Girlfriends Season 1 Episodes

Episode 0

Unaired Pilot

Joan Clayton is at the great peak of her life. She's almost a junior partner at her law firm, and has a great friend circle. She hires a woman named Maya Wilkes as her assistant, and has had a friendship with one of her colleagues, William, for over three months. But Joan is going crazy that she hasn't had a man for a year and her plan was to be married by now. Her friends, egotistical Toni Childs, and a lazy 27-year-old college student named Lynn, have to cheer Joan up and get her a man, with the help of Maya whom Toni calls "ghetto".

Episode 1

Toe Sucking

Mon, Sep 11, 2000

Toni dates Joan's old boyfriend, Charles, and brings him to Joan's 29th birthday party, where things become very interesting.

Episode 2

One Night Stand?

Mon, Sep 18, 2000

Joan hasn't had sex in over a year! Her girlfriends convince her to try a one night stand, but that would mean breaking her code of three months of dating before being intimate.

Episode 3

Girlfrenzy

Mon, Sep 25, 2000

The girls go out to a club, where Toni winds up in a fight. Joan runs, and Toni gets mad at her.

Episode 4

Hip-Ocracy

Mon, Oct 2, 2000

Joan goes to meet a man she met online and all goes well until she discovers he has a "extreme secret" to hide.

Episode 5

I Pity the Fool

Mon, Oct 9, 2000

Joan's new boyfriend is becoming way too possessive and obsessive with her, so she enlists the help of her girlfriends to break it off with him.

Episode 6

The Remains of the Date

Mon, Oct 30, 2000

Joan plans an elaborate scheme to get revenge on William for the latest in a series of Halloween pranks. Toni is put off when her date asks her to engage in a threesome--with a stuffed animal.

Episode 7

Everything Fishy Ain't Fish

Mon, Nov 6, 2000

Joan sees Maya's husband Darnell having lunch with a another woman and is conflicted on how to tell her. Meanwhile Toni is dating a White man who has political ambitions.

Episode 8

Pregnant Pause

Mon, Nov 13, 2000

Joan is severely concerned when she misses her "time of the month" and severely stressed out that she may be pregnant! A situation she is not ready for, but her girlfriends are!

Episode 9

Fried Turkey

Mon, Nov 20, 2000

Joan has the perfect dinner date for her Thanksgiving dinner, a powerful attorney she admires, but her girlfriends ,plus William, who earlier had bailed out on her, start coming by one by one to make amends and ruin her perfect date.

Episode 10

Never a Bridesmaid

Mon, Nov 27, 2000

Maya and Darnell decided to renew their vows, Joan helps Maya plan her perfect wedding ceremony but Joan and Maya have different views on the perfect wedding.

Episode 11

The Importance of Being Frank

Mon, Dec 11, 2000

Joan's impressive new Boyfriend, Frank, turns out to be too good to be true after his wife Shows up at Joan's office. Toni believes she's dating a married man as well.

Episode 12

The List

Mon, Jan 15, 2001

The friends each make a list of what they want in their perfect lover and put it under their pillows, as Maya suggests from her personal experience.

Episode 13

They Gotta Have It

Mon, Feb 5, 2001

Joan is bewildered and unnerved by Sean's tentativeness in romancing her, and suspects he's seeing another woman.

Episode 14

Bad Timing

Mon, Feb 12, 2001

Joan is alone on Valentine's Day when Sean goes on a business trip-leaving her open to Davis' impulsive charms.

Episode 15

Old Dog

Mon, Feb 19, 2001

Toni refers Maya to her gynecologist when Maya worries about her inability to conceive a child with Darnell.

Episode 16

Friends, Colleagues, Brothers

Mon, Feb 26, 2001

Joan's frustrated by her inability to advance at her law firm, especially after William earns a case she thought she deserved.

Episode 17

The Declaration of Lynndependence

Mon, Mar 5, 2001

Toni and Joan ponder their opinions with Lynn, convinced it is time their friend learned to fend for herself instead of depending on them.

Episode 18

Diss-regard

Mon, Mar 12, 2001

Sean wants Joan to impress a would-be employer and Maya wants her to be there for her while she undergoes surgery.

Episode 19

A Kiss Before Lying

Mon, Apr 16, 2001

After an uncomfortable night at Davis's restaurant, Joan decides to come clean and tell Sean about the kiss.

Episode 20

The Burning Vagina Monologues

Mon, Apr 30, 2001

Toni's relationship with Greg is complicated by a flirtatious doctor; Joan tries to coax an 'I love you' from Sean.

Episode 21

Loose Lips Sink Relationships

Mon, May 7, 2001

Toni's impulsive acceptance of Clay's marriage proposal stuns her friends, especially Joan, who unwittingly passes the news to Greg.

Episode 22

Jamaic-Up?

Mon, May 14, 2001

Toni flies to Jamaica to recover from her breakup with Greg and she's joined by Joan, Lynn, and Maya.