The BEST episodes of Parker Lewis Can't Lose season 1
Every episode of Parker Lewis Can't Lose season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Parker Lewis Can't Lose season 1!
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 - King Kube
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/28/1991
Jerry gets Kubiac elected homecoming king as a joke, but Larry takes it seriously.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Against the Norm
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/7/1991
Dr. Pankow returns to oust Musso, and Parker must save her.
#9 - Deja Dudes
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/1990
Parker crashes his dad's reunion and finds out how he inherited his coolness.
#10 - My Fair Shelly
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/12/1991
Shelly blackmails Parker into helping her find a date for a party.
#11 - Teacher, Teacher
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1990
Parker pulls one too many scams, causing one of his favorite teachers to quit.
#12 - Splendor in the Class
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1991
Parker's new girlfriend keeps him too busy to spend time with his buds.
#13 - Jerry: Portrait of a Video Junkie
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1991
Jerry becomes addicted to video games. Musso's mother visits.
#14 - Jerry's First Date
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/24/1991
Parker and Mikey play Cyrano on Jerry's first date.
#15 - Citizen Kube
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1991
Larry wins a magazine sweepstakes and discovers friends he never had before.
#16 - Power Play
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1990
A new student challenges Parker's authority at Santo Domingo and drafts Jerry into his camp.
#17 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/2/1990
Parker and Mikey both find the girl of their dreams-- the same girl.
#18 - Close, But No Guitar
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/1990
Mikey drops out of school to become a guitar hero.
#19 - Parker Lewis Must Lose
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/1990
Parker runs for class president, but can't decide whether to win or to ask his opponent for a date.
#21 - Heather the Class
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1991
Shelly snubs her long-time friend to join the Vogues, the Heathers-like clique.
#22 - Musso & Frank
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/1990
Frank helps Jerry with American history. In exchange, Parker tries to find a date for Frank.
#23 - Love's a Beast
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/1990
The buds search for Mikey's secret admirer named "Breathless" and Parker doesn't like the result.
#24 - Randall Without a Cause
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/10/1991
Mikey joins a biker club and finds out it is no "easy ride" when he gets arrested.
#25 - G.A.G. Dance
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/7/1990
Parker is waiting for the right girl, Tracy Lee Summers, to ask him to the Girls Ask Guys Dance.