Hot in Cleveland (2010)

Name: Hot in Cleveland
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick, Betty White

Comedy

Three fabulous, eccentric, LA best friends of a certain age have their lives changed forever when their plane unexpectedly lands in Cleveland and they soon rediscover themselves in this new "promised land."

IMDb rating: 7.4 (17,550 votes)
Episode average: 7.7 ↑ +0.3 vs IMDb
Seasons: 6
Streaming (US): Paramount+
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 6 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2010)

7.65 avg 10 episodes 7.5 → 8.1 22 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.5	417
2	Who's Your Mama?	7.6	321
3	Birthdates	8.1	334
4	The Sex That Got Away	7.6	306
5	Good Neighbors	7.6	271
6	Meet the Parents	7.5	273
7	It's Not That Complicated	7.3	255
8	The Play's the Thing	7.3	262
9	Good Luck Faking the Goiter	7.9	270
10	Tornado	8.1	271

Season 2 (2010)

7.78 avg 23 episodes 8.1 → 8.0 23 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	Behind the Hotness	8.1	130
1	Free Elka	8.1	296
2	Bad Bromance	7.8	267
3	Hot for the Lawyer	7.9	252
4	Sisterhood of the Travelling SPANX	7.9	251
5	I Love Lucci: Part One	8.0	259
6	I Love Lucci: Part Two	7.7	234
7	Dog Tricks, Sex Flicks & Joy's Fix	7.6	233
8	LeBron Is Le Gone	7.8	231
9	Elka's Snowbird	7.4	217
10	Law & Elka	7.7	217
11	Where's Elka?	7.9	241
12	How I Met My Mother	7.9	242
13	Unseparated at Birthdates	8.2	268
14	Battle of the Bands	7.3	219
15	Love Thy Neighbor	7.7	207
16	Dancing Queens	7.9	240
17	The Emmy Show	7.5	227
18	Arch Enemies	7.6	199
19	Too Hot for TV	7.8	204
20	Indecent Proposals	7.5	208
21	Bridezelka	7.6	211
22	Elka's Wedding	8.0	226

Season 3 (2011)

7.69 avg 25 episodes 7.9 → 7.6 21 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	Sneak Peek	7.9	82
1	Elka's Choice	7.2	210
2	Beards	8.0	235
3	Funeral Crashers	7.5	208
4	Happy Fat	7.4	197
5	One Thing or a Mother	8.0	217
6	How Did You Guys Meet, Anyway?	7.9	196
7	Two Girls and a Rhino	7.3	185
8	God and Football	7.5	188
9	Love Is Blind	7.9	210
10	Life with Lucci	8.1	203
11	I'm with the Band	7.2	193
12	Lost Loves	7.5	177
13	Tangled Web	8.1	207
14	Hot & Heavy	7.4	196
15	Rubber Ball	8.0	212
16	Everything Goes Better with Vampires	8.0	216
17	Claus, Tails & High-Pitched Males: Birthdates 3	7.6	195
18	Cruel Shoes	7.5	179
19	Bye George, I Think He's Got It!	7.5	186
20	The Gateway Friend	7.8	188
21	Some Like it Hot	8.0	164
22	Storage Wars	7.5	180
23	What's Behind the Door	7.9	199
24	Blow Outs	7.6	182

Season 4 (2012)

7.78 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 7.9 22 min avg

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Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	That Changes Everything	7.7	188
2	A Midwinter Night's Sex Comedy	7.5	171
3	Method Man	7.8	176
4	GILFs	7.7	181
5	A Box Full of Puppies	7.5	186
6	Cleveland Fantasy Con	7.7	183
7	Magic Diet Candy	8.0	195
8	Extras	7.8	158
9	The Conversation	7.5	182
10	The Anger Games	7.9	172
11	Fast and Furious	7.6	166
12	What Now, My Love?	7.5	165
13	It's Alive	8.3	228
14	Canoga Falls	8.3	217
15	The Proposal	7.9	173
16	Pony Up	7.6	156
17	No Glove, No Love	7.4	156
18	The Fixer	7.6	155
19	Look Who's Hot Now	7.1	143
20	Cleveland Indians	8.3	222
21	Corpse Bride	7.6	161
22	All My Exes	7.7	155
23	Love Is All Around	8.8	323
24	The Man That Got Away	7.9	169

Season 5 (2014)

7.65 avg 24 episodes 8.6 → 8.2 22 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Stayin' Alive	8.6	276
2	Surprise!	7.5	164
3	Dr. Who?	7.2	156
4	The Undead	7.5	150
5	Elka Takes a Lover	7.2	162
6	Rusty Banks Rides Again	7.4	154
7	The One with George Clooney	7.6	159
8	Brokeback Elka	7.7	158
9	Bad George Clooney	7.5	145
10	Bucket: We're Going to New York	7.6	159
11	Undercover Lovers	7.5	141
12	I Just Met the Man I'm Going to Marry	7.8	137
13	People Feeding People	7.6	144
14	Murder House	7.4	189
15	Playmates	8.1	168
16	Auction Heroes	7.7	150
17	Straight Outta Cleveland	7.7	180
18	The Animated Episode	6.7	217
19	Strange Bedfellows	7.7	149
20	The Italian Job	7.6	149
21	Mystery Date: Oscar Edition	7.9	146
22	Win Win	8.2	153
23	Don Elka	7.6	137
24	The Bachelors	8.2	152

Season 6 (2014)

7.73 avg 23 episodes 7.5 → 8.9 23 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Comfort and Joy	7.5	151
2	Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles	7.9	140
3	Bossy Cups	7.4	135
4	Naked and Afraid	7.5	129
5	Tazed and Confused	7.8	130
6	Out of Our Minds	7.5	136
7	Cold in Cleveland: The Christmas Episode	8.0	147
8	The Young and the Restless	7.6	139
9	Bad Boys	7.6	129
10	We Could Be Royals	7.8	144
11	About a Joy	8.0	138
12	One Wedding and One Funeral	7.7	137
13	Scandalous	7.9	143
14	Family Affair	7.7	155
15	All Dolled Up	7.4	150
16	Bad Girlfriends	7.6	137
17	Duct Soup	8.2	151
18	Cleveland Calendar Girls	7.8	138
19	Kitchen Nightmare	6.7	144
20	All About Elka	7.7	144
21	Say Yes to the Mess	7.6	121
22	Hot in Cleveland: Hot Damn!	7.9	119
23	Vegas Baby/I Hate Goodbyes	8.9	216