The WORST episodes of Malcolm & Eddie

Every episode of Malcolm & Eddie ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Malcolm & Eddie!

Malcolm McGee (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) is a responsible and sensible 20-something who ends up sharing a Kansas City apartment and a business venture with relentlessly enthusiastic tow truck owner Eddie Sherman (Eddie Griffin). A fast talker with outlandish frenetic energy, Eddie's charming schemes always seems to get the two into hot water. But no matter what the situation, these opposites always end up bailing each other out -- even if they drive each other crazy.

Last Updated: 9/2/2024Network: UPNStatus: Ended
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6.50
6 votes

#1 - Double Play

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/2000

For Malcolm's thirtieth birthday, Eddie surprises him with a chance to watch an upcoming baseball game from the sportscaster's booth. But the biggest surprise comes when Eddie creates a clever diversion allowing Malcolm to fulfill his lifelong career fantasy and serve as commentator for the game, with disastrous results.

Directors: Rob Sellers, Jr.
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6.69
13 votes

#2 - Pilot

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/26/1996

Malcolm practices for his sports commentator audition at the local radio station, earnestly recording play-by-play onto a demonstration tape while watching the basketball game... until Eddie accidentally blows up the television set. Insistent on helping his roommate replace it, Eddie wheedles Malcolm into attending a free ""personal wealth seminar"" where each participant is promised either a free TV or a set of steak knives.

Directors: Rob Schiller
Writer: Joel Madison
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6.90
10 votes

#3 - Everynight Fever

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/17/1997

The club puts on a 70's promotion and everybody dresses up in 70's attire, and grooves to the funk. Eddie gets into the spirit of the 70's, so much so that he remains there even after the promotion is over. When Nicolette arranges for him to get a city contract fixing parking scooters, Eddie's priorities become confused, & business & friendships begins to suffer. Eddie finally admits he's a Funk-aholic.

Directors: Ken Whittingham
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7.00
7 votes

#4 - Your Number's Up

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/2000

Eddie agrees to buy Malcolm's lottery ticket and has to face the consequences—again and again and again—when the numbers hit.

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7.00
6 votes

#5 - A Fowl and Stormy Night

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1999

Malcolm, Eddie, Nicolette, Leonard and Doug head to North Carolina to spend the holiday with Malcolm's Uncle Buddy. But panic sets in when they reach his uncle's empty house and discover the town has been evacuated because of an oncoming hurricane, and now they're caught right in the middle of it.

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7.00
7 votes

#6 - The Tapawingo Witch Project

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1999

Hoping to duplicate the incredible success of the movie ""The Blair Witch Project,"" Malcolm recruits Nicolette, Leonard, Doug and a very reluctant Eddie to help him make a similar film about a local Kansas City legend, the Tapawingo Witch. But after they head deep into the woods to film the documentary, a series of frightening events spook the novice filmmakers, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.

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7.00
4 votes

#7 - Clubbed

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1999

The guys deal with a new rival for their business, a beautiful buxom woman who opens a dance club down the street from the Fifty-Fifty Club, by holding a bogus contest to attract new customers. The trouble comes when the guys decide to fight fire with fire, and rig a bogus contest of their own, but with disastrous results.

Directors: Eddie Griffin
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7.00
8 votes

#8 - Like Water for Chocolate Cookies

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/1997

Simone tries to win Malcolm's heart through his stomach with some special chocolate cookies, but once Malcolm tastes them, he only wants to use them to go into the cookie business with. Meanwhile, McGinley tries to lure Simone away from Malcolm, to work in his bar.

Directors: Mark Cendrowski
Writer: Cheryl Alu
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7.10
10 votes

#9 - The Commercial

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1997

When the guys decide to film a TV commerical for the bar, to attract new customers, they are inadvertently a big success...as a gay bar. Finally, the guys decide to dress the part.

Directors: Patrick Maloney
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7.13
8 votes

#10 - Club Story

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1997

While Malcolm is away with Lydia, Malcolm leaves Eddie in charge of running the bar for a day. Eddie gets the idea that he should transform the bar into an exotic dance club, but doesn't count on the law being there and wanting to shut down the club.

Directors: John Bowab
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7.13
8 votes

#11 - Sneaky, Thieving, Double-Crossing Dates from Hell

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1999

After Leonard's date publicly humiliates him at the Fifty/Fifty Club, Malcolm and Nicolette try to cheer him up by sharing their ""worst date"" stories. But nothing can top Eddie's date that night when he's lured by a woman named ""Sinful Sally"" to her apartment, unaware that she plans to broadcast their rendezvous live over the Internet.

Directors: Tony Singletary
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7.20
5 votes

#12 - The Sweet Hell of Success

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/18/1999

As the profits from the 50/50 club begin to grow larger and larger, Malcolm and Eddie clash over whose money-making strategy is best. Malcolm believes in investing his money in the stock market, while Eddie believes in betting on horse races.

Writer: Meg DeLoatch
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7.22
9 votes

#13 - Tough Love

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/12/1998

Malcolm uses tough love on his sister who gets fired and dumped in the same week.

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7.25
8 votes

#14 - On the Radio

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/9/1996

Aspiring sportscaster Malcom finally gets a chance to be on the air at the radio station but instead of calling the plays, he's given a dee-jay's graveyard shift. Surprisingly, Eddie ends up as the only one who can get his exhausted roommate through the long nights.

Directors: Arlando Smith
Writer: Joel Madison
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7.29
7 votes

#15 - Moving Violations

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/2000

Things are going so well for Malcolm and Eddie with their new girlfriends that Malcolm invites Helena to move in with him, and Eddie tries to double his fun by moving in with the twins that he's dating. But the romance quickly fades when Malcolm realizes what a slob Helena is, and the twins drive Eddie nuts fighting for his attention.

Directors: Tony Singletary
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7.29
7 votes

#16 - The Way We Weren't

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/1997

Friends guide feuding Malcolm and Eddie down memory lane.

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7.30
10 votes

#17 - Sh-Boing-Boing

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/1996

Malcolm tries to settle his grandparents' quarrel after Malcolm's grandfather gets kicked out of the house and moves in with Malcolm & Eddie. Nicolette gets a new roommate named Regina, who has eyes for Eddie, but Nicolette remains determined continue persuing him.

Directors: Mark K. Samuels
Writer: Kurt Taylor
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7.33
6 votes

#18 - Designing Woman

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/2000

With Malcolm sound asleep, robbers break into the apartment and steal all the furniture and strip the house of all its contents. They hire an interior designer to redo the apartment, but find out she not only has an eye for style, but a taste for a con game.

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7.33
9 votes

#19 - Back in Business

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1998

After discovering that Eddie spent all his money on electronic gadgets and has no money left to reinvest in their new business venture, Malcolm and Eddie join forces to find a way to re-open Malcolm's former bar as the new Fifty/Fifty club.

Directors: Tony Singletary
Writer: Trish Baker
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7.36
11 votes

#20 - Hai Karate

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1997

Eddie takes karate lessons from a kung fu master to prepare for a duel.

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7.38
8 votes

#21 - It's the Bomb

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1996

Malcolm's plan for rededicating his bar from its old name Kelly's, to its new name McGee's, goes amiss when the signs are misspelled, McGoo's. Meanwhile a crazed, bomb-toting football fan takes over Malcolm's crowded bar to protest the rumored move by the Kansas City Chiefs to Los Angeles, and the bar gets city-wide news coverage under the name McGoo's instead of McGee's.

Directors: Mark Cendrowski
Writer: Joel Madison
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7.40
10 votes

#22 - Big Brother is Watching

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/1996

Eddie becomes a member of the Little Buddies Association just to get a date with one of its attractive female volunteers. When Malcolm accidentally reveals his roommates ulterior motives to his new little brother, Troy, the mischievous eight-year-old sets out to wreak havoc at Kelly's bar.

Directors: Rob Schiller
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7.43
7 votes

#23 - Mid-Wife Crisis

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/2000

A newly-confident Dexter visits the guys with his pregnant wife in tow, only for her to go into labor just as a long streak of bad luck events take place in their lives.

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7.43
7 votes

#24 - Fairly Decent Proposal

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1999

While vacationing in Las Vegas with Malcolm and his new girlfriend, Eddie can't resist the lure of the crap table. But when his lucky streak turns unlucky to the tune of $50,000, he has no way to pay his debt, until a wealthy female offers to cover his losses on one condition—that she gets to sleep with Malcolm in return.

Directors: Tony Singletary
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7.44
9 votes

#25 - Hanging by a Dred

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1999

Ashley catches Malcolm kissing Olivia. After their breakup, Malcolm goes into a funk and Eddie goes to extraordinary lengths (and heights) to pull him out of it. Eddie tries taking Malcolm on a hot-air balloon ride.

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