The WORST episodes of The Job
Every episode of The Job ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Job!
Mike McNeil is a self-medicating, hard-drinking, decorated New York City detective with a wife, a mistress, and a crush on a co-worker. Surrounded by a partner and fellow squad members who are just as colorful, McNeil pursues his uniquely unconventional, yet effective, approach to crime solving while he attempts to manage the chaos of his personal life.
#1 - Betrayal
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/20/2002
Toni threatens to tell Karen about her affair with Mike; Frank is hospitalized with chest pains; the squad investigates an elderly man who may have killed his wife.
#2 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/14/2001
Mike and Pip craftily use a suspect's grandmother to get him to confess.
#3 - Anger
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/18/2001
After Mike's ugly altercation with a cab driver is captured on video and broadcast on TV, he's forced to attend anger management classes the week he decides to quit smoking and drinking; Ruben's mother wants him to apologize to the perp he's forced to shoot.
#4 - Elizabeth
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/21/2001
Mike's all over the case when Elizabeth Hurley files a harassment complaint; fearing that Mike is a bad influence on her husband, Adina wants Pip to get another partner; after Elizabeth asks Mike out on a date, they become the talk of the town.
#5 - Bathroom
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/28/2001
All hell breaks lose when Frank loses a perp inside the precinct; Mike stumbles on the perp (who doesn't speak any English) and is taken hostage at gunpoint; Ruben and Al are sent on a mysterious mission.
#6 - Massage
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/11/2001
The squad rushes out to sample the services at a massage parlor to make sure it's legit; Jan's collar, a homeless man, turns out to be a high school classmate; a grateful senior citizen has designs on Ruben.
#7 - Sacrilege
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/2002
Mike and Pip are less than thrilled when they're assigned to take the District Attorney's twelve-year-old daughter on a ride-along for her school paper, especially when they lose her in the city; Frank disguises himself as a priest to draw out a confession; members of the squad encounter an unusual ""nun"".
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#8 - Soup
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/23/2002
When Mike, Pip and Jan are assigned to find a missing ballerina, they discover that her whereabouts may be linked to Frank's favorite new soup; Ruben is touched by a self-proclaimed mystic who's disrupting Central Park.
#9 - Parents
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/2002
Toni blackmails Mike into meeting her parents; Jan dates a cop with a secret; Tommy courts a rageaholic.
#10 - Foot
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/4/2001
A bag with a severed foot is found, prompting a visit to some mob contacts and a few practical jokes; Mike secretly does a background check on Jan's new boyfriend; Toni is groped on the subway.
#11 - Vacation
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/17/2002
After getting into trouble for posing as a firefighter in an unorthodox drug bust, Mike is forced to take a vacation in Miami, but he can't relax when he suspects one of his most wanted fugitives is staying at his hotel.
#12 - Dad
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/24/2002
Frank's reunited with the son he never knew; Jan's medical secret isn't safe with O'Neill; Pip's patrol car is stolen while he's shopping.
#13 - Barbecue
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/13/2002
Pip and Adina celebrate their 25th anniversary with a no-smoking, no-drinking barbecue attended by church friends, the squad, Mike, Karen and Toni; an impromptu bar and a brawl break out soon after in the backyard.
#14 - Telescope
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/30/2002
Tommy lifts a telescope from a crime scene, which prompts hours of fun for the squad when they spy a topless yoga practitioner; Jan meets a good prospect when she tries ""speed dating""; Frank repeatedly tries to return a dead body to its rightful precinct.
#15 - Quitter
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/27/2002
Mike promises Karen that he'll quit drinking, just to prove he really doesn't have a problem; the squad has second thoughts about busting a pot party; Mike discovers the joys of abusing cold medicine.
#16 - Gay
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/17/2002
Mike suspects that Frank is gay, and soon the whole squad is trying to get Frank and each other out of the closet; Jan's and Pip's shopping trip to an electronics store turns into an unexpected bust.
#17 - Neighbor
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/10/2002
Mike has Reuben and Al spy on Karen and his neighbor at the park.
#18 - Boss
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/2002
Mike suspects that Toni is cheating on him with her boss; Frank heads to the track with Tommy to place bets using police department money; Jan and Ruben both vie for a gorgeous apartment left vacant by a murder.
#19 - Gina
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/6/2002
Mike scams his way into taking over Ruben's moonlighting as a security guard for Gina Gershon; Frank and the rest of the squad follow suit and jump on the personal security business bandwagon; Adina suspects Pip is cheating on her; Jan discovers Al has a surprising sideline.