The Best Home Movies Episodes

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List of the best Home Movies episodes, as determined by voters like you. One of Adult Swim's first original shows, Home Movies follows three children who love to create their own productions around the house. With all the amazing episodes of the show that exist, it's hard to trust just one person's opinion of what the top Home Movies episodes of all time are. Fans of Home Movies are very passionate about the show, and there are often debates over which episodes are the greatest. That's why this list exists- so you can vote for your favorites and we can find out once and for all what everyone thinks the best episode is.

This list is made up of different episodes, including "Get Away From My Mom" and "The Art of the Sucker Punch." What is the best Home Movies episode of all time? Look below and find out.

Most divisive: Home Movies, Season 3: Stowaway

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1
Home Movies, Season 4: Bye, Bye Greasy
12 votes
Season 4 Episode 2: Brendon directs the school play. Hilarity ensues. McGuirk gets to realize his lifelong dream of driving a car onstage.
2
Focus Grill
April 04, 2004
16 votes
The kids test their latest film in front of a rather hostile focus group. Meanwhile Coach McGuirk helps Paula pick out and assemble an extremely large grill for the Small family.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 4
- Episode Number: 13
- Series: Home Movies
3
Storm Warning
November 03, 2002
21 votes
Coach McGuirk tries to convince Paula to pose as his fiance while his sister visits. Meanwhile, Paula needs to get her novel to her agent before he goes on vacation. On the filmmaking front, the kids try to decide whether they want to make a mockumentary about making a movie or a mock, making-of-a-mockumentary movie or just a movie.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 3
- Episode Number: 9
- Series: Home Movies
4
Camp
January 11, 2004
31 votes
Brendon is chosen to direct the school musical 'Bye Bye Greasy'. Everyone gets involved, including Fenton (lights), Paula (sets), Coach McGuirk (with a special incentive), and Shannon (the school bully who appreciates singing and dancing).
- Season: Home Movies - Season 4
- Episode Number: 1
- Series: Home Movies
5
Broken Dreams
November 17, 2002
13 votes
In a suspicious coincidence, Melissa and Jason each break their arms. This may affect the current film in production, but Brendon is also worried that he is dumb, or at the very least, that Melissa is smarter than he is. Meanwhile, McGuirk wants desperately to become a lifeguard.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 3
- Episode Number: 11
- Series: Home Movies
6
Shore Leave
August 04, 2002
17 votes
Erik is worried that Melissa doesn't have enough friends who are girls so he enrolls her in The Fairy Princesses. Meanwhile, Brendon gets invited to spend the weekend with Fenton, whom he didn't even know he was friends with. Both Brendon and Melissa have what they consider to be the worst weekends of their lives.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 3
- Episode Number: 1
- Series: Home Movies
7
Politics
January 06, 2002
14 votes
Melissa and Jason help Brendon run for office against the previously undefeated Thurman Thackery. Unsolicited help from the school bully, Shannon, raises questions about the fairness of the campaign. Also: Coach McGuirk gives stand-up comedy a try.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 2
- Episode Number: 1
- Series: Home Movies
8
Temporary Blindness
March 28, 2004
17 votes
Brendon, Jason and Melissa are assigned a family tree project in school. The assignment brings up issues that none of the kids feel like dealing with, namely--their families. Meanwhile Coach McGuirk gets laser eye surgery to correct his vision, and becomes an occasionally blind possible prophet.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 4
- Episode Number: 12
- Series: Home Movies
9
History
March 10, 2002
28 votes
Mr. Lynch is tutoring Brendon, who is failing History. His lack of historical perspective is evident through his movies, which star the evil George Washington, the evil Picasso and the evil Annie Oakley.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 2
- Episode Number: 10
- Series: Home Movies
10
Home Movies, Season 3: Guitarmaggedon
7 votes
Season 3 Episode 8: The kids ignore the fact that they have no musical experience or talent and decide to start a band. At the same time, Duane enters a guitar contest where he will face his archrival, Jimmy Monet.
11
Home Movies, Season 4: Focus Grill
7 votes
Season 4 Episode 13: Brendon, Jason and Melissa find their unfinished first film, and new endings are tested on Addleburg, Fenton, Walter and Perry -- a rather hostile focus group. Coach McGuirk helps Paula pick out and assemble an extremely large backyard grill
12
Renaissance
October 13, 2002
23 votes
Brendon, Jason and Melissa are performing the musical 'King Arthur Meets Robin Hood'at a medieval fair organized by Mr. Lynch. Tensions soon arise between the fair and the sci-fi convention next door. Can Brendon bring peace to the warring factions? Also, can Coach McGuirk stay in character as a medieval blacksmith?
- Season: Home Movies - Season 3
- Episode Number: 6
- Series: Home Movies
13
Law and Boarders
October 07, 2001
11 votes
Brendon gets hit by a car while riding down the wrong side of the road on his bicycle and ends up with Coach McGuirk representing him in court. Meanwhile, an old 'friend' of Paula's from college pays an unexpected visit.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 1
- Episode Number: 12
- Series: Home Movies
14
Home Movies, Season 1: Mortgages & Marbles
6 votes
Season 1 Episode 11: Josie's trip to the hospital inspires the subject of Brendon's extra-credit educational film about the hazards of putting marbles in your nose.
15
Home Movies, Season 4: Curses
6 votes
Season 4 Episode 7: Brendon gets in trouble for making a movie about a foul-mouthed robot, and Paula gets out the curse jar. Meanwhile, Melissa gets jealous when her dad, Erik, wants to date a woman from his journal writing class.
16
Definite Possible Murder
March 21, 2004
10 votes
Brendon, laid-up in his room with a broken leg, thinks that the man who just moved in next door may be a murderer. McGuirk trains to become a bartender.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 4
- Episode Number: 11
- Series: Home Movies
17
Home Movies, Season 3: Time To Pay The Price
5 votes
Season 3 Episode 10: Brendon, Jason and Melissa get in BIG trouble at school and are forced to attend a "scared straight" program at the local prison. Paula stumbles across a huge pile of the kids' old movies and discovers an odd motif that runs through every film
18
Home Movies, Season 3: Shore Leave
5 votes
Season 3 Episode 1: Melissa's dad makes her join The Fairy Princesses. Brendon tries to get out of going to Fenton's sleep over.
19
Therapy
February 24, 2002
13 votes
Brendon goes to family therapy with Andrew and Linda to learn 'gentle talk.'Brendon doesn't like the therapy, and when the therapist begins to analyze his movies, he likes it even less.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 2
- Episode Number: 8
- Series: Home Movies
20
Hiatus
January 20, 2002
9 votes
Believing they are in a creative rut, the kids agree to take a hiatus. Brendon reluctantly agrees to film Duane's band rehearsal and meets Cynthia, an older choreographer. Coach McGuirk and Mr. Lynch plan a trip to Cancun, while Paula is the victim of budget cuts at her school.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 2
- Episode Number: 3
- Series: Home Movies
21
Home Movies, Season 1: Brendon Gets Rabies
6 votes
Season 1 Episode 4: The neighbors' cat runs away on Brendon's watch -- with dire consequences for both of them.
22
School Nurse
September 30, 2001
5 votes
The new school nurse has everyone's attention. Coach McGuirk and Jason eye her as a love interest; Brendon sees her as his ticket to getting out of class.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 1
- Episode Number: 10
- Series: Home Movies
23
Impressions
February 10, 2002
5 votes
Brendon and Scab are trying to make a score for a sequence in the Starboy movie, when the old choreograhpher stops by to pick up her bag. Brendon suggests that sometime they should do something. She says to call her when he thinks of something. Brendon, Melissa, and Jason are hanging out at Jason's parent's country club, and Jason tells Brendon he should take her to the country club and order food with his account number, so Brendon does that; both of them sit in the kiddie pool because Brendon didn't want her hair to get wet. Well, someone does a cannonball so it does get wet, then Brendon orders sandwhichs with Jason's account, so the club's personal find out and everything goes wrong, resulting in the choreographer hating Brendon. Meanwhile, Paula goes to a new job interview; actually, she has to take a computer typing test before she gets the job. She lyes to a man that she is excellent at typing, so after she fails the test (due to pressure), she asks to reschedule it because of ""
- Season: Home Movies - Season 2
- Episode Number: 6
- Series: Home Movies
24
Home Movies, Season 2: Class Trip
3 votes
Season 2 Episode 9: Brendon takes advantage of Paula's distraction on a class trip to film scenes for his new spy thriller, while McGuirk takes a job at a coffee shop under Brendon's name.
25
Home Movies, Season 4: The Wizard's Baker
3 votes
Season 4 Episode 5: A disillusioned Brendon abandons his unfinished rock opera to join the fun-sounding Skunk Scouts, while Jason and Melissa are left to attract investors for CGI shots
26
Home Movies, Season 2: The Party
3 votes
Season 2 Episode 5: Brendon is asked to make a film for Fenton Muley's birthday party, but it turns out to be a bust when Fenton acts like a jerk.
27
Home Movies, Season 3: Improving Your Life Through Improv
3 votes
Season 3 Episode 4: Mr. Lynch sends all the kids plus Coach McGuirk to sensitivity training on a Saturday, where they learn the value of really bad improv games. Paula secretly enters one of Brendon's home movies in a video contest.
28
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
August 11, 2002
4 votes
A kitchen fire at the Smalls is nothing compared to the flaring tempers triggered when both of Paula's newly separated parents move in. To make matters worse, Coach McGuirk volunteers to 'renovate'the kitchen. Meanwhile, Brendon, Jason and Melissa make a crime drama called 'Mulligan and Winooski'about two cops.
- Season: Home Movies - Season 3
- Episode Number: 2
- Series: Home Movies
29
Home Movies, Season 3: Storm Warning
4 votes
Season 3 Episode 9: McGuirk tries to convince Paula to pose as his fiancée while his sister is visiting. Meanwhile, the kids are trying to decide whether they want to make a mockumentary about making a movie or a mock-making-of a mockumentary movie or just a movie.
30
Home Movies, Season 1: Life Through a Fisheye Lens
2 votes
Season 1 Episode 9: Brendon believes a fisheye lens will save his stiffly written horror film, but his efforts to get one are frustrated by family cash-flow problems.
31
Home Movies, Season 2: Identifying A Body
2 votes
Season 2 Episode 2: Brendon accompanies Coach McGuirk on a trip to identify his dead uncle's body, only to squander the $50 he raised for a charity walkathon
32
Home Movies, Season 4: Camp
2 votes
Season 4 Episode 1: Brendon, Jason and Melissa attend Camp Campingston Falls for the summer, home to stifling heat and crappy music counselors. Meanwhile, McGuirk's camping trip with The Crywalkers, a sensitive men's group, turns out to be not entirely about the free food.
33
Home Movies, Season 4: Definite Possible Murder
2 votes
Season 4 Episode 11: Laid up with a leg injury, Brendon spies on his new neighbor, Raymond Burley, who quite possibly may be involved in some potentially suspicious behavior. Coach McGuirk finds a life-changing pamphlet that leads him to bartending school.
34
Home Movies, Season 4: Psycho-Delicate
2 votes
Season 4 Episode 6: Brendon, Melissa and Jason do a Hitchcock film for a contest at the local video store. And McGuirk has the perfect blonde bombshell -- a waitress at the local diner that he's intent on picking up.
35
Business and Pleasure
October 28, 1995
3 votes
Connie protects the younger sister of his deceased lover after she sleeps with a psychotic businessman.
- Season: Pointman - Season 1
- Episode Number: 17
- Series: Pointman
36
Home Movies, Season 3: Renaissance
1 votes
Season 3 Episode 6: Brendon, Jason and Melissa are performing the musical King Arthur Meets Robin Hood at a medieval fair organized by Mr. Lynch. A sci-fi convention is going on next door to the fair, and there's a lot of tension between the two groups
37
Home Movies, Season 3: Bad Influence
1 votes
Season 3 Episode 3: Brendon and Jason are putting on weight at an alarming rate. So in order to break the "fat enabling" cycle they decide never to see each other again. Coach McGuirk tries out his own theory called the "fat father syndrome."
38
Home Movies, Season 1: It Was Supposed To Be Funny
1 votes
Season 1 Episode 7: Melissa is furious with Brendon after he takes artistic liberties with a documentary about her grandfather's life.
39
Home Movies, Season 2: Politics
1 votes
Season 2 Episode 1: Brendon accompanies Coach McGuirk on a trip to identify his dead uncle's body, only to squander the $50 he raised for a charity walkathon
40
Home Movies, Season 2: Hiatus
1 votes
Season 2 Episode 3: Brendon, Melissa and Jason endure a self-imposed hiatus from filmmaking. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk and Mr. Lynch travel south of the border together
41
Home Movies, Season 1: I Don't Do Well In Parent-Teacher Conferences
1 votes
Season 1 Episode 2: When Paula discovers that Brendon hasn't done any homework during the year, she is less than eager to attend a parent-teacher conference.
42
Home Movies, Season 1: The Art of the Sucker Punch
1 votes
Season 1 Episode 3: Brendon challenges the town bully after Jason gets picked on.
43
Home Movies, Season 4: Everybody's Entitled To My Opinion
1 votes
Season 4 Episode 4: Brendon begins writing reviews for a movie Web site called movie-weiner-or- winner.com and begins offering his opinion about everything. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk wreaks havoc at school because he's finally got a friend "on the inside."
44
Home Movies, Season 4: Those Bitches Tried To Cheat Me
1 votes
Season 4 Episode 9: Cheating-- McGuirk's got to pass his driving exam. Fat chance. He coerces Melissa into helping him; and Brendon, in addition to being blackmailed by classmates to steal the answers to the test, has to deal with Jason's crush on the new girl Penny, who's just a big of an oddball as Jason. Life sucks when you're eight sometimes.
45
Home Movies, Season 3: My Cheatin' Heart
2 votes
Season 3 Episode 7: Brendon is forced to take up golf after his father pressures him into playing a father-son round with an important client, only to discover that he's terrible. Brendon also has trouble convincing Jason and Melissa to make their latest film backwards.
46
Home Movies, Season 3: Stowaway
2 votes
Season 3 Episode 12: The kids decide to run away to Europe and become ex-patriot artists. McGuirk's car breaks down and he has no money to fix it. He asks Tom Wilsonberg, the author of Corporate Kids, for financial advice. Tom takes McGuirk gambling.
47
Home Movies, Season 4: Temporary Blindness
2 votes
Season 4 Episode 12: Brendon, Jason and Melissa are assigned a family tree project in school. Meanwhile, when Coach McGuirk's discount laser eye surgery somehow goes wrong, he becomes an occasionally blind possible prophet.
48
Home Movies, Season 2: History
2 votes
Season 2 Episode 10: Brendon's adventures with history succeed brilliantly in his new film but fail miserably in real life.
49
Home Movies, Season 2: Therapy
2 votes
Season 2 Episode 8: In an attempt to resolve the family discord, Brendon, his dad and his dad's girlfriend see a therapist -- who puts the blame on Brendon.
50
Home Movies, Season 1: Method of Acting
2 votes
Season 1 Episode 8: Brendon's acting skills foil his audition for a local play, so he uses his cinematic skills to secure a part. Meanwhile, Paula begins teaching a creative writing class with an eye on at least one student body.
51
Home Movies, Season 1: Yoko
2 votes
Season 1 Episode 5: Brendon meets Lonnie on a camping trip, and things go well until he is stung by the whimsy of her favor.
52
Home Movies, Season 1: Director's Cut
2 votes
Season 1 Episode 6: Jealousy is the order of the day when Brendon faces a creative rival and Coach McGuirk feels threatened by a likeable assistant coach.
53
Home Movies, Season 1: Get Away From My Mom
2 votes
Season 1 Episode 1: Brendon learns the awful truth -- that his mom is dating his soccer coach.
54
Home Movies, Season 1: School Nurse
0 votes
Season 1 Episode 10: Brendon launches a series of efforts to convince the school nurse that he is ill and should be sent home.
55
Home Movies, Season 1: Law and Boarder
0 votes
Season 1 Episode 12: Faulted for a bike-riding accident, Brendon is ordered by the court to write an essay about breaking the law. The film he makes instead -- a smear piece on the drivers who hit him -- does not impress the judge.
56
Home Movies, Season 2: Business & Pleasure
0 votes
Season 2 Episode 4: Jason's ineptitude on the set of a new film, which McGuirk mistakes for drug abuse, begins to wear down Brendon.
57
Home Movies, Season 2: Impressions
0 votes
Season 2 Episode 6: Brendon treats a cute choreographer to a meal at Jason's parents' country club. Paula wrestles with a typing test, while McGuirk combs through his high school yearbook trolling for dates.
58
Home Movies, Season 2: Writer's Block
0 votes
Season 2 Episode 11: Frustrated and scriptless at a writers' fair, Brendon and the gang decide to improvise a performance -- and the result is a hit. Paula's attempts to write a romance novel prove less fertile.
59
Home Movies, Season 2: Pizza Club
0 votes
Season 2 Episode 12: Brendon and his dad form their own pizza club, inspiring a rejected McGuirk to start a rival pizza club with Walter and Perry
60
Home Movies, Season 3: Four's Company
0 votes
Season 3 Episode 5: Melissa has a new boyfriend, and Brendon and Jason are jealous when her love life starts to interfere with their busy production schedule
61
Home Movies, Season 4: Honkey Magoo
0 votes
Season 4 Episode 8: Finding a lost puppy threatens to break up Brendon, Jason and Melissa's friendship -- until they realize how much he sucks.
62
Home Movies, Season 4: Cho & Amy Lee
0 votes
Season 4 Episode 10: Brendon's lucky goal ruins the record of the other team's uptight star goalie, Cho, who then moves in for revenge. Cho's team's choice of game music brings back some long-repressed memories for McGuirk.
63
Home Movies, Season 1: Brendon's Choice
1 votes
Season 1 Episode 13: After Brendon, Jason and Melissa win first prize in a local film festival, Channel 1 does a story on them; and an offhand remark by the reporter stirs Brendon's curiosity about his father.
64
Home Movies, Season 2: Dad
1 votes
Season 2 Episode 7: Brendon finally gets to meet his father, and his girlfriend's obnoxious personality inspires Brendon to lampoon her in a film. McGuirk becomes a "buddy" to a "special" child.
65
Home Movies, Season 2: The Wedding
1 votes
Season 2 Episode 13: Chaos erupts at Brendon's dad's wedding.
66
Home Movies, Season 3: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
1 votes
Season 3 Episode 2: Paula burns down her kitchen, and McGuirk volunteers to get paid to fix it. Paula's parents are getting a divorce. Jason fakes a divorce in order to fit in.
67
Home Movies, Season 3: Broken Dreams
1 votes
Season 3 Episode 11: Melissa breaks her arm. Then Jason breaks his arm, which is very suspicious. This may affect the current film in production, but Brendon is also worried that he's dumb or, at the very least, that Melissa is smarter than him.
68
Home Movies, Season 3: Coffins And Cradles
1 votes
Season 3 Episode 13: The kids are preparing for Halloween, Linda (Brendon's new stepmother) is preparing to have a baby and Coach McGuirk is preparing to have the romantic night of his life. Despite all this, no one is prepared when things start to go wrong.
69
Home Movies, Season 4: The Heart Smashers
1 votes
Season 4 Episode 3: Brendon tries to break up with Fenton; Paula tries to break up with her new boyfriend; McGuirk's chest tries to break up with McGuirk.