The BEST episodes of Phil of the Future

Every episode of Phil of the Future ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Phil of the Future!

Meet the Diffy family, a futuristic family from the year 2121. When the eccentric dad, Lloyd, rents a time machine for their family vacation, everyone is excited. But then something goes wrong. Their time machine malfunctions and they are thrown out of the space/time continuum in the year 2004.

Last Updated: 3/24/2025Network: Disney ChannelStatus: Ended
Back to the Future (Not the Movie)
star
8.29
7 votes

#1 - Back to the Future (Not the Movie)

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 8/19/2006

Phil and Keely finally become a couple. Though Lloyd has all of a sudden fixed the time machine, now it's time for the Diffys to head back home. It's Keely's worst nightmare when she realizes Phil is leaving for real.

Directors: Michael Curtis
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Tia, Via,  or Me...Uh
star
8.00
8 votes

#2 - Tia, Via, or Me...Uh

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/5/2005

When Tia moves away, Keely gets Phil into doing everything that she would normally do. So Phil hooks Keely up with the new girl.

Directors: David Kendall
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Virtu-Date
star
8.00
6 votes

#3 - Virtu-Date

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/26/2005

Phil and Keely are on a virtu-date and the robot waiter starts flirting with Keely and Phil is jealous.

Directors: Fred Savage
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Phillin' In
star
7.67
12 votes

#4 - Phillin' In

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/18/2004

Lloyd and Barbara decide to go on a weekend road trip for their anniversery. They leave Phil in charge of Pim and if everything goes right then Phil will get an afterburner for his skyak. Once Pim hears this she is not happy and tries everything in her power to make the weekend go bad so Phil won't get the afterburner.

Directors: David Kendall
Writer: Ellen Guylas
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Future Jock
star
7.67
12 votes

#5 - Future Jock

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/13/2004

Phil uses a futuristic gadget to compete in the gymnastics tournament.

Directors: David Kendall
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Get Ready To Go-Go
star
7.67
6 votes

#6 - Get Ready To Go-Go

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/5/2005

Keely finally gets the courage to ask Phil to the dance. Phil agrees to go and Keely walks away as students file past. The students clear and both Keely and Phil see the other doing a happy dance. Later, Phil's dad, Lloyd, tells the family that he has fixed the time machine and they are leaving the next day. Phil has to break his date to a crushed Keely. After Phil tells Keely he is leaving Lloyd breaks the time machine. Phil tells Keely he can now go to the dance with her but she already has another date, Owen. Phil is crushed and asks Via to the dance. At the dance Via and Owen help get Phil and Keely together.

Directors: Jace Alexander
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Time Release Capsule
star
7.67
6 votes

#7 - Time Release Capsule

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/27/2005

Lloyd realizes that Pickford High School's time capsule is the key to returning the Diffy's to the future, he tells Phil to warn them from taking their time travel vaction in the year 2121.

Directors: Fred Savage
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Maybe-Sitting
star
7.67
6 votes

#8 - Maybe-Sitting

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/23/2005

When Phil & Keely baby-sit Nathan, the trouble-making nephew of Mr. Messerschmitt, they get more than they bargained for, so they use the New-Ager, a device that changes one's behavior. But things go hay-wire, leaving Nathan to act like an old man, while Phil is acting like a little boy. Now it's up to Keely to solve the problem before Mr. Messerschmitt and Phil's dad get home. But her only salvation, Pim, is too busy using the Wizrd to create and then sell the latest school project.

Directors: Fred Savage
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Happy Nird-Day
star
7.67
6 votes

#9 - Happy Nird-Day

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/31/2006

It's Keely's birthday and Phil wants to give her the best birthday she has ever had. Last year he had forgotten her birthday so he wanted to go all out with her present this year. Phil's plans for the perfect outing are crushed when Lloyd takes out all the batteries to the future gadgets because it will get him "one step closer to fixing the time machine". Meanwhile Pim meets a fellow prankster and even has a crush on him.

Writer: Wayne Stamps
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Age Before Beauty
star
7.60
10 votes

#10 - Age Before Beauty

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/12/2004

Keely uses the "New-Ager" and pretends to be a substitute teacher, but she then gains the attraction of Mr. Hackett.

Directors: Tim O'Donnell
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Not-So-Great Great Great Grandpa
star
7.60
5 votes

#11 - Not-So-Great Great Great Grandpa

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/11/2006

Phil unwittingly prevents his great great grandfather from meeting his great great grandmother, thus causing a chain reaction in which he and his family are erased from existence.

Directors: Fred Savage
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Your Cheatin' Heart
star
7.50
14 votes

#12 - Your Cheatin' Heart

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/18/2004

A boy named Tanner asks Keely out, but Phil doesn't really like him. One day when Phil is doing a skit on stage a girl named Darcy walks in and asks the teacher that if he sees Tanner to tell him that she stopped by. Phil thinks this is kind of weird, so, using his Instamorph, he changes into Tanner and goes to investigate. He finds out that Darcy is also Tanner's girlfriend and that he is two-timing Keely, but when he tells her she just gets mad at him. Later, while Keely and Tanner are doing a skit on stage Darcy walks in and kisses Tanner right in front of Keely! Meanwhile, Pim tries to get Debbie and Bradley to break-up.

Directors: David Kendall
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The Giggle
star
7.50
6 votes

#13 - The Giggle

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/9/2005

Phil and Keely have a huge test in Mr. Messerschmitt's class, but take advantage of The Giggle. Phil and Keely, then, both fail the test. So Phil tries to make it up to Keely. Meanwhile, Pim goes to an R-rated movie and brings curtis as her parent.

Directors: David Kendall
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Versa Day
star
7.50
6 votes

#14 - Versa Day

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/25/2005

Phil and Pim have been fighting all week. Lloyd and Barbara couldn't take it any longer so he called for a Versa Day. For one school day Phil and Pim have to switch lives. Meanwhile Lloyd wants to get Curtis a job....if only he could find a place that will hire him.

Directors: Matthew Diamond
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Milkin' It
star
7.50
6 votes

#15 - Milkin' It

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/25/2005

Phil and Keely enter a science fair featuring next Century's "milk engine" sending Lloyd into a state of panic that the Diffys will be discovered. Phil and Keely sneak into the fair to retrieve the evidence so the Diffys can remain in Pickford.

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My Way
star
7.45
11 votes

#16 - My Way

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/9/2004

Phil helps Keely with her stage fright so Phil shrinks himself and sits on her microphone during her performance; Pim and Bradley become co-parents of a bag of flour as part of a class assignment on raising a baby.

Writer: Tim Maile
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Future Tutor
star
7.45
11 votes

#17 - Future Tutor

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/13/2004

Pim and Phil start school in 2004. Phil meets Keely and offers to tutor her in Algebra. Pim tries to get through her first day of school. This is the pilot episode of the series. This episode, "Future Jock" and "You Say Toe-Mato" aired as a three-episode event on August 13, 2004

Directors: Neal Israel
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Dinner Time
star
7.43
7 votes

#18 - Dinner Time

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/24/2005

Mr. Hackett moves in next door and the Diffys invite him for dinner. Pim tries to sell the house.

Directors: Henry Chan
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Stuck in the Meddle with You
star
7.40
5 votes

#19 - Stuck in the Meddle with You

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/2006

Keely tries to get together two people and it backfires on Phil. Pim becomes a "psychic" and fools Mr. Hackett.

Directors: Fred Savage
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Raging Bull
star
7.38
13 votes

#20 - Raging Bull

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/2/2004

Phil gets detention and goes to the dance with his new "guy friends." But when a bull attacks his new friend, he morphs it into a cat. Pim is tardy too many times, so she dresses Curtis up as her father to get off being punished.

Directors: Tim O'Donnell
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Ill of the Future
star
7.33
6 votes

#21 - Ill of the Future

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/24/2006

The Diffy's catch a futuristic disease called greenemia which causes them to turn green and act completely opposite to how they usually act.

Directors: Henry Chan
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Doggie Daycare
star
7.29
14 votes

#22 - Doggie Daycare

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/27/2004

Phil and Keely start a day-care service for dogs to earn money for concert tickets. Phil uses a futuristic gadget to understand what a dog is saying.

Directors: Richard Correll
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Pim-Cipal
star
7.29
7 votes

#23 - Pim-Cipal

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/21/2005

Pim abuses her power when she becomes principal for the day.

Directors: David Kendall
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Double Trouble
star
7.29
7 votes

#24 - Double Trouble

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/1/2005

Phil defends Pim against a bully and then he gets bullied. Curtis takes the neighbor's lawn ornaments and calls them his "friends."

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Unification Day
star
7.25
16 votes

#25 - Unification Day

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/18/2004

Phil skips Unification Day to go to a party that he can't even get in to. Pim cheats on a cooking assignent, so she has to bake something homemade.

Directors: Tim O'Donnell
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