The BEST episodes of My Parents Are Aliens season 4
Every episode of My Parents Are Aliens season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of My Parents Are Aliens season 4!
The day to day life's of three orphaned children who are adopted by aliens that have trouble adjusting to the local culture.
#1 - The Invosibibble Mam
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/2002
Josh has laryngitis, but despite Sophie's best efforts to nurse him back to health, he quickly loses patience with her bedside manner. Brian is jealous that Trent has given Mel a music festival ticket and morphs into 'Spam' - a hip and trendy girl that will catch Trent's eye. His plan works, but Mel is devastated. Can Josh and Sophie persuade Brian to make amends before Mel's heart is broken and Sophie turns invisible from a lack of attention?
#2 - Textual Relations
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/2/2002
The first show kicks off with Sophie falling yet again for another of Josh's scams. But when she gives Brian a mobile phone to celebrate their 'phoneversary', her romantic gift backfires, making him lose his alien memory. Meanwhile, Lucy has a tough decision to make when a mysterious stranger threatens her friendship with Wendy. Josh is smitten with his new maths teacher and is elated to find that she feels the same. But the path of true love never did run smoothly...
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Beauty and the Breast: Part 1
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/2002
This week Brian receives a Father's Day gift from Mel, leaving Sophie upset that she has never been rewarded for her efforts on Mother's Day. She decides to make an extra special effort to be the kind of mum that's hard to forget. Meanwhile, Josh fails miserably to scam a free computer game from Poppy, the new girl in school, and is tricked into giving back the money he owes Lucy. Mel is distressed to hear that Brian thinks she's a boy (and an ugly one at that) and wishes someone could see her feminine side. Perhaps a gender swap will help Brian and Sophie to understand their children more...
#4 - Beauty and the Breast: Part 2
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/2002
Brian is still attempting to become a better father by getting in touch with his feminine side, but his brand new breasts and carefully applied make-up don't seem to be having the desired affect. Sophie is also trying to understand her 'manly' daughter Mel, by taking muscle building hormone pills. But the well-meaning alien alliance just manages to embarrass their children more than ever. Josh refuses to admit defeat in scamming the 'Gnomes of Vengeance' computer game from his scheming nemesis Poppy, and girly Brian is the unlikely inspiration for his most daring plan yet...
#5 - The Naked Truth
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/2002
This week Poppy has written a damning description of Josh in the school magazine, and he is hungry for revenge. He decides to publish his own paper - The Barker Bugle - to expose the truth about Poppy. Meanwhile Lucy feels persecuted when a teacher accuses her of cheating. Wendy abandons her and to add insult to injury, she becomes the first victim of Brian and Sophie's new punishment regime. Josh's new career in journalism soon founders when he runs out of stories to print. Mel's dark secret about a murdered budgie would make a great front-page splash, but the naked truth is a big price for Josh to pay...
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Operation Date
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/2002
Today Mel is fed up with Lucy's control freak behaviour and decides to move out of their bedroom and into the attic. Lucy is incensed, but when Sophie and Wendy abandon her too, she begins to wonder whether she might be in the wrong after all. Josh is desperate to scam Frankie's signed United football shirt from him, and Brian agrees to morph into Mel as part of a cunning plan. But Josh is about to get a taste of his own medicine for once.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Rat's Entertainment
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/2002
This week Brian feels rejected when Sophie chooses to watch repeats of Geoff Jefferson, Criminal Prosecutor on cable TV, instead of taking part in his indoor Olympics festival. Josh also has grievances with Sophie's television hogging - the wrestling team have paid him in advance for tapes of special shows. In an attempt to prove to Sophie that he has other friends and doesn't need her, Brian brings home Malcolm, a large white rat, and retreats to a nest in the loft for a lifestyle makeover. Lucy is fed up with all the rows about TV, so it seems her prayers are answered when the TV cable is mysteriously cut. Malcolm is the prime suspect, and is sentenced to death by Judge Sophie for his crime. But is Brian's rodent chum really the culprit?
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Fish Fingers
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/2002
Brian has a new pet - Fluffy the goldfish - but when he's fed on a diet of fried egg, bacon and beans, the unfortunate Fluffy soon floats off to the fish tank in the sky, leaving Brian devastated. Meanwhile, Josh plots to make a fortune from his school friends by entering the diner's menu challenge - to eat 50 courses in one sitting. He plans for Brian (with his huge Valuxian appetite) to take his place in the contest, but the poor alien parent is too consumed with grief to eat a thing. Josh arranges a funeral for Fluffy, in hope that it will bring 'closure' to Brian's grief. The plan seems to work, but when the first course in the contest is fish soup, the painful memories are too much for Brian and Josh is forced to swallow his fate...
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Secrets and Lies
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/2002
Josh is confident that his 'treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen' tactics will eventually win the heart of his school friend Tania. Sophie decides that humans tell lies all the time, making her highly suspicious of everything her family says. Mel persuades Trent to let her stand in for him as school magazine agony aunt, but can she really summon up the sensitivity to do it? In a desperate bid to prove to Josh that he can lie convincingly, Brian tells Pete that Tania fancies him. But when Pete and Tania arrange a date, Brian has some quick thinking to do before Josh's heart is broken.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Just My Luck
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/2002
When Lucy insists that there's no such thing as luck, Brian is determined to prove her wrong. He purchases a pair of Josh's 'lucky' underpants and is delighted to immediately win a free pen and a pound. Josh decides to cash in on the phenomenon, and sells all the 'lucky' rubbish from his bedroom. He soon regrets the scheme when it leaves him jinxed. Brian discovers that his new pants will not bring him fame and fortune, so to save face with his sceptical family, he secretly buys his own prizes from a catalogue. Everyone is fooled, but Brian is about to find that pride comes before a fall.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - The Opposites
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/2002
Josh is woken by a trumpet-playing Brian and is offered tiddlywinks for breakfast. His sisters may be technically human but they still can't behave like normal people. Why can't his family just be different in every way? A bump on the head makes Josh's wish come true, throwing him into a world of complete opposites. But he quickly learns that the grass isn't always greener on the other side...
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - The Musical
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/2002
Mrs. Hardman invites Lucy to audition for a part in the school musical ‘Oliver Twist' to help her make new friends. On hearing of this musical, Brian takes over the role of directing the play after Mrs. Hardman had an unfortunate accident. Sophie falls in love with The Sound of Music, much to the disliking of Josh.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Brian of the Brownies
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/2002
Brian is desperate to join Lucy at the Brownies, but she refuses for obvious reasons. Undeterred, Brian forms his own association - The Brianies - with it's own code of conduct. Mel gets a waitressing job at Greedy Barkers, but Sophie is concerned that her daughter doesn't have the necessary skills to make it in the work place. After taking advice about healthy competition from Lucy, Sophie also gets a job at the diner, with disastrous consequences. Josh steals the galactic guidebook in an attempt to morph a bigger bedroom, so Brian has to invent a DIY gadget to clean up the mess from his 'Brianie' chores. Unfortunately his plans backfire and Lucy is placed into the house computer recycling bin with the litter. If Brian can't find the guidebook quickly, she could be permanently deleted...
Watch Now:Amazon