Best Episodes
After the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle.
Written by Sophie and last updated on jan 30, 2023.
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Michelle's first grade class is preparing to perform a play titled "Yankee Doodle". When D.J. was in 1st grade, she played as Yankee Doodle and so did Stephanie so Michelle desperately wants to continue this tradition.
The episode was rated 7.61 from 87 votes.
Joey, who loves D.J. and her sisters like they were his own daughters, has bought D.J. a red 1977 Firebird for her 16th birthday, but the car is not in good condition, so Jesse and Joey work on it and fix its problems. Just as D.J. is about to drive the new car for the first time, a police officer, Officer Warren, shows up after getting a look at the car from the street and tells the family that D.J.'s new car was reported stolen.
The episode was rated 7.69 from 80 votes.
Fat Fish Records calls Jesse and tells him that "Forever" has reached #1 in Japan, they want him to go to Japan for two weeks, and he takes Becky, Nicky, and Alex with him. Once Jesse sets foot in Japan, he starts letting the whole experience go to his head. Meanwhile, Kimmy has been nominated for class president by the "Party Hearty" party for the school newspaper.
The episode was rated 7.69 from 91 votes.
Vicky introduces Danny to her mother Liz Larson, an interior decorator who gives Stephanie and Michelle's bedroom a new look, which is OK with Danny, but Danny goes ballistic when Liz mentions the word "marriage" while referring to him and Vicky. Meanwhile, Joey and Jesse hear a rumor that Alison "The Axe" Axelrod, the new manager of KFLH, plans to fire everyone and change the station's format.
The episode was rated 7.74 from 88 votes.
It's Kimmy's 16th birthday. D.J. is preoccupied by the fact that she and Steve have been dating for 6 months, and she and Steve plan to celebrate this. As it turns out, she has forgotten Kimmy's birthday because of this, and Kimmy thinks D.J. has a party planned.
The episode was rated 7.76 from 86 votes.
Jesse and the Rippers have just finished another summer of touring. Stephanie and Michelle have had a crummy summer, and they are excited when a postcard from D.J. mentions that she will be bringing home a big surprise when she arrives home from Barcelona.
The episode was rated 7.76 from 117 votes.
5th grader Stephanie's friend Josh asks Stephanie if she wants to go out with him and the rest of the baseball team to a pizza parlor and just hang out. With D.J.'s help, Stephanie makes the mistake of thinking that this will be more than just hanging out. Meanwhile, Joey invites Alison Axelrod over for dinner but Joey may end up messing things up because he becomes a nervous klutz whenever he's around Alison.
The episode was rated 7.77 from 82 votes.
Michelle has fallen head over heels for Steve, and she decides that she wants to marry Steve. Everyone thinks Michelle is just playing, so they throw a "wedding" for Michelle and Steve. Michelle feels hurt when she discovers that it's not a real wedding, and everyone finally realizes that the way Michelle truly feels about Steve is not something to play around with.
The episode was rated 7.80 from 83 votes.
It's time for Steve's senior prom, and of course, high school sophomore D.J. is his date. Jesse and the Rippers will be the featured band at the prom, and Becky is one of the chauffeurs. Things become complicated when it is announced that the prom king is Steve, and the prom queen is Steve's former girlfriend Rachel Taylor. Meanwhile, Vicky admits to Danny that she is about a year older than Danny, who feels uncomfortable about this.
The episode was rated 7.80 from 79 votes.
As everyone else is searching for Michelle, those who don't know she's missing are doing their own thing. Jesse and Joey do their radio show, and it turns out that Joey is deathly afraid of sharks, so he's reluctant to swim out of the pod, because of this, he is 45mins late meeting up with Becky.
The episode was rated 7.85 from 103 votes.
While Stephanie and Michelle are babysitting a neighbor's pet pig, Jesse tries to prove to Becky that he can handle having another baby around the house, because he misses having babies in the house, but there are complications in Jesse's mission -- one of the twins is sick, and chaos is on the air on KFLH when Jesse and Joey do an episode of their radio show at home downstairs in the recording studio.
The episode was rated 7.90 from 80 votes.
Danny has plans to pick Vicky up from the airport, so he asks D.J. to pick Michelle up from a Honeybee troop meeting at 4:00pm, D.J. goes out with Steve and when they return home, they are studying when they realize that they have forgotten to pick up Michelle. Minutes later Danny arrives home and Stephanie arrives with Michelle, Danny is furious.
The episode was rated 7.91 from 99 votes.
A very Tanner Christmas indeed! Christmas day is getting close. Becky tells Jesse that she misses the times when it snowed during the holidays every year in Nebraska when she was a kid. Steve tells D.J. that Steve has been accepted to Daytona Beach University in Florida.
The episode was rated 8.00 from 89 votes.
Stephanie wants to get her ears pierced so she can fit in at school, but Danny doesn't want her to get her ears pierced until she's the age D.J. was when D.J. got her ears pierced. Meanwhile, it's time for Nicky and Alex to receive their first haircut, and Becky and Jesse are reluctant to let this change happen.
The episode was rated 8.00 from 95 votes.
In a special episode: Stephanie and her classmate Charles are assigned to work together on a homework assignment. After school, Charles goes to the house with Stephanie, and while working on the assignment with Stephanie, Charles slips up and is forced to admit that his father beats him all the time.
The episode was rated 8.23 from 86 votes.
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