The worst episodes of Nip/Tuck
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Liz gets surgery to look better for her girlfriend. James uses Christian to lure Michelle into stealing another kidney. Marlowe wants his legs lengthened.
- 02
Christian and Liz grow closer when his chemotherapy makes him ill and she becomes his caretaker. Sean reconnects with his broken family.
- 03
Running into an ex-lover leads Christian to a sexaholics meeting, while Sean and Julia deal with an unexpected pregnancy.
- 04
Sean and Christian are forced to go through recertification. Also: Megan O'Hara's health takes a turn for the worse.
- 05
Set in the sexy world of Miami's South Beach, "Nip/Tuck" cuts beneath the surface of the superficial world of plastic surgery, revealing the complexities and fragile nature of patients trying to mask their psychological flaws through cosmetic enhancement.
- 06
When a poor Latina woman arrives in Sean and Christian's office with horrible blisters on her forehead, the doctors learn that their old associate, Merrill Bobolit, is performing cheap, illegal cosmetic surgery on poverty-stricken people.
- 07
Sean and Christian reluctantly accept the case of Trudy Nye, who wants her nose fixed. Years ago, her abusive husband broke it--on the same day he killed their young son in anger. Now he is getting out of prison early.
- 08
A patient's extreme request leaves Christian struggling between what the medical establishment says is right and what the patient says will make him feel whole. After leaving McNamara/Troy, Sean takes his surgery skills to the Witness Protection Program.
- 09
The working relationship between Christian and Quentin worsens when they have an ethical disagreement over a groundbreaking surgery. Sean doesn't want Nikki to disappear into the Witness Protection Program without him.
- 10
Furious that Quentin is dating Julia, Sean resolves to do whatever it takes to force Quentin out of the practice. Christian claims to be fine after Kimber's sudden exit, but his relationship with a patient indicates otherwise.
- 11
A jet bound from Miami to New York crashes after takeoff--and Julia's mother, Erica, may be on board. Christian, Sean, Liz and Julia struggle to save the lives of surviving passengers, and Sean must amputate the arms of one of the crash victims.
- 12
A shopping-mall Mrs. Santa Claus comes to McNamara/Troy for liposuction before the holidays, but a discovery during surgery jeopardizes her marriage to Mr. Claus. Julia must make a decision that could profoundly affect the rest of her family's lives.
- 13
Sean and Julia hire a nanny. Sean's desires are revealed. Liz witnesses an event that changes her relationship with Michelle.
- 14
Sean tries to deal with his feelings for Julia. Christian meets someone who gets what he is going through. PORTIA de ROSSI, JENNIFER COOLIDGE and ANNALYNNE McCORD guest star.
- 15
Giselle Blaylock & Legend Chandler
Christian searches for immortality and Kimber reacts to the news of Liz and Christian getting married. KATEE SACKHOFF, ANNALYNNE McCORD and JOHN SCHNEIDER guest star.
- 16
Dr. Bobolit makes Christian an offer he can't refuse, and Christian reevaluates his relationship with Kimber. Also: Julia and Jude get personal, as do Sean and Megan.
- 17
The doctors operate on a man they suspect is a drug dealer trying to alter his appearance.
- 18
Sean leaves an instrument inside a patient, and Christian must clean up the mess. Matt resorts to desperate measures to get the circumcision he wants, and Julia has to go to anger-management class for flushing her daughter's gerbil.
- 19
Christian meets a porn mogul who agrees to send the surgeons some business, much to Sean's chagrin. Also, a hack rival causes problems for the doctors.
- 20
A woman who has lost 143 lbs. wants excess skin removed; Matt finds a way to woo Vanessa; Christian rethinks his womanizing ways; and a double-mastectomy patient considers reconstructive breast surgery.
- 21
Matt is involved in a hit-and-run accident that injures a schoolmate; and the doctors face a crisis of ethics after removing a birthmark from a patient who isn't what he claims to be.
- 22
The doctors treat a patient who has multiple-personality disorder, Matt and Henry befriend Cara Fitzgerald and Christian gets some unexpected news from an ex-lover.
- 23
The doctors remove a woman's breast implants only to find that they contain a drug smuggler's stash. Also: Sofia Lopez joins Julia's pilates group.
- 24
In the season finale, the doctors are desperate for a way out from under the thumb of drug runner Gallardo, and Bobolit takes on a patient turned away by Sean and Christian.
- 25
Christian and Sean agree to rehabilitate a stalwart, optimistic Somali woman, Manya Mabika, who was genitally mutilated as a girl in her home country.
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