The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley

Season

1988

7.8

TV-Y7

"The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley" was a 1988 series featuring the adventures of comedian Martin Short's greatest sketch character.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Tall, Dark and Hansom

When Ed takes his cousin's place driving a hansom cab, he ends up in a horse race.

S1 • E2

Ed's Debut

Ed foolishly thinks he's been asked to play triangle for the city's philharmonic. Suddenly he's been arrested for a robbery he didn't do on his way to the concert hall.

S1 • E3

E.G., Go Home

Ed is hanging out with Wendall, who is the annoying brother of his crush - the amateur actress Miss Malone. Ed and Wendall go to the amusement park. They are off on a rocket ride to another planet which is ruled by an alien queen.

S1 • E4

Ed's in Hot Water

Ed's landlady Deidre Freebus asks him to look after the apartment building, while she's on vacation with her husband. Ed puts his skills into fixing the water heater and goes down the drain into the ocean. He ends up on an island, where he finds Amelia Earhart-esque aviator.

S1 • E5

Crate Expectations

Ed is trying to find a birthday present for Miss Malone. Unfortunately he gets stuck in a crate. Miss Malone, on the other hand is very depressed after she's been snubbed for a part in a TV movie. She grows older and meets a guardian angel, who shows her what life would be if she had never been born.

S1 • E6

Grimley, P.F.C.

Accidentally Ed joins the Army after he got on the wrong line to return a library book.

S1 • E7

Moby Is Lost

When Ed's pet goldfish Moby is missing, he hires a television-obsessed sea captain to find it.

S1 • E8

Good Neighbor Ed

Ed has to take a picture of all of his neighbors in order to fulfill the rules of a contest, he has won.

S1 • E9

Driver Ed

Miss Malone calls on Ed to teach her how to drive. But after an accident, they turn into wandering spirits who haunt Mr. Freebus.

S1 • E10

Blowin' in the Wind

Ed is heading to his aunt's house for a game of Monopoly, when he is caught up in the same tornado that sent Dorothy to Oz. Now he is on the farm with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. There, they meet a traveling summer stock show and the director, who wants to go to Broadway.

S1 • E11

Eyewitness Ed

Ed runs to the store to get 'hot dog franks' for a party, when the store turns out to resemble the Bates Motel. He witnesses Der Bingle robbing the proprietor. Now Ed must testify and go into the Witness Protection Program.