The best episodes of Drop Dead Diva
Ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
With Claire Harrison easing her way back into the firm, she partners with Kim on a case but proves she will stop at nothing to win, including pitting Kim's insecurities about Parker against her. Meanwhile, Stacy books a Fancy Feast commercial and Fred has to hide his jealously when she has to "kiss" her pretend husband. Jane and Grayson take on a case involving a woman who wants to be cryogenically frozen which leads them both to think about the passing of Deb and leads to a series of events that could change Jane and Grayson's lives forever.
- 02
Jane represents a young girl who is being cyber bullied by a popular girl in school. Parker's old partner in the firm, Claire Harrison, returns to enlist his help in her divorce but Kim takes the reins on the case, only to discover Claire wants much more than a settlement. Grayson moves to the next level when he meets Vanessa's parents.
- 03
At the close of last season, Deb was ready to let go of her past and embrace life as Jane. But the unexpected arrival of Jane's "secret" husband Ethan at her doorstep left her with more questions than ever. To make matters worse, Jane may be disbarred after breaching client-attorney confidentiality when, against the firm's advisement, she reported her client for fraud. Faced with a new love triangle and the uncertainty of her career Jane must, once again, chart out a new future for herself.
- 04
Jane meets the 'queen of mean' when she represents designer Ellie Tannen who is trying to stop the publication of a tell-all-book by her former assistant. Jane also decides to get back in the dating game and invites Hank the bailiff to a dinner party. Kim and Grayson represent a transgender woman who is feuding with her in-laws over her partner's property.
- 05
Jane and Grayson take on a case involving a grieving man, coping with the loss of his wife by dressing as a clown. Parker and Kim represent a producer who is being sued by one of the participants on a reality dating show which leads Kim to question her own dating situation with Parker. Fred finally decides to tell Stacy how he feels about her.
- 06
When Jane's mother is unexpectedly arrested, Jane must represent her in court before Judge Summers and reconnect with the father she has never known, to help her mom. Meanwhile, things between Parker and Kim heat up and Grayson gets heavily invested in a case involving a Ponzi scheme. Teri attempts to help Fred with driving and dating.
- 07
Jane helps Grayson defend one of the singers of a famous pop duo and they decide to team up with the lawyer defending the duo's other accused star, an attractive woman named Vanessa. But when Grayson and Vanessa hit it off both in and out of the courtroom, Jane will have to keep her mind on the trial despite feeling like the third wheel. Parker and Kim agree to help a bed and breakfast owner when the inn receives an excessively negative review that they suspect may not be impartial.
- 08
When Deb's mom Bobbi requests Jane's help in a legal matter, Jane discovers Bobbi had secrets of her own while she takes on a case involving a lab technician who is accused of stealing lab secrets. Meanwhile, Kim and Grayson work on a custody case involving a dueling couples pet chimp.
- 09
Jane brings in an age discrimination case only to have Parker hand it over to Kim. Grayson takes on a real estate case where his clients claim their house is haunted and gets closer to Vanessa. Fred decides to help Stacy with her money woes by hiring her to serve divorce papers.
- 10
Jane defends a fugitive cop against theft charges meant to derail his investigation into corruption on the force.
- 11
As Stacey helps Grayson represent a lingerie model who was fired after having surgery for breast cancer, Jane is assigned to represent a young baseball star.
- 12
Jane attempts to put her relationship issues aside when she has to focus on a custody case involving a man who suffered for amnesia for nine years. Meanwhile, Kim and Parker represent a female writer who is suing to retain control of the fictitious male persona she created under her pen name, Jonathan Noble.
- 13
Jane finds herself with two clients when she discovers both are married to the same man. Worse yet, she has trouble distinguishing her personal life in the courtroom when she discovers Tony is representing the Casanova. Kim takes on a custody case involving a baby adoption just as she finds herself with her own baby issues. Stacy decides to take destiny in her own hands when she invents the next must have item - the "Armvelope."
- 14
Trying to make up for an inappropriate conversation with senior partner Parker's assistant, David, Fred becomes buddies with him. However, he starts to worry about having inadvertently given him the wrong signals privately when he finds out that David is gay. Grayson puts his home on the market in order to do away with his past with Deb. Jane gets Stacy to intrude and steal a photo album that could betray her secret affair with a married man before she met Grayson.
- 15
When beautiful-but-vapid model wannabe Deb has a fatal car accident, she suddenly finds herself in front of Heaven's gatekeeper, Fred, who declares her a self-centered "zero." Outraged, she attempts to persuade Fred to return her to her shallow existence but is accidentally relegated to the body of the recently deceased Jane Bingum. A brilliant, thoughtful and plus-size attorney with a loyal assistant, Teri, Jane has always lived in the shadow of her more comely colleagues whereas Deb has always relied on her external beauty. Now, by a twist of fate and a bolt of divine intervention, Deb must come to terms with inhabiting Jane's plus-size frame in the ultimate showdown between brains and beauty.
- 16
Jane gets politely directed out of a women's clothes store that doesn't stock her size. She sues them, even though she realizes the judge may throw the case out of court. Parker's old friend comes to ask legal help from him.
- 17
Deb discovers what life is like for Jane in her body as she takes on a case defending a cocktail waitress who is fired after she gains 50 lbs. Grayson and Kim represent a man in a divorce but the only thing he wants from back from his wife is his kidney.
- 18
While fulfilling her duties as best man for Grayson and Vanessa's wedding, Jane is held at gunpoint while picking up the wedding rings. But when the gunman needs a public defender in court, Jane is unexpectedly asked to step in and takes special interest in the case when despite her advice, he pleads guilty. Meanwhile, Parker asks Grayson to help out one of his childhood friends who needs help with his pet camel.
- 19
As Jane represents a lesbian couple that is being denied a chance to attend their senior prom together, Teri enlists Grayson to help a bailiff who's been caught in a mail order marriage scam. Meanwhile, Jane is stunned to learn that her boyfriend, Bill, is seeing other women.
- 20
A woman arrives at Jane's office. At her heels, the police. She skipped bail as a teen and changed her identity, which has just been blown. Jane will defend the woman not only in court, but also to her husband, who feels betrayed.
- 21
After agreeing to represent a college student who has accused the school's star quarterback of rape, Jane suspects that loyal alumnus Grayson is trying to undermine her case. Meanwhile, Kim's argumentative sister seeks her help with a divorce.
- 22
Rookie Grayson was looking forward to be Jane's second chair in the defense of dating site boss Barry Schuester, who is accused of aiding in ruining clients' marriages, but Kim takes first chair. Jane must counsel pro bono Michael Fernandez, who is offered a meager $15,000 state settlement after ten years of wrongful imprisonment as D.A. Callahan chose for electoral purposes to look no further for the real criminal, who meanwhile confessed and died. The board rules however to award nothing, so now they must sue the prosecutor's office. Fred finally gets noticed by Stacy while organizing a surprise birthday party.
- 23
Bobbi Dobkins' arrest for hiring a male prostitute exposes some unorthodox steps she's taken to improve her sex life. Grayson fights to keep a client's divorce case from being moved to Wyoming.
- 24
Kim - and the firm - get sued for sexual harassment. Jane's new client is suing a weight loss program owner because the program causes heart problems. Also, suddenly Fred is gone and nobody remembers him except Jane. Why?
- 25
Grayson refuses to help Kim sue a bridesmaid for infidelity with the groom hours before the ceremony, yet she perseveres by the angle that the $10,000 wedding dress was 'made useless', but the groom still holds a crucial vote. Deb shyly accepts hot Brian Young's invitation to attend Jane's class reunion, only to find he's as gay as charming. Deb's client Brandon Tharpe asked for her, bot the boss, hoping she would understand his carpe diem attitude, which even his son claims to constitute a madness compromising their major lawn mowers manufacturing firm, which he wants to turn green.
