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Californication

  • Season 03
  • Episode 09
  • Mr. Bad Example

Californication: Expelled

Madeleine Martin: the Mr. Spock of adolescent pain.

  • S.03
  • Ep.08
  • 'The Apartment'

Californication: All Together Now

Three of the women Hank's sleeping with arrive on his doorstep early one morning, along with their husbands, children, stripper buddies, his agent, and Rick Springfield. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.07
  • ' So Here’s the Thing …'

Californication: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner — and Dessert

Hank moves to dispatch his pesky love interests. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.06
  • 'Glass Houses'

Californication: Rick Roll (in the Hay)

We learn some unfortunate things about the Moody family. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.05
  • 'Slow Happy Boys'

Californication: Blasted From the Past

An old friend, and old TV tropes, come for a visit. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.04
  • 'Zoso'

Californication: The Rule of Three

Hank Moody: “I’m like flypaper for the emotionally disturbed.”  

  • S.03
  • Ep.03
  • 'Verities & Balderdash'

Californication: Party Boy

"Don't put daddy in a corner!" 

  • S.03
  • Ep.02
  • 'The Land of Rape and Honey'

Californication: Enter Ed Westwick

Crushing on Hank Moody! 

  • S.03
  • Ep.01
  • 'Wish You Were Here'

Californication Season Premiere: Triple Threat

Meet Felicia, Jill, and Jackie. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.12
  • 'La Petite Mort'

Make Up Just to Break Up: The Season Finale of Californication

'Le Petite Mort' proves a less than orgasmic season finale: Charlie realizes he may have made a grave error, Sonja gives birth, and a New York job offer prompts Karen and Hank to once again reevaluate their relationship. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.11
  • 'Blues From Laurel Canyon'

Californication: Less Sex, More Death

Mia celebrates the release of the book she stole from Hank, Becca learns what it is to love and lose, Charlie destroys his marriage, and Ashby atones for Hank's sins. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.10
  • 'In Utero'

Californication: Matters of Life, Death, and the Boinking of Soul Mates

“In Utero” finds nineties-era Hank and Karen contemplating their then-burgeoning relationship; contemporary Hank worrying over a lump on his groin; and Charlie rethinking his marriage. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.09
  • 'La Ronde'

What a Tease: Californication

'La Ronde' finds Marcy in treatment; Ashby, Charlie, Hank and Karen keeping (most of) their libidinal impulses in check; and 'Californication' getting all literary. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.08
  • 'Going Down and Out in Beverly Hills'

Californication: Karen Gets in on the Act

"Going Down and Out in Beverly Hills" drags out Hank's anticipation of Janie Jones for yet another episode, but offers up her cleaning lady for a temp job. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.07
  • 'In a Lonely Place'

Californication: Things Get Even Skeevier

The show's bad blender drink of family and fornication gets frothier and more toxic this week. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.06
  • 'Coke Dick & the First Kick'

Californication Goes Straight Porno

This episode finds family and fornication all mixed up. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.05
  • 'Vaginatown'

Californication: Hank Back on the Slutmobile

Inspired by episode five's title, we try to find an excuse to say, "Forget it, Hank, it's Vaginatown." 

  • S.02
  • Ep.04
  • 'The Raw & the Cooked'

Good-bye, Entourage; — Hello, Californication!

Having renounced 'Entourage,' we're now free to recap a far-less-guilty pleasure: 'Californication'!  

Schedule
Sundays, 10 p.m.
Showtime
Cast
Director
Tom Kapinos
Producers
Tom Kapinos, David Duchovny, and Scott Winant
Debut
August 13, 2007
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