| # |
Title |
U.S Air Date |
Production Code |
| 1 |
"The Room (Pilot)" |
September 18, 2005 |
101 |
| Casey decides that she wants Derek's room for her own, saying that she and Lizzie have nothing. Derek explodes when being asked to give up his room, which he's lived in for since he was an infant. Nora and George make a room for Casey in the basement, but Casey fools Derek into wanting the downstairs bedroom. |
| 2 |
"The Fall" |
September 25, 2005 |
102 |
| Casey trips at school, and Derek nicknames her "Klutzilla", a name that quickly spreads throughout the school. Soon, Casey seems clumsy everywhere which she blames on Derek, but could there be another reason? |
| 3 |
"The Party" |
October 2, 2005 |
103 |
| Casey and Derek must persuade their parents they can be left alone for the weekend. Casey intends to have a quiet weekend at home and watch some movies with Emily, but as always Derek has other plans. |
| 4 |
"Puppy Dog Tails" |
October 16, 2005 |
104 |
| Living-room redecorating creates strife within the family, as Casey, Lizzie, and Nora want to add a feminine touch to the household, while Derek, Edwin, Marti, and George are perfectly fine with the way the household is. |
| 5 |
"Grade Point: Average" |
October 23, 2005 |
105 |
| Casey discovers she has a reputation as a grade-grubber and wants to rid herself of it by choosing a slacker to work with on a group assignment - like Derek. Derek is on the brink of failing English and wants to pick someone smart to work with on the same group assignment - like Casey. |
| 6 |
"The Wedding" |
October 30, 2005 |
106 |
| Casey and Derek volunteer to organize Casey's aunt's wedding reception, but Casey's cousin, Victoria, is threatening to blow the entire thing apart because she her mom didn't even tell her that she's getting married. |
| 7 |
"The Poxfather" |
November 6, 2005 |
107 |
| Derek's home sick with the chicken pox, and a secret - and Casey intends to find out what it is. |
| 8 |
"House of Games" |
November 13, 2005 |
108 |
| The McDonalds and the Venturis kids (Derek, Edwin, Marti vs Casey and Lizzie) decide that the best places in the house aren't big enough for the two families, so they agree to decide by games of chance (dice, cards, etc). |
| 9 |
"Marti The Monster" |
December 4, 2005 |
109 |
| Marti sabotages Derek when he babysits her in an attempt to impress a girl but ends up messing up their relationship. |
| 10 |
"Sweet Misery" |
December 11, 2005 |
110 |
| When Derek has a chance to save Casey from spraining her ankle and neglects her, Casey decides to use it for her own gain by threatening to tell George and Nora. |
| 11 |
"Babe Raider" |
December 18, 2005 |
111 |
| Casey notices Derek, Sam and Edwin playing a sexist video game ('Babe Raider') and immediately launches a campaign against the sexist attitudes in the house. |
| 12 |
"All Systems No Go" |
January 15, 2006 |
112 |
| Chaos strike the household. Derek dyes the white clothes pink, dirties the neighbour's pool and stomps on their flowers, Marti make "potions" with Casey perfume and shampoo and hits the neighbour's son. A book club also happens, the family tries to clean while Nora is away. Derek's date is smart, and also reads books Casey has read. |
| 13 |
"Male Code Blue" |
January 22, 2006 |
113 |
| Casey likes Derek's best friend, Sam, he has feelings for Casey, too, but Derek has a plan - he's not about to lose his best friend to his stepsister. |
| # |
Title |
U.S. Air Date |
Production Code |
| 14 |
"Date with Derek" |
July 1, 2006 |
201 |
| When Derek asks Casey's best friend, Emily, out for a date, Casey has to wonder: Is he really interested in Emily, or is this some kind of revenge for "stealing" Sam? Meanwhile, Lizzie wants to learn how to dance. |
| 15 |
"He Shoots, She Scores" |
July 29, 2006 |
202 |
| When Lizzie has a hard time playing hockey, Derek steps in as her trainer. Meanwhile, Casey coaches Edwin about talking to girls. Unfortunately the natural competitiveness between the older kids begins to irritate the younger ones. |
| 16 |
"Middle Manic" |
September 22, 2006 |
203 |
| Derek is tired of Casey and Sam's make-up, break-up phase. But when they break up for good, Edwin notices that Sam isn't playing as well as he used to in hockey. Derek gets worried that this will be a problem, and that they won't be able to go to the championship in Sweden. |
| 17 |
"Venturian Candidate" |
September 29, 2006 |
204 |
| Casey has some great ideas to improve the school so she decides to run for school president. But, when Emily advises her to keep in mind the risk of destroying her reputation, Casey decides to get Derek to run for her in the race. |
| 18 |
"Battle of the Bands" |
October 6, 2006 |
205 |
| Derek and Sam are stoked for their upcoming performance in the Clash of the Bands contest at school and with them thinking Sheldon as easy competition, they can't lose... until they find out that they're missing a good lead singer when Derek and the band practice in front of the family and end up getting bad feedback. |
| 19 |
"Lies My Brother Told Me" |
October 13, 2006 |
206 |
| When Casey accidentally forgets to do a science project for school, she goes to Derek for advice on lying to her teacher so she can get an extension. |
| 20 |
"Crushin' the Coach" |
October 20, 2006 |
207 |
| Lizzie's soccer coach asks Casey out. Derek discovers the coach is dating three other girls, and not telling Casey is making him crazy so he finds a way "to have his wrong and right it too." |
| 21 |
"Prank Wars" |
October 27, 2006 |
208 |
| To pay Derek back for his many practical jokes, Casey pulls a huge prank of her own: stealing the office furniture from the new uptight Vice Principal. Everyone thinks Derek did it. The only two people who know he didn't are Casey and Derek. |
| 22 |
"Freaked Out Friday" |
November 3, 2006 |
209 |
| While Casey is freaking out about her upcoming dance competition (by being even more dramatic and needy) and Derek is freaking out about his upcoming hockey playoffs (by being annoying), Lizzie and Edwin decide they're sick of being the ever-accommodating middle-kids and refuse to serve and help their older siblings. |
| 23 |
"The Bet" |
November 9, 2006 |
210 |
| Derek keeps making bets with people and when Casey wants to join in, she bets that she can get a punk guy, Trevor, from school to ask her out. George and Nora worry about Casey's new look because it scares their family. Meanwhile, Edwin bets Lizzie that someone will call him cool. |
| 24 |
"Mice and Men" |
December 1, 2006 |
211 |
| When Derek starts to have a crush on a girl named Kendra (Casey's new study partner), He begins to change his image so she will notice him. Meanwhile, Lizzie is in control of getting rid of the mouse problem in the house. |
| 25 |
"Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" |
December 8, 2006 |
212 |
| Casey tries to get rid of Derek for the dinner party she has planned with her biological father. But to Casey's surprise, Derek and the rest of the Venturis get along great with her father. |
| 26 |
"Dating Game" |
December 15, 2006 |
213 |
| Kendra volunteers to help Casey get a boyfriend by throwing a small get together at the Venturi-McDonald home. Meanwhile, Derek uses the opportunity to throw a huge house party, But things don't go well with George and Nora sticking around. |
| # |
Title |
U.S. Air Date |
Production Code |
| 27 |
"Two Timing Derek" |
May 11, 2007 |
301 |
| Since Derek already has a girlfriend, Casey is shocked when he asks out a friend of hers. She tries to get him to do the right thing before she does it for him. |
| 28 |
"It's Our Party" |
May 18, 2007 |
302 |
| George and Nora plan a joint birthday party for Lizzie and Edwin. It's a fiasco until Casey and Derek reluctantly provide emergency help. |
| 29 |
"Misadventures in Babysitting" |
May 31, 2007 |
304 |
| Derek turns out to be the world's worst babysitter, so Edwin invites his friend Teddy (Cameron Ansell) over to stir up some trouble. Notes: this title comes from the 1987 movie Adventures in Babysitting. |
| 30 |
"Slacker Mom" |
June 23, 2007 |
305 |
| Casey risks losing her 'cool' status when Nora tries to recruit her new friends to help at the high school fun fair. |
| 31 |
"Power Failure" |
July 7, 2007 |
307 |
| Casey is shocked when Derek is selected to be a prefect at school and sets out to prove he's not the man for the job; Edwin and Lizzie are jealous that Marti always gets her way. |
| 32 |
"Don't Take a Tip From Me" |
July 21, 2007 |
310 |
| Casey and Derek both land jobs at the same restaurant, and things don't go quite as Casey expected. |
| 33 |
"The Bully Brothers" |
July 28, 2007 |
306 |
| When Edwin gets picked on by a bully, he goes to Derek for advice, inadvertently causing Derek big trouble of his own, by Edwin's bully's older brother, whom had picked on Derek before. |
| 34 |
"Home Movies" |
August 5, 2007 |
315 |
| Casey tries to shoot a home movie for Derek's class; the Venturis and the McDonalds fix Lizzie's diorama when Edwin accidentally smashes it falling off the stairs; Derek and Casey show the movie to their class when it's finished. |
| 35 |
"Show-Off-Tune" |
August 11, 2007 |
322 |
| When Derek gets bumped up from the chorus into a lead role in the school musical, Casey gives him some advice so he won't ruin the show. Meanwhile, Noel seems to not want to be in the play. What are the real reasons that are making him stay? |
| 36 |
"Summer School Blues" |
August 26, 2007 |
314 |
| Derek sneaks out of summer school and injects some fun into Casey's dull camp curriculum; Edwin and Lizzie set up a lucrative pet-sitting business. |
| 37 |
"Grade A Cheater" |
September 11, 2007 |
316 |
| Derek switches test papers with Casey, and then lures her into a scheme that will keep them both out of trouble. |
| 38 |
"Adios Derek" |
September 25, 2007 |
308 |
| George and also Derek's mother Abby are dismayed Derek is failing Spanish and decide he should live with Abby in Spain for six months. |
| 39 |
"Fright Night" |
October 15, 2007 |
311 |
| When Casey lectures Derek and Edwin for watching scary movies – which she finds silly and fake – they take her admonishment as a dare . . . to scare. |
| 40 |
"Sixteen Sparkplugs" |
November 5, 2007 |
309 |
| The family stages an intervention to convince George to buy a new car; Derek faces the scary possibility of spending his 16th birthday at home with his family. |
| 41 |
"When Derek Met Sally" |
November 26, 2007 |
312 |
| Derek swears off girls until he meets Sally (guest star Kate Todd), the attractive new waitress at Smellie Nellie's. Lizzie is freaked out when her best friend Jamie tells her he likes her. |
| 42 |
"A Very Derekus Christmas" |
December 3, 2007 |
326 |
| When Christmas plans go awry, Aunt Madge encourages Derek to help restore the family's holiday spirit. |
| 43 |
"Ivanwho?" |
January 7, 2008 |
317 |
| Idealistic Casey must get enough sleep for tomorrow's test, but she keeps getting woken up to a lot of noises. But the next morning during the test, she falls asleep for the rest of the school day. Casey expects her boyfriend Max to be as chivalrous as the literary hero Ivanhoe. |
| 44 |
"Rumor Mill" |
February 11, 2008 |
303 |
| After Derek breaks up with Kendra so he won't have to buy her a Valentine's Day gift, Kendra asks Casey's boyfriend Max to the Valentine's Day dance. |
| 45 |
"Derek Un-Done" |
March 3, 2008 |
318 |
| When signals get crossed, Derek thinks he has a chance with Sally, and Casey is sure Max is going to dump her. |
| 46 |
"Not So Sweet 16" |
April 7, 2008 |
319 |
| Derek turns Casey's plan for a sophisticated Sweet 16 into a bash more to his liking; however, Casey is stricken with Appendicitis on the same night! |
| 47 |
"Driving Lessons" |
April 19, 2008 |
320 |
| Casey is thrilled to get her driver's license before Derek, until she gets stuck playing chauffeur to her younger siblings. Derek fails his driving test for the 5th time while Casey passes on her first. |
| 48 |
"Make No Prom-ises" |
May 19, 2008 |
313 |
| Casey's dream of a romantic prom night turns into a nightmare when Derek accidentally ruins her dress. Lizzie and Edwin go to Ottawa. Derek goes with Sally to the dance. Shelton asks Emily to marry him because he is moving. |
| 49 |
"Cheerleader Casey" |
June 2, 2008 |
321 |
| Casey tries out for the cheerleading squad despite the fact that Max's jealous ex-girlfriend Amy is the head cheerleader. Thanks to the cooperation of Amy and Casey, the pep ralley is a huge success. |
| 50 |
"Allergy Season" |
|
323 |
| Casey develops mysterious allergies after Max gives her his football jacket. George gets fed up with Derek's jokes and makes a deal with Derek. Casey and Max break up at the end. |
| 51 |
"Things That Go Bump in the Night" |
|
324 |
| Grounded for the weekend, Derek and Casey put a dent in George's car when they try to sneak out to a party. Edwin and Lizzie play detective with the spy kit Edwin got. |
| 52 |
"Derek's School of Dating" |
|
325 |
| Edwin and Derek both strike out despite Derek's patented dating techniques. Derek dates Sally thanks to Casey and Edwin gets a girlfriend. |
