The WORST episodes of Chico and the Man
Every episode of Chico and the Man ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Chico and the Man!
Ed Brown, a hard-drinking, curmudgeonly mechanic and bigot in a Los Angeles barrio, hires Chico Rodriguez, a young Chicano from the neighborhood. Over time, Ed warms to the young man and a father-son type of relationship develops.
#1 - Minority of One
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1977
Ed is elected President of a Mexican Better Business bureau.
#2 - Take Me, I'm Yours
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1977
When a social worker comes to take Raul away, Ed decides to adopt him as his own.
#3 - Su Casa, Mi Casa?
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1977
Ed waits for word from Raul's parents. Later, Ed finds out that Raul is an orphan and needs a parent.
#4 - Who's Been Sleeping in My Car?
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1977
Ed who returns from Mexico, learns that he has an 11 year old stowaway in the back of his car. This little kid is determined to stay with Ed in the USA.
#5 - Uncle Sonny
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/8/1977
While Ed is away, his daring uncle comes to visit and throws an all-night girl party.
#6 - Louie's Can-Can
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/1/1977
Louie hires Ed to be a garbage truck driver, after he is forced to retire his job and decides to open his own garbage collecting business.
#7 - Gregory Peck Is a Rooster
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/18/1977
Ed sells a rooster that belongs to him, but when he finds out that the rooster's purpose is to cockfight, he tries to get the bird back.
#8 - Ed Talks to God
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/4/1977
Ed does not feel like appearing at his own birthday party. Chico however tries to find a way for Ed to go, so he gets ahold of a good old friend of Ed's and has him impersonate the voice of God by hooking sound equipment and a microphone all over the garage.
#9 - Champs Ain't Chumps
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/28/1977
Ed displays worry about Chico when Chico decides to want to fight as a professional.
#10 - Buenas Dias, Mr. President
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/16/1978
Ed becomes agitated when the President decides to visit his garage when he comes to town.
#11 - Ready When You Are, CB
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/24/1976
Everyone has plans to attend to and people to see except Ed for New years. He then uses a CB radio that is in the garage. He comes across a woman who also doesn't have anyone to spend New Years with and she is on the road. Ed invites her to the garage and she shows up. Later, Della, Chico, and the rest of Ed's friends decide to surprise Ed by joining him for New years. When the element of surprise hits, that is when the gang meets Ed's new friend ""Kissy Face"".
#12 - Mucho Macho Ed
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1976
A woman visits the garage claiming that Ed is the father to her unborn kid. When he hears of this, he wonders how. He then decides to ask for her hand in marriage.
#13 - Ed Brown vs. the IRS
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/1976
Chico and Louie decide that the only way to get Ed's taxes in is to forge his name to the document. This happens after Ed refuses to pay them.
#14 - Ed's Recuperation
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1976
After finding out that the nurse that Ed hired wants to get married to him, Chico and Della try to talk her out of it.
#15 - Chico Packs His Bags
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1976
Chico decides that he would rather move out on his own, away from Ed than give into Ed's rules.
#16 - Second Coming of Della
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1976
When Ed lays off the fighting with his new landlady, Della decides to renew Ed's lease.
#17 - Della Moves In
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1976
Ed gets a new neigbor, but to his dismay it is a loud mouth liberal woman who now owns his garage and threatens eviction.
#18 - The Bed
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1977
Ed had stuffed 700 dollars in his own mattress. I say had because Raul, knowing that Ed needed a new one, traded the old one in for a newer one. Anyway, they have to go and try to get all the money back.
#19 - The Hot Rock
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/21/1978
Louie comes up with an invention. He wants to make a barbecue that relies on solar energy. Enthusiascic about the idea, Ed runs to his insurance company and tries to get money to launch the idea.
#20 - The Peeping Tom
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/14/1978
Ed is falsley accused by a woman who swears that he is a peeping Tom and is watching her on a daily basis.
#21 - Help Wanted
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/7/1978
Monica upsets Ed by getting a job at a sleazy restaraunt.
#22 - Della and Son
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/30/1978
Della tries to convince her son Tony to help her and her catering business.
#23 - Ed Brown's Car Wash
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/9/1978
For her Uncle Ed, Monica decides to drum up business by having an all-girl in tight shirts and shorts car wash.
#24 - A New Girl in Town
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/2/1978
In an attempt to add more characters to the show, Monica, Ed Brown's niece, tells her tragic story and moves in with Ed.
#25 - Charo and the Matador
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1978
Charo's Matador fiancee Antonio, comes to sweep her off her feet to get married.