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The King of Queens Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 2002 - 2003
Episode 1
Arthur, Spooner
Mon, Sep 23, 200230 mins
Holly asks Doug if she can get a raise for walking Arthur, while Carrie gets a promotion on being the project supervisor which changes her hours from 8 PM to 6 AM, so now Doug and Carrie get to hardly see one another. Doug also has trouble sleeping at night so he decides to use Arthur to solve his problems.
Episode 2
Window Pain
Mon, Sep 30, 200230 mins
Doug and Carrie get new neighbors who are really clean cut and high class people. When they get to know them Carrie feels that she and Doug are below them. Carrie really begins to care on what they think about them. Arthur keeps thinking of sneaky ways to convince Spence in getting into the subway for free.
Episode 3
Holy Mackerel
Mon, Oct 7, 200230 mins
Doug and Carrie run into their priest. They haven't been to church for a while so they tell him that they will be there next time. When they go Carrie is very skeptical, but when she receives the raise she's been waiting for she is all about religion. Arthur starts showing off the Heffernan house for people to buy.
Episode 4
Kirbed Enthusiasm
Mon, Oct 14, 200230 mins
Doug goes out for a semi-pro football team to keep Deacon's son Kirby playing football.
Episode 5
Mammary Lane
Mon, Oct 21, 200230 mins
Carrie Heffernan (portrayed by Leah Remini) agrees to babysit for Mr. Kaplan (played by Victor Raider-Wexler) in hopes of getting on his good side. Mr. Kaplan's son can't stop grabbing Carrie. Doug (Kevin James) tries to make a worker at a bowling alley feel good by talking to her, and she thinks he is stalking her.
Episode 6
Business Affairs
Mon, Oct 28, 200230 mins
Doug Heffernan goes to Carrie's office and meets her "work husband". He then gets jealous of how close the two of them are, even though Curt is gay. Carrie says Curt is just like what Deacon is to Doug and then Doug and Carrie compete to see who can spend more time with their "work spouse".
Episode 7
Flame Resistant
Mon, Nov 4, 200230 mins
When Doug and Carrie go out to lunch they run into Doug's ex-girlfriend from high school. Doug's mom is coming to town and Doug finds out that she has been keeping in touch with his ex after all these years. Carrie feels that she isn't as close to Doug's mom as Margie is.
Episode 8
Flash Photography
Mon, Nov 11, 200230 mins
Doug Heffernan (played by Kevin James) gets bored at a wedding and decides to take a photograph of his "area" with a disposable camera from the wedding. When the bride and groom see the picture they think it was Danny (played by Gary Valentine), and they have a big fight, which makes Doug feel guilty.
Episode 9
Connect Four
Mon, Nov 18, 200230 mins
When Carrie wins four tickets for a month to Knicks games, Doug and her struggle to find another couple with whom they'd both be happy. They eventually devise a scheme to break up two couples in order to create the perfect couple. Meanwhile Arthur visits an old friend at the DMV to take care of a ticket for Deacon. His friend is no longer working there but Arthur cannot bring himself to tell Deacon and the rest of the crew as they continue to hand him parking tickets to take care of.
Episode 10
Loaner Car
Mon, Nov 25, 200230 mins
Deacon wants to give his kids a great Thanksgiving but can't do it all by himself. Doug loans him Carrie. Carrie turns out to be more than Deacon bargained for.
Episode 11
Mentalo Case
Mon, Dec 16, 200230 mins
At Christmas time, Doug remembers a toy he had as a child so he tries to buy one on eBay but Carrie prevents him because he wanted to pay $180. Doug later goes to a toy convention with Spence to try to track one down. After a sequence of events, Doug thinks Deacon bought him the toy. Carrie thinks Holly bought her a leather jacket, because Arthur gets Holly to disclose Carrie's gift to him.
Episode 12
Jung Frankenstein
Mon, Jan 6, 200330 mins
Carrie persuades Doug to see a therapist about his eating habits. Meanwhile, Arthur tries to control his addiction to nasal spray.
Episode 13
Attention Deficit
Mon, Jan 20, 200330 mins
The Super Bowl is coming and Doug wants to throw a Super Bowl party at his house, but everyone has already got plans. Carrie is stressing about her upcoming job evaluation and Lou Ferrigno always takes an interest on how her day is going. So Carrie begins to feel that Doug doesn't think about her as much as she thinks about him.
Episode 14
Prints Charming
Mon, Feb 3, 200330 mins
Doug and Carrie go to the supermarket and pick up their developed pictures, however they get another couple's pictures and in every picture the couple is doing something exciting. This makes Carrie feel that she and Doug don't do enough with their lives. Doug does not want to do anything exiting until he picks up the couple's newest pictures again and looks at their racy photos. Arthur gets a cell phone and has no one to talk to.
Episode 15
Animal Attraction
Mon, Feb 10, 200330 mins
Doug has to cancel dinner with Carrie on Valentine's Day because IPS is having him deliver penguins to Albany. But he is in for a surprise when the penguins get loose in his truck. Holly just got dumped by her boyfriend and comes crying to Carrie, so Carrie tries to make her feel better by going out with Holly to a club. Arthur and Spence spend their Valentine's at the local senior center.
Episode 16
Golden Moldy
Mon, Feb 17, 200330 mins
When Doug and Carrie's neighbors ask them to a relaxing vacation, they hurry to answer yes for the offer. But before they go Arthur tells them their is a fowl odor coming from the basement. Doug takes a look and a he sees mold growing in the walls, but he decides to not tell Carrie because he knows that they wouldn't go on their vacation. But when they're there, Arthur calls and tells them that the mold got severely worse and it would cos $7,000 to fix it. So Doug tries to keep a close eye on their money spending for the rest of the trip.
Episode 17
S'Poor House
Mon, Feb 24, 200330 mins
Doug forgot to tell Carrie a minor detail about their house 6 years prior comes back to cost the couple $12,000, which they don't have. Doug's father shows up to offer financial advice, driving a wedge between Doug and Carrie over clothing costs. Arthur devises a plan of his own by getting the money from Spence's mom.
Episode 18
Steve Moscow
Mon, Mar 10, 200330 mins
Doug and Carrie hire Russian workers to perform mold remediation in their home, but the workers do not have the work ethic they were expecting.
Episode 19
Cowardly Lyin'
Mon, Mar 31, 200330 mins
Doug and Carrie Heffernan, (played by Kevin James and Leah Remini respectively), decide to try and improve their relationship after having an argument. Doug then promises to stop lying to Carrie, while she then tries to be nicer to Doug and stop threatening him with death every time she's mad at him.
Episode 20
Driving Reign
Mon, Apr 14, 200330 mins
Danny becomes an IPS driver and Doug gets upset because he feels that Danny is always following in Doug's footsteps. Doug's boss also told him to show Danny the ropes. But when Doug gives Danny his route to prove to him he cant do that well, Danny proves him wrong by completing the route 45 minutes faster then Doug. Holly tells Arthur that he is like a Grandfather to her, but Arthur wants to be more like a Dad.
Episode 21
Clothes Encounter
Mon, Apr 21, 200330 mins
When Doug and Carrie notice that they are starting to get out of debt and doing better with their money, they decide to go out and buy something for themselves. Carrie goes out and buys a $400 dollar jacket which makes Doug freak out. So when Carrie goes back to return it she figures out a loop hole in the system by returning the stuff she buys so she doesn't really ever buy anything. Spence's girlfriend Denise meets his dog Alan, but Denise is really frightened of dogs.
Episode 22
Queens'bro Bridge
Mon, Apr 28, 200330 mins
When Doug Heffernan (Kevin James) finds out Arthur (Jerry Stiller) has a half-brother named Skitch (Shelley Berman), with whom Arthur owns a house, he wants Arthur to move in with him. What Doug doesn't know is that Arthur always got picked on by Skitch and apparently things haven't changed that much over the years.
Episode 23
Dog Shelter
Mon, May 5, 200330 mins
Doug and Carrie visit his parents in Florida. Carrie finds out his parents never told him his dog died; they simply bought a new one, several times. Carrie tells Doug and he asks his parents why they lied and if there's more he doesn't know. He ends up finding out more about himself than he bargained for. Meanwhile, Spence wants Arthur's help in making the encounter between his mother and Denise a smooth one.
Episode 24
Taste Buds
Mon, May 12, 200330 mins
While looking for a video in the video store Carrie doesn't want to see the films Doug has found but she does agree to rent a film Arthur chose. When something like this happens again, Doug starts using Arthur to get the things he wants. Meanwhile, Spence is first in line for an upcoming film.
Episode 25
Bed Spread
Mon, May 19, 200322 mins
Doug and Carrie's bed breaks down and as a temporary solution they borrow the beds from Deacon's children who don't need them anymore. The sleeping apart turns out to be a real eye-opener and they start to do more things by themselves. Meanwhile, Arthur discovers a window in the basement and finds out neighbor Lou Ferrigno is a real gossip.
