, Lloyd and Lou in a pay-back prank on the man.
#7 - Party Girl
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1997
Even Joe agrees with Claire that the new girl in Matt's life seems to be out of his league, frequenting after-hour rave parties -- and drinking.
#8 - The Comet
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/1997
Matt hopes to reinvent himself for a newcomer visiting her grandfather in the neighborhood; Andy fears getting hit by a comet.
#9 - Stealing Beauty
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/1997
Kristin gets Matt a job at a music store, but his future there looks bleak when the manager collars a shoplifter.
#10 - Art Attack
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/23/1997
Lou has some modern art she wants to take to the museum. So Joe helps her carry her work. A woman sees the artwork & thinks Joe did it. So he impresses her by doing some last minute art with help from Andy. Then Joe confesses that the artwork's Lou & not his & that all of these masterpieces were nothing at all. Also, Matt takes up playing the guitar & wants to write a song. Matt tries to find inspiration by his surroundings. When their garbageman Leo pays a visit, Andy tells him he's got a pigeon on his car. Then Matt comes up with a very bad song.
#11 - Pizza Girl
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/30/1997
Romance is in the air at the pizza parlor as Matt's co-worker falls for Joe and Andy falls for a young girl who doesn't think his jokes are funny.
#12 - Easy Come, Easy Go
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/20/1997
Andy becomes Joe's good luck charm on a trip to Atlantic City -- for a while. Meanwhile, bad luck crashes the scene when Matt throws his first big party.
#13 - I Scream, You Scream (1)
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/27/1997
Joe moves in for the kill after Matt claims he's ""just friends"" with Kristin; an ice-cream vendor is a real treat for Andy and for Claire.
#14 - We All Scream (2)
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1997
Matt and Joe nearly come to fisticuffs over Kristin, who's unable to handle the truth when she hears it; and Lou receives an e-mail message from an admirer.
#15 - Mother's Day
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1997
Mother's Day brings a surprise visit from Joe's hippie mom, who's pregnant and married to an ""aura-photographer"".
#16 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1995
Matt and Andy mix like oil and water with Joe, who means to collect his share of their late father's garage.
#17 - The Liberty Bell Show
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1995
Matt and Joe get into a heated debate over which of them should date Matt's forensics teacher after a field trip, Andy blames himself for the crack in the Liberty Bell.
#18 - The Comic Con
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1995
Lies and deceptions multiply ""like tribbles"" when Lloyd meets a potential sweetheart on the Internet, and Matt tries to hid a blemish in anticipation of a first date.
#19 - Outbreak!
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1995
Joe makes an executive decision to expand Roman Customizing by signing a new account -- one that Claire had turned down before she and others in the house came down with chicken pox.
#20 - The Sleepover Show
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1995
An old girlfriend from high school visits Joe and he invites to spend the night. Matt accidentally sees the girl get out of the shower, causing Claire to tell Joe he is setting a bad example for the younger boys. Andy, meanwhile, can't face telling Claire that he isn't ready to go to a sleepover birthday party at a neighbor's house and winds up sneaking downstairs to Joe's room to avoid his mother, ending up spending the evening with Joe's girlfriend instead.
#21 - Paging Nell
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1997
Joe is reunited with old friend Nell Bascombe, who needs a new kidney.
#22 - Such a Bargain
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1995
Matt goes overboard trying to impress a girl; Joe warns Lou about an art dealer with connections who has convinced her he's interested in her junk sculpture.
#23 - Witchcraft
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1995
A fortuneteller gives Joe a Halloween scare, as does Andy's ""disappearance""; Claire goes solo to a party; and Matt endures the taunts of college-age trick-or-treaters. All this goes on while Lloyd watches the ""scariest movie ever made"": The Sound of Music.
#24 - Lord of the Guys
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1996
The boys fend for themselves when Claire goes to a spa for the weekend.
#25 - Joe at 21
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1996
Perched at a bar on his 21st birthday, Joe reminisces about his dad and about turning 16, while at home Claire and the gang plan what they hope will be a nifty surprise party -- but Joe ruins the surprise by coming home drunk.