The BEST episodes of Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Every episode of Parker Lewis Can't Lose ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Parker Lewis Can't Lose!
The series depicts the tribulations of the title character Parker Lewis, a Santo Domingo High School student, for whom nothing is impossible. Parker often narrates in shows. Just like his best friends, Jerry Steiner and Mikey Randall and his girlfriend Annie Sloan, his prime concern is achieving and maintaining "coolness" during the turbulent years of puberty. However, their efforts are often thwarted by Parker's little sister, Shelly, and principal Grace Musso. Apart from various aspects of teenage life, embedded in a surreal, living-cartoon-like quality and the clever camera angles and filming techniques (dissolves from one scene to the next were done by ever larger pixels), an episode regularly contains more or less subtle references to movies, politics, and celebrities. The 3,100 students are called "Flamingos", after their football team.
#1 - Boy Meets Girl
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/10/1991
Nick is where Parker turns to for advice when Annie breaks his heart.
#2 - Love Handles
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/3/1991
Parker asks out a girl he met on a computer bulletin board, but considers backing out when she is less than he hoped for.
#3 - King Kube
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/28/1991
Jerry gets Kubiac elected homecoming king as a joke, but Larry takes it seriously.
#4 - Teens from a Mall
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/5/1991
At the mall, Parker searches for his elusive dream girl, Jerry searches for a job, and Musso tries to stop spending money.
#5 - Science Fair
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/1990
Parker and Mikey help Jerry overcome stage fright so he can win the district science fair.
#6 - Rent-a-Kube
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1990
Larry is hired to prevent shoplifting at the Lewis's video store, but he scares away the customers.
#7 - Radio Free Flamingo
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/11/1990
The buds use the school's pirate radio station to unwittingly turn everyone against them.
#8 - Parker Lewis Can't Win
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/19/1991
Parker's first bad day of the year is the last day of the school year.
#9 - Full Mental Jacket
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/1/1991
The buds try to break Jerry of his lack of self-confidence when he is without his coat.
#10 - The Undergraduate
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/15/1991
Parker has a crush on one of his teachers. Jerry wants a part in the school's production of The Music Man.
#11 - Aging Gracefully
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/6/1991
Musso mellows as she approaches her 40th birthday, so Parker calls in Dr. Pankow to get the old Musso back.
#12 - Tower of Power
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1991
Musso wants the buds to make a documentary about the school, but Parker has no time thanks to his new history teacher.
#13 - Goodbye Mr. Rips
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1992
Parker's favorite teacher must leave teaching for a better paying job to support his family.
#14 - Money Talks
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/26/1992
Mikey needs extra cash so he gets a job at the diner.
#15 - Senior Jerry
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/30/1993
Jerry gets move into the A.S.A.P. program which makes him a senior, when he gets a B+ on his first test he freaks out, drops out and starts laying bricks. Grace has a recurring dream about The Scarlet Letter.
#16 - Operation Kubiak
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1990
Larry's college football scholarship is in jeopardy when it is discovered he can't add.
#17 - Against the Norm
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/7/1991
Dr. Pankow returns to oust Musso, and Parker must save her.
#18 - Future Shock
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/8/1991
Musso forces Parker to make a decision about his future. Kubiac runs from his booster shot. Shelly takes revenge on the cheerleaders.
#19 - Obscene and Not Heard
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1991
Parker's dad protests the banning of a rock album by Dr. Pankow.
#20 - Deja Dudes
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/1990
Parker crashes his dad's reunion and finds out how he inherited his coolness.
#21 - Father Knows Less
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/11/1991
A local business man sponsors a family build-a-better-toaster contest and Mikey can't participate because his mother doesn't have the time.
#22 - My Fair Shelly
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/12/1991
Shelly blackmails Parker into helping her find a date for a party.
#23 - Rock 'n' Roles
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/27/1991
Shelly tries everything to meet her favorite rock star.
#24 - Teacher, Teacher
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1990
Parker pulls one too many scams, causing one of his favorite teachers to quit.
#25 - A Walk on the Dark Side
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/18/1991
Shelly joins the Dark Siders, whose initiation calls for her to be suspended from school.