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COLLECTION · Series · 1995

Unhappily Ever After

A not-so-happy family is divided further when the father gets a schizophrenic disorder. Jack Malloy is the hallucinating father who works at a used car lot. Jennifer "Jennie" Slattery Malloy is the mother who hates Ryan and Ross, her two sons. Ryan Malloy is the oldest son who is not too bright. Tiffany Malloy is the beautiful smart daughter. Ross Malloy is the youngest forgotten child. Mr. Floppy is Jack's stuffed rabbit who he sees come to life.

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* 6.9 (42)ComedyUnited States
Creators
Ron Leavitt · Arthur Silver
Countries
United States
Studios
The WB · Touchstone Television
Runtime
30 min/ep
Age rating
TV-PG
Release
11/01/1995
Score
6.9 / 10 (42)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
13 episodes · 1995
Episode 1. Pilot
1995-01-11 · 30 min

It's been two weeks since Jennifer kicked Jack out of the house, and Ryan only just notices. He's just rented an apartment for himself and Jennifer gives him his pillow, blue quilt, a fork, a knife, and his orange juice glass to take with…

Episode 2. Gift of the Magnovox
1995-01-18 · 30 min

After failing to get one of the three VCRs (even the one that requires you to continuously press the ""play"" button) from Jennifer in the divorce, Jack sells his car to an old lady and buys himself a new one. Mr. Floppy gets excited…

Episode 3. Jack's First Date
1995-01-25 · 30 min

Mr. Floppy thinks that Jack should start dating. While Jack, Jennifer, Ryan, and Tiffany go to Howe High's back to school night, Jack tries to send out ""the vibe"" to the women there. Amazingly he gets a date with Miss Taylor (Ryan's…

Episode 4. The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall
1995-02-01 · 30 min

In order to become more successful at attracting a new man, Jennifer wants Jack to buy her new breasts. When he refuses, she tries to sell her engagement ring and finds out it is glass and 14 karat goldette, and becomes upset. Jack,…

Episode 5. Jack the Ripper
1995-02-08 · 30 min

Since Jack's boss (Jennifer's father) won't give him a car, he decides to buy a moped. Jennifer finally convinces her mother, who came six weeks ago for a two week visit, to go home. As Maureen walks out the door, Jack runs into her with…

Episode 6. Run
1995-02-15 · 30 min

Jennie, Ross, and Ryan are sick in bed with colds, and Tiffany has two days until the Alphi Pi Psi party at the local university, where she plans to mingle with the geeks since ""today's big dufus is tomorrow's Bill Gates."" Jennifer…

Episode 7. The Descent of Man
1995-02-22 · 30 min

Jennifer is appalled by Jack's, Ryan's, and Ross' table manners, while Jack becomes upset when he learns that Ryan does the dishes and the laundry. Jack encourages him to fight against his emasculation, and Ryan then refuses to do the…

Episode 8. Boxing Mr. Floppy
1995-03-01 · 30 min

Jennifer wants to get into the Betty Ford Clinic so that she can meet a rich drunk, and tells Jack he'll have to take the kids when she is away for the week. He'll have to pay for her visit or he'll have the kids forever. Jack takes the…

Episode 9. Don Juan De Van Nuys
1995-03-15 · 30 min

Jennifer is depressed because she can't get a date, and wants to be lusted after. When Jack takes the rest of his stuff out her basement, she decides to fix up the house. She hires Matt, a twenty year old who just moved into Jack's…

Episode 10. Mistress Jennie
1995-03-22 · 30 min

Jennifer goes out with Gavin Drake, ""Picture Framer of the Stars,"" and falls for him because it's the best date she has had so far. Tiffany and Ryan learn that he is a married man at school lunch because he is the father of Chelsea, one…

Episode 11. Daddy's Little Girl
1995-05-03 · 30 min

Tiffany wants to spend the night at the lake with her friends, including her date Beau. Jack forbids her because he still sees her as a little girl, and does not want her to be taken advantage of. Ryan keeps trying to talk to Jack about…

Episode 12. The Great Depression
1995-05-10 · 30 min

Jennifer is chaperoning Tiffany's spring dance. Tiffany is in charge of planning the dance, and has invested the funds into war-oriented stocks. Unfortunately, peace breaks out and her investments go bad. Jack has to return his new J.…

Episode 13. Hoop Dreams
1995-05-17 · 30 min

After winning $200,000 playing Monopoly, Ryan thinks he might have a future as a business tycoon and starts to act and dress the part. After Amber's father is mauled by a dog, Jennie is chosen to be the speaker for ""Face the Future"" day…

Season 2
Season 2
22 episodes · 1995
Episode 1. Jack Moves Back
1995-09-06 · 30 min

Jack moves back in to the house for the sake of the kids, but must live in the basement until he can win Jennie back.

Episode 2. Zit Could Happen to You
1995-09-13 · 30 min

When Tiffany gets a zit and Ryan sets the scale to ten pounds more than normal, Tiffany tries to develop a personality and Jennie starts jogging. Jennie becomes Vicky Vixen on the Internet, and Ryan finds that Vicki Vixen has the hots…

Episode 3. The Rat
1995-09-20 · 30 min

Jack leaves Jennie's room for the basement because she won't let him have his ways, but he finds a giant rat in the basement and makes the kids get rid of it.

Episode 4. Rocky VI
1995-09-27 · 30 min

When Jennie gets in a fight with Susan, a neighbor, she has Jack fight Vic, Susan's husband.

Episode 5. Rock Star
1995-10-04 · 30 min

When Jennie gets a date with Ray Paul Jones, her teen crush, she gives Jack the right to fantasize about a celebrity. Jack picks Cindy Crawford and gets arrested for stalking her.

Episode 6. Driving Me Crazy
1995-10-11 · 30 min

Disasters occur when Jack teaches Ryan and Tiffany how to drive.

Episode 7. A Touch of Glass
1995-10-25 · 30 min

Jennie gets a glass table on Ross's ninth birthday and throws everyone out of the house for getting the table dirty.

Episode 8. A Line in the Sand
1995-11-08 · 30 min

When the family earns 40,000 frequent flyer miles, Jack wants to go to Las Vegas and Jennie wants to go to Hawaii. Meanwhile, Tiffany gets in a fight with Patty, a cheap girl who Ryan is in love with.

Episode 9. Making the Grade
1995-11-15 · 30 min

When Ryan gets all D's and F's on his report card, Jennie says he can't have the car keys until he gets a B, so he makes a deal with Miss Taylor, his Civics teacher. Meanwhile, Jack tries to figure out why Ryan is so dumba nd Tiffany…

Episode 10. Honey, I Screwed up the Kids for Life
1995-11-22 · 30 min

Tiffany thinks Jack doesn't trust her when he doesn't let Tiffany go in her room with Mike, her boyfriend.

Episode 11. The Whiz Kid
1995-11-29 · 30 min

When Ryan starts taking urine tests for football players, he gets a lettered jersey and the respect of a football player. Meanwhile, no one notices Tiffany, because of Ryan being on the football team, when she gets the highest SAT scores…

Episode 12. Hot Wheels
1995-12-20 · 30 min

After Tiffany and Ryan take Jack's car to a party without his permission, Jack and Jennie pretend the car is stolen, until it actually is.

Episode 13. Picnic of Pain and Peril
1996-01-10 · 30 min

After seeing a movie, Jennie takes the family to a picnic to bond. But the picnic trip is soon ruined by gophers, poison ivy, and pesticide.

Episode 14. Meter Maid
1996-01-31 · 30 min

Jack is thrown in jail when Jennie punches a meter maid. Jennie won't bail Jack out and things are terrible around the house without him.

Episode 15. In the Stars
1996-02-07 · 30 min

When the family becomes obsessed with horoscopes, Ryan looks for a girl and Jennie tries to be nice.

Episode 16. Mr. No
1996-02-14 · 30 min

Tiffany is disturbed when Danny, a boy, doesn't want to go to the Valentine's Dance with her. Ryan plans on taking Ms. O'Hara, his chemistry teacher, but she blows herself up. Mr. Floppy sends obscene mail to Pamela Anderson.

Episode 17. The Agony of Victory
1996-02-21 · 30 min

Jack uses his height to beat Ryan at basketball for the 2001st time.

Episode 18. All About Jennie
1996-02-28 · 30 min

Jennie relives her high school days when Tiffany is cast as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Jack helps Ryan practice his one line for the play.

Episode 19. Jack Writes Good
1996-05-01 · 30 min

Jack starts writing stories that are really Floppy's and gets a big break, but later tries doing his own writing.

Episode 20. Girls Who Wear Glasses
1996-05-08 · 30 min

Tiffany isn't the smartest girl in the class anymore when she is put into a smarter class.

Episode 21. Leaving Van Nuys
1996-05-15 · 30 min

It's summer break Ryan has just finished his senior year. After Ryan gets fired from the used car lot, Jack threatens to kick him out of the house if he doesn't get a job. So Ryan goes to Cheeseburger Community College, but finds he…

Episode 22. Getting More Than Some
1996-05-22 · 30 min

After taking Jack's advice, Ryan becomes engaged to Crystal, a thirty year old woman with two kids.

Season 3
Season 3
22 episodes · 1996
Episode 1. Tiffany's Rival
1996-09-08 · 30 min

At the start of the school year, Sable, a girl who is as smart and beautiful as Tiffany, comes to Priddy High and Tiffany and her become rivals after exhcanging secrets.

Episode 2. Beach Party
1996-09-15 · 30 min

On a ""ditch day"" at school, Tiffany competes with Sable for Moondoggie, a surfer. Jennie doesn't want to be home when the maide comes, so she asks sick Jack to take her to the beach.

Episode 3. Angel Gone Bad
1996-09-22 · 30 min

When Tiffany starts taking fake prom pictures with nerds and leaving sexy messages on their answering machines for the money, it blows her Princeton scholarship.

Episode 4. The Temptation of Jack
1996-09-29 · 30 min

After Jennie makes Jack go talk to Morgana, Sable's mother, Morgana tries to seduce Jack. Meanwhile, Ryan becomes Sable's boyfriend, but it seems more like he's her slave.

Episode 5. Lightning Boy
1996-10-06 · 30 min

After getting zapped by lightning, Ryan is convinced that he is a super hero named Lightning Boy.

Episode 6. Bingo! Bingo! Bingo!
1996-10-13 · 30 min

Jack becomes lonely when Jennie gets Tiffany addicted to bingo.

Episode 7. Halloween XXVII
1996-10-30 · 30 min

The Mad Hair Hacker goes after Tiffany, Sable, and Amber, a friend of Tiffany's, to chop their long hair. Meanwhile, Jack and Jennie look forward to terrorizing the neighborhood kids and giving them candy cigarettes on Halloween.

Episode 8. Rock 'n' Roll
1996-11-03 · 30 min

Ryan gets angry when Tiffany changes his band and they become a success. Meanwhile, Mr. Floppy starts going in the washer to get into alternate worlds.

Episode 9. The Pride of the Injuns
1996-11-10 · 30 min

When Sable starts playing a sport for her scholarship, Tiffany joins the volleyball team.

Episode 10. Eating Hollywood
1996-11-17 · 30 min

When the family goes to The House of Hollywood restaurant, Jennie expects to see stars, but only sees Erik Estrada, who she doesn't recognize.

Episode 11. High and Dry
1996-11-24 · 30 min

Jack and Jennie think Ryan is on drugs when they finds globs and globs of his sweat in the car.

Episode 12. The Tell-Tale Lipstick
1996-12-15 · 30 min

When Tiffany decides she wants to do something bad, she steals some lipstick and becomes a rebel.

Episode 13. Sternberg
1997-01-19 · 30 min

No synopsis

Episode 14. The President
1997-02-02 · 30 min

After Tiffany nominates Ryan for school president, he makes rules that benefit himself. Jack and Jeane have to do Ryan's homework so that he can maintain a C average.

Episode 15. Tiffany on the Wild Side
1997-02-09 · 30 min

Jack can't stand it when Tiffany begins dating Johnny Stompanado, a biker. Jennie remembers her biker boyfriend.

Episode 16. The Potato Rebellion
1997-02-16 · 30 min

Ryan, Tiffany, and their friends protest against the school's disgusting mashed potatoes. Meanwhile, Jack suffers from insomnia.

Episode 17. B-Minus Blues
1997-02-23 · 30 min

Tiffany gets a B- on her essay because she doesn't agree with Mr. Monteleone's, her teacher's, opinion. Ryan repeats everything Mr. Monteleone tells him for his reports and does great. Meanwhile, Jack and Mr. Floppy decide to make a…

Episode 18. From Russia with Love
1997-04-20 · 30 min

Ryan gets a mail order bride.

Episode 19. Little Ice Cream Shop of Horrors
1997-04-27 · 30 min

Tiffany must work at an ice cream parlor.

Episode 20. Shampoo
1997-05-04 · 30 min

Tiffany's advice causes Ryan to get lots of women at his new job as a hairdresser. Jack worries that Ryan is gay because of his new job, but respects him when he sees the women Ryan is getting.

Episode 21. College!
1997-05-11 · 30 min

Jack goes to a loan shark for the $18,000 for Tiffany to go to Harvard. But Tiffany turns down the Harvard scholarship and decides to go to Northridge Junior College with Ryan when she meets Professor Alfred, a professor there. She soon…

Episode 22. The Joy of Meat
1997-05-18 · 30 min

Ross makes the family become vegetarians so he can win an environmentalist award with a $10,000 check. But Tiffany won't give in.

Season 4
Season 4
21 episodes · 1997
Episode 1. Hot Off the Presses
1997-09-07 · 30 min

When Tiffany gets to be the gossip writer for the school newspaper, she writes a story about Mr. Monteleone loving sheep.

Episode 2. Experimenting in College
1997-09-14 · 30 min

For a project, the class must find what the opposite sex wants. For her project, Tiffany pretends to be stupid around a guy. Ryan begis acting like a girl for his.

Episode 3. The Ghost and Mr. Malloy
1997-09-21 · 30 min

Guy Macaroon tells the family that Jennie has died by falling asleep on a tanning machine. So the family must give her a good funeral to stop her ghost from pestering them.

Episode 4. Exorcising Jennie
1997-09-28 · 30 min

When Jennie's ghost continues to pester the family, they call Father Guido Sarducci to perform and excorcism.

Episode 5. We Got Next
1997-10-05 · 30 min

Mindy, a girl on the basketball team with a crush on Ryan, beats him in basketball. Ryan is embarassed when Mindy tells the whole school, so he challenges her to a rematch witht he school watching.

Episode 6. Sorority Girl
1997-10-12 · 30 min

To join a sorority, Tiffany and Amber have to be slaves to Ryan. Ryan doesn't notice that his sorority is gay. Seeing Ryan and Tiffany enjoying college, Jack puts down that he is a college graduate on his resume and he becomes a doctor…

Episode 7. Ryan, Vampire Slayer
1997-10-26 · 30 min

After being denied by Bunny Mufflewits for a date, Ryan gets the mark to be a vampire slayer and uses Tiffany and Ross for bait.

Episode 8. Cyber-Tiffany
1997-11-02 · 30 min

Tiffany is arrested when Ryan uses her name and picture for his cyber sex internet scam.

Episode 9. Tiffany, the Home Wrecker
1997-11-09 · 30 min

When Tiffany breaks up a couple by asking the guy for the time, she begins to think he is her boyfriend, without meeting him. Ryan starts getting sympathy from girls who have been dumped.

Episode 10. Little Miss Perfect
1997-11-16 · 30 min

Ryan meets a cute girl named Bitsy Berg. She actually takes a liking to Ryan. The only thing is she is way too perky and can't stop talking in a fast,ditzy tone of voice. Ryan invites her over for dinner. The family can't believe…

Episode 11. The One Kevin's Directing
1997-11-23 · 30 min

Barbara, the attractive new girl at Northridge Junior Colege who is a network executive, flirts with Jack. Jennie and Tiffany tell Jack to flirt back so that they can get a network meeting.

Episode 12. Teacher of the Year
1997-12-14 · 30 min

Tiffany decides to present Mr.Peebody as Teacher of the Year, with dinner at her house, and later finds out that he is an escaped murderer.

Episode 13. Ryan's Labour Lost
1998-01-11 · 30 min

Ryan must work as the night janitor to pay off a school computer he destroyed. He finds the answers to an exam in the trash can and starts selling them to other students.

Episode 14. Undercover Cheerleader
1998-01-18 · 30 min

After writing a report on Ryan cheating on a test, Tiffany decides to go under cover as a cheerleader in order to expose them for her paper.

Episode 15. Chaste Makes Waste
1998-02-01 · 30 min

Tiffany plans on losing her virginity to her new boyfriend, but she finds he is saving himself for marriage.

Episode 16. Teacher's Pet
1998-02-08 · 30 min

Ryan's career aptitude test reveals that he should be a teacher, so he becomes the student teacher in Ross's class. Ryan accidentally kills Ross's teacher, Mr. Moss, by stabbing him with scissors so he takes over the class. Ross's…

Episode 17. Let's Get Ready to Rum Ball
1998-02-15 · 30 min

When Tiffany goes on a weekend ski trip and wakes up in bed and tied up with her skies, she decides to think back to what happen, while Ryan says that he beated up the Abominal Snowman and while Ross witnesses Jack and Jeannie having a…

Episode 18. Triple Play
1998-02-22 · 30 min

After making an unassisted triple play in baseball, Ryan starts starring in many commercials and making some money and fame along the way.

Episode 19. Tiffany's Birthday
1998-04-26 · 30 min

When figuring out that she is now 20, Tiffany remodels her room and thinks that she is old, while Jack and Jeannie fight over who is her most favorite parent.

Episode 20. The Old West
1998-05-03 · 30 min

When Tiffany finds an old western book while planting some flowers, she thinks of what it would be like to live in those times.

Episode 21. The Clip Show
1998-05-10 · 30 min

When Ross nails shut the front door in order for everyone except Jeannie to watch his five hour story, Jack, Tiffany, and Ryan think about (in order of names before) Floppy and Women and Beer, Clothes Clothes Clothes, and Lightning boy.

Season 5
Season 5
22 episodes · 1998
Episode 1. X-Happily Ever After
1998-09-13 · 30 min

Ryan and Tiffany investigate about the dancing baby conspiracy in a parody of The X-Files.

Episode 2. Feline Alright
1998-09-20 · 30 min

Tiffany gets angry when she must run errands for A. Cyril Studebaker, her literatue teacher, to get an A.

Episode 3. Basketball... Again?
1998-09-27 · 30 min

After being fouled out in a game of basketball by a girl, Ryan decides to prove that men are better than women in basketball.

Episode 4. A Movie Show
1998-10-04 · 30 min

Tiffany is annoyed when Jerome, her sensitive boyfriend, won't stand up to rude people at a movie.

Episode 5. Love Letters
1998-10-11 · 30 min

Tiffany's love letters to Jacques, her European boyfriend, end up in Barbara's hands. Meanwhile, Mr. Floppy holds a phone vote to decide if he should stay with Drew Barrymore.

Episode 6. I Know What You Did in the Closet
1998-10-25 · 30 min

After Tiffany remembers Ryan locking her in a closet ten years before, Tiffany makes phone calls to Ryan telling him to beware of the closet monster. Ryan finds Jack, Barbara, and Ross dead and suspects Tiffany.

Episode 7. Ross' IQ
1998-11-01 · 30 min

Ryan and Tiffany sign as Ross's parents for him to retake his IQ test, after he gets an average score of 100.

Episode 8. The Fencing Show
1998-11-08 · 30 min

Tiffany faces off against Barbara in a fencing competition so she can get a good job.

Episode 9. Smart and Stupid
1998-11-15 · 30 min

To get money for the cable bill, the family goes on the game show Smart and Stupid, but Tiffany tells Barbara she looked fat and stupid on TV.

Episode 10. The Silver Rule
1998-11-22 · 30 min

Elliot, the school newspaper editor, sues Tiffany for sexual harassment when she tries to get him a front page story. Ryan gets to take over the horoscopes in the school paper.

Episode 11. Secrets
1998-12-13 · 30 min

Ryan tells Tiffany he slept with Penny, a girl she hates, but Tiffany has trouble keeping it a secret.

Episode 12. Royal Flush
1999-01-10 · 30 min

Jack sells expensive toilets illegally so Ryan and Tiffany can buy a Porsche.

Episode 13. Taffy's Boy
1999-01-17 · 30 min

A rich, overwight girl named Taffy has a crush on Ryan, so he dates her for her money.

Episode 14. Tiffany's Big Break
1999-01-24 · 30 min

No synopsis

Episode 15. I Never Dunked for My Father
1999-02-07 · 30 min

Jack doesn't want to compete in a father-son basketball tournament with ross, so he has Ryan pretend to be Ross. Meanwhile, Tiffany and Barbara have Ross help them bake a cake for the homeless food drive, so that he will be distracted…

Episode 16. Sex & Violins
1999-02-14 · 30 min

While Tiffany and Barbara write up their applications for college, Tiffany makes a lie about knowing how to play the violin, but finds out that she has to play even though she doesn't really know how.

Episode 17. Tiffany Burger
1999-02-21 · 30 min

Jimbo, a fast food millionaire with a burger joint, hires Ryan only to try and win Tiffany's heart by making a burger called the Tiffany Burger.

Episode 18. The Perfect Guy
1999-02-28 · 30 min

While dating a guy, Tiffany decides that he might be the one to lose her virginity to, but then Barbara gets in the way.

Episode 19. Date to Win
1999-05-02 · 30 min

Tiffany decides to help Ryan try and win over Barbara.

Episode 20. The Artist and the Con Artist
1999-05-09 · 30 min

Tiffany has to paint a picture for art class, but gets them mixed up with Ryan's and starts to be a success, but feels bad about using his work for success.

Episode 21. Tiffany Tutors the Teachers
1999-05-16 · 30 min

When finding out that all the teachers in her school didn't pass an exam for teaching, Tiffany is worried that all her years at Northridge Junior College will be worth nothing for Harvard. So she decides to teach her teachers so that…

Episode 22. Le Morte D'Floppy
1999-05-23 · 30 min

In the final episode, Tiffany is finally accepted into Harvard but without financial aid. To get enough money for Tiffany, he becomes a successful used car salesman and soon moves up to selling new cars and cars to celebrities. But Mr.…

Cast by season
Geoff Pierson
Geoff Pierson
Jack Malloy
Stephanie Hodge
Stephanie Hodge
Jennie Malloy
Kevin Connolly
Kevin Connolly
Ryan Malloy
Nikki Cox
Nikki Cox
Tiffany Malloy
Justin Berfield
Justin Berfield
Ross Malloy
Joyce Van Patten
Joyce Van Patten
Maureen Slattery
Bobcat Goldthwait
Bobcat Goldthwait
Mr. Floppy (voice)
Allan Trautman
Allan Trautman
Mr. Floppy (puppeteer)
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