The BEST episodes of Home Movies
Every episode of Home Movies ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Home Movies!
TV series about the life of Brendon Small, an eight-year-old visionary who, using his friends Jason and Melissa as actors, have managed to direct over a thousand homemade films. His parents are divorced, but it doesn't feel strange since so many other kids' parents are divorced. His friend Jason actually feels upset because his parents are still together. At school, he is taught soccer by his coach John McGuirk, or as he calls him, "that weird Irish guy".
#1 - Those Bitches Tried to Cheat Me
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/2004
Jason falls for a fifth grader, but he can't get beyond that awkward, initial 'stalking'phase. He asks Brendon for help, but Brendon has bigger problems: after cheating on a test, he's being blackmailed by Jr. Adelberg, Walter and Perry. Melissa, feeling left out, helps Coach McGuirk cheat in traffic school.
#2 - Get Away From My Mom
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/26/1999
Brendon learns the awful truth - that his mom is dating his soccer coach.
#4 - Life Through a Fisheye Lens
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/23/2001
Brendon believes a fisheye lens with save his stiffly written horror film, but his efforts to get one are frustrated by family cash-flow problems.
#5 - Director's Cut
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/2/2001
Jealousy is the order of the day when Brendon faces a creative rival and Coach McGuirk feels threatened by a likeable assistant coach.
#6 - It Was Supposed to Be Funny
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/9/2001
Melissa is furious with Brendon after he takes artistic liberties with a documentary about her grandfather's life.
#7 - Law and Boarder
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/7/2001
Faulted for a bike-riding accident, Brendon is ordered by the court to write an essay about breaking the law. The film he makes instead - a smear piece on the drivers who hit him - does not impress the judge.
#8 - Four's Company
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/2002
Melissa gets a new French-accented boyfriend, and Brendon and Jason get jealous when her love life starts to interfere with their busy production schedule--and the casting of their Susan B. Anthony biopic. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk transforms into to a social planner.
#9 - Guitarmageddon
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/2002
The kids ignore the fact that they have no musical experience or talent and decide to start a band, recording their first single, 'Freaky Outie.'At the same time, Duane enters a guitar contest where he will face his archrival, Jimmy Monet.
#10 - Storm Warning
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/3/2002
Coach McGuirk tries to convince Paula to pose as his fiance while his sister visits. Meanwhile, Paula needs to get her novel to her agent before he goes on vacation. On the filmmaking front, the kids try to decide whether they want to make a mockumentary about making a movie or a mock, making-of-a-mockumentary movie or just a movie.
#11 - Renaissance
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/2002
Brendon, Jason and Melissa are performing the musical 'King Arthur Meets Robin Hood'at a medieval fair organized by Mr. Lynch. Tensions soon arise between the fair and the sci-fi convention next door. Can Brendon bring peace to the warring factions? Also, can Coach McGuirk stay in character as a medieval blacksmith?
#12 - Brendon's Choice
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/7/2001
After Brendon, Jason and Melissa win first prize in a local film festival, Channel 1 does a story on them; and an offhand remark by the reporter stirs Brendon's curiosity about his father.
#13 - Class Trip
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/3/2002
A class trip to a hotel provides a great opportunity for some 'on location'footage. It sounds like a great plan until Paula is asked to chaperone the trip with Mr. Lynch. Coach McGuirk has to get a second job to pay for damages resulting from a fight with the office coffeemaker.
#14 - Yoko
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/24/1999
Brendon meets Lonnie on a camping trip, and things go well until he is stung by the whimsy of her favour.
#15 - Bad Influences
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/18/2002
The camera does add 10 pounds, but so does bingeing on junk food. Brendon and Jason are gaining weight at an alarming rate, so in order break the 'fat-enabling'cycle, they decide never to see each other again.
#16 - Hiatus
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2002
Believing they are in a creative rut, the kids agree to take a hiatus. Brendon reluctantly agrees to film Duane's band rehearsal and meets Cynthia, an older choreographer. Coach McGuirk and Mr. Lynch plan a trip to Cancun, while Paula is the victim of budget cuts at her school.
#17 - Mortgages & Marbles
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/30/2001
Josie's trip to the hospital inspires the subject of Brendon's extra-credit educational film about the hazards of putting marbles in your nose.
#18 - School Nurse
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/30/2001
Brendon launches a series of efforts to convince the school nurse that he is ill and should be sent home.
#19 - Shore Leave
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/4/2002
Erik is worried that Melissa doesn't have enough friends who are girls so he enrolls her in The Fairy Princesses. Meanwhile, Brendon gets invited to spend the weekend with Fenton, whom he didn't even know he was friends with. Both Brendon and Melissa have what they consider to be the worst weekends of their lives.
#20 - Method of Acting
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/16/2001
Brendon's acting skills fail his audition for a local play, so he uses his cinematic skills to secure a part. Meanwhile, Paula begins teaching a creative writing class with an eye on at least one student body.
#21 - Business & Pleasure
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/2002
The young filmmakers are filming a new movie about a blind date. Unfortunatly, Jason keeps budding into the scene at the wrong time, which screws everything up. Then Jason invites Brendon to come over to his house for a sleep over. Brendon agrees, but only on one condition; they can't talk about buisness. Jason then bluntly brings up the subject at the sleep over, so Brendon leaves. At 4 AM, Jason calls Brendon... When Brendon shows up late at soccer practice, Coach McGurk grows concerned and then believes that Brendon is doing drugs. He trys to make the soccer team intervine, but only ends up making a fool of himself. Oh, and Jon also makes Brendon clean up a dog's crap. Brendon changes the script for the blind date movie, so that Jason is a main charecter. Melissa doesn't like this, and Paula makes Brendon change the script again. So the finished product has Jason and Melissa being the main charecters, and Brendon being the waiter. Meanwhile, Erik attempts to help Paula get a job. Sh
#22 - Improving Your Life Through Improv
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/28/2002
Brendon gets caught making fun of another kid at school and as a result, Mr. Lynch sends everyone to sensitivity training on a Saturday. There they learn the value of really bad improv games and experience the song 'No Skin Off My Ass.'Also: Paula secretly enters one of Brendon's movies in a contest.
#23 - The Art of the Sucker Punch
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/10/1999
Brendon challenges the town bully after Jason gets picked on.
#24 - Brendon Gets Rabies
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/17/1999
The neighbours' cat runs away on Brendon's watch - with dire consequences for both of them.
#25 - Impressions
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/10/2002
Brendon and Scab are trying to make a score for a sequence in the Starboy movie, when the old choreograhpher stops by to pick up her bag. Brendon suggests that sometime they should do something. She says to call her when he thinks of something. Brendon, Melissa, and Jason are hanging out at Jason's parent's country club, and Jason tells Brendon he should take her to the country club and order food with his account number, so Brendon does that; both of them sit in the kiddie pool because Brendon didn't want her hair to get wet. Well, someone does a cannonball so it does get wet, then Brendon orders sandwhichs with Jason's account, so the club's personal find out and everything goes wrong, resulting in the choreographer hating Brendon. Meanwhile, Paula goes to a new job interview; actually, she has to take a computer typing test before she gets the job. She lyes to a man that she is excellent at typing, so after she fails the test (due to pressure), she asks to reschedule it because of ""