The WORST episodes of Jerks
Every episode of Jerks ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Jerks!
The series tells the fictional everyday life of actor friends Christian Ulmen and Fahri Yardim, in which embarrassing situations accumulate to the limit of the bearable. And while the two are constantly offending their fellow human beings and reexamining the concept of "morality," viewers have plenty of opportunities to be embarrassed.
#1 - The Beginning
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/2/2023
Flashback to 1986: Christian and Fahri attend the same class in elementary school. Christian admires the beauty of the other children's mothers. When his own mother appears, he is ashamed of her. He locks her in the basement and locks the door. His teacher confronts him, Fahri takes the blame.
#2 - The Awakening
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/16/2023
Flashback to 1991: Christian is offered a job as a presenter for a children's program called Quietsch-Club. Without Fahri's knowledge, Christian procures a prostitute for Fahri, who appears to him as his first great love. However, Christian does not inform Fahri about the real reason for her surprising interest in him.
#3 - Fiction & Truth
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/23/2021
Fahri is excited. He has published an autobiography entitled "Yardi Yeah" and is eagerly awaiting his very first reading. His nervousness is doubly and triply fueled when he discovers several of his former loves and affairs in the audience from the stage. His paranoid conviction is that his half-brother Bo, whom he has spurned, must be behind it - out of revenge, he is trying to harm him by any means necessary. When Pheline and Fahri are accidentally locked in a truck and taken away after the reading, they are forced to speak openly and honestly about their relationship for the first time.
#4 - Pan
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/16/2023
Christian and Fahri meet the moderator Riccardo Simonetti during joint hunting exercises. Fahri is still struggling with the breakup with Pheline and takes refuge in a supposed sexual self-discovery between queer community and pansexuality. Christian gets in touch with a cleaning lady who is well respected and popular among his acquaintances. However, she dies in his apartment after reading the magazine "The Lance". He accidentally shoots her with his hunting rifle. Because an autopsy shows that she was already dead, he is released. The acquaintances, however, blame Christian entirely for her death.
#5 - Taxes
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/26/2021
Fahri continues to suffer from his dull everyday life as a family man; he finally wants to experience something exciting again. At an art event, he and Christian meet two hip, attractive Berliners whom Fahri wants to impress by any means necessary. The opportunity to do so seems to present itself when the two enter into a sponsorship with two monkeys in order to save taxes and thus obtain the central key to the Berlin Zoo. Here it should come to a climax after a party. Christian, however, has other things to worry about than quick sex.
#6 - Merhaba
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/2/2017
It's a used day for Christian: He accompanies his daughters to swimming lessons; there's total hustle and bustle in the locker room, so close to a nervous breakdown. In addition, he has an important appointment with a new TV production in which he is to play the lead role together with Fahri. Finally, his girlfriend Emily is caught shoplifting.
#7 - Baba's Death
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/25/2019
On the film set, Christian hears that Fahri's father is dying. He decides to jump over his shadow and visit him in the hospice. Fahri is touched. Also when he is invited by Christian to a Sunday brunch. Emily and Christian want to adopt a child, and they have to prove Christian's social skills to the adoption official. But during the meal, the news of Fahri's father's death shocks everyone. And things get worse when it comes out who Christian hired as cooks and what a macabre bet is all about. A tough test for their friendship - and for the adoption process.
#8 - Abid
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/2/2021
Fahri needs the morning-after pill after a fling. While trying to find one without harm, he makes the unpleasant acquaintance of the Arab Abid. But when burning jealousy awakens in Fahri because Pheline seems to get along far too well with a charismatic environmental activist, the actor and former child star Patrick Bach, Abid suddenly comes just in time for him. In his last-second attempt to save Pheline from Bach, Abid must support him.
#9 - Disco
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/9/2021
Fahri now wants to make a name for himself as a DJ and really take off. To make his act distinctive and stand out from the crowd of other DJs, he takes inspiration from the "style" of Potsdam's homeless. He finds two of them under a bridge and convinces them to join him at a party. Christian, meanwhile, not only tries with moderate success to free himself from his grief for Emily, but also has to deal with a recalcitrant dubbing director at work - when he also steals his last nerve, Christian sets a supposed mobster on him.
#10 - Paul
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/29/2018
Christian and Paul meet during a cooking class. They quickly develop an intimate friendship, but this is a thorn in Fahri's side. Christian tries to land a celebrity (Veronica Ferres) for his children's school event. After the latter has an accident and commits a hit-and-run, Christian does not want to take the blame. As a result, Veronica cancels the moderation of the school event. On the spur of the moment, Fahri steps in, but it goes wrong.
#11 - Son of Claws
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/16/2021
Christian's daughter Lila has made fun of the physically impaired mother of a classmate at school. Because she blames the ignorant manners of her parents for her brutalization, Collien and Christian have to report to the mother and officially repent. From the beginning, however, things turn out quite differently than they had hoped. Fahri receives a pair of ice skates from Pheline for Easter.
#12 - The Social Descent
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/2017
Christian accidentally meets his ex-girlfriend Josie again when she is rummaging around in a dumpster. He is alarmed: Did she not get over the breakup with him back then and that's why she got into this precarious situation? Josie calls Christian a little later and invites him and his girlfriend Emily to dinner. However, the evening goes completely off the rails...
#13 - Lake Griebnitz
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/2/2019
In an inattentive moment of Emily, Lila and Kala have an accident while bathing. Christian expects the worst when the police arrive at his door. But luckily a man rescued the two girls and took them to the hospital. Fahri and Christian drive off to thank the rescuer with expensive Japanese whiskey. Together they drink the good stuff in an excessive binge, to which they also invite two chav girls from the street. Later it turns out that their hero is a dry alcoholic. A guilty conscience also plagues Emily, who is still sitting at home in despair, believing that the children have drowned.
#14 - Escort
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/29/2018
Christian gets a visit from Jasna's cousin Sophia for several days. She is a nice lady and hardly differs from other women. However, with regard to her professional activity, there is one crucial difference: she is an escort lady. What problems this brings with it, Christian and his environment will very soon get to feel.
#15 - Breast Nutrition
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/9/2023
Christian and Fahri play a table tennis tournament against Marteria and Tommi Schmitt. An argument ensues between Christian and Tommi because he accuses Tommi of being a mama's boy. Tommi feels attacked because he was breastfed by his mother until he was 6 years old. The trainer tries to mediate between the two, but this only works for a short time. Marteria is apparently with Pheline and makes out with her, so Fahri can't miss it. Christian desperately wants to win the tournament and pays Marteria to refrain from doing so. In the final tournament, Mieze Katz is also present among the spectators. Christian offers money to a little girl so that she sucks on her mother's breast in front of everyone on the stands.
#16 - Tremor
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/26/2021
Fahri's attempt to falsify his paternity test has left his marriage to Pheline in shambles. In order to save what can possibly still be saved, the two meet again for the first time in a therapy hotel. Christian and Emily are also there and, as close confidants, are supposed to help Fahri come to terms with his seemingly unfathomable breach of trust. Can Pheline understand and forgive one last time? But as a result of the intensive discussions in the group, things soon start to rumble inside Emily as well. Is something missing in their relationship? Does Christian have secret desires that he would like to live out?
#17 - Jump Up - Jump Up and Get Down
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/2/2019
When Fahri sets up a trampoline in his garden for the children and immediately tries it out himself, he observes the new neighbor urinating in her own garden. It is the lesbian girlfriend of Christian's ex Jasna, who have both moved into the house next door. A bitter neighborhood war ignites, with Fahri stopping at nothing, whether feces or fire - he doesn't want to move his trampoline at any price. Meanwhile, Christian and Collien organize a camp for the children. One of the girls is epileptic, and Christian is supposed to treat her in an emergency. But things go wrong during the night.
#18 - Emily
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/2/2021
Emily shows great talent in a nude painting course, but Christian is only moderately interested in her new passion - the estrangement between the two progresses inexorably. When Christian, through carelessness, disfigures her lovingly made drawings, a momentum begins that also brings disturbing things to light for him. Fahri, meanwhile, not only tries his hand at Hollywood casting, he also faces a drastic experience: his ominous half-brother has suddenly entered his life and is seeking contact.
#19 - Graves
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/9/2021
After Emily's tragic death, Christian has fallen into deep mourning. He has lost all hope, reproaches himself, wallows in melancholy, and yet he must first take care of a proper burial and Emily's legacy. At least in death, he wants to do everything right for once.
#20 - The Mother of All Drugs
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/2017
Christian is panic-stricken: he suspects he has testicular cancer, but it is actually scrotal sack inflammation. His urologist tries to calm him down. However, the opposite is the case, because Christian surprises the doctor by doing coke and now he is convinced that he has been given a wrong diagnosis. Meanwhile, Emily and her girls go to a spa, and Emily asks Christian to take care of Muriel's friend Jacob. But Christian and Fahri find him really stupid.
#21 - Foot
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/29/2018
Christian accidentally meets his one-night stand again. After initial differences, the two end up in a box. Meanwhile, Fahri is planning a joint business with former national player Arne Friedrich. Christian, who is attending a meeting at Arne's house, has a small mishap: he destroys the plaster cast of Arne's foot that he made when he was five years old. However, fixing this turns out to be more difficult than initially thought.
#22 - Rehabilitation Pt. 1
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/23/2023
For therapeutic reasons, Christian and Fahri have moved to the countryside; they decide to take a year of abstinence. As Christian's frustration level rises, Fahri signs them up for the local amateur theater group. During a dinner invitation from their neighbor, they make an ominous discovery.
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#23 - Menopause
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/2/2023
Colliens Stimmungszustand verschlechtert sich. Sie versucht immer wieder an Christian ranzukommen, doch seine Gedanken kreisen nur um den Vorfall im Bus am Morgen. Sein Ärger über den Busfahrer, der ihm den Ausstieg an der vorderen Tür verwehrt hat, steigert sich ins Unermessliche. Fahri ist seiner neuen Freundin Nilam untreu und beginnt den Gipsarm-Trick anzuwenden, um seinen Betrug zu vertuschen. In einer Männerselbsthilfegruppe versuchen die beiden Freunde, sich selbst zu reflektieren. Fahri wird sauer, als auch Politiker Konstantin Kuhle mit einem Gipsarm auftaucht und anscheinend seinen Trick klaut. Die Glaubwürdigkeit seiner Lüge steht auf dem Spiel. Christian schwadroniert derweil lieber über den Busfahrer und will ihn zur Rede stellen.
#24 - Climate
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/2/2023
Time for reorientation. Christian tries to polish up his image and gets involved in climate protection. He wants to score points at a climate conference with a lecture on green turning. By chance, while looking out of the window, he discovers Fahri, who is taking part in a yoga retreat at the same time. A first re-approach after the kiss debacle with Kala. Fahri explains to Christian what focus sex is and that the organizer Sarah-Lee Heinrich is interested in it. Christian is quite unsettled, because he shares a room with her. But everything turns out differently than he had hoped, and Christian is also denied the recognition - to which he feels he is entitled - as a life saver.
#25 - W. Axl Rose
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/9/2019
Christian and Fahri mourn their wild times when they still listened to Guns'n'Roses and kicked down fences. When their agent introduces them to unfunny comedy writer Cookie Eisermann, Christian can't hold on any longer and fisticuffs ensue. Christian has to apologize. To show good will, Fahri and he finally agree to skydive together with Cookie. Fahri as a beginner should better jump tandem together with Cookie. But Christian notices that Cookie probably has his eye on Fahri - and Fahri quickly backs out. Until the last minute...