The BEST episodes of Little People, Big World season 1

Every episode of Little People, Big World season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Little People, Big World season 1!

Matt and Amy Roloff, both 4 feet tall, face a variety of challenges in raising their four children: twins Jeremy and Zach, who is 2-feet shorter than his brother, and younger siblings Molly and Jacob, who like Jeremy are average height. The family's 34-acre Oregon farm serves as part playground and part moneymaker. As the series ages, Matt and Amy deal with personal strife, embrace their kids getting older and leading lives of their own, become grandparents, and attempt to keep Roloff Farms operational.

Last Updated: 11/18/2024Network: TLCStatus: Continuing
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7.58
12 votes

#1 - Birthday Girls

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/18/2006

Matt plans a birthday surprise for wife Amy and daughter Molly, but it is not the hot-air balloon ride he sends them off on for the day. It's the remodeling of Amy's master bathroom. But, even with the aid of his sons and his father, will he be able to finish it before the birthday girls get back?

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7.46
13 votes

#2 - Twins?

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/2006

Matt takes 15-year-old twins Zach and Jeremy to a Little People of America convention, where Zach tries to meet girls but two-foot-taller Jeremy gets all the attention. Back home, Amy has to handle Jacob's bicycle accident.

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7.24
25 votes

#3 - Living Little

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/4/2006

Amy helps Zach through a disturbing encounter with name-calling. We learn more about Matt's childhood growing up, and about the surgeries he had to deal with as a child. Matt goes to speak with several schoolchildren on the lessons of prejudice.

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7.00
5 votes

#4 - Back to School

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/18/2006

With the twin brothers starting their first week of high school, Amy thinks that Jeremy is taking his opportunites as a person of normal height for granted. She gets mad at him for skipping soccer practice, when his shorter brother Zach would give anything merely to be able to try out.

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6.83
6 votes

#5 - New Year, New Plan

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/8/2006

Matt unveils his new year's resolution to remodel the kitchen to make it "Amy"-sized. But first, he challenges his "big" son Jeremy to a wrestling match.

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6.73
11 votes

#6 - Testing Zach

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/25/2006

When the twins go to the DMV to get their learner's permits, Jeremy passes the exam easily but Zach has problems. Zach also tries becoming a soccer coach to make up for not being able to play, but dad Matt is starting to get annoyed by the rest of the family's preoccupation with the game.

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6.64
11 votes

#7 - Our Little Anniversary

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/11/2006

Matt and Amy have been married for 18 years, but as the big date rolls around, both are too stressed out to do a thing about it. Tension runs high as Amy worries about money, the kids, her job, and Matt's lack of a steady job. Their four children, however, have different plans for their parents' big day.

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6.57
7 votes

#8 - Try, Try Again

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/15/2006

Getting ready to make a third attempt at passing his driver's test is stressful enough, but then while joyriding around the farm, Zach wrecks his family's van.

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6.50
6 votes

#9 - Fathers and Sons

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/11/2006

Matt takes Jeremy and Zach camping to bond, but things don't go as planned. When the boys fire a shotgun for the first time, Zach becomes mad that he can't control it as well as Jeremy. The, Matt and Zach must push farther than their physical limitations to hike a particularly treacherous trail.

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6.33
6 votes

#10 - Treb-U-What

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/1/2006

Matt decides to build a pumpkin-throwing catapult called a trebuchet, in hopes that the activity will draw more customers to buy his pumpkins. But he and Amy have a fight over how much he paid their twin sons to help out in the pumpkin patch.

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6.20
5 votes

#11 - Matt's Big Change

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/6/2006

Finally agreeing with Amy that farming is not going to improve their financial situation, Matt returns to a computer job, but has trouble adjusting to the corporate office environment.

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6.11
9 votes

#12 - Growing Up

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/1/2006

Jeremy brings a girlfriend home to meet his family, but his shy brother Zach is still self-conscious about his height around full-statured people. So Matt takes Zach to another Little People of America gathering to try to improve his social skills. Meanwhile, Molly is recruited for a back-to-school photo shoot, so she and her mother Amy get an introduction to the image-obsessed world of modeling.

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6.00
2 votes

#13 - Zach's Future

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/15/2006

Matt tries to inspire his son Zach to see his life as having no limits by introducing him to role models in the dwarf community, including a law professor who worked for President Clinton and a welder who is working on a top-secret submarine. Meanwhile, Amy is still struggling with how much time their other son Jeremy should be allowed to spend with his girlfriend.

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6.00
2 votes

#14 - Running with the Pack

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/29/2006

Amy gets frustrated by her inability to get Jeremy motivated to try his best in an important soccer game. Matt becomes concerned when Zack passes up a rare opportuity to socialize with girls his own height, and instead opts to play football with his friends. So Matt gets the whole family to host a mixer for little people.

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5.33
3 votes

#15 - One Farm, Two Dreams

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/25/2006

Matt and Amy fight over renting out the farm for a corporate picnic. Matt says it's easy money, but Amy considers it an invasion of their privacy. Then Matt argues with his father over how to direct parking for all the guests.

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5.25
4 votes

#16 - Merry Little Christmas

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/8/2006

As the Roloffs get ready to celebrate the holidays, Matt's height causes him trouble on a Christmas-shopping trip, and son Jeremy wants to spend less time with his family and more with his girlfriend.

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5.25
8 votes

#17 - Little Kitchen, Big Future

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/13/2006

Matt rushes to complete the remodeling of Amy's kitchen before he has to leave on a business trip to South America.

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4.71
7 votes

#18 - Calm and Chaos

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/29/2006

Matt and Amy take off on a relaxing week-long tropical cruise, but on their return they argue over Matt's latest scheme -- to raise chickens.

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3.67
3 votes

#19 - Zach's Emergency

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/6/2006

A strange illness causes Zach to be rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery.

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1.50
2 votes

#20 - First Date

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/13/2006

Although he is still recovering from surgery, formerly shy Zach finally invites a girl on a date to the winter formal banquet, but he is still a nervous wreck at the event compared to his calm and confident brother Jeremy.

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