The WORST episodes of Veronica's Closet
Every episode of Veronica's Closet ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Veronica's Closet!
"A half-hour comedy series from the creators and executive producers of Friends. Veronica's Closet stars Kirstie Alley as Veronica 'Ronnie' Chase, the 'Queen of Romance.' Founder of a successful lingerie empire, and best-selling author of self-help romance books, Ronnie has it all ... money, success, sex appeal and a philandering husband. How she will find true happiness without jeopardizing her business will be her biggest challenge yet. "A devoted wife for 14 years and a savvy entrepreneur, Ronnie has built an enterprise based on romance despite her philandering husband. However, as of late, his indiscretions have become too frequent and painful to overlook. She can no longer tolerate finding his bimbos' undergarments in her house or the tabloids photographing him with other women. Infidelity is hard enough without having to endure public humiliation. "Standing by Ronnie's side, is her acerbic and sexually ambivalent assistant, Josh (Langham). Also experiencing relationsh
#1 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1997
Ronnie learns that Bryce is cheating on her again, but can't find it in her heart to leave him. Leo breaks more bad news that Ronnie's body is not what it used to be and is no longer suitable for appearing on the company packaging. Ronnie's halfhearted attempt to get in shape fails, so, as a last resort, young female models are brought in so she can select the body she'd least mind seeing her head pasted on top of. After a tabloid story about Bryce sleeping around hits the papers, reporters stake out Veronica's Closet trying to get a scoop on Ronnie's and Bryce's rocky romance. Unwilling to act on Olive's and Pat's advice to get even with Bryce by having affairs of her own, Ronnie instead sets up a faux romantic dinner for her and her husband to fool the press into believing the two are still happily married. But the discovery that Bryce slept with the model who's soon to be her body double finally puts Ronnie over the edge and gives her the courage to come clean and walk out on him.
#2 - Veronica's Not Happy About the Book
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1997
Bryce stages an all-out power play after Ronnie surprises him with a copy of his forgotten prenuptial agreement - which he wishes he hadn't gotten her to sign as he hasn't worked in the past decade, and Ronnie's been the breadwinner since then. First, Bryce maxes out all of their credit cards and empties out their joint bank accounts. Then, Ronnie pays Bryce back by calling up the police and reporting his car stolen. Finally, after Bryce gets out of jail for heisting his own car, he retaliates by filling Ronnie in on his plans to write an embarrassing tell-all book about their marriage. Knowing Bryce has got her where he wants her, Ronnie pleads with him not to write the book, but he'll only agree to that if she'll tear up the prenup. After bartering with each other, Bryce allows Ronnie to pick five humiliating things he'll leave out of the book in exchange for her beach house. Leo confides to Olive that he'd like to design lingerie, but his designs are so awful, Olive tells him he nee
#3 - Veronica's Husband Won't Leave
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1997
When Leo thinks one of the company models is carrying around some baggage in her pants, Perry admits he once dated her and sets out to prove he didn't make out for twenty minutes with another guy. Bryce sneaks into Ronnie's apartment and tries to win her back, but she throws him out. After Ronnie turns away the press in regards to their trial separation, Bryce goes on national television and milks sympathy like there's no tomorrow. Ronnie has a change of mind after USA Today conducts a poll where 73% of the country was gullible enough to want her to take Bryce back, and she schedules an interview with Entertainment Tonight to tell her side of the story. Perry feels Ronnie should beat Bryce at his own game and cry a few crocodile tears for the press so the public sympathy vote will tilt in her favor. She can't cry during the interview, though, making Ronnie believe she is over Bryce. Olive weasels a private office bathroom out of Ronnie, but it's not very private after the builder knock
#4 - Veronica's Night at the Theater
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/29/1999
Justin knows the producers of ""Cabaret"" and can get Veronica all the free tickets she wants. Josh begs Ronnie for a pair so he can take Chloe, and she eventually relents. Alec jealously plans to break Ronnie and Justin up by asking Justin to see him on the same night he was supposed to take her to ""Cabaret."" Justin chooses Alec over Ronnie and tells her to take someone else and go without him. Justin is understandably confused when he finds out why Alec wanted to see him: to offer him his half of Veronica's Closet. Alec comes clean and lets Justin know his only reason for doing this is to make Justin miserable and working with the woman you love day in and day out is sure to do that. Veronica gives Justin's ticket to Olive, but Olive's enthusiasm for the musical diminishes after she recognizes a man performing on stage as an old boyfriend who ran out on her without saying goodbye. While gossiping about the guy, Ronnie and Olive annoy Josh so he makes a bogus report that they stole item
#5 - Veronica's Fun and Pirates are Crazy
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/1998
Due to a loophole in their prenup, Bryce's lawyers send Bryce to work for Ronnie in an attempt to gain a chunk of Veronica's Closet for him. Even though he doesn't actually do any work, Ronnie has no choice but to keep Bryce around as he's on the board of directors. Olive participates in the big sister program and brings her little sister, Elena, to work to try to convince her to be a powerful female businesswoman, but Elena is only interested in being a model. Ronnie goes crazy after Bryce turns the break room into a recreation room. She also feels like Bryce is trying to steal the rest of her friends away from her once Perry, Leo and Josh begin hanging out with Bryce. Desperate to win them back, Ronnie responds to Bryce's themed Hawaiian Day by setting up Pirate Day, but it bombs and leads her to believe the others don't find her fun. Olive tries to talk Elena into doing anything besides modeling - until Perry gives Elena a makeover, and everybody discovers firsthand how empty-headed
#6 - Veronica's Christmas Song
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/1997
Veronica and Olive audition to sing at Lincoln Center and Bryce comes on to Josh.
#7 - Veronica's First Thanksgiving
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1997
Ronnie's Thanksgiving plans are crushed when Bryce's grandma shows up, unexpectedly not knowing of Ronnie and Bryce's separation. Bryce and Pepper then must show up, and Bryce announces to his grandma that Ronnie is pregnant.
#8 - Veronica Falls Hard
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/11/1999
In light of the previous sexual tension between them, a smitten Veronica tries to coax Alec into going out with her, but Alec a firm believer in not mixing business with pleasure. He eventually changes his mind and tells Veronica he will take her on a spontaneous romantic getaway, only it doesn't turn out to be so spontaneous or romantic when she finds out he booked the flight three weeks in advance ... and with no particular woman in mind. Then, Chloe makes Josh meet her two blue-collar transit cop brothers for a round of drinks on St. Patrick's Day. Since Josh is less than thrilled with the prospect, he decides to play Everyday Joe in an effort to be ""one of the boys."" And the reception area at Veronica's Closet gets a makeover, which is good for Olive - who gets to check out all the cute painters' butts, but bad for Veronica who knocks herself unconscious after slamming head first into scaffolding while fighting with Alec.
#9 - Veronica's All-Nighter
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/16/1998
Josh tells Perry about Tina and Keyshawn. They confront Tina, who begs them not to tell Leo as she swears it won't happen again. Ronnie celebrates the completion of the company's Memorial Day catalogue, but three months of work go down the drain when Saks Fifth Avenue beats them to the punch with a catalogue featuring the same concept. Ronnie frantically sets up an all-nighter to reshoot it with a new concept get it to the printer's the next morning in time for the holiday. After running through various ideas, Ronnie decides on ""Summer,"" featuring a male lifeguard and a bunch of chesty babes in lingerie. On short notice, Olive finds the male, Tony Tony, for the reshoot, yet can't locate any chesty babes. Perry is able to lure six female models away from another model's party. Unfortunately, all six of them arrive stoned from ""special"" brownies they were enjoying at the party. When she sees that Tony Tony has become so out of shape she can't use him, Ronnie turns to Perry for backup. Wi
#10 - Veronica's Favorite Year
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1999
Ronnie hires Tim, a former boyfriend, to handle the photography for an Italian magazine that Veronica's Closet is affiliated with. Alec is ticked off when Tim - who's now an incompetent lush - single-handedly destroys the shoot and makes the company look bad. The magazine's editor, a man, flirts with Josh.
#11 - Veronica Plays House
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/1999
Alec buys a new apartment and Veronica begs him to let her redecorate it. He reluctantly agrees, but gives her the pink slip when things don't work out and hires a swishy professional interior decorator as her replacement. Veronica is less than thrilled with the new development and takes it upon herself to get rid of the guy behind Alec's back. Josh dates an honest-to-God woman, but dreads the thought of having to have sex with her.
#12 - Veronica's Wedding Bell Blues
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/1999
The photographer's story (episode 27) turns out to be for real when Bryce announces he's getting remarried and invites Ronnie to his wedding. She decides to go just to start trouble. Bryce has a little trouble of his own in mind - he comes on to Ronnie. Seeing Bryce is up to his old tricks again, Ronnie pays a visit to his soon-to-be wife at her hotel room to inform the woman that the man she's planning to marry is a no-good womanizer. The bride is horrified and calls things off. Later, Ronnie discovers she went to the wrong hotel room, wrecked some other couple's wedding, and didn't stop Bryce from marrying his fiancée. Leo's pet snake eats a kitten Olive planned to give to her nephew.
#13 - Veronica's Thanksgiving that Keeps on Giving
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1998
During Thanksgiving dinner, Alec receives mixed signals from Ronnie. Perry and Leo bet on the outcome of a football game.
#14 - Veronica's on the Herb
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1998
Olive's herbal remedy causes excessive hair growth for Ronnie and herself. Alec is not thrilled that Perry is dating his ex-wife.
#15 - Veronica's Crushed
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1998
A tabloid photographer takes an embarrassing snapshot of Alec and Ronnie, then has it published. The guy later confronts Ronnie, springing the unpleasant news on her that Bryce has plans to marry a former Veronica's Closet supermodel. Due to the public exposure they've gotten because of this incident, Ronnie tries to sort out her mixed feelings about Alec. Perry wants to live alone again so he kicks Leo out of his apartment. Josh takes Leo in, and instead of being happy he's now alone like he wanted, Perry gets jealous.
#16 - Veronica's a Partner Now
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1998
Sharing isn't caring as Ronnie and Alec despise having to work together while occupying the same office, and Alec's assistant moves in and takes over Josh's desk.
#17 - Veronica Gets Her Closet Back
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1998
Now that he's assumed leadership of Veronica's Closet, Hunter gets to work undoing everything Ronnie had done. Alec, Hunter's stepfather, drops by to check on Hunter and winds up asking Ronnie out on a date. The date doesn't work out. Neither does Hunter who fires Olive after the pair get into an argument. Infuriated, Ronnie tries to get Alec to make Hunter sell back his half of the company. Alec meets with Hunter and delivers good news and bad news. The good: Hunter decided to sell after all. The bad: not to Ronnie, but to Alec - and Alec wants to keep it.
#18 - Veronica's Silent Partner
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/7/1998
Millicent agrees to go with Josh to an Amish quilt festival after everyone else turns him down. Olive is upset that Veronica's Closet's softball team is men only. Pat allows Olive, Pepper and Virginia to sign up anyway, which pleases Olive, but not Perry. Ronnie flips her lid when Josh tells her that he and Millicent have been spending an awful lot of time together. Ronnie is left worried that Millicent could cancel their deal if her relationship with Josh doesn't work out. Josh insists he doesn't even have a relationship, and the two are just good friends. Perry is surprised when Pepper and Virginia turn out to be good players. And then there's Olive, who sucks. To compound that problem, while at the plate, Olive accidentally flings a bat at Perry. Josh discovers Millicent wants from him what Ronnie thought she wanted from him. When Josh turns Millicent down, she thinks he's - surprise, surprise - gay. To show her he isn't, Josh has sex with her four times, and is so good in the sack
#19 - Veronica's Man in a Suitcase
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/9/1998
Ronnie returns from vacation with a stranger's suitcase. While pawing through its belongings that document one man's exciting life as a world traveler, Ronnie finds herself falling in love with him. After Tina causes Leo to miss a Jets game, she makes it up to him by surprising him with a football jersey signed by his idol, Keyshawn Johnson. Leo is as excited as a schoolboy when Tina shares the story of how she met Keyshawn - so excited, in fact, that he doesn't find it the least bit suspicious that Keyshawn is regularly inviting Tina out for coffee. David, the stranger with the suitcase, stops by Veronica's Closet to pick up his bag, and gives Ronnie exactly what she wanted - a date. After going out, Ronnie confesses to David that she read his journal. Since she's been so honest with him, David confesses something to Ronnie in return - his entire life is a sham, he's nothing more than a boring carpet salesman, everything is in the suitcase was faked, and his schtick is to fill several
#20 - Veronica's Big Date
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/25/1999
Alec tries to get Veronica to go out to dinner with him. As she doesn't want the others to see them together, she invites Alec over to her place for a secretive dinner instead. The date turns into a disaster when Alec tries to conduct business; Veronica gets upset, and Alec storms out. Perry and Leo find out that the two are going out and let Olive in on the news. Josh is shocked to receive a BMW as a two-month anniversary present from Chloe - and even more shocked to find out that she can afford it because she's rich. Josh is mad at Chloe for keeping this secret from him all this time. Chloe feels bad and says they both should make a list of the top five things they haven't told each other, and then share what's on them. One of Chloe's things frightens Josh enough that he changes his tune and agrees that some secrets are better left that way. The day after their date, Alec is apologetic about ruining Ronnie's dinner so he invites her to see ""La Boheme"" with him. She willingly accepts,
#21 - Veronica's Big Homecoming
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/1/1999
Ronnie's hears that her hometown in Kansas is naming a boulevard after her, and arranges to fly out there to give a speech in her honor. She tells everyone else about her bad reputation while growing up and explains why most of the town hated her. When Ronnie arrives in Kansas, she sees they still do. Olive gets it off her chest that she was the one who bought the boulevard and named it after Ronnie to make her feel better. Ronnie feels better all right - so much so that she rips down her own street sign. Despite the fact that the entire boulevard is a trash dump, police arrest Leo for the ""crime"" of vandalism, figuring he's the only black man there so he must have been the one who did it.
#22 - Veronica Says Goodbye
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1999
Ronnie agrees to a romantic weekend with Justin. Alec counters this news with some of his own - he's moving to Japan for good. Chloe misunderstands Josh's marriage proposal.
#23 - Veronica's June Swoon
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1999
June's inheritance of 51% of Veronica's Closet upsets Veronica, who wants everybody to be especially mean to June in hopes that she'll quit and leave Ronnie with full ownership of the company again. Perry and Leo have no problems obliging, but Olive ends up taking a liking to the naive, young boss and begs Ronnie to allow June a say in running the business, which entails giving the green-light to June's proposed suggestion box. Meanwhile, Josh is forced to go golfing with Chloe's father and her two brothers so he can fulfill their time-honored family tradition of asking dad for his daughter's hand in marriage. Only it's dad who ends up with the hand as Josh once again goes a bit too far trying to fit in.
#24 - Veronica's Long Walk Home
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1999
June arranges a 10K charity walkathon for needy children to be sponsored by Veronica's Closet. The prospect of the media being there makes Veronica suddenly want to ""help the children"" by taking part in it, though her plan backfires when she's caught on national television taking a taxi to the finish line. Veronica blames this on her shoes, but June doesn't buy it and thinks Veronica was just too old to walk. To show her, Veronica accepts June's dare to double the stakes - by walking 20K. As a joke, Perry and Leo write a sheet filled with $10,000 of faked celebrity pledges, which poses a problem when Olive discovers it and takes it for real. Josh lets Chloe stay at his place after a pipe bursts in her apartment and has second thoughts when he finds out Chloe likes to help herself to his wardrobe.
#25 - Veronica's Got All the Right Stuffing
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/1999
The gang doesn't have much to be thankful for as each and every one of their Thanksgivings is ruined. Josh would rather have dinner alone with Chloe, but instead has to cater to her two immature brothers whom she took the liberty of inviting. They're not the only unwelcome guests as June invites herself to Veronica's against Ronnie's wishes. Leo, the only other guest of Veronica's who doesn't cancel out on her at the last minute, is stuck spending his holiday watching Veronica and June engaged in a hair-pulling, furniture-throwing catfight. Olive tries to help Perry get over his traumatic childhood fear of Thanksgiving parades by making him watch this year's with her out on her balcony. His phobia probably isn't cured when a gigantic King Kong float goes astray and traps Perry against the wall of Olive's building.