The BEST episodes of Cybill season 3
Every episode of Cybill season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cybill season 3!
Cybill Shepherd stars as Cybill Sheridan, a woman who has it all: two spiteful daughters, two clingy ex-husbands, an outrageous best friend, an unstable future, and a house on an eroding LA hillside. But with humor and determination, Cybill braves each new challenge that comes her way, while having the time of her life discovering that life after forty is anything but downhill.
#1 - Little Bo Peep
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/1997
Provoked by Cybill's offensive reaction to a lamb attack on live television, animal activists - led by Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop (as themselves) - launch a campaign against Cybill. Trying to save her career, Andy convinces her to be a guest speaker at an animal rights banquet. Meanwhile, Cybill dates a younger man who seems too good to be true, while Maryann desperately tries to cope with the fact that her new romantic interest shares something in common with her ex-husband - the same name.
#2 - True Confessions
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1997
When Cybill decides to base her character in Ira's new play on Maryann, she begins to shadow Maryann's every move. But, when Maryann tells Cybill that she's not welcome to accompany her one afternoon, Cybill secretly follows her anyway. When she spies Maryann suspiciously meeting a man at his apartment, Cybill assumes that her friend is having an affair, only to discover an even stranger truth.
#3 - Cybill Does Diary
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1996
After discovering Cybill's picture on an X-rated video, Cybill and Maryann decide to produce an erotic video intended for women. But when Cybill borrows Zoey's laptop to write the script and tries to e-mail it to a producer, she accidentally sends Zoey's European diary instead - and the producer loves the story of how Zoey lost her virginity.
#4 - Cybill and Maryann Go to Japan
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1996
As the spokeswoman for a Japanese car company, Cybill (along with Maryann) visits Japan, where both are embraced - until they take a stuffy exec's wife out to greet the rising sun. Meanwhile, Ira mediates a dispute between Zoey and Sean.
#5 - In Her Dreams
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1997
Kevin gets a job teaching third grade, while Cybill loses her job and flashes back to how she first met Maryann at an audition for Rocky. Maryann and Cybill argue about Maryann going for a mammogram, while Ira and Cybill are both audited by the IRS.
#6 - All of Me
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/7/1997
Cybill puts her foot down when she's chosen as a model for a shoe campaign, only to see a billboard with her face on a thinner woman's body. Cybill decides to defend women of all shapes and sizes by defacing the billboard. Meanwhile, Maryann freaks when she discovers that her son, Justin, is two-timing Zoey, and Ira decides to give up caffeine, which creates some abnormal side effects.
#7 - Buffalo Gals
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1996
Maryann goes home to Buffalo N.Y. for an uneasy reunion with her parents, and to attend a 25-year reunion of her high-school classmates - who treated her like dirt. Maryann learns that her son - who she believed was traveling with Greenpeace - is actually living with her parents. When Maryann consequently opts to forgo the reunion to spend time with him, Cybill goes to the reunion as Maryann in order to claim sweet revenge on the classmates. Meantime, Cybill is also spearheading efforts to make Thanksgiving dinner plans. Zoey gets to try on her hideous bridesmaid's dress, and. as revenge, tricks Rachel into having to wear the outfit as well.
#8 - Bringing Home the Bacon
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1996
On the barnyard set of her new show (a parody of Babe), Cybill rescues a pig that was fired and doomed to the frying pan; then tries to keep an independent Zoey from flying the coop after she visits the greener pastures of Paris. Meanwhile, Maryann dresses as Little Bo Peep to entice a sheepish Ira.
#9 - Sex, Drugs and Catholicism
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1996
Ira is full of sexual energy thanks to the new hormones he's taking - but when he learns they are really placebos, he proposes to Holly. Cybill agrees to be Ira's best man, but when Zoey resists being a bridesmaid, Holly shows her true colours. Meanwhile, Maryann goes to confession.
#10 - From Boca, With Love
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/10/1997
Ira's mother comes to visit, and uses Cybill's new-found fame to get one up on her friends. Maryann is panicking because Richard wants to meet her mother, and Maryann wants to avoid this. Ira's mother agrees to pretend to be Maryann's mother, as Betty White is unavailable.
#11 - Name That Tune
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/3/1997
Cybill joins Ira at an open-mike night for his debut as a stand-up comic, which gets off to a rocky start when he faints from stage fright. Cybill's performance, however, results in an offer to sing in a new Name That Tune. Meanwhile, Maryann displays unusual behavior, but if she seems preoccupied (to the point of wearing the same outfit two days running), it's because she thinks she may be pregnant.
#12 - Cybill, Get Your Gun
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1996
After Cybill's house is burgled, she decides to fight back by taking a course in self-defense, installing an obnoxious house alarm, and acquiring a handgun. Meanwhile, the newly-available Ira finds that he has misrepresented himself when he meets a woman at one of Jeff's favorite hangouts - an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Maryann becomes a suspect in the abrupt disappearance of Dr. Dick.
#13 - The Piano
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/28/1997
When Cybill discovers that Dr. Dick's wife, Andrea (Morgan Fairchild) can get Zoey a piano audition that's otherwise unobtainable, she grudgingly agrees to give a speech at an awards banquet honoring Andrea. But when Cybill finds out that Zoey got the audition on her own, she decides to tell the awards committee what she really thinks of Andrea.
#14 - Kiss Me, You Fool
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/17/1997
Cybill and Jeff co-star in a new action film. Just as Cybill is complaining to her photographer friend, DaVolio that her career is going nowhere, Jeff pulls some strings to get her the co-starring role in his new action film. Cybill must then return the favor when she learns that Jeff's future as the next action hero is on the line because he's unable to keep a straight face during intimate scenes. Now that Jeff's making more money than he knows what to do with, he gives Rachel and Kevin a down-payment for a new house.
#15 - A Hell of a Christmas
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1996
Cybill's overbearing mother Virginia comes for a Christmas visit. Tensions arise when "Me-Maw" showers Rachel with affection while virtually ignoring Zoey. When Cybill confronts her about the favoritism, she learns that Virginia feels a responsibility to compensate for Cybill's own partiality towards Zoey. Meanwhile, Maryann volunteers to be Cybill's personal holiday shopper while Cybill deals with the fact that her show's time slot has been moved - opposite 60 Minutes. Ira finds out that Zoey lost her virginity while in Europe.
#16 - The Wedding
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/21/1997
Learning that her film's a flop, Cybill has nothing to throw in the faces of her friends when she attends a neighbor's wedding. But that's not the case for Zoey, who accidentally decks the bride while dancing.
#17 - It's For You, Mrs. Lincoln
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1996
When Cybill gets a chance to play Abe Lincoln's wife in the play "What Now, Mrs. Lincoln?" an unexpected caller interrupts her big moment. Meantime, Maryann and Ira gang up on a woman in the audience for her rude behavior - oblivious to the fact that she's the powerful agent Cybill has been courting for months.
#18 - Let's Stalk
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/19/1997
With Cybill as the organizer, Maryann's bachelorette party turns out to be one last evening stalking Dr. Dick. Realizing their stalking days are almost behind them, one last act of torment is in order. Zoey and Rachel join the duo, in a van equipped with the latest surveillance technology, staking out Dr. Dick's house. But mid-execution, Cybill and Maryann overhear "Mrs. Dr. Dick" Andrea tell Dr. Dick that she's leaving him, causing Maryann to rethink her own marriage plans.
#19 - Bachelor Party
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1997
As designated "best man" at Ira's wedding, Cybill is in charge of planning the bachelor party. Since Holly objects to hiring a stripper, Cybill decides to have everyone go to the track instead. But when Ira and the director of Cybill's television series show up expecting to see some skin, Cybill reluctantly agrees to have the party at a strip club. She and Maryann go disguised as men, primarily because Cybill doesn't want to jeopardize her newfound celebrity status. Meanwhile, Zoey tries to get used to her new job as production assistant on Cybill's television show, Lifeforms.
#20 - Going to Hell in a Limo (2)
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1996
Cybill retaliates when her obnoxious co-star Jack mysteriously fires his friend, the executive producer, Buddy, and apologizes to Cybill for his rude - and crude - behavior. Smelling a rat, Cybill, Maryann and Cybill's producer friend Amy devise a sting operation to trick Buddy into revealing the truth behind Jack's sudden change of heart. Meanwhile, Zoey is having second thoughts about being maid of honor at the wedding of her father, Ira, and Holly after overhearing Holly remark to a friend that Zoey threw her a tacky wedding shower.
#21 - Venice or Bust
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1996
Zoey moves out; Cybill and Maryann take a sculpting class.
#22 - Going to Hell in a Limo (1)
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1996
Cybill becomes a prime-time hit in the new sci-fi series Lifeforms, but when her co-star starts sleeping with the female producer, Cybill's role gets reduced to a few lines per episode. Meanwhile, Ira tries to convince Zoey to throw a bridal shower for Holly.
#23 - The Little Drummer Girls
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1996
Cybill tries to help Maryann, Rachel and Zoey overcome their romantic troubles by forcing them to take part in a new age drum beating session. Maryann, furious when Dr. Dick doesn't send any hateful gifts to her in honor of what would have been their 23rd anniversary, agrees to let Cybill take her to a new age female bonding session so she can get Dr. Dick out of her system once and for all. Meanwhile, Kevin uses Baby William to diffuse his anger towards Rachel and his job-hunting problems, and Ira finds out that Sean cheated on Zoey.
#24 - Valentine's Day
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1997
Maryann is acting more bizarre than usual during a Valentine's Day outing with Richard and her visiting son. Meanwhile, Zoey moves in with Ira to spite her mother. Sparks fly between Zoey and Maryann's son, Justin. Maryann arranges a Valentine's Day dinner with her son and her new flame but panics and shows up on Cybill's doorstep with Justin and her beau, looking for moral support - just as Zoey is leaving to meet Ira. When Zoey and Justin see each other again - after years apart - they begin spending time together, and, although Maryann loves Zoey like a daughter, she fears that Zoey may break her son's heart. Meanwhile, Cybill spends Valentine's Day with the special guy in her life - her grandson, William.
#25 - There Was an Old Woman...
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/5/1997
When a TV director takes his cat to see Maryann's Richard, Cybill drops by - dressed as an old woman - and becomes privy to Richard's intentions regarding Maryann.