The BEST episodes of Oliver Beene
Every episode of Oliver Beene ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Oliver Beene!
This half-hour comedy follows the life of 11-year-old Oliver Beene (Grant Rosenmeyer). It's 1962 and Oliver's world is chaotic. His dentist father, Jerry (Grant Shaud) likes to spend Sundays drilling his kids' teeth; his mom, Charlotte (Wendy Makkena) does her best to be the happy homemaker; and his brother Ted (Andy Lawrence) has a transistor radio practically glued to his head listening to sports. Oliver's life is tolerable thanks to his friends heavyweight Neal (Ben Bookbinder) and lightweight Michael (Taylor Emerson), who is obviously gay in a time when that still means happy. The show is narrated by the adult Oliver who depicts the trials of growing up during the Cold War with a wickedly wry humor. Oliver longs for normalcy, something that's difficult when the family is practicing drills for the end of civilization. Oliver also has to contend with Mrs. Heller (Annie Korzen), a teacher who hates him; Joyce (Daveigh Chase), a classmate who thinks she's married to him; and Bonnie (Am
#1 - Home, a Loan
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/16/2003
Jerry and Charlotte go visit college friend Mitch in Great Neck (Jerry hasn't seen Mitch for a long time. Back at home Harvey a friend of Ted's insults the wrong neighbor
#2 - Space Race
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/30/2003
Oliver finds himself in trouble after hurting a new student at school.
#3 - Divorce-O-Rama
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2003
Have you tried to practice trying to win a prize? Oliver tries to that after he and Joyce get tickets to a TV show they like. Oliver thinks his parents are getting a divorce after learning that Joyce's parents are headed for divorce.
#4 - Dibs
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/4/2004
Oliver falls in love with his new neighboor Elke. The only problem is Ted ""dibbed"" her first [and he can't brake The Code]. Meanwhile, Oliver's parents try to spice-up there marrige by going on a date to an old club, but they soon find it is a Jazz-playing Mariuna-smokin' kind of club.
#5 - Fallout (Pilot)
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/15/2004
Oliver tries out for the annual talent show in hopes of getting Bonnie and the rest of his class to like him. His teacher announces the results of who will be in the talent show Oliver doesn't like what he will need to do. Jerry gives Charlotte an unusual 15th anniversary present. She learns that Jerry has turned his basement into a fallout shelter. Charlotte confesses she wants a stole like the mailman is purchasing for his wife.
#6 - A Trip to Coney Island
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/29/2004
Jerry and his family decide to take a trip to Coney Island. The vacation causes a feud to spark between Jerry and his neighbor over a parking spot. Jerry will go to any length to get the parking spot from his neighbor. Oliver gets his dream job of being a paper boy soon Oliver learns that having a paper route isn't all its cracked up to be.
#7 - Catskills
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/22/2004
Charlotte is desperate for some time with her family so she decides to take her family to the Catskills. The family isn't excited about the vacation. Oliver battles the "" Simon says "" caller to see who is best. Jerry tries his hand at male bonding only to find out that the doctors are telling dentist jokes.
#8 - Oliver and the Otters
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/13/2004
Jerry needs assistance at the office after April his assistant gets hurt. He asks Charlotte to fill in. Oliver needs to figure out how to impress Joyce, he forms his own band called "" Oliver and the Otters"" Oliver learns that he may not have gone the right way to impress someone he loves.
#9 - X-Ray Specs
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/22/2004
Oliver orders x-ray glasses from a comic book and finds that they don't work, they took 11 weeks to arrive! Oliver decides to revenge on Astounding Novelties because of the scam. Oliver brings friends who want Barnaby Rollins to give them their money back. Charlotte on her way to see the President goes to talk to Connie about her boyfriend leaving Jerry to think Charlotte would kick the President!
#10 - Soup to Nuts
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/2004
On the way to school Oliver loses his lunch (due to the bus hitting a bump) Oliver tries to tell everybody that he spilled his soup on the bus, No one believes Oliver.
#11 - Oliver's Best Friend
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/4/2003
Oliver wants a dog but after he gets the dog Oliver really believes the dog is bad and tells his parents but they don't believe him at all. When Oliver tries to takes the dog for a walk the dog only makes trouble for Oliver (The dog puts his paws on the elevator buttons). Oliver tries to lose the dog only to find the dog is to smart!
#12 - Dancing Beene
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2003
Oliver has dream to become Fred Astaire, He is about to find out how hard that can be after Oliver takes a ballroom class. Oliver learns he can't dance at all!
#13 - Lord of the Bees
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/13/2003
Oliver has found away to beat Susan he steals the answers to the test. Oliver tells his Teacher Mr. Plotkin, What he did was wrong.
#14 - The Nudie Mag
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/6/2003
Oliver may get in big trouble when He and Michael go looking for something in the closet of Oliver's friend Michael. They find a magazine called Peephole that belongs to Michael's dad.
#15 - Daughter for a Day
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/15/2004
Oliver wants to a man he goes along with his dad only to end up getting a shock. Meanwhile Charlotte feels left out and spends the day with Joyce hoping to know her better.
#17 - Ward Have Mercy
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/7/2004
Oliver makes a door knocker that Mr. Stitt doesn't like Charlotte is told give Mr. Stitt a unicorn in hopes of keeping the door knocker Oliver made in shop class. Charlotte gets help from Carl the building Super Intendant on how to beat Mr. Stitt at his own game by challenging Mr. Stitt to an election.
#18 - Disposa Boy
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/14/2004
But as late Oliver learns that he is going to the lowest level of the grades in his school because his former teacher Mrs. Heller punished him. As Oliver tries to figure out how to get back to level one without taking the Iowa test, Jerry trying to sell his latest invention "" The Disposa Toothbrush"" Jerry learns that nobody is interested in this invention.
#19 - Idol Chatter
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/6/2004
Jerry tries to out do his neighbors the O'Shaughnessy's by having a famous comedian entertaining the guests at the Beene party. Oliver and Ted try to make their father's of having Buddy Fontaine come to the party. After Oliver and Ted meet Buddy Fontaine they learn that he won't come to the Beene party making Jerry stretch the lie a bit more when he realizes that the comedian doesn't make it. Instead the Beene's get another surprise guest.
#20 - Kissing Babies
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/20/2004
Oliver gets a lesson in what a make out party is and what games to play. Ted teaches Oliver 2 games to play at the party. The first is spin the bottle Ted teaches Oliver how to understand exactly where the bottle will stop. The other game Oliver is taught is 7 minutes in heaven where you spend 7 minutes together in a closet. The other game Oliver is taught is 7 minutes in heaven where you spend 7 minutes together in a closet. Charlotte wants to run a campaign for president of the tenants association but learns that support will be hard to come by. Everyone likes the current president Mr. Stitt.