Episode list for &#34;The King of Queens&#34; ( 1998 )

Season 1, Episode 2: Fat City

Original Air Date: 28 September 1998
When Doug finds out that the women on Carrie's side of the family become overweight in their lives, he tries to keep Carrie from being overweight.

Next US airings:

Mon. July 14

Season 1, Episode 3: Cello, Goodbye

Original Air Date: 5 October 1998
When Carrie keeps skipping softball games with Doug and the guys, Doug wonders what's going on. Doug finds out that Carrie is working late for her boss. Doug starts to wonder why Carrie fell for him. Doug tries to make it up to Carrie by going to a cello concert with her.

Next US airings:

Wed. July 16

Season 1, Episode 4: Richie's Song

Original Air Date: 12 October 1998
When Doug finds out that Richie's girlfriend cheats on him, he must confront him with the news. However, Doug has some trouble telling his friend about his girlfriend.

Next US airings:

Tue. July 15

Season 1, Episode 5: Paternal Affairs

Original Air Date: 19 October 1998
Doug and Carrie throw a wedding anniversary party for themselves. Doug invites his aunt, and finds out that his aunt and uncle are having problems. When Arthur meets Doug's aunt, he falls for her. Can Doug stop their relationship, or let it be.

Next US airings:

Thur. July 17

Season 1, Episode 6: Head First

Original Air Date: 26 October 1998
Doug tries to get Carrie to pay more attention to him by becoming Arthur's "playmate". Can Doug with stand Arthur's crazy amusement, or can he do it to get more attention from Carrie.

Next US airings:

Sat. July 12

Season 1, Episode 7: The Rock

Original Air Date: 2 November 1998
When Carrie and Doug cash in her wedding ring, they wonder if they did the right thing. They buy a satellite dish and a hot tub with the money they got with the ring. They soon find out that they get bad karma from the selling of the ring. Did selling their most prized possession give them their bad karma?

Season 1, Episode 8: Educating Doug

Original Air Date: 9 November 1998
Carrie decides that she and Doug are getting dumber everyday, so she signs them up for a classic literature class. Doug is not very happy about the decision, and tends to goof off in the class. They are given an assignment to read the novel "Jane Eyre", and then answer questions on what they read. Doug never reads the the book, and is desperate for the answers.

Next US airings:

Sat. July 19

Season 1, Episode 9: Road Rayge

Original Air Date: 16 November 1998
While Doug is taking a driving test, he runs into Ray Barone. Ray seems to have trouble with a few of the questions, and asks Doug for the answers. Doug is caught by the instructor, and loses his license. Ray makes it up to Doug by bringing him to a New York Jets game. Ray's brother Robert goes with them. Ray lets Doug drive, and Robert finds out that Doug does not have a license. Robert, being a cop, tells Doug to pull over. Doug finally gets his license back. Look for an appearance from Peter Boyle play Ray's father Frank Barone.

Season 1, Episode 10: Supermarket Story

Original Air Date: 23 November 1998
Doug, Carrie, and Arthur head to the supermarket on the day before Thanksgiving. Carrie is challenged by making a whole Thanksgiving dinner from scratch by Arthur's demands. Doug meets a guy that he does not know, but the guy knows everything about him. Soon, all of them find the true meaning of Thanksgiving.

Next US airings:

Sat. July 19

Season 1, Episode 11: Noel Cowards

Original Air Date: 14 December 1998
Its the Christmas season and Doug and Carrie have their eyes on a new car, but when they find out they can't afford it Arthur surprises them with something quite unexpected.

Season 1, Episode 12: Fixer Upper

Original Air Date: 21 December 1998
Carrie arranges a blind date for Spence with Jenny, one of Carrie's co-workers.

Next US airings:

Mon. July 21

Season 1, Episode 13: Best Man

Original Air Date: 11 January 1999
Doug, Carrie, Arthur, Deacon and Kelly are going to the wedding of Todd, an old friend of Carrie and Kelly. Just before going to the wedding, Doug finds out Carrie once had sex with Todd.

Season 1, Episode 14: Dog Days

Original Air Date: 18 January 1999
The dog of the new neighbors keeps Doug and Carrie up all night. Arthur thinks Charles Schultz based Peanuts on him.

Season 1, Episode 15: Crappy Birthday

Original Air Date: 1 February 1999
Doug has planned to watch a wrestling game on the same day Carrie turns 30.

Season 1, Episode 16: S'ain't Valentine's

Original Air Date: 8 February 1999
Doug is planning to take Carrie out to dinner on Valentine's Day. Before he takes Carrie out, Doug, Deacon, and Richie go to Spence's house to wish him a happy birthday. Spence's mom is throwing the party, and has had a little too much to drink that night. Spence's mom embarrasses him so much he leaves. The boys can not leave because Spence's mom is very unstable. In the mean time, Carrie has dinner with a man she met at the restaurant's bar. Can Doug make it out in time?

Season 1, Episode 17: Court Date

Original Air Date: 15 February 1999
Carrie gets a ticket and since it's her fourth, the car insurance will be doubled. Doug is cross with Carrie about this and when the cop who gave Carrie the ticket wants to go out with her, Doug insists she goes out with him.

Season 1, Episode 18: White Collar

Original Air Date: 22 February 1999
Doug gets a promotion. Carrie is thrilled with this, Doug however doesn't like the job.

Season 1, Episode 19: Rayny Day

Original Air Date: 1 March 1999
At the same moment he has Richie over to talk about his divorce trouble, Ray Barone calls Doug to play golf. This is a tough call for Doug.

Season 1, Episode 20: Train Wreck

Original Air Date: 15 March 1999
Doug doesn't like that Carrie isn't jealous when Doug's new trainee is a very pretty girl. Meanwhile, Arthur has his own millennium problem...with a tombstone.

Season 1, Episode 21: Hungry Man

Original Air Date: 5 April 1999
Carrie's boss invites Doug and Carrie to a cocktail party. Doug, plagued by enormous hunger since he hasn't eaten all day, and behaves far from perfect.

Season 1, Episode 22: Time Share

Original Air Date: 26 April 1999
Tim and Dorothy from next door offer Doug and Carrie their house at the beach because they are divorcing.

Season 1, Episode 23: Where's Poppa

Original Air Date: 3 May 1999
Carrie and Doug began to realize how much they miss spending time just the two of them, so they try to get Arthur out of the house as much as possible.

Season 1, Episode 24: Art House

Original Air Date: 10 May 1999
Arthur almost gets Doug fired and because of that Doug says how he really feels about Arthur. Arthur then decides to move out.

Season 1, Episode 25: Maybe Baby

Original Air Date: 17 May 1999
Doug and Carrie consider having a baby.

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Queasy Rider

Original Air Date: 20 September 1999
Doug wants to buy his own motorcycle after riding Richie's. Carrie finds out, and won't let Doug get one. He eventually gets one anyway without approval from Carrie. When Carrie finds out, she takes up one of her old hobbies of smoking. Doug then has to choose what he loves more: His bike or his wife.

Season 2, Episode 2: Female Problems

Original Air Date: 27 September 1999
Carrie is sad because she has no friends to spend time with, so Doug decides to get in touch with the woman which just moved to queens. Carrie spends a lot of time with her new friend and cares less about Doug, which he dislikes.

Season 2, Episode 3: Assaulted Nuts

Original Air Date: 4 October 1999
Doug is messing around at work with a stapler gun and accidentally gets shot in an unlikely place.

Season 2, Episode 4: Parent Trapped

Original Air Date: 11 October 1999
Deacon and Kelly ask Doug and Carrie if they would be godparents of their two children, but Doug and Carrie are not sure if they're right for the job.

Season 2, Episode 5: Tube Steaks

Original Air Date: 18 October 1999
Doug gets very upset with Carrie after he sees that his big screen TV is stolen after Carrie left the garage door open.

Season 2, Episode 6: Doug Out

Original Air Date: 25 October 1999
Doug has to pick Arthur up from his job, because Carrie is working late. On the way home, Arthur talks, and talks, and talks. When Carrie gets home, Doug calls her father a "Demented Old Circus Monkey". However, Carrie went out of the house to get a beer. Arthur heard what Doug said about him, and does not talk to him. The only way Doug can fix this mess, is to take Arthur to a New York Mets baseball game.

Season 2, Episode 7: Get Away

Original Air Date: 1 November 1999
When Doug and Carrie go on vacation to celebrate their anniversary, they decide to take their friends Deacon and Kelly which turns out to be a big mistake.

Season 2, Episode 8: Dire Strayts

Original Air Date: 8 November 1999
It's double the havoc when Ray and Debra Barone (Everybody Loves Raymond) come and visit Doug and Carrie.

Season 2, Episode 9: I, Candy

Original Air Date: 15 November 1999
Doug's ego gets busted when he gets checked out by a waitress.

Season 2, Episode 10: Roamin' Holiday

Original Air Date: 22 November 1999
Doug doesn't want friends of Carrie to stay for the Thanksgiving weekend and convinces Spence he should get a place of his own and that he can stay with Doug and Carrie until he has found one.

Season 2, Episode 11: Sparing Carrie

Original Air Date: 29 November 1999
Doug, Carrie, Deacon, Spence, and Richie all are on Cooper's bowling team. Their team is mediocre. The new manager of Coopers (Robert Klein) tells Doug that he will drop the team unless they start to win some games. Doug knows that Carrie, the team's worst player, must be dropped in order to win. Now Doug has to decide what is more important: His wife or the game.

Season 2, Episode 12: Net Prophets

Original Air Date: 13 December 1999
The Christmas season is upon Doug and Carrie and they decide they should invest in stock, but they soon feel the joys and stresses of it. Arthur wants to decorate the house with more Christmas items.

Season 2, Episode 13: Party Favor

Original Air Date: 10 January 2000
When Doug has his old football team over to watch old videos of their plays, Doug's coach gives credit of Doug's great play to another team mate. Carrie decides to make a gigantic sandwich for the team while Spence decides to confront them about all the times they picked on him in high school.

Season 2, Episode 14: Block Buster

Original Air Date: 17 January 2000
Doug invites his old high school championship football team to his house to have a party. Doug tells Carrie that he got a huge block to set up the winning touchdown. While talking to a reporter about how they won the game, the team remembers Doug's teammate Tom Busterman, who is confined to a wheelchair, making the block. Doug gets the game tapes from the attic, and has the team watch the play. Doug was given Busterman's jersey by mistake that game, and that's why they got the players mixed up. Doug was the real hero.

Season 2, Episode 15: Frozen Pop

Original Air Date: 24 January 2000
Because it's very cold, Arthur gets to sleep in Carrie's office, which is right across Doug and Carrie's bedroom. Doug doesn't like this and can't wait for some warmth so Arthur can get back to his basement.

Season 2, Episode 16: Fair Game

Original Air Date: 7 February 2000
At a board game evening Doug finds out Carrie cheats. Carrie doesn't come clean about this to Doug which makes Doug a bit edgy, especially since there's another board game evening planned.

Season 2, Episode 17: Meet By-Product

Original Air Date: 14 February 2000
Its Valentines day and Doug and Carrie reminisce about the first time when they met and how it really wasn't love at first sight.

Season 2, Episode 18: The Shmenkmans

Original Air Date: 21 February 2000
Doug and Carrie make new friends and are afraid if their other friends, Deacon and Kelly are moving in on them. Arthur gets a shipment of his old favorite, salty cereal.

Season 2, Episode 19: Surprise Artie

Original Air Date: 28 February 2000
Arthur's 75th birthday is coming up and Doug and Carrie decide to throw him a surprise party, but their in for a rude awakening when two of the invited guests are at each others throats and they can't find Arthur!

Season 2, Episode 20: Wild Cards

Original Air Date: 6 March 2000
Though he has promised Carrie to go to the theater, Doug goes to Atlantic City with Deacon to gamble.

Season 2, Episode 21: Big Dougie

Original Air Date: 17 April 2000
Carrie accidentally tells the wrong Doug she loves him. Doug volunteers to be a Big Brother.

Season 2, Episode 22: Soft Touch

Original Air Date: 1 May 2000
Doug and Carrie have dinner with their annoying neighbors and Doug gets involved in a pyramid scheme when Tim starts convincing him on how much of a great idea it is.

Season 2, Episode 23: Restaurant Row

Original Air Date: 8 May 2000
Doug and Carrie go to a new Italian restaurant where Carrie gets a wrong order and causes chaos there. Doug gets very upset because he loved the food and he wanted that place to be his and Carrie's new restaurant. Carrie bans Doug from there, so Doug has to start sneaking behind her back to eat there.

Season 2, Episode 24: Flower Power

Original Air Date: 15 May 2000
When a colleague has gotten flowers (which she initially thought were for her), Carrie is disappointed and Doug tries to show his romantic side. Meanwhile, Arthur has jury duty.

Season 2, Episode 25: Whine Country

Original Air Date: 22 May 2000
Doug sees someone driving an R.V. and decides he wants to buy one for himself and Carrie's vacation, however Carrie is planning a trip to Paris for their vacation. So in deciding where to go, they flip a coin.

Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1: Do Rico

Original Air Date: 2 October 2000
When Doug does the voice of a new co-worker, he feels that Carrie will only listen to him if he does the voice. Doug now wonders if Carrie is still attracted to him.

Season 3, Episode 2: Roast Chicken

Original Air Date: 9 October 2000
When Doug's boss sees what a comedian he is, he asks him to "roast" him at his banquet. However, Doug finds that he is not as funny as he first thought. Will Doug be able to "roast" his boss?

Season 3, Episode 3: Fatty McButterpants

Original Air Date: 16 October 2000
When Doug learns that Carrie is buying him clothing from the "Big and Tall Shop", he is now determined to lose weight. While he is on his journey to lose weight, he tells Carrie that she needs to make some changes to her lifestyle as well. Meanwhile, Arthur is trying to keep the family safe by getting a safety dummy.

Season 3, Episode 4: Class Struggle

Original Air Date: 23 October 2000
When Carrie spends a night out with some of her colleagues, she finds out that they are more successful then she is. Carrie never went to college. Now, she is trying very hard to get back to school and get a good education to become more successful. But will she be able to balance work, school, and family at the same time?

Season 3, Episode 5: Strike One

Original Air Date: 30 October 2000
While Doug's company is in strict negotiations, he decides to buy a brand new SUV. When Carrie finds out, she demands him to take it back. At this time, IPS has gone on strike. Now Doug is out of work.

Season 3, Episode 6: Strike Too

Original Air Date: 6 November 2000
It is week two of the IPS strike, and Doug still has not gotten a job. To get back on his feet, his sister Stephanie (Riki Lake) get him a substitute teacher job at her school. However, it is a high school, and the kids are not so nice. Can Doug survive?

Season 3, Episode 7: Strike Out

Original Air Date: 13 November 2000
It is week three of the IPS strike, and Doug has just been hanging around the house for all three of them. Deacon has also been out of work and Kelly has had enough of his laziness. Carrie and Kelly decide to have Arthur, Doug, and Deacon spend the whole day together. However, their plan backfires, because the three of them become uncontrollable delinquents. In the end, the strike is ended.

Season 3, Episode 8: Dark Meet

Original Air Date: 20 November 2000
Doug, Carrie and Arthur are thinking about the first Thanksgiving they (and Arthur's second wife Lily) spend together.

Season 3, Episode 9: Twisted Sitters

Original Air Date: 27 November 2000
When Kelly's great aunt dies, both Deacon and her have to go to Chicago and they have no one to watch their two kids, so Doug and Carrie offer to watch them while their gone. When they first start watching the kids Carrie was terrified of the idea, but soon after they began to love the idea, up until Kirby catches Doug and Carrie being intimate in their parent's bed.

Season 3, Episode 10: Work Related

Original Air Date: 4 December 2000
When Arthur goes to Carrie's work he is offered a job there, which really begins to irritate her. Doug competes to be Mr. May for IPS but Deacon is in the way of him getting it.

Season 3, Episode 11: Better Camera

Original Air Date: 11 December 2000
It's the Christmas season and the Heffernan's see that they have a new neighbor who happens to be Lou Ferrigno. Arthur wants Lou to read his screenplay to get it produced. Doug decides to buy Carrie a camera the only problem is that her boss at work also bought her a camera which happens to be nicer.

Season 3, Episode 12: Wedding Presence

Original Air Date: 8 January 2001
Doug and Carrie run into an annoying couple who are happening to get married. The couple invite them and Doug and Carrie say they will be there for sure. Then they later find out that the wedding is in Maryland which is a five hour drive and Doug and Carrie don't want to attend any longer. Arthur thinks of another crazy scheme, on having half priced footwear for sons and fathers.

Season 3, Episode 13: Hi-Def Jam

Original Air Date: 29 January 2001
Doug delivers a package to a mom and sees that she has an H.D. T.V. and with the super bowl coming up he cant stand looking at his own T.V. Doug later finds out that Carrie's boss has an H.D. so he asks her if she will invite him to Doug's poker game so he can convince Carrie's boss to watch the super bowl at his place.

Season 3, Episode 14: Paint Misbehavin'

Original Air Date: 5 February 2001
Doug is going to throw a paint ball party for Deacon. However, Doug becomes angry at Carrie because she finds Deacon attractive. Kelly is angry at Carrie because of what she said about Deacon. It all leads up to a climactic battle between friends.

Season 3, Episode 15: Deacon Blues

Original Air Date: 12 February 2001
Doug sees Deacon with another woman while he told Kelly he had to work late.

Season 3, Episode 16: Horizontal Hold

Original Air Date: 19 February 2001
Carrie bans sex for two weeks because she's afraid she and Doug don't talk enough.

Season 3, Episode 17: Inner Tube

Original Air Date: 26 February 2001
Doug lies to Carrie about having to work late so he can play mud football and get out of going to her seminar. Now sick from his night of football in the rain, Doug starts watching TV and begins to drift off to sleep... The Honeymooners Doug dreams that he is Ralph and Deacon is Ed and they scheme to get Doug out of the house to go bowling. Wheel of Fortune Doug dreams that he, Arthur and Carrie are contestants on The Wheel of Fortune, where the puzzle being "Doug Heffernan is a big fat liar." Brian's Song Doug dreams he is in Brian's Song as Brian Piccolo and Deacon is Gale Sayers. The Young and the Restless Doug dreams that he, Arthur and Carrie are on The Young and the Restless, where Carrie and Jack Abbott kiss. Doug, finally full of guilt, goes to tell Carrie the truth of what happened and she doesn't react exactly the way she thought she would. End Scene from Brian's Song.

Season 3, Episode 18: Papa Pill

Original Air Date: 19 March 2001
Doug tells Carrie he doesn't agree with the way she treats Arthur and because of that Carrie lets Doug take care of Arthur.

Season 3, Episode 19: Package Deal

Original Air Date: 9 April 2001
Doug receives an offer from FedEx and tells his IPS boss that if he wont give Doug a better route than he will transfer to FedEx. Lou Ferrigno sees Carrie slaving around the house and offers her if he can help, they soon start doing more favors for one another which ends up giving Carrie quite an orange tan.

Season 3, Episode 20: Separation Anxiety

Original Air Date: 16 April 2001
During Deacon and Kelly's separation, Doug and Carrie go out with Kelly and run into a guy, Bill, Carrie knows from work. Bill and Kelly end up going on a date...

Season 3, Episode 21: Departure Time

Original Air Date: 30 April 2001
Doug's parents are coming in town so Doug and Carrie decide to go and pick them up at the airport and they bring upsetting news to Doug. They have him sign papers about their wills and what would happen if they were to go into a vegetated state or what not. Arthur roams the airport acting like a passenger to get discounts on items in the airport store.

Season 3, Episode 22: Swim Neighbors

Original Air Date: 7 May 2001
After a big storm Doug and Carrie catch their annoying neighbors in their backyard cleaning up the after math of the storm. They than give the idea to Doug and Carrie that they should tear down the wall dividing them and make it on big backyard. After the Heffernens tell them no on the idea the neighbors get a pool that disrupts there backyard privacy. Carrie is wanting to fight them on it, but Doug is not sure where he stands.

Season 3, Episode 23: S'no Job

Original Air Date: 14 May 2001
Danny's father Stu asks Doug to arrange a job interview for Danny at IPS. Doug however doesn't want Danny to work with him.

Next US airings:

Wed. July 9

Season 3, Episode 24: Pregnant Pause: Part 1

Original Air Date: 21 May 2001
Carrie finds out she is pregnant but she thinks it's not the right time to have a child. Meanwhile, Deacon and Kelly begin to reconcile.

Season 3, Episode 25: Pregnant Pause: Part 2

Original Air Date: 21 May 2001
A second job being a limousine driver, Arthur asking him to make a lavatory in the basement, supporting Carrie and realizing he'll be a father in a few months all becomes too much for Doug.

Next US airings:

Thur. July 10

Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: Walk, Man

Original Air Date: 24 September 2001
Doug and Carrie feel that they are ready to become parents. Their only problem is that Arthur is always around, and never gives them any time to themselves. Doug hires a dog walker named Holly to walk Arthur for a couple hours. Arthur does not know that Holly is a dog walker. Carrie uses the time for her own personal pleasures. Doug hates that she is not paying enough attention to him with the time he is buying. Eventually, Arthur finds out what Holly does. Eventually, Arthur and Holly become good friends.

Season 4, Episode 2: Sight Gag

Original Air Date: 1 October 2001
For Carrie's birthday, Doug decides to get her laser eye surgery. Doug brings her to the place, and the surgery is a success. The next day, Carrie wakes up to blurry vision. The next day she wakes up to the same thing. Doug calls up the doctor and asks if these symptoms are normal. The doctor says they are not normal, and Doug is now very nervous. Carrie finds out that Doug went to a cheap place, and used discounts.

Next US airings:

Thur. July 17

Season 4, Episode 3: Mean Streak

Original Air Date: 8 October 2001
Doug is ready to break the IPS record of most consecutive day without a broken package, or complaint. While he is ready to break it, his co-workers are not so excited. The old timers are not happy with Doug because he's going to break the record held by their old friend. Even Deacon is mad at Doug, because Doug broke one of Deacon's packages years ago. On the last day, Doug has to deliver light bulbs. He has to go up stairs to deliver them, but can not because the stairs are wet with paint. Doug has to throw the bulbs up or the company will call Doug's supervisor. It all comes comes down to a climactic choice to throw the bulbs up or get in trouble from his company.

Season 4, Episode 4: Friender Bender

Original Air Date: 15 October 2001
The friendship between Doug & Carrie and Deacon & Kelly is seriously tested when Doug smashes Deacon and Kelly's car.

Next US airings:

Mon. July 21