The Best Episodes of Hot in Cleveland

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There are so many good episodes of Hot in Cleveland, but which ones really stand out? Do you like "I Hate Goodbyes" the best, or is "Canoga Falls" your favorite episode of Hot in Cleveland? To determine once and for all what the best episodes of Hot in Cleveland are, let's rank every Hot in Cleveland episode from best to worst.

Hot in Cleveland, a sitcom about three aging entertainment industry veterans who decide to get away from L.A. and settle in Cleveland Ohio, was TV Land's first original scripted series. Hot in Cleveland, which starred Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, and Wendie Malick as the three L.A. transplants and Betty White as caretaker of the home the three lease, aired for six seasons from July 16, 2010 to June 3, 2015. The title of the show is a joke about how attractive you are in certain cities - you may be ugly in LA, but you're hot in Cleveland.

Vote up your favorite episodes of Hot in Cleveland, and downvote any bad episodes that you really didn't enjoy, despite how much you love the series as a whole. It can be painful to put one Hot in Cleveland episode over the other when there are so many good ones, which is why you can vote on however many episodes you like.

1
Love Thy Neighbor
7 votes
Season 2 Episode 15: When Melanie suspects Joy might be using drugs, she recruits neighbor Rick to help her find out. Little does she know, the drug in question is Rick himself. Meanwhile, Elka teaches Victoria how to act old for a musical version of Driving Miss Daisy.
2
Unseparated at Birthdates
15 votes
Season 2 Episode 13: When the ladies fix each other up on dates, Elka plays dumb to land a rich bachelor, Melanie's date is holier than thou, Joy only likes hers when he's not himself & Victoria gets double what she bargained for. Their new friend Roy helps them through it.
3
Good Neighbors
6 votes
Season 1 Episode 5: Melanie throws a party but makes the wrong impression on one of her neighbors. Meanwhile, Victoria is hired to do a Japanese commercial for a questionable product and Elka makes a colorful change to impress her senior prom date.
4
Birthdates
18 votes
Season 1 Episode 3: The ladies set each other up on blind dates. It's love at first sight for Elka and Max (Carl Reiner), but Melanie turns out to be a dead-ringer for her date's lost love. Meanwhile, Victoria fixes up Joy with a "killer" date.
5
How I Met My Mother
11 votes
Season 2 Episode 12: Betty White, Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves & Wendie Malick star in this comedy about three best friends from LA who find their lives changed forever when their plane headed for Paris makes an emergency landing in Cleveland.
6
The Man That Got Away
11 votes
Season 4 Episode 24: It's the big day of Victoria's wedding to incarcerated movie star Emmet Lawson (Alan Dale). Elka (Betty White) helps Joy reunite with her baby daddy (Craig Ferguson), who she hasn't seen in thirty two years.
7
Elka's Wedding
12 votes
Season 2 Episode 22: It's Elka's wedding day but Melanie, Joy, and Victoria wake up with no recollection of Elka's bachelorette party. Flashing back to the night before, the women must gather fractions of their memory to piece together what happened and where Elka is.
8
Cleveland Fantasy Con
12 votes
Season 4 Episode 6: Melanie's embroiled in an office love triangle. Joy learns a tidbit about Sean that threatens her fireman fantasy. Victoria's insecurity about dating a movie star leads her to extremes. Elka and Mamie have a run-in with the law.
9
Magic Diet Candy
10 votes
Season 4 Episode 7: Joy's mom meets her new family members at Wilbur's christening. To avoid friction with her mom, Joy makes her son Owen pretend to be someone else. Elka touches up a church fresco. Victoria's incessant Emmet talk annoys Melanie.
10
Tangled Web
9 votes
Season 3 Episode 13: The ladies escape to a lake house after Victoria sets loose a poisonous spider belonging to her ex-husband. Melanie finds out her new love interest is actually Joy's former fiancé.

11
Beards
9 votes
Season 3 Episode 2: Victoria is invited to speak on an A-list gay cruise and brings Melanie, Joy and Elka with her. On the cruise, Melanie runs into her estranged sister while Joy and Victoria, posing as a lesbian couple, face temptation upon meeting the ship's sexy captain.
12
Rubber Ball
8 votes
Season 3 Episode 15: When Melanie, Joy, and Victoria try to join a prestigious Cleveland country club, they discover that Elka has a long history with the club's president (Ed Asner), and he's bent on revenge.
13
About a Joy
8 votes
Season 6 Episode 11: Joy sees Bob in a new light when he helps Joy's grandson deal with the school bully. Elka inspires Melanie to reconnect with a woman from her past. Victoria tries to keep up with her younger boyfriend.
14
Vegas Baby/I Hate Goodbyes
11 votes
Season 6 Episode 23: In this special hour-long finale, Joy and Bob's Paris wedding plans get derailed when they find out there's a baby available for adoption in Las Vegas. While they're there, Victoria reconnects with a long-lost love.
15
Duct Soup
7 votes
Season 6 Episode 17: The gang helps Joy's son plan the rehearsal dinner for his wedding. An unexpected guest from Joy's past shows up.
16
Blow Outs
7 votes
Season 3 Episode 24: When Melanie's hair blow out lasts unusually long, Joy and Victoria demand to know who's blowing her. When Melanie tries to keep it a secret from them, tensions arise amongst our ladies and the two rival hairdressers at Elka's favorite salon.
17
How Did You Guys Meet, Anyway?
7 votes
Season 3 Episode 6: While waiting in line for the bathroom at a Cleveland sports game, Melanie, Joy, and Victoria tell Elka the story of how they met in Los Angeles in the '80s.
18
Where's Elka?
7 votes
Season 2 Episode 11: Elka's on the lam and the women go looking for her...in Amish country. Meanwhile, Joy's a source of scandal as the Governor's alleged mistress and faces deportation while Victoria gets a little too "at home" with the Amish.
19
Tornado
7 votes
Season 1 Episode 10: When a tornado threatens to hit Cleveland, the ladies find way more than just shelter in Elka's secret storm cellar.
20
Hot For The Lawyer
10 votes
Season 2 Episode 3: The ladies compete for the affection of Elka's attractive new lawyer. Elka gets more bad news.

21
Everything Goes Better With Vampires
9 votes
Season 3 Episode 16: Joy dates a guy she thinks is her teen crush Rick Springfield (Rick Springfield), Victoria wants to fire the cleaning-averse housekeeper (Rhea Perlman), Melanie's pretentious professor date makes her feel stupid and Elka's fed up with her writing partner.
22
All About Elka
9 votes
Season 6 Episode 20: Victoria directs her mother and son in a musical. Elka auditions for a part. Joy and Melanie try to fire a touchy-feely waiter.
23
Hot & Heavy
6 votes
Season 3 Episode 14: Victoria, eager to win a Newsie Award, goes to Overeaters Anonymous disguised in a fat suit. Elka tags along claiming she lost 600 pounds! Melanie meets a guy at a different "Anonymous" meeting. Joy goes out with a man who's a big departure from her type.
24
All Dolled Up
6 votes
Season 6 Episode 15: Elka is convinced that Bob's gift to Joy is a voodoo doll. Melanie accidentally doses her boyfriend, Dane (William Baldwin) with estrogen. Victoria gets a visit from her agent.
25
Claus, Tails & High-Pitched Males: Birthdates 3
6 votes
Season 3 Episode 17: The ladies celebrate their annual "birthdates": Elka thinks her date might be Santa Claus, Victoria reunites with the seemingly perfect Capt. Lebeau, Melanie's date has a high-pitched voice and Joy becomes a man's first date since he left the priesthood.
26
Mystery Date: Oscar Edition
6 votes
Season 5 Episode 21: When Victoria has to choose between Melanie and Joy for her plus one to the Oscars, they compete with each other to show who's the better friend.
27
Good Luck Faking the Goiter
11 votes
Season 1 Episode 9: When Melanie's secretive son (Joe Jonas) comes to visit she invades his privacy & learns a little too much about him. Meanwhile, when Victoria's nominated for an Emmy Elka helps her fake a deadly disease to gain sympathy & votes
28
Extras
8 votes
Season 4 Episode 8: Melanie wants her first time with Alec to be perfect but ends up "fake-porning" it. Joy works as an extra on Victoria and Emmet's movie and meets a forbidden love interest. Elka and Mamie are bad influences on baby Wilbur.
29
Dancing Queens
10 votes
Season 2 Episode 16: The ladies decide to go dancing to burn off the Cleveland pounds but need local gay best friends to go with. Victoria catches Leandro?s eye (Antonio Sabato Jr.) & Elka dukes it out with an old rival (Doris Roberts) & uncovers a shocking link to her past.
30
Bad Bromance
10 votes
Season 2 Episode 2: Melanie has a shocking meeting with her boyfriends family. Joy's green card scam goes awry.Victoria dates an ancient billionaire & Elka goes on a bender.