The WORST episodes of Chico and the Man
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
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 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - 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.
#4 - Chico's Problem
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/1976
Chico's girlfriend decides on calling it quits to being a nurse. She then changes her mind after saving Ed's life.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - In Your Hat
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/1976
Ed's lucky hat is stolen and while he needs to have an operation, he won't go under the knife until he gets his lucky hat back.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - Old is Old
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1976
Ed gets the idea of hiring a senior citizen for the garage when Della persuades him through a debate that seniors don't have the same rights that younger people have.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - 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"".
#11 - The Dress
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1977
Ed donates his deceased wife's dress to raise money for a charity auction. He regrets doing the good deed when he finds out that a cross-dresser decides to buy the dress. Ed feels that he should not sell it to a man who will soil his wife's good name, so he fights to try to persuade the man into changing his mind.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Minority of One
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1977
Ed is elected President of a Mexican Better Business bureau.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Chico's Padre
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/4/1977
Gilberto, Chico's father who he hasn't seen in many years, returns to Chico to try and give him a chance to better his life by living with him. Chico's father is rich.
#15 - Matchmaker, Matchmaker
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1977
Della plays matchmaker at trying to set Ed up with a woman. However when Ed gets word that Della did the matchmaking, he immediately wants to call the whole thing off.
#16 - Black Tie Blues
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1977
Della wants to attend a formal dance and needs a host to go with her. Nobody wants to go, (Chico, Louie, and Ed) so they all try and find ways to get out of it.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Uncle Sunny
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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - The Third Letter
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1977
Ed needs a third reference letter to officially adopt Raul.
#25 - 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.
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