The BEST episodes written by Jim Armogida

9.06

51 votes

#1 - A Very Brief Encounter

My Family - Season 9 - Episode 3

Susan asks Ben to help an old girlfriend of hers, Mona, through a divorce, but nearly causes her own when Mona tells Ben some surprising tales about Susan. Elsewhere, Roger is feeling down until Janey intervenes.

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8.88

77 votes

#2 - Ben Wants to Be a Millionaire

My Family - Season 2 - Episode 12

Ben goes to a reunion of old school friends and is horrified to find that someone he never liked is now a millionaire. Elsewhere, Nick has found a new unconventional way of earning money.

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8.84

73 votes

#3 - Return of the Prodigal Prat

My Family - Season 4 - Episode 4

When the local newspaper accidentally lists Ben in the obituaries, he takes it as an opportunity to do absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, Susan wants to convert Nick's old room to a nursery, but Nick isn't having any of it.

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8.74

74 votes

#4 - The Great Escape

My Family - Season 4 - Episode 3

Normally, nobody in the Harper family would willingly set foot in Nick's flat, but when Susan's mother comes to stay, it suddenly seems more attractive.

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8.68

79 votes

#5 - Dog Dazed

My Family - Season 9 - Episode 6

Susan decides to get another dog but when she is considered unsuitable to adopt by the dog adoption assessor, Susan loses her cool, and as a result, it is Ben who ends up in the doghouse.

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8.62

74 votes

#6 - The Second Greatest Story Ever Told

My Family - Season 3 - Episode 6

Susan's feathers are ruffled when Nick lands the plum part of Jesus in an amateur theatrical production, leaving Susan to play the rather less demanding part of Shepherd Number Two. Ben, meanwhile, has an extremely painful toothache to contend with, and is wary of entrusting his dental needs to any other dentist.

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8.62

92 votes

#7 - Four Affairs and a Funeral

My Family - Season 7 - Episode 2

Ben talks Roger into helping him move the body of a patient who died in his dental chair; Abi and Susan suspect Roger and Ben are having affairs.

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8.59

85 votes

#8 - Much Ado About Ben

My Family - Season 1 - Episode 8

Susan finds Viagra in her son's trousers and confiscates it, Janey tries to get Marilyn Manson tickets, Susan lets her yoga instructor give lessons at her house and Ben is put on a diet.

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7.95

41 votes

#9 - One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest

My Family - Season 3 - Episode 13

Ben gets his hopes up that finally one of his kids will move out when Nick decides to get his own apartment; unfortunately, as always for Ben, every silver lining has a cloud.

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7.88

26 votes

#10 - The Wax Job

My Family - Season 8 - Episode 4

Ben decides to sell his dental practice and take up a hobby which he finds even more boring, while Susan's move up the art gallery ladder leads to more than one fall.

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7.85

67 votes

#11 - My Fair Charlady

My Family - Season 5 - Episode 7

Susan employs a cleaner, who turns out to be such a treasure that she takes over the cooking as well - much to the family's delight, and to Susan's chagrin.

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7.84

50 votes

#12 - It's Hard to be a Saint in the City

Grounded for Life - Season 4 - Episode 22

This one might be better: Sean is having trouble keeping the bar alive and Claudia asks him to reconsider running it. With St. Patrick's Day around the corner Eddie tries to lure customers over from rival pubs. Meanwhile, Brad and Lily prepare for the parade and Jimmy is having trouble understanding the meaning of St. Patrick's day.

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7.81

53 votes

#13 - 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

My Family - Season 2 - Episode 10

Ben is horrified when Michael announces his intention to stand in the school election - as a Tory, and Janey's visit to her grandma uncovers a shocking family secret.

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7.80

50 votes

#14 - The Last Supper

My Family - Season 2 - Episode 11

Susan's new boss has some funny ideas about the tourist business, but when she invites him to the family home for dinner in an effort to change his views, the unexpected happens.

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7.79

33 votes

#15 - An Embarrassment of Susans

My Family - Season 6 - Episode 5

Susan tries to fix Michael up with a new girlfriend called Suzanne, but the similarity doesn't end in the name. Meanwhile, Ben starts a career as a property developer but squatters may make him regret it.

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7.78

50 votes

#16 - Get a Job

Grounded for Life - Season 4 - Episode 27

Lily is less than thrilled about Brad's new job, which is taking up all of his time. Meanwhile, Walt's having problems finding work, so Sean and Eddie offer him a job at the bar... but they soon find that he takes over. Jimmy's at the age where he finds his mother to be an embarrassment, so Claudia sets out to bond with him.

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7.78

155 votes

#17 - The Last Resort

My Family - Season 1 - Episode 4

Ben decides to take Susan back to one of their old romantic haunts for her birthday, but instead, romance comes back to haunt them. Meanwhile, at home, Michael is left alone by his siblings.

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7.77

64 votes

#18 - The Book of Love

My Family - Season 5 - Episode 12

Susan attends a neighbour's book club. Michael runs a booking agency exclusively for Roger, while Ben books a seat on the sofa but gets a new assistant too close to home.

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7.76

46 votes

#19 - Auto Erotica

My Family - Season 3 - Episode 9

Nick wins an old car in a poker game, and intends to break it up for parts. Ben takes it over and decides to restore it to its former glory, but he is about as good an engineer as Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a dentist.

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7.71

123 votes

#20 - Farewell to Alarms

My Family - Season 1 - Episode 5

Susan insists that they purchase an expensive, over-the-top burglar alarm after Brigitte thinks her van has been stolen, but it fails to serve its purpose. Also, Nick's career takes an unexpected turn.

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7.70

57 votes

#21 - The Unkindest Cut

My Family - Season 2 - Episode 2

Ben and Susan face the surprise prospect of parenthood for the fourth time - a situation which is neither wholly desirable nor planned.

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7.66

38 votes

#22 - Owed to Susan

My Family - Season 4 - Episode 5

After the Harpers' marriage is threatened by Susan's discovery that the love poem Ben wrote to woo her was not an original, he goes to great lengths to make it up to her.

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7.65

52 votes

#23 - (She's Got) Kegs

Grounded for Life - Season 4 - Episode 12

Sean wants to go to a Sex Pistols concert, but Claudia has to study for a college test and Lily has a science project due, which leaves no one to watch the boys. But Lily leaves Brad holding the bag by skipping off to a frat party... where she runs into Claudia. Meanwhile, Eddie hires a bodyguard.

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7.47

30 votes

#24 - Dutch Art and Dutch Courage

My Family - Season 7 - Episode 4

Handsome millionaire art collector James Garrett reappears in Susan's life and Ben feels jealous when the two of them share a hotel bedroom. Elsewhere, Roger is dealing with his own jealous feelings.

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7.46

24 votes

#25 - Facebooked

My Family - Season 11 - Episode 7

With Ben away on a volunteer dental programme in Colombia, Susan is persuaded by Janey to go on the Facebook social network, which leads to her meeting up again with charming ex-boyfriend Paul Tremaine. He turns out to be a large scale drug dealer and Susan is forced to help the police trap him to avoid being charged herself.

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7.21

52 votes

#26 - Harper vs Harper

My Family - Season 11 - Episode 5

Ben and Susan have yet another row after he refuses to attend her godparents' anniversary party so they decide on a trial separation, taking it in turns to live in the house alone. Ben moves in with Roger, ruining his love life whilst Susan overstays her welcome with Michael and his partner.

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7.15

150 votes

#27 - iHate Carly

iCarly (2021) - Season 1 - Episode 2

Carly finds it refreshing to date a guy who's never seen her show, until she discovers his huge secret. Meanwhile, when Spencer accidentally blinds himself with pepper spray, he enlists Freddie to be his "guide dog."

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7.00

26 votes

#28 - You Better You Bet

Grounded for Life - Season 5 - Episode 5

Claudia is upset with Sean when she finds out he gambled the money for the baby's crib and used the winnings to buy a new TV. When Claudia accidentally breaks the TV, she convinces Eddie to bring her to the track so she can win money to repair the set. Meanwhile, Jimmy must endure a painfully long day of father-son bonding to keep Sean from finding out about the broken TV, and Lily enrolls in a Big/Little Sister program, but is dumped by her Little Sister.

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6.97

30 votes

#29 - Come Together

School of Rock - Season 1 - Episode 1

Dewey, a down-on-his-luck musician, poses as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school and uniquely inspires his overachieving students to take a risk and create a secret rock band.

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6.63

90 votes

#30 - Once More With Feeling

My Family - Season 7 - Episode 3

Susan wants to renew her wedding vows with Ben, which is no problem for him, until he is given director's tickets for a football match on the same day. Meanwhile, Janey is trying to get Kenzo into St Justin's school.

6.47

78 votes

#31 - Of Mice and Ben

My Family - Season 3 - Episode 4

The Harpers star in a documentary about family life as part of Abi's latest college assignment. Susan is happy to present a facade of domestic bliss and dispense cookery tips along with relationship advice. Ben, however, is more concerned with catching a rogue rodent.

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