Fresh Off the Boat (season 1)

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Fresh Off the Boat
Season 1
Starring
No. of episodes13
Release
Original network ABC
Original releaseFebruary 4 (2015-02-04) 
April 21, 2015 (2015-04-21)
Season chronology
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Season 2
List of episodes

The first season of Fresh Off the Boat , an American sitcom created by Nahnatchka Khan and produced by 20th Century Fox Television, premiered in the United States on ABC on February 4, 2015, and concluded on April 21, 2015. The season consisted of 13 episodes.

Contents

The series focuses on the life of a Taiwanese-American family in Florida in the 1990s. The first season stars Randall Park, Constance Wu, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler and Ian Chen. With Lucille Soong, Chelsey Crisp and Ray Wise in supporting roles.

Cast and characters

Main

Recurring

Episodes

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code
US viewers
(millions)
11"Pilot" Lynn Shelton Nahnatchka Khan February 4, 2015 (2015-02-04)1AXT017.94 [5]
In 1995, Eddie Huang's family moves from D.C. to Orlando when his father Louis assumes control of a failing steakhouse, certain that he can turn around its fortunes. Jessica is confused by the rituals and habits of her new neighbors. Eddie finds it difficult to fit in at school, while Emery seems to be doing just fine.
22"Home Sweet Home-School" Max Winkler Kourtney KangFebruary 4, 2015 (2015-02-04)1AXT037.47 [5]
When Eddie gets high marks in school, Jessica reacts by thinking that the schoolwork is not challenging enough. She tries to get him moved into gifted programs but the school does not have them. She then considers enrolling them in a Chinese Learning Center (CLC), but there are none in the area. Wanting to get Jessica and her incessant micromanaging away from the restaurant, Louis convinces her to home-school the boys. When she finds out that Louis is keeping her away from the restaurant in order to relax the strict regime she has implemented there, she brings the boys there so that she can teach and keep watch over the restaurant.
33"The Shunning" Jake Kasdan Nahnatchka KhanFebruary 10, 2015 (2015-02-10)1AXT026.05 [6]
Jessica finally makes a new friend she likes named Honey (Chelsey Crisp), only to discover that the other neighborhood women dislike her for breaking up her husband's previous marriage. To gain more popularity after not being able to have Jordans like the other kids at school, Eddie figures showing off a hot girl like Honey to them will make him more popular instead. Louis uses a neighborhood block party to shamelessly promote the restaurant.
44"Success Perm" Gail Mancuso Rich Blomquist February 10, 2015 (2015-02-10)1AXT045.86 [6]
Jessica's sister Connie (Susan Park), her husband and Louis' old boss Steve (C. S. Lee), and Jessica's mother (Shu Lan Tuan) visit the family. As they arrive in Orlando, Louis and Jessica have tried to make their house and the restaurant look better than they are - so that successful Steve, snotty Connie, and penny-pinching Grandma Chu will think they are successful as well. Eddie is excited about seeing his cousin who introduced him to hip hop, Justin (Lance Lim) - but Justin is now very depressing to be around now that he is a fan of grunge music instead.
55"Persistent Romeo"Lynn SheltonSanjay ShahFebruary 17, 2015 (2015-02-17)1AXT056.17 [7]
Jessica requests that Louis has a sexual harassment seminar for the restaurant, but ends up making the employees feel harassed. Eddie tries to impress the kids in his school by showing them a 'dirty movie' which is actually Louis' sexual harassment video for the restaurant.
66"Fajita Man"Matt SohnMatt KuhnFebruary 24, 2015 (2015-02-24)1AXT065.79 [8]
As Jessica searches for a job for herself, Eddie starts working at the Cattleman's Ranch to get enough money for a video game he wants.
77"Showdown at the Golden Saddle"Lynn SheltonKeith HeislerMarch 3, 2015 (2015-03-03)1AXT076.02 [9]
Jessica finds out the truth about the Cattleman's Ranch and Golden Saddle, while Eddie tries his best to catch Nicole's attention.
88"Phillip Goldstein" Phil Traill Jeff Chiang & Eric ZiobrowskiMarch 10, 2015 (2015-03-10)1AXT085.08 [10]
A Chinese Jewish boy, Phillip Goldstein (Albert Tsai), is the new student at Eddie's school and they are paired up in all activities because of their race, even though Eddie does not like Phillip. Jessica immediately likes Phillip because he plays the cello and is a "good Chinese boy". Phillip and Eddie make a deal that if Eddie takes Phillip to see "Les Misérables" Phillip will go along with Eddie to the Beastie Boys concert. Eventually Phillip abandons Eddie and Eddie has to miss the concert looking for Phillip. Jessica ends up taking Eddie to the concert the next day, and does not like it.
99"License to Sell"Alisa StatmanCamilla BlackettMarch 24, 2015 (2015-03-24)1AXT094.92 [11]
Jessica goes in to take her realtor exam only to meet the best realtor in the city. Afraid that she will never be the best, as she often tells her children, "Always be the best", she instead lies about passing the test. Her husband eventually discovers this and tells her that she should never give up, and she then eventually takes and passes the exam. Eddie attempts to use his father's advice in trying to get Nicole to like him.
1010"Blind Spot"Claire ScanlonDavid SmithymanMarch 31, 2015 (2015-03-31)1AXT104.83 [12]
Jessica's college boyfriend Oscar Chow (Rex Lee) visits the Huangs. Jessica wants Louis to be jealous of Oscar, but Louis is not because although Jessica does not see it, Louis knows that Oscar is gay. Things get even weirder when Oscar reveals that in college he thought he and Louis were dating, not he and Jessica. Meanwhile, the chicken pox is going around.
1111"Very Superstitious" Alex Hardcastle Ali Wong April 7, 2015 (2015-04-07)1AXT114.85 [13]
Eddie slips on a rug at the steakhouse and breaks his arm. Later, he catches his father lying to Jessica, and Louis responds by saying little white lies are okay if some good can come of it. Taking this to heart, Eddie tries to gain favor in a student council election at school by making up a story about how he hurt his arm. This results in social services visiting the Huang home. Scottie Pippen makes a cameo appearance.
1212"Dribbling Tiger, Bounce Pass Dragon" Robert Cohen Rich BlomquistApril 14, 2015 (2015-04-14)1AXT124.76 [14]
Louis becomes the coach for Eddie's basketball team. In the show's tag, the family is eagerly watching a scene from the pilot of Margaret Cho's sitcom, All-American Girl .
1313"So Chineez" Chris Koch Sanjay ShahApril 21, 2015 (2015-04-21)1AXT135.08 [15]
For a country project at their school, Eddie is assigned Iceland but all of his friends switch to the Caribbean islands because they are an easy A. Eddie then switches with somebody for Jamaica by bribing him with Topanga's phone number since he likes Boy Meets World . Later, Jessica wants the boys to remember their Chinese heritage and switches Eddie to China. Eddie wants to switch back to Jamaica but defends China after one of his friends says that China is nothing but pandas. He ends up getting an F because he was so busy defending China that he forgets to do his Jamaica project.

Ratings

No.TitleAir date Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(million)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(million)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(million)
1"Pilot"February 4, 20152.5/8 [5] 7.94 [5] 0.92.073.410.03 [16]
2"Home Sweet Home-School"February 4, 20152.3/7 [5] 7.47 [5]
3"The Shunning"February 10, 20151.7/6 [6] 6.05 [6]
4"Success Perm"February 10, 20151.8/6 [6] 5.86 [6]
5"Persistent Romeo"February 17, 20151.9/6 [7] 6.17 [7]
6"Fajita Man"February 24, 20151.8/6 [8] 5.79 [8]
7"Showdown at the Golden Saddle"March 3, 20151.7/6 [9] 6.02 [9]
8"Phillip Goldstein"March 10, 20151.6/6 [10] 5.08 [10] 0.92.5 [17]
9"License to Sell"March 24, 20151.4/5 [11] 4.92 [11] 0.62.0 [18]
10"Blind Spot"March 31, 20151.3/5 [12] 4.83 [12] 0.82.1 [19]
11"Very Superstitious"April 7, 20151.4/5 [13] 4.85 [13]
12"Dribbling Tiger, Bounce Pass Dragon"April 14, 20151.5/5 [14] 4.76 [14]
13"So Chineez"April 21, 20151.5/5 [15] 5.08 [15]

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