User:Beetricks/Cat on the Roof/List of episodes

Season 1

"Dad, Jerma's on the Roof!", episode 1
"Game Eyre", episode 4
"Wapanese on the Roof", episode 8
"New Toilette on the Roof", episode 15

Season 2

"In Court", episode 1
"Cat off the Roof", episode 5
"Doxing on the Roof", episode 11

Season 1 (2004–05)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
1	1	"Dad, There's Jerma on the Roof!"	Unknown	Unknown	September 26, 2004 (2004-09-26)	1–01
Debut appearance of the following characters (in order): Tucker and Jill, Griffin, and Sicky. A white middle-class suburban single-parent family is struggling and debating with how to handle the loss of Melanie (Jill's twin sister/Tucker's estranged wife). The show opens with a heated argument between the two household owners—note the sexual tension and seething dialogue—that is broken by a cat urinating over their window frame. Chaos still ensues, much to the dismay of Griffin (Tucker's son/Jill's nephew) opposite of the corridor. Griffin turns 12 later in the episode.
2	2	"Sports on the Roof"	Unknown	Unknown	October 1, 2004 (2004-10-01)	1–02
A new poll has taken America by surprise, and caused a rivalry between sports preferences. Sicky, Griffin and Jill are in love with basketball and the NBA. Meanwhile, Tucker (odd one out) is still trying to accept Jill's jab about baseball declining. A rift in the family is among them, and it drives them all insane. Ahead of the 2004 World Series, Tucker is wanting to prove critics wrong by intensively training his team. His assistant Lucie eventually becomes worried about how he's managing, which reaffirms what he doesn't want to hear: why work your players harder for a dead game only nerds watch. Instead of listening to Lucie, he sends invites to the rehearsals in an effort to get his preferred sport to the top of the results. The practices have been going smoothly until an investigator named Nicolle out of nowhere calls BS. In the end, basketball is number one in the results and Sicky calls baseball "forever corny". Note: First episode to feature Lucie Draper and Nicolle Harlow.
4	4	"Game Eyre"	Unknown	Unknown	October 31, 2004 (2004-10-31)	1–04
Aired on Halloween 2004. A parody of Jane Eyre (1847), features an alter-ego of the personified red Nintendo GameCube of the same name of the episode title. It chronicles her time at GameStop (Gateshead), the Unsworth family house (a mixture of Thornfield and Ferndean) and dilemma with Griffin (paralleling Mr. Rochester) and his defective Xbox (Bertha Mason). In the end, her and Griffin "marry" despite her unpopularity.
8	8	"Wapanese on the Roof"	Unknown	Unknown	November 19, 2004 (2004-11-19)	1–08
New date of the week: Erina—a 23-year-old hāfu Japanese-American expat and junior historian. Rumour has it that Tucker has been set up on a blind date with her. Delighted that Sicky told the news, Griffin fanboys over Asian women and semi-enviously duels with his father in a cutaway gag referencing The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Unaware of Erina's love for baseball and hip hop, Griffin, an anime/manga fan and hardcore gamer, assumes that his dad is only dating her for another mother. When she does arrive in the house, she's briefly greeted by the family. All together in the climax, they are in the living room couch when Griffin introduces himself to her while playing Animal Crossing: New Duty. A white American boy who "hardly know[s] Spanish", he is shocked to hear of her perfectly fluent English, and that Erina really doesn't care for anime nor J-pop idols nor Gwen Stefani's new album. After finding just one more thing they have in common (other than liking rap), they agree to watch NHK on a VPN. Spontaneously, the family find the missing Melanie as a game show contestant on the channel (hence solving part of the main plot of the season). Jill, who's searched for her since episode 1, is overjoyed and willing to fly to Japan with Erina. Overwhelmed by how the Unsworths have allowed such raucous, Erina abruptly rejects the offer and shelters herself upstairs to her boyfriend's bedroom. The final straw for her is when she turns on his CD player by accident. From a Lil Corn mixtape, it plays "They Call Me Roosevelt", which offends her greatly enough to consider calling off the second date. In the ending, Erina breaks up with Tucker and leaves a profane note in Japanese. Sicky comforts him, with a final one-liner before credits roll.
15	15	"New Toilette on the Roof"	Unknown	Unknown	April 1, 2005 (2005-04-01)	1–15
After a date incented by an aroma, Tucker lets in a woman his age named Phara Colbert into his house. Like him, she was a very popular idol in the 1980s and 1990s. Unbeknownst to the family, she is hogging fragrances for consumption. In the ending of the episode, she is found dead in a toilet after alcohol poisoning (presumably from consuming too much perfume). According to Sicky, she died of too much self-concern.

Season 2 (2005–06)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
23	1	"In Court"	Unknown	Unknown	September 9, 2005 (2005-09-09)	2–01
Following up the events of the last episode of the first season, "In Court" is in a format that deviates from previous episodes on the show. The entire episode is set in a family court, where there is an ad hominem hearing on Tucker and Melanie's divorce case.
25	3	"It's Not What It Seems on the Roof"	Unknown	Unknown	September 23, 2005 (2005-09-23)	2–03
Melanie sets up a conspiracy with Jill to indoctrinate Tucker into completely subverting his past misogynistic ways for their own amusement. Successful in their operation, he rejects a friend's request to go to an all-men's bar and spends time with Jill instead. Though later in the episode he becomes radicalized: he declares himself a man hater. As a result, he alienates his team amid final matches, his business colleagues, his assistant Lucy, Sicky, and eventually his own son.
27	5	"Cat off the Roof"	Unknown	Unknown	October 4, 2005 (2005-10-04)	2–05
The summary is not in chronological order. In a house of controlling man-children, Jess feels dissatisfied: it's even worse when Jill, the only other woman, refuses to confide in her. Jess, trying not to turn into her Sicky form, leaves the Unsworths to win back the debutante lifestyle she lost. When she does attempt to go back to her snobby upbringing however, her family forgets who she is. Instead of genuinely re-connecting, they trick her into feeling comfortable by saying shallow things. Meanwhile, Griffin is revealed to still feel betrayed that Jerma would never return to the household. While his father is at work, he initially hesitates to call his mother, for his social anxiety, but eventually does. She invites him to her house with Jill's approval. He is introduced to Mr. Miller, his mother's nature-lover boyfriend who is averse to 'techy kids'. To spite him, Miller pranks Griffin by filling his room with leaves and bugs. The bugs interfere with all his electronics so much to the point where they actually lag and stop working. With no ability to Google, his last resort to identifying the bugs is a physical Encyclopedia of Animals, which he finds confusing. All of the insects are capable of eating up processors, including his own brain. They can't be sprayed with pesticides, crushed nor trapped in nets. As Griffin is trying to fight them off, Miller finally calls him to tell him to get a pair of balls to throw outside as bait. It works, though the bugs never die. Eventually, Jerma shows up at the door though Griffin accidentally ends up crushing his paws with the door. Their long lost companionship sours, and Jerma is taken to a vet. Upon her return to the high life, Jess is being invited to red carpet events and even to join the cast of The Barnyard vs. the Mansion Family for the third season. During filming in a rural area, producers set her many risky challenges to test her endurance before she can turn into a cat again. Some of those include getting rural locals to roast her for 2 hours, rolling down a muddy hill, fighting brown bears, an alligator race, and finally a duel with a rat. Becoming increasingly anxious each challenge, Jess transforms into Sicky as she's expected to kill a rat. Even though the scene made for good TV, Sicky is embarrassed and drives back to the other Youngs with her pink wagon in hopes of turning back into a human being before she arrives. Upon arrival, Jess's mother shoot Purina food and throw stacks of bills at her before disinviting her from the house. Jess cries in her wagon loud enough for Griffin and his mother a few doors away to take her in. Jess hates this and calls Tucker to bring her home. When he arrives, this results in a confrontation to which Mr Miller ends the episode with a mocking one-liner.
33	11	"Doxed on the Roof"	Unknown	Unknown	January 13, 2006 (2006-01-13)	2–11
Griffin's 2 PC monitors are broken, and he is in need of a new pair, which costs $500 in total. After a deathmatch tournament of New Duty in an afterschool gaming club, Jake makes a deal of offering $500 to Griffin and his friend Caleb if they can dox their computer science teacher Mr Wojcik. With his eyes on the money, Griffin accepts the offer. Jake dupes Griffin to type a code that can show them private info about Wojcik. The boys discover embarrassing personal details (like his house address, email, phone number, his Gay.com profile, and his secret obsession with the socialite Jessica Young) then dedicate a MySpica page (with Griffin's handle) to posting jokes and edits of photos and videos retrieved from the hack. While Griffin and Caleb just make the memes, Jake breaches the agreement of the offer by doxing the teacher. That means that really incriminating photos get leaked of him. After the school hears of his outing, his students, who flocked to the smear MySpica campaign, and relentlessly mock him to oblivion and he is fired due to poor performance from anxiety. Even worse for Griffin, Jake purposely uses his credentials to solely frame him for the incident. Griffin ends up making national headlines as his code has caught the attention of the FBI. Abandoned by Jake, he, with his dad, sets to clear his own name and Caleb explains the whole incident to them. In the ending, Mr Wojcik is re-hired. He swears to safeguard his class better in a way that students are more accepting of sexual minorities (inspired by the harassment he received). Griffin and Caleb are suspended for 2 days and Jake for a week. In the meantime, Griffin purchases the two monitors and extra warranty from the dirty money and revenue he received from press coverage.

Season 5 (2008–09)

After season 4 (if it did exist) would have been shortened to 13 episodes due to the Writer's Strike, the show recovered with a full season in commission.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
80	1	"-1 Girl, +1 Girl: What's Changed on the Roof?"	Unknown	Unknown	September 5, 2008 (2008-09-05)	5–01
Jill departs from the Unsworth home after almost five years: her reason is that Tucker can finally cope with a long-term relationship of his own. Him and Jess have been together on-and-off for the past four years. Despite the tighter household security, another person is guesting: Nick, Griffin's 48-year-old paternal aunt. Like Jill, Nick is a single career-minded woman—though she is more sympathetic of Tucker due to them both falling victim to family abuse in their childhood unlike his ex-sister-in-law Jill. It is rather a sentimental episode.
90	11	"Bro, She's Not Gonna Fuck You on the Roof!"	Unknown	Unknown	February 13, 2009 (2009-02-13)	5–11
The episode where Griffin becomes a "real man" and tries the 3rd base with his senior-year girlfriend Ashley. However, he can't do it in his house nor in his friend's place. He keeps hyping up the idea that maybe they could do it on the roof—to which Kyle replies with the infamous "bro, she's not gonna fuck you on the roof!". He takes advice from his father Tucker, whose promiscuity has been a frequent subject throughout the series, for where and how he should have sex. Eventually, he finds that the car with heating on is best. Tucker with his walkie-talkie has been preparing his son's life just for that moment. That is until Sicky blurts out that Griffin's a few months shy from the age of consent in New York (17), which scares off Ashley. The couple broke up by the end of the episode.

Specials

Season #	Title	Original air date
1	"Practical Jokes on the Roof"	April 1, 2005 (2005-04-01)
3	"The History of the Roof"	January 14, 2007 (2007-01-14)
4	"Cat in Tokyo"	February 29, 2008 (2008-02-29)
6	"Twenty-Ten? on the Roof"	January 1, 2010 (2010-01-01)