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Wonderfalls

TV·2004–2004·1 season, 13 episodes·VisionTV·Drama, Comedy, Fantasy·1h·7.9·Created by Todd Holland, Bryan Fuller, Tim Minear

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From the producer of Angel and Firefly comes Wonderfalls. Although a recent graduate of Brown University, Jaye Tyler decides to ignore her degree, live in a trailer and work at a tourist gift shop in Niagara Falls called Wonderfalls—-much to the despair of her well-to-do family. But Jaye's aimless life takes a startling turn after a lion figurine begins talking to her. Her family calls it an "episode," but Jaye knows better.

Fearing for her sanity, Jaye nevertheless starts doing exactly what an increasing number of inanimate objects tell her to do and is amazed when her outrageous actions begin changing people's lives in unexpected ways.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Safety CanaryS01E09 · 7.8Jaye inadvertently causes zookeeper Penelope to lose her job, and tries to make amends by helping her to get a couple of endangered macaws to mate. Turns out mating is on everyone else's mind too, as Sharon works to win over Beth and Aaron flirts with Mahandra. Jaye is floored when Eric's unfaithful wife Heidi re-enters his life.
  2. 02Wonderfalls S01E01Wax LionS01E01 · 7.6Jaye fears for her sanity when a "smoosh-faced" wax lion and other animal-shaped trinkets begin speaking to her. At the lion's urging, she sets up her sister Sharon on a blind date that leads to a surprising revelation.
  3. 03Wonderfalls S01E03Wound-Up PenguinS01E03 · 7.5A wind-up penguin seems to be instructing Jaye to help a former nun regain her faith. But when Sister Katrina learns of Jaye's communication with inanimate objects, she decides an exorcism is in order.

Cast

Caroline DhavernasCaroline DhavernasJaye TylerKatie FinneranKatie FinneranSharon TylerTyron LeitsoTyron LeitsoEric GottsTracie ThomsTracie ThomsMahandra McGintyLee PaceLee PaceAaron TylerWilliam SadlerWilliam SadlerDr. Darrin TylerDiana ScarwidDiana ScarwidKaren Tyler

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes2004Aired 7.2Season avg
  1. S01E01Wonderfalls S01E01Wax LionOctober 4, 2004 7.6Jaye fears for her sanity when a "smoosh-faced" wax lion and other animal-shaped trinkets begin speaking to her. At the lion's urging, she s
  2. S01E02Wonderfalls S01E02Karma ChameleonOctober 11, 2004 7.2When Jaye meets Bianca, a mousy twentysomething with a bad stutter, a stuffed bass tells her to help the young woman "get her words out." Bu
  3. S01E03Wonderfalls S01E03Wound-Up PenguinOctober 18, 2004 7.5A wind-up penguin seems to be instructing Jaye to help a former nun regain her faith. But when Sister Katrina learns of Jaye's communication
  4. S01E04Wonderfalls S01E04Pink FlamingosOctober 25, 2004 7.3Jaye ignores the advice of some talking lawn flamingos, inadvertently causing a car accident that injures her father. Guilt-stricken, she ag
  5. S01E05Wonderfalls S01E05Crime DogNovember 1, 2004 7.5When the Tyler family's Canadian housekeeper Yvette is deported, a cow creamer sends Jaye across the border to retrieve her. Aaron, who acco
  6. S01E06Wonderfalls S01E06Barrel BearNovember 8, 2004 6.3A barrel bear at the gift shop steers Jaye toward Millie Marcus, the first American woman to successfully plunge over the falls in a barrel.
  7. S01E07Wonderfalls S01E07Lovesick AssNovember 15, 2004 7.0Jaye's growing attraction to Eric is complicated by the fact that he's still married. However, her romantic problems seem to pale in compari
  8. S01E08Muffin BuffaloNovember 22, 2004 7.5Jaye tries to help out neighbour Fat Pat, who's been secluded in his trailer as he struggles to lose weight. But things go awry when Pat mis
  9. S01E09Season's bestSafety CanaryNovember 29, 2004 7.8Jaye inadvertently causes zookeeper Penelope to lose her job, and tries to make amends by helping her to get a couple of endangered macaws t
  10. S01E10Lying PigDecember 6, 2004 6.5Heidi appears to suffer a case of amnesia after Jaye accidentally hits her on the head with a television set, and claims that she can't reme
  11. S01E11Cocktail BunnyDecember 13, 2004 7.0Heidi announces that she and Eric are returning to New Jersey. Jaye begins spying on Heidi after a brass monkey warns that "she's going to k
  12. S01E12Totem MoleDecember 20, 2004 6.8After visiting the Satsuma Reservation, Jaye tries to help Bill Hooton follow in his grandmother's footsteps as spiritual leader of the trib
  13. S01E13Caged BirdDecember 27, 2004 7.3Jaye has one last chance to reveal her true feelings to Eric before he leaves town with Heidi, but a dangerous hostage situation at the Wond

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