The WORST episodes of The Bernie Mac Show

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

Bernie and his wife, Wanda, reluctantly step into the role of parents when his sister drops off her three kids -- naive Bryanna, nerdy Jordan and teenager Vanessa -- en route to rehab.

Last Updated: 1/26/2024Network: FOXStatus: Ended
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Growing Pains
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6.44
9 votes

#1 - Growing Pains

Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/14/2006

The Big Payback
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6.50
10 votes

#2 - The Big Payback

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/2005

Coming Soon.

Who's Your Mama?
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6.56
9 votes

#3 - Who's Your Mama?

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/31/2006

Bar Mitzvah Crashers
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6.57
7 votes

#4 - Bar Mitzvah Crashers

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/2006

After a Jewish family arrive in the neighborhood, Bernie urges Jordan to befriending the son, David. Though hesitant at first Jordan begins to develop a friendship with his new neighbor. Not long after-wards David invites Jordan to attend his cousin's bar mitzvahs with him. After receiving various expensive parting gifts Jordan and David decide to crash bar mitzvahs of people to whom they do not know in order to receive more gifts. Before long it's time for David's bar mitzvahs but Jordan comes to a dilemma because this happens to be the same day of a very wealthy boy's bar mitzvahs. So Jordan must beside between friendship or material possessions.

Exercise in Fertility: Part 2
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6.67
9 votes

#5 - Exercise in Fertility: Part 2

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/2006

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Some Church Bull
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6.78
9 votes

#6 - Some Church Bull

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/2005

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Bernie's Angels
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7.00
8 votes

#7 - Bernie's Angels

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/14/2006

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Who Gives This Bride
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7.00
10 votes

#8 - Who Gives This Bride

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/14/2005

Bernie's sister, Benita, is back in town and announces that she and her fiance are eloping in Las Vegas. Wanda offers the Mac residence as a wedding site, but has an ulterior motive- she's planning the wedding she never had. Excited at the idea of giving his baby sister away, Bernie is passed over when Benita ask their older brother Carl to do the honors.

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Five Stages of Bryana
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7.00
9 votes

#9 - Five Stages of Bryana

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/15/2004

Bernie and Wanda struggle with how to discipline Bryana when she begins to change from their adorable baby girl into a bratty little bully. They consult a child therapist to determine what is making her suddenly throw tantrums, become a bully at school and fight with her siblings at home. Meanwhile, Bernie buys Bryana a guinea pig but it's Wanda who ends up taking care of the pet and eventually bonding with it

Directors: Michael Spiller
Writer: John Riggi
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It's Never as Bad as the First Time
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7.09
11 votes

#10 - It's Never as Bad as the First Time

Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/7/2006

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Exercise in Fertility: Part 1
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7.11
9 votes

#11 - Exercise in Fertility: Part 1

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/2006

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Spinning Wheels
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7.13
8 votes

#12 - Spinning Wheels

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/7/2006

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Wrestling with a Sticky Situation
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7.14
7 votes

#13 - Wrestling with a Sticky Situation

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/2005

When Jordan makes the wrestling team, Bernie turns to Stone Cold Steve Austin for advice.

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Stop Having Sex
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7.17
42 votes

#14 - Stop Having Sex

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/17/2002

Bernie is concerned that the kids are exposed to mature subjects.

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What Would Jason Do?
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7.22
9 votes

#15 - What Would Jason Do?

Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/31/2006

Vanessa's school prom is coming up so Bernie Mac picks a boy friend out for her (after doing his usual protective background check). Even after he chooses, he has all these worried fantasies. Bryana injures her ankle so Jordan has to be her servant, but in the end after Bryana took it a bit far Jordan gets some redemption.

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Pop Pop Goes the Weasel
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7.25
8 votes

#16 - Pop Pop Goes the Weasel

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/2005

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For Whom the Belt Tolls
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7.25
8 votes

#17 - For Whom the Belt Tolls

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/2005

The kids finally cross Aunt Wanda's line while Bernie's away. Bernie gives Aunt Wanda "Big Mama's Belt" to keep them in line. The kids wind up fearing her even more than Bernie Mac.

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Night of Terror
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7.29
7 votes

#18 - Night of Terror

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2005

Jordan turns 13, but still acts like a monster fighting with Bryana. Eventually Jordan lets Bryana walk all over him to avoid further punishment. When he gets his gifts back, Bernie holds back an R-rated movie. Later when Bernie asks Jordan to babysit Bryana one night, Jordan accepts just so he can watch the R-rated movie behind his back.

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Father Knows Best
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7.29
17 votes

#19 - Father Knows Best

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2005

Bryan, Bryanna's father, shows up to spend more time with his daughter-and ends up spoiling her.

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Prison Break
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7.33
12 votes

#20 - Prison Break

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/2005

After misbehaving yet again, Bernie punishes Bryana and Jordan severely. Yet again Wanda thinks he's being too hard on them. But in the end, she catches on. Vanessa turns out to be the sneakiest of them all.

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Who's That Lady
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7.33
9 votes

#21 - Who's That Lady

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/12/2004

Psychologist Dr. Phil makes a house call in Bernie's confessional. He counsels Bernie on how to deal with an angry Wanda, who feels left out after Bernie and his buddies bring a woman, Lynette, into their group. Meanwhile, the kids find where Bernie hides all of their dangerous toys and end up almost killing each other to keep the secret.

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Saving Sergeant Tompkins
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7.33
6 votes

#22 - Saving Sergeant Tompkins

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/14/2004

Bernie discovers that Jordan has taken his framed Redd Foxx ticket stub for the school time capsule when he is asked to include something that connects him to his past and doesn't have anything of his own. Bernie tells Jordan the hard facts about his past – how his father left them and that when life deals a rough hand one has to suck it up. But the hard facts harden Jordan and Bernie's afraid he's gone too far, so he decides to rewrite history a bit and make Jordan believe that his father left him a keepsake from when he was a sergeant in the Army. When Vanessa hears about Bernie's lies, she is infuriated but eventually agrees it is important that Jordan think well of their father. She gives Jordan the only picture she has of her father so that he can have a real connection to his past.

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Starting School
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7.35
51 votes

#23 - Starting School

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/2/2002

With the kids officially under Bernie's control, it's come time to find them schooling. He enrolls Bryana in a prestigious preschool, Jordan in Catholic school and Vanessa in public junior high. On the first day however, everything that can go wrong, does. With Wanda at work, Bernie is forced to figure everything out for himself. While trying to braid Bryana's hair, he gets hair grease all over his favorite shirt. Jordan fakes being sick and actually forces himself to puke on Bernie's second favorite shirt. Vanessa barricades herself in the bathroom, having ""the worst hair day ever!"" Bernie being Bernie fortunately finds away around all the problems. He fixes Bryana's hair, he foils Jordan's fake illness and he boosts Vanessa's confidence. Not bad for a day's work. If only he didn't ruin his favorite shirts in the process.

Directors: David Grossman
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Stone Nuts
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7.36
11 votes

#24 - Stone Nuts

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/28/2005

Jordan wants to fit in with the popular kids in school, and Bernie suggests that he try playing games with them. When asking them to fly kites doesn't work and he's dubbed ""Benjamin Franklin"", Jordan tries his hand at their game, poker, and quickly loses his lunch money. Bernie teaches Jordan how to play cards and he becomes a whiz. Meanwhile, Wanda's friend Cheryl makes Bernie doubt that the gift he bought Wanda for her birthday is nice enough, so he enlists the help of his neighbor,Carl Reiner, on a search for the coveted and rare cognac-colored diamond.

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Bernie Mac, Ladies Man
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7.38
29 votes

#25 - Bernie Mac, Ladies Man

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/28/2001

When Wanda plans a play date for a group of kids, Bernie ends up winning over the moms for the afternoon and becoming defensive about his masculinity.

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