The BEST episodes written by Bill Wrubel

Las Vegas
star
8.20
3740 votes

#1 - Las Vegas

Modern Family - Season 5 - Episode 18

Jay is determined to get the adults’ hotel suite upgraded; Claire tries to win back some money; Phil auditions to be a magician.

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Rainbow
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8.12
2226 votes

#2 - Rainbow

Ted Lasso - Season 2 - Episode 5

Nate learns how to be assertive from Keeley and Rebecca. Ted asks Roy for a favor.

Fulgencio
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8.04
4474 votes

#3 - Fulgencio

Modern Family - Season 4 - Episode 13

When Gloria’s mother and sister visit, they bring traditions, baby names and family baggage; Phil helps the kids with their problems; Mitchell and Cameron try to correct Lily’s bad habits.

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Alive and Schticking
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8.01
345 votes

#4 - Alive and Schticking

Will & Grace - Season 8 - Episode 1

LIVE SEASON PREMIERE - Grace contemplates having an affair with a married man. Elsewhere, Jack begins new career as a host of his new talk show "Jack Talk." Will gets some advice from Malcolm and tries to hide from Karen the fact that Stan is alive. Alec Baldwin and Eric Stoltz guest star, Shelly Morrison also stars.

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The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee
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7.99
156 votes

#5 - The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee

Sports Night - Season 1 - Episode 11

A southern African American football player and five other students refuse to play at a Tennessee college where the Confederate flag is hung. Luther Sachs the owner of CSC and alumnus of the college sides with the college, but Isaac disagrees and says so on the show. Casey goes on "The View" and takes credit for his wardrobe, which he doesn't deserve and this leads Dan and another staffer to teach him that the show is a team.

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Two Aces
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7.93
2592 votes

#6 - Two Aces

Ted Lasso - Season 1 - Episode 6

When Jamie refuses to train, Ted turns to talented new signing Dani Rojas—and the team is struck by an age-old curse.

Flip Flop
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7.84
4357 votes

#7 - Flip Flop

Modern Family - Season 4 - Episode 20

Phil gets desperate when Cam and Claire’s flipped house is more difficult to sell than expected; Javier brings his new girlfriend along to visit Manny.

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Our Children, Ourselves
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7.81
5923 votes

#8 - Our Children, Ourselves

Modern Family - Season 2 - Episode 12

Phil and Claire pressure Alex to ease back on her school work, but begin to worry about their own intellectual drives. Jay is upset when Gloria tries to befriend a new couple, and Mitchell runs into an old female flame.

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The Old Wagon
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7.79
6485 votes

#9 - The Old Wagon

Modern Family - Season 2 - Episode 1

Phil finally agrees to sell the old station wagon but only after a family trip down memory lane; Cameron asks Jay for help when Mitchell decides to build a life-size princess castle for Lily.

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The Butler's Escape
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7.79
4634 votes

#10 - The Butler's Escape

Modern Family - Season 4 - Episode 4

Phil can’t accept that Luke wants to quit magic; Gloria’s snoring keeps Jay and Manny awake; Mitch and Cam struggle to deal with their reversed role.

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Tableau Vivant
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7.76
4507 votes

#11 - Tableau Vivant

Modern Family - Season 3 - Episode 23

Gloria and Jay bicker while trying to order lunch at a diner. Claire and Cam have different theories on how to discipline kids. Luke accepts an award under false pretenses. Phil has a hard time firing Mitchell from his temporary job at the real estate agency. The entire family participates in Alex’s living art display of Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving painting.

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Someone to Watch Over Lily
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7.76
5365 votes

#12 - Someone to Watch Over Lily

Modern Family - Season 2 - Episode 20

Mitchell and Cameron assess their family members in trying to decide who would best take care of Lily should anything happen to them.

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Airport 2010
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7.76
5713 votes

#13 - Airport 2010

Modern Family - Season 1 - Episode 22

For Jay's birthday, Gloria gives him the best surprise -- a romantic birthday getaway to Hawaii -- the only kicker is she invited the whole entire family to come along. Everyone arrives at the airport, and it's a maddening scene with forgotten I.D.'s, security breaches and flying phobias.

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Sleeper
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7.76
3513 votes

#14 - Sleeper

Modern Family - Season 5 - Episode 21

Phil cannot handle the stress when he tells Claire an elaborate lie; Gloria is tasked with organizing this year’s family portrait; Jay covertly enters Stella in a dog show.

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Door to Door
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7.74
5597 votes

#15 - Door to Door

Modern Family - Season 3 - Episode 4

Jay helps Manny with a school fundraiser. Claire petitions for a stop sign at a busy intersection. Phil and Luke try to create a viral video. Gloria searches for Stella.

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Lifetime Supply
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7.74
5427 votes

#16 - Lifetime Supply

Modern Family - Season 3 - Episode 11

Phil contemplates the worst after missing a call from the doctor. Javier, Manny’s biological father, pays another visit to take his son to the horse races, Mitchell wins an environmental law award, creating a competition between Cam and himself on who has the better trophy. Gloria tutors Haley in Spanish.

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Larry's Wife
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7.71
4279 votes

#17 - Larry's Wife

Modern Family - Season 5 - Episode 3

Phil’s job takes up a lot of his time; Luke has his friends over for a poker game; Gloria worries the baby is cursed; Cam hosts a funeral for the cat’s imaginary wife.

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Family/Affair
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7.69
192 votes

#18 - Family/Affair

Ugly Betty - Season 2 - Episode 2

Betty gets a little overwhelmed about Wilhelmina's brand new hunky bodyguard. Plus, Henry returns to pay for insurance, which has Betty concerned about their relationship. Because of the fatal crash, Alexis gets amnesia and Bradford uses it to his advantage. Hilda comes to terms with recent events. And Amanda gets a surprise inheritance from her late biological mother.

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Send Out the Clowns
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7.67
4784 votes

#19 - Send Out the Clowns

Modern Family - Season 3 - Episode 18

Cameron is reunited with his estranged ex-clown partner, Lewis. Phil is serious about landing a very important listing, only to be trumped by a notorious bulldozer of an agent, Mitzi Roth. Manny has a cool new friend, which makes both Jay and Gloria suspicious.

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Christmas Break
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7.66
261 votes

#20 - Christmas Break

Will & Grace - Season 7 - Episode 12

Grace attends a holiday party at Will's mother Marilyn's home and accidentally breaks a treasured Lladro figurine. Will convinces Grace not to tell his mother and to blame the accident on one of the other guests at the party. Elsewhere, Karen's stepdaughter, Olivia, comes to stay for the Christmas holiday. While lunching at the mall they start making fun of people, but Karen's remarks are especially mean and Olivia and her friends take offense.

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The Quality of Mercy at 29K
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7.66
127 votes

#21 - The Quality of Mercy at 29K

Sports Night - Season 1 - Episode 9

The team broadcasts an Everest climb, the first one since 1954. Jeremy realizes he's got something to live for, Natalie. Casey searches for food, as Dan searches for a charity to give to. Dana takes her niece to see ""The Lion King"", and discovers a love of the theater.

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The Cut Man Cometh
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7.64
146 votes

#22 - The Cut Man Cometh

Sports Night - Season 2 - Episode 11

While prepping to cover a major fight, Dana and Casey duke it out over their stalled fling, and Dan's dad, Jay, hits town for a tense visit. But after the match goes south, the CSC staff bands together to knock out a killer show, including an hour's worth of coverage of a fight that lasted under a minute and a correspondent who only will respond to being called "the cut man", calls Dan; Casey, and Casey; Dan. He also shows he has no idea what he is talking about, when he talks about the last winner of the Miss America pageant, Miss Rochester.

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The Bicycle Thief
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7.59
7412 votes

#23 - The Bicycle Thief

Modern Family - Season 1 - Episode 2

As Phil helps his son show Claire he can be trusted, Phil turns out to be the irresponsible one at the sight of a hot neighbor. Mitchell and Cameron take Lily to their Mommy & Me class. Manny and Jay uncomfortably spend time together.

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Moon Landing
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7.58
6467 votes

#24 - Moon Landing

Modern Family - Season 1 - Episode 14

Claire is upset to find that her friend Valerie is better than her. In the meantime Mitchell helps Gloria with legal issues and Jay had a hard time in the locker room.

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Shane
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7.57
174 votes

#25 - Shane

Sports Night - Season 2 - Episode 6

Natalie obsesses over the loss of hell. In a nod to real-life racist John Rocker, Casey interviews an old friend, Shane McArnold, who heaps disdain on his new home city of New York and all its inhabitants. Casey promises to ""fix it"" out of loyalty, but Dana knows it's good television and leaves it as is. Meanwhile, Dan's therapist Abby is opening up Dan's true feelings about his family, making him more and more dysfunctional.

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Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
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7.57
1729 votes

#26 - Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

Modern Family - Season 10 - Episode 7

Cam decides he needs to reconnect with his country roots and get a chicken. Alex is up for a prestigious government job. Haley and Dylan think it might be time they grew up a little. Meanwhile, Jay and Gloria disagree over Joe's education.

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Winner Winner Turkey Dinner
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7.57
2682 votes

#27 - Winner Winner Turkey Dinner

Modern Family - Season 9 - Episode 7

During Jay’s Thanksgiving toast, he honors the entire family on their recent successes, even though everyone knows that isn’t quite true. As everyone desperately tries to hide the facts about their perceived triumphs, Phil works hard to master a classic magic trick and prove he’s not the family failure.

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Nice in White Satin
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7.56
265 votes

#28 - Nice in White Satin

Will & Grace - Season 6 - Episode 7

Will learns that Karen missed her physical, so he takes her to one of the finest doctors in the city. It is not until after the doctor does a demonstration on Will that Karen obliges. While at the office, Jack flirts with a male nurse, and he later announces that he's going to be a nurse himself. The problem is, training costs $2,700, and Will and Karen are reluctant to give him the money. Once they pay the fees, Jack, fickle as ever, announces that he's taken up surfing, and that he needs $1,600 for lessons. Will and Karen are about to let the nursing school know of his decision to drop out until Jack comes up with an inventive way to feed Karen her calcium pills.

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A Mother of a Problem
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7.53
196 votes

#29 - A Mother of a Problem

Ugly Betty - Season 3 - Episode 18

Betty meets Matt's mother, but the meeting turns into a disaster. Meanwhile, Wilhelmina comes up with a way to solve the company's cash problem; Daniel deals with his relationship with Molly; and the Suarez's work together to set Hilda up with Archie.

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Giving Up the Ghost
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7.52
145 votes

#30 - Giving Up the Ghost

Ugly Betty - Season 2 - Episode 9

A crisis caused by Wilhelmina has the team at Mode struggling to meet a deadline under extreme time constraints. Consequently, Alexis is forced to flirt with the printer for an extension, and Betty and Daniel try to free a teen star out of rehabilitation for a re-shoot.

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Marry Me a Little (1)
star
7.50
309 votes

#31 - Marry Me a Little (1)

Will & Grace - Season 5 - Episode 8

Grace and Leo impetuously take their vows at a Central Park wedding that is a ratings stunt hosted by Today's Katie Couric. Grace's pals, especially Will, are hurt that they weren't invited, but all seems forgiven when everyone including Grace's outspoken mom and the subdued Mrs. Marcus gather days later for a swank reception. It should be a festive bash, but the emergence of unsettling details about Leo and about the park nuptials give Grace reason to wonder whether she has made a mistake.

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24
star
7.50
278 votes

#32 - 24

Will & Grace - Season 5 - Episode 24

Karen, Will, Jack, and Grace go on a trip in Karen's yacht to sprinkle Stan's ashes into the Caribbean while Leo is flying to Guatamala with an atractive co-worker. While Karen sprinkles Stan's ashes she finds Lorraine has been stowing on board. While Karen and Loraiinne fight, Will and Jack get drunk. Lorainne pushes Karen off the board and Rosairo jumps off after her. The next morning Grace finds Leo's bag with a letter from his co-worker Danni saying that she wants Leo. Will wakes up in bed naked with a hangover and a naked Jack in the bed with him. Meanwhile Karen and Rosairo are stuck on a cargo boat.

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Company
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7.49
258 votes

#33 - Company

Will & Grace - Season 7 - Episode 4

When Will and Grace meet a stranger named Ned in the elevator, Grace accuses Will of being too nice to people he doesn't know. While Grace befriends Ned and invites him to dinner, Will makes some nasty remarks about him, but they soon discover that Ned's not the best company to keep. Meanwhile, Jack is having trouble at his new company because he feels he can't relate to his co-workers after they mock him about his Cher doll. Karen and Rosario lend some much-needed support.

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Odor in the Court
star
7.47
123 votes

#34 - Odor in the Court

Ugly Betty - Season 2 - Episode 12

Wilhelmina tries to becomes part of the Meade family by any means necessary. Amanda withholds evidence and Betty applies a deadly perfume made by Fey Sommers.

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Something Borrowed, Someone's Due
star
7.47
207 votes

#35 - Something Borrowed, Someone's Due

Will & Grace - Season 4 - Episode 18

After Will and Grace move into their expansive new dream apartment, they discover the awful pangs of separation anxiety as they pine for their smaller old digs now happily occupied by their friends who sub-let the place. Elsewhere, Jack tries to reconcile Karen with her estranged grifter of a mom, who wants to recruit her daughter for her next caper.

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Dear Beloved Family
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7.46
2447 votes

#36 - Dear Beloved Family

Modern Family - Season 9 - Episode 12

Gloria has to rush Phil to the hospital for an emergency surgery after he experiences some intense stomach pains and rallies the entire family to be by his side.

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Whanex?
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7.44
1607 votes

#37 - Whanex?

Modern Family - Season 10 - Episode 13

Cam must contend with a bully at the school. Jay has a little technical trouble during his video conference and the local mall holds a photo shoot for its new ad campaign and Gloria tricks Phil and Joe into participating.

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Stand By Your Man
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7.43
1505 votes

#38 - Stand By Your Man

Modern Family - Season 10 - Episode 18

Dylan and Luke are really impressed with Bill’s tales of heroism and survival as a firefighter, which emasculates Phil. To impress the guys, Phil invites them over for a little male-bonding moment that goes terribly wrong.

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April is the Cruelest Month
star
7.42
171 votes

#39 - April is the Cruelest Month

Sports Night - Season 2 - Episode 19

The network deals a financial blow to "Sports Night" that has Isaac and Dana reeling - the show's Olympic coverage is going to be cut to the quick and Natalie's job may be cut entirely! Depressed about his disgraceful on-air behavior toward Casey, Dan decides to hold a Passover Seder, which Jeremy turns into a theatrical event that has a healing effect on everyone.

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Marry Me a Little More (2)
star
7.41
253 votes

#40 - Marry Me a Little More (2)

Will & Grace - Season 5 - Episode 9

Grace's wedding to Leo leaves Will feeling upset over losing his best friend.

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Kafelnikov
star
7.41
177 votes

#41 - Kafelnikov

Sports Night - Season 2 - Episode 5

Jeremy tells Dana that there is no reason to hire people to prepare for the expected Y2K computer problems; he has made the computers Y2K compatible. To prove this, Jeremy, rigs the computer to say that it is December 31, 1999 and hold a Y2K test to prove that there will be no computer problems when the studio rolls into 2000. The results are total darkness. Dan picks up a therapist in a bar, who invites him out on a date... or does she really just think he needs some therapy?

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Ugly Berry
star
7.40
257 votes

#42 - Ugly Berry

Ugly Betty - Season 3 - Episode 6

Betty finds herself competing with Kimmie who finally shows her true colors, and new citizen Ignacio prepares to vote for the first time.

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CHiPs and Salsa
star
7.35
2034 votes

#43 - CHiPs and Salsa

Modern Family - Season 9 - Episode 19

When Haley hears that her loopy boss is looking for a product with the magical properties of peppers, she tries to gain favor by convincing Gloria to sell her salsa to NERP. Mitchell gets Cam the police ride-along he’s always dreamed of. Also, Phil and Claire compete against one another while Luke has a meeting with a dean of university.

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Homojo
star
7.35
283 votes

#44 - Homojo

Will & Grace - Season 5 - Episode 15

Jack suffers Karen's wrath when he is seduced into friendship with her manipulative British romantic rival, who has set up house with Karen's ex-husband. Meanwhile, Will and Grace try to re-connect their lagging friendship with a competitive night of board games with their friends.

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Stakin' Care of Business
star
7.33
278 votes

#45 - Stakin' Care of Business

Will & Grace - Season 4 - Episode 11

At the gym, Will spies another guy who looks maddeningly familiar, while Jack gets a workout as he keeps repeating one of his nonsensical catch-phrases in hopes of seeing it become popular among the sweat set. Meanwhile, Grace gets some bad advice from Karen when she seeks a loan to expand her company, so she stoops to asking her wealthy employee for the money—even if she has to resort to drastic measures to get the point across.

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Grace in the Hole
star
7.26
294 votes

#46 - Grace in the Hole

Will & Grace - Season 4 - Episode 14

While visiting Karen's incarcerated husband, Grace re-discovers a handsome high school friend who's also doing time in prison, and despite Will's advice, she's soon dressing up and visiting the inmate while dreaming of a life together outside the Big House. Conversely, a sympathetic Rosario chides Karen for not standing by her man—and bets her boozy boss that she and pal Jack cannot stay penned-up together in the same room for three days without harming each other.

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