The BEST episodes of Off Centre
Every episode of Off Centre ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Off Centre!
A smooth talking, sophisticated and decidedly decadent Brit, Euan is the yin to his conservative American friend Mike's yang. Best friends and former roommates at Oxford, Euan's high-flying, fast-living, bed-hopping way of life has always driven Mike to moral high ground. Now, as they move into a posh New York apartment at the famed Hadley on Centre building and begin their so-called adult lives, Euan is launching a career in investment banking while Mike's starts in non-profit. Rounding out the cast are Mike's girlfriend, Liz, their wacky friend, Vietnamese restaurant employee Chau, and secretly sensitive gangsta rapper Status Quo.
#1 - P.P. Doc II: The Examination Continues (a.k.a. PPD2)
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/2002
Mike and Euan's dorky urologist, Dr. Barry Wasserman, moves into their apartment building. The guys worry about the weird M.D.'s interest in being their buddy, until they discover he attracts women.
#2 - Let's Meet Mike and Euan
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/2001
Neurotic Everyman Mike is baffled by the amazing success enjoyed by hyperconfident womanizer Euan. In the opener, the polar-opposite pals move into a posh New York City apartment building complete with celebrities, including rather uptight rapper Status Quo and supermodel Vee, whose bodily functions eclipse her beauty. All is well in the new digs until Euan invites Mike's girlfriend, Liz, to move in with them.
#3 - Little House On The Bowery
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/2002
In a competition to prove whether it's simply Euan's English intonation that attracts all the women, Mike and Euan switch accents. Meanwhile, Chau dates a homeless woman who is not entirely sane.
#4 - The Guys' Guys
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/2002
Mike's dorky friends from high school come to visit, making Euan feel like the not-so-odd man out. Meanwhile, Status makes a date with Liz.
#5 - The Backup
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/31/2002
Mike tells Euan to stay away from an attractive visiting friend, explaining that she is his ""backup girl,"" should things not work out with Liz. Meanwhile, Chau pulls out all the stops to try to win a contest for a big-screen TV.
#6 - The Deflower Half Hour
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/2002
When Euan's date, Lindsey, announces to everyone that she wants Euan to deflower her when she turns 18 at midnight, Euan, Mike, Chau, Status and Liz flashback to their own first sexual encounters.
#7 - Diddler on the Roof
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/19/2002
Euan gets sucked into the drama of MTV's ""The Real World"" when he hooks up with a insipid cast member and fears she will bad mouth him to millions of women if he dumps her, so he schemes to have Chau steal her instead. Meanwhile, Mike lands his dream job doing sound for porn movies, but things turn dicey when he thinks Liz is hooking up with Status while he works nights, and the movies turn to guy-on-guy.
#8 - Feeling Shellfish
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/21/2001
When Mike and then Liz contract a certain sexually transmitted condition, Mike blames the assumed originator Euan. The irritating malady hampers both Mike and Liz's anniversary dinner and Euan's date with a friend from college.
#9 - Faking the Band
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/24/2002
In order to get women to notice them more, Chau and Euan pretend to be in a rock band; Mike irks Liz when he drunkenly proposes marriage and then forgets all about it.
#10 - A Stroke of Genius
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/28/2001
Liza finds out about Mike's stash of adult videos and is surprisingly okay with it and even offers to watch some with him. But the sexy adventure in cinema turns out to be a bit of a let-down for Mike. Euan, meanwhile, endeavors to impress his incredibly jaded girlfriend.
#11 - Trust Me or Don't Trust Me
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/4/2001
On a night out with Chau and Euan, Mike repeatedly rejects women in favor of being faithful to Liz, who ends up kissing an old flame during the same evening. Chau gets angry at Euan for constantly stealing prospective dates.
#12 - A Cute Triangle
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/2001
When Liz and her wild, flirty friend stay at the apartment for the weekend, Mike hopes for a ménage à trois. Euan, who has resolved to remain celibate with his current girlfriend, serves as Mike's mentor.
#13 - Guy Gone Wild
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/2002
After Mike learns of Liz's wild past, he decides to make up for lost time by doing the crazy things he missed out on when he was younger.
#14 - Unflushable (a.k.a. M. Night Shyamalan's Unflushable)
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/2002
Mike impresses the guys when he leaves the bar with the new building tenant, Carmen Electra, however, back at her apartment, Mike's new diet causes him to clog her toilet. Undetected by Carmen, Mike enlists the help of his good friends Euan and Chau to help clear the blockage.
#15 - Mission Im-posse-ble
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/2002
After Mike and Euan point out that his ""posse"" is a bunch of yes-men, Status Quo fires them and invites his neighbors to hang with him. Unfortunately, he treats Euan more like a slave than a friend.
#16 - Why Chau Lives Alone
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/2002
Sick of living with Euan, Mike decides to stay at Lauren's for a while. As revenge, Eaun invites Chau to live in Mike's room. The unlikely duo get along well, until Chau's behavior gets out of hand.
#17 - The Unkindest Cut
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/21/2002
Mike and Chau mock Euan because he has a foreskin. This prompts Euan to consult a urologist, Dr. Barry Wasserman, who has a bizarre sense of penis humor, for circumcision.
#18 - Hear No Evil, See No Package
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/2002
Mike and Chau start going to a gym where a lot of nude men hang out; Euan dates Liz's deaf friend, who turns out to be less friendly than anyone realizes.
#19 - Money or Brother Can You Spare a Ski Trip
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/2001
Finding it difficult to keep up with the incredibly successful Euan, Mike tries to solve his money woes by taking on a second job at Chau's restaurant. Euan offers to help, but Mike refuses any more financial aid from his roommate.
#20 - The Good, the Bad and the Lazy
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/2002
In dire need of a job he actually enjoys, Mike seeks advice from a decidedly unreliable career counselor. Euan, meanwhile, concentrates his efforts on trying to win over their new neighbor, a B-movie actress.
#21 - Mike & Liz & Chau & Jordan
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/7/2002
Liz sets Chau up with her equally bizarre roommate, creating a romance more ridiculous than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile, Euan lies about his age in order to date 45-year-old woman.
#22 - Love is a Pain in the A** (a.k.a. Love Stings)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/2002
Mike feels that his relationship with Liz has gotten stale, so he decides it's time to break up and is not prepared when she beats him to the punch, however the break-up sex is so good that Mike does everything in his power to string the relationship along. When Euan meets a woman who is even wilder in bed than he is, he soon learns that even he has limits. Chau rallies to save a canceled TV series.
#23 - Cockfight
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/2002
Euan and Status Quo meet a gorgeous woman in a bar and compete for her attention. When they realize that she has a twin, their competition escalates to see who can bed them both. Meanwhile, Mike realizes that the only way he can earn extra money to purchase an extravagant birthday gift for Liz is to bet on cockfights with Chau.
#24 - Euan's Brush With Love
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/2001
Euan's quest to find a steady girlfriend lands him Ginger, an artist who Mike believes is taking Euan for all he's worth. Meanwhile, Liz proves to Mike that her revealing clothing makes him uncomfortable.
#25 - Gas Crisis
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/2002
Mike's increasing comfort level with Liz leads him to engage in behavior she doesn't entirely welcome. Meanwhile, Euan resolves to avoid a woman who routinely shows up in his life to break his heart; and Status Quo works on new song lyrics with Chau.