The BEST episodes written by Johannes Boss
#1 - Gentleman's Stitch
Jerks - Season 4 - Episode 1
Pheline is about to give birth to Fahri's child. Fahri wants to prevent her from giving birth to the child without a Caesarean section, as he fears losing Pheline as a sex partner through a natural birth. Christian, meanwhile, takes care of Emily, who is struggling with her childlessness. Fahri fakes his paternity test to make Christian appear to be the father.
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#2 - Volker
Jerks - Season 3 - Episode 2
The doorbell rings at Christian's front door at night: Fahri and fellow actor Volker Bruch ask Christian for help. Bruch has locked his au pair in the basement after a "misunderstanding" and is now worried about his reputation. Christian and Fahri are supposed to rescue him from the mess. At least the two friends get closer again through this questionable relief action. Fahri, meanwhile, tries to restore domestic harmony with Pheline. He is actually able to convince her that his son was the result of a rape by Blümchen. Pheline then accompanies him to a therapy session for rape victims.
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#3 - Adultery
Jerks - Season 2 - Episode 1
When Christian wakes up next to a strange woman, he feels very guilty about having cheated on his girlfriend Emily. Fahri not only gives him an airtight alibi, but also useful tips on how to behave towards Emily. But Christian soon finds himself in the middle of a mess.
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#4 - Ring of Fire
Jerks - Season 1 - Episode 10
Christian decides to finally propose to Emily. He buys a sinfully expensive ring and plans a romantic evening at the restaurant together with Fahri; the ring is to be hidden in Emily's dessert. Jacob and Muriel also happen to join them. When Jacob accidentally feeds Muriel with Emily's dessert, Christian has a huge problem...
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#5 - Braindead
Jerks - Season 1 - Episode 8
Muriel has been in a vegetative state for five months; Christian and Emily pay her and Jacob a visit. Jacob takes very good care of his girlfriend. When he tells them that he has sex with Muriel despite being in a coma, Christian is speechless. The subject is of lasting concern to him, so that he also talks about it with Fahri. Soon the topic is making waves among his friends...
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#6 - Ecstasy
Jerks - Season 3 - Episode 10
Emily is frustrated. She feels that she and Christian are the most boring couple in the world. Besides, Pheline seems much more radiant, wild and talented next to her. Emily wants Christian to be more experimental in bed and suggests anal sex. At Pheline's birthday party, Ralph Herforth reports on the latest trend: partner swapping! After initial hesitation, everyone in the group is ready to join in. Spin the bottle is to decide who swaps with whom. This turns into a disturbing evening, after which probably nothing will ever be the same again.
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#7 - Munich
Jerks - Season 2 - Episode 3
Christian has a date with an Instagram acquaintance in Munich. Once there, he discovers that he will miss his daughter Carla's birthday party. To avoid falling out with his ex-wife, he orders Fahri to stand in. A short time later, Fahri, dressed as a unicorn and in a bad mood, jumps through the garden. Meanwhile, not everything in Munich goes according to plan.
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#8 - Hindenburg
Jerks - Season 1 - Episode 3
Emily is devastated because her pregnancy test is positive, but the doctor cannot detect a pregnancy. It turns out that the manufacturer has been distributing defective tests on the market. To deal with the trauma, Christian and Emily attend a support group. However, Christian feels terribly out of place in the group and the doom takes its course - and furiously...
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#9 - Happiness
Jerks - Season 3 - Episode 1
The radio silence between Fahri and Christian continues. Even when Fahri stands meekly outside Christian's door and asks him to look after his illegitimate son with Blümchen, Christian turns him down. But Emily and Christian are getting closer again - if it weren't for Jasna. Christian promises Emily that he will soon break up with Jasna. But then Christian accidentally opens a letter to Jasna from the hospital, finding: cancer. He feverishly considers how to gallantly get out of the act. The right moment doesn't seem to come. Until it comes to a confrontation backstage at the recording of "Late Night Berlin".
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#10 - The Bachelor Party
Jerks - Season 1 - Episode 9
Christian brings his daughter Kala to the emergency room, suspecting a serious illness. After the examination, it is clear that Kala only has a slight cold. At the hospital, he meets Jacob and Muriel; Jacob informs him that the two are getting married. The news is hotly debated among friends, and Christian is tasked with organizing the bachelor party. Unfortunately, Christian and Jacob's colleagues are not on the same wavelength...
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#11 - Weed
Jerks - Season 4 - Episode 11
After his revelation with Pheline, Fahri has left the house they shared and moved into his own apartment. Because Christian no longer has time for his boyfriend due to his reunion with Collien, Fahri hooks up with his 14-year-old daughter Kala instead. The two hit it off right away: they speak the same language, share the same hardships, smoke together, and laugh a lot - but when Fahri gives her the idea, Kala is determined to start smoking pot, too.
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#12 - Camilla
Jerks - Season 1 - Episode 2
Christian's alarm bells ring when he learns that his girlfriend Emily has a date with his ex-wife Collien. When he then accidentally reads a message on Emily's phone about a masturbation course, he is stunned. Together with Fahri, he spies on Emily, who meets up with Collien and Fahri's friend Pheline at Jana's place. And what they see there is beyond imagination...
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#13 - The JoJo Effect
Jerks - Season 1 - Episode 5
Christian's older daughter has fallen in love with her classmate Moritz. Unfortunately, she is too shy to tell him. When Christian offers her advice and support, a heated discussion ensues, as a result of which he learns that his ex-wife Collien has a new boyfriend. Jojo, a social scientist, is henceforth a thorn in Christian's side. Meanwhile, Fahri is plagued by jealousy of Pheline's twelve-year-old nephew Falk.
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#14 - Sperm Theft
Jerks - Season 1 - Episode 1
Christian's girlfriend Emily wants a baby together. Since his last child is eight years old and he has already passed the magical limit of 40, she demands that he have his sperm tested. At the doctor's office, he meets his old acquaintance Karsten, who offers him advice and support. But unfortunately, "one, two, three, over" doesn't work for Christian...
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#15 - House of Cards
Jerks - Season 3 - Episode 7
Christian has a "mishap" during a massage appointment. At home, Emily discovers the stain in his pants and can't believe it. No one understands him - except Marcel Reif. He takes Fahri and Christian to a testicle examination, which is performed by particularly pretty female doctors. Fahri is on a do-gooder trip and joins the Green Party in Potsdam. However, he is sure that the chairwoman of the local association sees him as a competitor and searches the Internet for skeletons in his closet. But Fahri wants to beat her to the punch and presents his supposed revelations in front of a large audience at the next meeting.
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#16 - Shalom
Jerks - Season 3 - Episode 9
The four friends go to a vacation home that they are welcome to buy. Emily knows the owner and has arranged a trial stay with him. However, since there are several applicants, they all have to make an effort to make the best impression on the Jewish landlord. Emily makes full use of her feminine charms, while Fahri almost loses everything with an anti-Semitic joke. Without further ado, Christian claims that Fahri is also Jewish. The situation seems to be saved, but when Christian has to escape to the garden house during the night, plagued by diarrhea, it comes to a scandal the next day.
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#17 - Heyday
Jerks - Season 3 - Episode 4
When Christian learns that his daughter Kala is having her period for the first time, his father's warning lights go on. She shouldn't wear those slutty clothes Emily just bought her, he agrees with Collien. Emily and Kala are pissed. Hoping to land an advertising deal, Fahri and Christian invite Barner, a big cookie manufacturer, to Collien's birthday party. But when Barner catches them making fun of Jojo's disabled mother and Christian's concern for his pubescent daughter causes a disaster, the lucrative advertising deal is over...
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#18 - Young Hearts
Jerks - Season 2 - Episode 2
Christian and Emily have been on a relationship break for six months. He is desperately unhappy and tries to get close to her again, but she blocks him. Fahri, meanwhile, is completely fed up with Christian's heartbreak and advises him to distract himself. As luck would have it, Christian meets Marie, a high school student, and saves her high school diploma. Soon Christian and Fahri find themselves in the midst of party-hungry teenagers.
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#19 - Emilia & Simon
Jerks - Season 4 - Episode 9
Christian and Collien are newly in love and spend their top-secret love nights in a lonely forest hotel. To their horror, however, they also encounter Pheline and Fahri on site, who, together with actress Emilia Schüle and filmmaker Simon Verhoeven, are spending what is supposed to be a couple's vacation there to go hunting together. Among the three women, Emilia Schüle quickly turns out to be a ruthless nymphomaniac whose escapades not only disturb Collien and Christian's young happiness, but also cause trouble for the entire group.
#20 - W. Axl Rose
Jerks - Season 3 - Episode 8
Christian and Fahri mourn their wild times when they still listened to Guns'n'Roses and kicked down fences. When their agent introduces them to unfunny comedy writer Cookie Eisermann, Christian can't hold on any longer and fisticuffs ensue. Christian has to apologize. To show good will, Fahri and he finally agree to skydive together with Cookie. Fahri as a beginner should better jump tandem together with Cookie. But Christian notices that Cookie probably has his eye on Fahri - and Fahri quickly backs out. Until the last minute...
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#21 - Graves
Jerks - Season 4 - Episode 6
After Emily's tragic death, Christian has fallen into deep mourning. He has lost all hope, reproaches himself, wallows in melancholy, and yet he must first take care of a proper burial and Emily's legacy. At least in death, he wants to do everything right for once.
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#22 - The Mother of All Drugs
Jerks - Season 1 - Episode 7
Christian is panic-stricken: he suspects he has testicular cancer, but it is actually scrotal sack inflammation. His urologist tries to calm him down. However, the opposite is the case, because Christian surprises the doctor by doing coke and now he is convinced that he has been given a wrong diagnosis. Meanwhile, Emily and her girls go to a spa, and Emily asks Christian to take care of Muriel's friend Jacob. But Christian and Fahri find him really stupid.
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#23 - Emily
Jerks - Season 4 - Episode 5
Emily shows great talent in a nude painting course, but Christian is only moderately interested in her new passion - the estrangement between the two progresses inexorably. When Christian, through carelessness, disfigures her lovingly made drawings, a momentum begins that also brings disturbing things to light for him. Fahri, meanwhile, not only tries his hand at Hollywood casting, he also faces a drastic experience: his ominous half-brother has suddenly entered his life and is seeking contact.
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#24 - Jump Up - Jump Up and Get Down
Jerks - Season 3 - Episode 6
When Fahri sets up a trampoline in his garden for the children and immediately tries it out himself, he observes the new neighbor urinating in her own garden. It is the lesbian girlfriend of Christian's ex Jasna, who have both moved into the house next door. A bitter neighborhood war ignites, with Fahri stopping at nothing, whether feces or fire - he doesn't want to move his trampoline at any price. Meanwhile, Christian and Collien organize a camp for the children. One of the girls is epileptic, and Christian is supposed to treat her in an emergency. But things go wrong during the night.
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#25 - Lake Griebnitz
Jerks - Season 3 - Episode 5
In an inattentive moment of Emily, Lila and Kala have an accident while bathing. Christian expects the worst when the police arrive at his door. But luckily a man rescued the two girls and took them to the hospital. Fahri and Christian drive off to thank the rescuer with expensive Japanese whiskey. Together they drink the good stuff in an excessive binge, to which they also invite two chav girls from the street. Later it turns out that their hero is a dry alcoholic. A guilty conscience also plagues Emily, who is still sitting at home in despair, believing that the children have drowned.
#26 - The Social Descent
Jerks - Season 1 - Episode 6
Christian accidentally meets his ex-girlfriend Josie again when she is rummaging around in a dumpster. He is alarmed: Did she not get over the breakup with him back then and that's why she got into this precarious situation? Josie calls Christian a little later and invites him and his girlfriend Emily to dinner. However, the evening goes completely off the rails...
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#27 - Son of Claws
Jerks - Season 4 - Episode 8
Christian's daughter Lila has made fun of the physically impaired mother of a classmate at school. Because she blames the ignorant manners of her parents for her brutalization, Collien and Christian have to report to the mother and officially repent. From the beginning, however, things turn out quite differently than they had hoped. Fahri receives a pair of ice skates from Pheline for Easter.
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#28 - Disco
Jerks - Season 4 - Episode 7
Fahri now wants to make a name for himself as a DJ and really take off. To make his act distinctive and stand out from the crowd of other DJs, he takes inspiration from the "style" of Potsdam's homeless. He finds two of them under a bridge and convinces them to join him at a party. Christian, meanwhile, not only tries with moderate success to free himself from his grief for Emily, but also has to deal with a recalcitrant dubbing director at work - when he also steals his last nerve, Christian sets a supposed mobster on him.
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#29 - Abid
Jerks - Season 4 - Episode 4
Fahri needs the morning-after pill after a fling. While trying to find one without harm, he makes the unpleasant acquaintance of the Arab Abid. But when burning jealousy awakens in Fahri because Pheline seems to get along far too well with a charismatic environmental activist, the actor and former child star Patrick Bach, Abid suddenly comes just in time for him. In his last-second attempt to save Pheline from Bach, Abid must support him.
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#30 - Baba's Death
Jerks - Season 3 - Episode 3
On the film set, Christian hears that Fahri's father is dying. He decides to jump over his shadow and visit him in the hospice. Fahri is touched. Also when he is invited by Christian to a Sunday brunch. Emily and Christian want to adopt a child, and they have to prove Christian's social skills to the adoption official. But during the meal, the news of Fahri's father's death shocks everyone. And things get worse when it comes out who Christian hired as cooks and what a macabre bet is all about. A tough test for their friendship - and for the adoption process.
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#31 - Taxes
Jerks - Season 4 - Episode 3
Fahri continues to suffer from his dull everyday life as a family man; he finally wants to experience something exciting again. At an art event, he and Christian meet two hip, attractive Berliners whom Fahri wants to impress by any means necessary. The opportunity to do so seems to present itself when the two enter into a sponsorship with two monkeys in order to save taxes and thus obtain the central key to the Berlin Zoo. Here it should come to a climax after a party. Christian, however, has other things to worry about than quick sex.
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#32 - Merhaba
Jerks - Season 1 - Episode 4
It's a used day for Christian: He accompanies his daughters to swimming lessons; there's total hustle and bustle in the locker room, so close to a nervous breakdown. In addition, he has an important appointment with a new TV production in which he is to play the lead role together with Fahri. Finally, his girlfriend Emily is caught shoplifting.
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#33 - Fiction & Truth
Jerks - Season 4 - Episode 10
Fahri is excited. He has published an autobiography entitled "Yardi Yeah" and is eagerly awaiting his very first reading. His nervousness is doubly and triply fueled when he discovers several of his former loves and affairs in the audience from the stage. His paranoid conviction is that his half-brother Bo, whom he has spurned, must be behind it - out of revenge, he is trying to harm him by any means necessary. When Pheline and Fahri are accidentally locked in a truck and taken away after the reading, they are forced to speak openly and honestly about their relationship for the first time.
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