The WORST episodes of Unhappily Ever After

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

Jack Malloy is the hallucinating father who works at a used car lot. Jennifer "Jennie" Slattery Malloy is the mother who hates Ryan and Ross, her two sons. Ryan Malloy is the oldest son who is not too bright. Tiffany Malloy is the beautiful smart daughter. Ross Malloy is the youngest forgotten child. Mr. Floppy is Jack's stuffed rabbit who he sees come to life.

Last Updated: 8/28/2024Network: The WBStatus: Ended
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6.14
7 votes

#1 - The Silver Rule

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1998

Elliot, the school newspaper editor, sues Tiffany for sexual harassment when she tries to get him a front page story. Ryan gets to take over the horoscopes in the school paper.

Directors: Linda Day
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6.23
39 votes

#2 - The Rat

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1995

Jack leaves Jennie's room for the basement because she won't let him have his ways, but he finds a giant rat in the basement and makes the kids get rid of it.

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6.30
43 votes

#3 - Rock Star

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1995

When Jennie gets a date with Ray Paul Jones, her teen crush, she gives Jack the right to fantasize about a celebrity. Jack picks Cindy Crawford and gets arrested for stalking her.

Directors: Gerry Cohen
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6.36
42 votes

#4 - Rocky VI

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1995

When Jennie gets in a fight with Susan, a neighbor, she has Jack fight Vic, Susan's husband.

Directors: Sam W. Orender
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6.36
44 votes

#5 - Zit Could Happen to You

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1995

When Tiffany gets a zit and Ryan sets the scale to ten pounds more than normal, Tiffany tries to develop a personality and Jennie starts jogging. Jennie becomes Vicky Vixen on the Internet, and Ryan finds that Vicki Vixen has the hots for him.

Directors: Gerry Cohen
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6.37
43 votes

#6 - Mr. No

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/14/1996

Tiffany is disturbed when Danny, a boy, doesn't want to go to the Valentine's Dance with her. Ryan plans on taking Ms. O'Hara, his chemistry teacher, but she blows herself up. Mr. Floppy sends obscene mail to Pamela Anderson.

Directors: Linda Day
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6.43
7 votes

#7 - Secrets

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1998

Ryan tells Tiffany he slept with Penny, a girl she hates, but Tiffany has trouble keeping it a secret.

Directors: Geoff Pierson
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6.50
10 votes

#8 - X-Happily Ever After

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1998

Ryan and Tiffany investigate about the dancing baby conspiracy in a parody of The X-Files.

Directors: Linda Day
Writer: Kevin Curran
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Jack's First Date
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6.52
80 votes

#9 - Jack's First Date

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/1995

Mr. Floppy thinks that Jack should start dating. While Jack, Jennifer, Ryan, and Tiffany go to Howe High's back to school night, Jack tries to send out ""the vibe"" to the women there. Amazingly he gets a date with Miss Taylor (Ryan's Civics Teacher), whom all the male teachers and students, and half the female teachers are after. Jennifer agrees to lend Jack the car for the date, but is less than supportive of him. When Jack comes to pick up the car, Jennifer and the car aren't there-- she and Maureen have taken it to the otherside of the block. Jack ends up meeting Miss Taylor 3 hours late, and Ryan's friend the paperboy ends up going home with her.

Directors: Sam W. Orender
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Gift of the Magnovox
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6.55
146 votes

#10 - Gift of the Magnovox

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/1995

After failing to get one of the three VCRs (even the one that requires you to continuously press the ""play"" button) from Jennifer in the divorce, Jack sells his car to an old lady and buys himself a new one. Mr. Floppy gets excited because they can watch porno (Natural Born Hooters). Jennifer gets upset because it's their first marriage anniversary after the break up, and Jack forgets what day it is. Jennifer invites Jack over for dinner and cons him into feeling that they ought to exchange gifts, and he gives her the new VCR, while she gives him the crappy one. Mr. Floppy gets mad at Jack for giving away the new VCR, and Jack makes the mop and pizza box talk to demonstrate that he doesn't need Mr. Floppy.

Directors: Gerry Cohen
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6.56
9 votes

#11 - Let's Get Ready to Rum Ball

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/15/1998

When Tiffany goes on a weekend ski trip and wakes up in bed and tied up with her skies, she decides to think back to what happen, while Ryan says that he beated up the Abominal Snowman and while Ross witnesses Jack and Jeannie having a high old time while Tiffany and Ryan were away.

Directors: Harriette Reagan
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6.57
7 votes

#12 - The Artist and the Con Artist

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/9/1999

Tiffany has to paint a picture for art class, but gets them mixed up with Ryan's and starts to be a success, but feels bad about using his work for success.

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6.64
11 votes

#13 - The Whiz Kid

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1995

When Ryan starts taking urine tests for football players, he gets a lettered jersey and the respect of a football player. Meanwhile, no one notices Tiffany, because of Ryan being on the football team, when she gets the highest SAT scores in the school and becomes a national merrit scholar.

Directors: Gerry Cohen
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Pilot
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6.64
101 votes

#14 - Pilot

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/1995

It's been two weeks since Jennifer kicked Jack out of the house, and Ryan only just notices. He's just rented an apartment for himself and Jennifer gives him his pillow, blue quilt, a fork, a knife, and his orange juice glass to take with him. Ross gives him his stuffed bunny, Mr. Floppy. He takes Mr. Floppy to his apartment, and he's so screwed up that Mr. Floppy starts to talk to him. Ryan and Tiffany learn to take advantage of being products of a broken home at school. Jack steals back his high school leather jacket from Jennifer while she is out on a date. She comes over to his apartment because she can't sleep with out him next to her, and they end up having sex.

Directors: Gerry Cohen
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6.67
9 votes

#15 - The Fencing Show

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1998

Tiffany faces off against Barbara in a fencing competition so she can get a good job.

Directors: Geoff Pierson
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Jack The Ripper
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6.68
19 votes

#16 - Jack The Ripper

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/8/1995

Since Jack's boss (Jennifer's father) won't give him a car, he decides to buy a moped. Jennifer finally convinces her mother, who came six weeks ago for a two week visit, to go home. As Maureen walks out the door, Jack runs into her with the moped, which of course causes her to continue staying with Jennifer. Jennifer decides that in order to prevent Maureen from suing Jack and getting all of Jennifer's stuff, that Jack should call her ""mom"" (which he has never done). Features a wonderful daydream medley of scenes where Jack imagines killing Maureen at various stages in his life.

Directors: Gerry Cohen
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The Descent Of Man
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6.77
13 votes

#17 - The Descent Of Man

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/22/1995

Jennifer is appalled by Jack's, Ryan's, and Ross' table manners, while Jack becomes upset when he learns that Ryan does the dishes and the laundry. Jack encourages him to fight against his emasculation, and Ryan then refuses to do the laundry, so Jennifer kicks him out. Ross is later deposited at Jack's after using the guest soaps in the bathroom. Jack tries to teach the boys how to revel in their maleness, while Jennifer, Tiffany, and Maureen enjoy the silence of a house devoid of belching, and exchange stories about the ""gelding of men."" For want of food, Jack and the boys raid Jennifer's garbage for left overs and then get food poisoning. After being retrieved from the hospital by the women, the three are made to do the dishes in frilly aprons. Don't miss Tiffany getting hot talking about the riches she will acquire from her man-- ""Oh, stocks, diamonds and porkbellies oh my!""

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6.78
9 votes

#18 - A Movie Show

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1998

Tiffany is annoyed when Jerome, her sensitive boyfriend, won't stand up to rude people at a movie.

Directors: Linda Day
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6.80
10 votes

#19 - Little Ice Cream Shop of Horrors

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/1997

Tiffany must work at an ice cream parlor.

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6.80
10 votes

#20 - The Potato Rebellion

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/16/1997

Ryan, Tiffany, and their friends protest against the school's disgusting mashed potatoes. Meanwhile, Jack suffers from insomnia.

Directors: Gerry Cohen
Writer: Sandy Sprung
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6.83
12 votes

#21 - Jack Moves Back

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1995

Jack moves back in to the house for the sake of the kids, but must live in the basement until he can win Jennie back.

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6.87
15 votes

#22 - A Line in the Sand

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1995

When the family earns 40,000 frequent flyer miles, Jack wants to go to Las Vegas and Jennie wants to go to Hawaii. Meanwhile, Tiffany gets in a fight with Patty, a cheap girl who Ryan is in love with.

Directors: Gerry Cohen
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6.89
9 votes

#23 - I Know What You Did in the Closet

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1998

After Tiffany remembers Ryan locking her in a closet ten years before, Tiffany makes phone calls to Ryan telling him to beware of the closet monster. Ryan finds Jack, Barbara, and Ross dead and suspects Tiffany.

Directors: Scott Baio
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6.89
9 votes

#24 - Basketball ... Again?

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1998

After being fouled out in a game of basketball by a girl, Ryan decides to prove that men are better than women in basketball.

Directors: Andrew Susskind
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6.90
10 votes

#25 - Honey, I Screwed up the Kids for Life

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1995

Tiffany thinks Jack doesn't trust her when he doesn't let Tiffany go in her room with Mike, her boyfriend.

Directors: Sam W. Orender
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