The WORST episodes of Growing Pains
Every episode of Growing Pains ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Growing Pains!
It's hard enough to raise a kid nowadays but when you have to cope with THESE kids, things tend to get out of hand! Dr Seaver, a psychologist, and his wife Maggie Seaver, a journalist, try to do their best raising their family, and although their kids, Mike, Ben, Carol and Chrissy, cause them endless problems, they manage to keep the family close together. As long as they got each other, nothing else matters...
#1 - The Last Picture Show (2)
Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/25/1992
The Seavers move to Washington, D.C., but share a final meal and memories in the empty house.
#2 - Viva Las Vegas
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/24/1991
Mike and Kate accompany the eloping Eddie and a hat-check bimbette to Las Vegas, giving Mike and Carol the wrong idea.
#3 - Graduation Day
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/4/1988
At Mike's high-school graduation, family members recall moments when it seemed like his graduation would never take place.
#4 - How the West Was Won (2)
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/26/1988
Jason, Carol, Mike and Boner are arrested in the demonstration over the dismissal of Coach Lubbock.
#5 - Paper Route
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1989
Ben assumes Mike's paper route for half the money.
#6 - Bringing Up Baby
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/9/1988
The Seavers begin to make room for baby, relegating Ben to the guest quarters and making the others lament the changes bound to come. Meanwhile, Maggie grasps for a way to tell her boss she is pregnant.
#7 - Who's Zoomin' Who?
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1987
Bobby's annoying habits make Carol look elsewhere for the man of her dreams -- just in time for her to notice a new student.
#8 - State of the Union
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1988
Maggie fumes over the many irritants that seem to be driving her and Jason apart -- until unexpected news sheds light on the situation.
#9 - Jason's Rib
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1986
A proposed school dress code puts Maggie and Jason at odds.
#10 - Divorce Story
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1990
Jason, happy to see his mother's second marriage crumbling, doesn't want to provide her with professional help.
#11 - Dance Fever (2)
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/2/1988
Great expectations turn sour at the Dewey High dance after Mike hears Lydia's voice; and Ben and Stinky find themselves in a seedy diner eyeing a pinball machine that pays real money.
#12 - Born Free
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/31/1987
Airlines passengers Jason and Mike must deliver a baby.
#13 - Mike and Julie's Wedding
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1989
Julie and Mike suffer prenuptial jitters.
#14 - The Kid's Still Got It
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1991
Carol accompanies Maggie to a resort, which turns out to be hosting a singles convention; meanwhile, the all-male weekend planned at home is ruined when Chrissy is sent home with head lice.
#15 - The New Deal (2)
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1989
Jason can't tell Maggie about the job offer.
#16 - Carol's Papers
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1989
An angry Jason confronts Ben and Mike, who gives conflicting versions of how Ben came to sell Carol's old term papers to students at Dewey High -- and to date a seductive 18-year-old.
#17 - Not With My Carol You Don't
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1991
Though Jason had an insensitive Carol pitch in at the clinic, he objects to her dating an ex-con she meets there.
#18 - The Nanny
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/4/1989
The Seavers hire a nanny for Chrissy.
#19 - Not Necessarily the News
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1987
The family scrambles to help find an out-of-work Maggie a job after she turns into Super Mom, preparing oversize meals and assigning new chores.
#20 - The Awful Truth
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/17/1987
A genealogy assignment unearths a dark family secret.
#21 - Thank You, Willie Nelson
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1987
Maggie's quarreling parents come to visit the Seavers.
#22 - Higher Education
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/20/1987
A girl raises a grade for Mike, then demands payment.
#23 - Broadway Bound
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1987
After their success in the school play, Mike and Monica set their sights on a Broadway audition for "Our Town."
#24 - Be a Man
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/11/1986
Custodian Mike watches a wild party explode in his home.
#25 - Double Standard
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/1/1989
Jason punishes Carol and Ben unequally for the same offense when they are both caught after sneaking out for dates without permission.