The BEST episodes written by Alan Kirschenbaum
#1 - The Man Who Knew Too Much
Stark Raving Mad - Season 1 - Episode 2
Ian's curiosity is piqued after Henry mentions picking up a gift for his girlfriend, Tess, for their anniversary. When Henry refuses to tell Ian anything more about her out of fear Ian will play a practical joke on her, Ian waits until after Henry calls Tess -- and then uses redial to find out where she is. Working in an art gallery is where. So Ian goes there, meets Tess, and pretends to be a couples counselor to trick her into giving him the juicy details about Henry. Ian soon learns to be careful what you wish for when he returns home, horrified, and tells Maddie and Jake that Henry's girlfriend thinks he's a dud in bed and secretely wants to be entertained with toys. Naughty, naughty toys. After Henry comes back with Tess' gift -- flannel sheets -- Ian comes clean about Tess' confession, while Henry figures out Ian hit redial. Henry begs Ian to give him kinky tips to please Tess, so a nauseated Ian takes Henry out to a sex shop that sells S&M toys. Then Henry drops by the art galle
#2 - Henderson, Nevada-Adjacent Baby! Henderson, Nevada-Adjacent!
Raising Hope - Season 2 - Episode 4
Virginia, Burt, Jimmy and Sabrina go to Las Vegas when Delilah plans a big wedding, but Virginia is jealous of her cousin's fancy ceremony because she never had one. Meanwhile, Jimmy hopes his luck with Sabrina will improve in Sin City.
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#3 - Dodge's Dad
My Name Is Earl - Season 4 - Episode 27
When Dodge tells Joy he doesn't want Darnell to speak at career day, she enlists Earl to pretend to be his father. Things don't go well and Earl realizes Dodge needs to know his real dad. Despite Joy's protests, Earl enlists Randy and Catalina to help him hunt down the deadbeat dad, but what they discover is worse than they could have imagined.
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Coach - Season 6 - Episode 19
The Screaming Eagles try to recruit the nations top QB. The players father roomed with Haden in college. After a one on one conversation with the blue chips QB, the player admits he only plays ball to please his eager father whose own football dreams were crushed by an injury. Haden convinces to give the young perspective time to decide his own life direction.
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#6 - Mrs. Smartypants
Raising Hope - Season 2 - Episode 11
When Hope shows signs of being a baby genius, the family pits themselves against one another to earn their GEDs. While attempting to secure his GED, Jimmy finds out that his old high school teacher, Mr. Swift, is teaching the class.
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#7 - Darnell Outed (2)
My Name Is Earl - Season 4 - Episode 16
In the aftermath of having his cover blown, Darnell must pack up and leave Camden. Meanwhile, Earl, Randy and Catalina discover a devastating truth within the post office.
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#8 - Inside Probe
Raising Hope - Season 2 - Episode 21
Nancy Grace examines the "real story" of Hope's mom, serial killer Lucy Carlisle, resulting in the Chance family learning some shocking things about her.
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#9 - Burt Rocks
Raising Hope - Season 1 - Episode 10
A washed-up rock star who is hired as the lead act at 'Grocery-Palooza', a rock concert at the supermarket where Sabrina works. Smokey was once Burt's musical idol, and Burt hopes to relive his rock-star years by playing backup for him at the concert.
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#10 - When Jimmy Met Greggy
Yes, Dear - Season 3 - Episode 24
When Greg tells Jimmy he never does anything for him, Jimmy tells him the story of how, back in the 1980s, he played a critical role in Greg and Kim's relationship.
#12 - Darnell Outed (1)
My Name Is Earl - Season 4 - Episode 15
Joy steals Randy's audition for Erik Estrada's reality show "Estrada or Nada", but her public appearance has consequences for Darnell.
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#13 - Kiss and Yell
Yes, Dear - Season 1 - Episode 14
Kim is surprised when Greg isn't upset after finding out that she kissed Jimmy while he was still dating Christine, then she doesn't believe Greg when he claims to kissed more than his share of girls when he was younger. Christine isn't happy to learn her sister dared to kiss her boyfriend so she decides to even the score.
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#14 - Father-in-Law
Yes, Dear - Season 1 - Episode 5
Kim's and Christine's father, Don, comes for a surprise visit and Greg is jealous because his father-in-law likes Jimmy better even though Greg is the successful son-in-law. Desperately trying to win Don's respect, Greg decides to build a backyard playground for the kids on his own--with no help from anyone.
#15 - Little Bad Voodoo Brother
My Name Is Earl - Season 4 - Episode 8
Earl plans a Halloween party for Dodge and Earl Jr, while Catalina's nephew Oscar visits. This poses an opportunity for Randy to become the big brother he always wanted to be.
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#16 - Arm-prins
Yes, Dear - Season 1 - Episode 9
Greg hurts Kim's feelings by being less-than-supportive when she decides to sell her sleeve guards, called "arm-prins," at a craft fair. Jimmy is upset when he's benched in a security guards' softball game.
#17 - Bad Earl
My Name Is Earl - Season 3 - Episode 13
Earl is having difficulty re-adjusting to life on the outside. He returns to his old ways after he encounters Ralph. Randy plans an intervention for Earl on Christmas morning.
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#19 - Is It Hot in Here, or is It Me? (1)
Coach - Season 8 - Episode 1
(Season premiere) Hayden leaves Minnesota for a new job as coach of an NFL team in Orlando, Florida. When he arrives, he finds that the team's owner has a game plan of her own.
#22 - Pros & Cons
Coach - Season 7 - Episode 1
Hayden is offered a position at an unnamed pro team. He goes to New York to interview for the job. After first finding out about the offer, he doesn't tell Dauber or Luther. Finally he does and everyone becomes excited about a future in the NFL. Unfortunately Hayden is not offered the job. The show ends with Christine and Hayden discussing their unrelenting ambition that leaves them restless in Minnesota.
#23 - Johnny Ampleseed
Yes, Dear - Season 2 - Episode 18
Kim is uncomfortable when Greg's former high school girlfriend and her husband visit and then ask for Greg's help with their infertility.
#24 - Pilot
Yes, Dear - Season 1 - Episode 1
Greg and Kim Warner are worried when their one-year-old son Sam isn't walking yet. Kim's brother-in-law Jimmy and her sister Christine talk them into allowing the wives to have a day without the children, then Sam takes his first steps in an unexpected place.
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#25 - Halloween
Yes, Dear - Season 2 - Episode 6
Greg and Jimmy have more aggressive ideas than Kim for how to get back at a lady and her son for deliberately scaring little Sammy while he was out trick-or-treating on Halloween night.
#26 - You Wanna?
Yes, Dear - Season 1 - Episode 4
Kim is worried that her and Greg's physical intimacy has cooled off since they had a baby. When Greg is more passionate with Kim after Jimmy takes him to a gentlemen's club, Kim is ecstatic until she finds out the reason Greg was so in the mood.
#27 - The Good Couple
Yes, Dear - Season 1 - Episode 3
When Jimmy tells Greg that parents don't get to pick their friends, their kids pick them, Greg tries to manage who Sammy plays with at the park. But things don't go as planned when Greg & Kim spend time with a young, attractive couple they meet there, and they become jealous of Jimmy & Christine's relationship with an older, boring-looking couple.
#28 - The Hypnotist
Stark Raving Mad - Season 1 - Episode 14
Henry scoffs at Ian's story about a guy being hypnotized into believing he committed a crime he didn't, claiming it's ridiculous. Ian, however, professes to be a hypnotic expert, and swears it could definitely happen. In an effort to kill two birds with one stone, Maddie asks Ian to prove it to Henry by hypnotizing her into enjoying the taste of lobster, since her date promised to cook it for her, and she can't stand seafood. Ian proves it to Henry alright. But when Ian's hypnotic powers turn out greater than even he imagined, Jake and Tess fall under his spell too. Soon, Ian's diabolical attempts to play William Shakespeare with them render the situation more tragedy than comedy.
#29 - The Ring
Yes, Dear - Season 2 - Episode 21
Greg's attempt to impress Kim over how much he spent for her wedding ring goes horribly wrong when Kim finds out he originally bought it for another woman.
#30 - Kelly's New Guy (2)
Coach - Season 7 - Episode 22
Kelly and Dauber decide to keep their relationship a secret from Hayden, but fate throws a monkey wrench into their plans.