The Cleveland Show (2009)

Adventure · Animation · Comedy

The bizarre adventures of Cleveland Brown and his family.

IMDb rating: 5.6 (45,000 votes)
Episode average: 6.5 ↑ +0.9 vs IMDb
Seasons: 4
Streaming (US): Hulu
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 4 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2009)

6.52 avg 21 episodes 6.3 → 6.5 26 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	6.3	732
2	Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance	6.1	518
3	The One About Friends	6.3	470
4	Birth of a Salesman	6.3	431
5	Cleveland Jr. Cherry Bomb	6.4	404
6	Ladies' Night	6.3	407
7	A Brown Thanksgiving	6.6	462
8	From Bed to Worse	6.5	382
9	A Cleveland Brown Christmas	6.5	410
10	Field of Streams	6.1	364
11	Love Rollercoaster	6.7	380
12	Our Gang	6.7	369
13	Buried Pleasure	6.7	348
14	The Curious Case of Jr. Working at the Stool	7.1	379
15	Once Upon a Tyne in New York	6.5	342
16	The Brown Knight	6.7	331
17	Gone with the Wind	6.5	351
18	Brotherly Love	7.1	361
19	Brown History Month	6.4	325
20	Cleveland's Angels	6.7	317
21	You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown	6.5	325

Season 2 (2010)

6.53 avg 22 episodes 6.3 → 7.4 25 min avg

Big finale

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Harder, Better, Faster, Browner	6.3	322
2	Cleveland Live!	6.5	336
3	How Cleveland Got His Groove Back	6.3	291
4	It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown	6.5	322
5	Little Man on Campus	6.5	295
6	Fat and Wet	6.3	308
7	Another Bad Thanksgiving	6.5	300
8	Murray Christmas	6.6	325
9	Beer Walk!	6.9	318
10	Ain't Nothin' But Mutton Bustin'	6.6	288
11	How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta?	6.5	308
12	Like a Boss	6.5	258
13	A Short Story and a Tall Tale	6.8	290
14	Terry Unmarried	6.1	290
15	The Blue, the Gray and the Brown	6.4	268
16	The Way the Cookie Crumbles	6.3	259
17	To Live and Die in Va.	6.5	261
18	The Essence of Cleveland	7.1	294
19	Ship'rect	6.2	275
20	Back to Cool	6.6	260
21	Your Show of Shows	6.2	259
22	Hot Cocoa Bang Bang	7.4	329

Season 3 (2011)

6.64 avg 22 episodes 6.8 → 6.8 22 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	BFFs	6.8	271
2	The Hurricane	6.4	290
3	A Nightmare on Grace Street	6.6	275
4	Skip Day	6.8	241
5	Yemen Party	6.3	251
6	Sex and the Biddy	6.4	258
7	Die Semi-Hard	7.7	405
8	Y Tu Junior Tambien	7.2	275
9	There Goes El Neighborhood	6.2	265
10	Dancing with the Stools	6.4	244
11	Brown Magic	6.6	244
12	'Til Deaf	6.4	238
13	Das Shrimp Boot	7.0	251
14	March Dadness	6.5	223
15	The Men in Me	6.4	244
16	Frapp Attack	7.0	274
17	American Prankster	6.4	232
18	B.M.O.C.	6.6	222
19	Jesus Walks	6.5	259
20	Flush of Genius	6.3	238
21	Mama Drama	6.7	238
22	All You Can Eat	6.8	249

Season 4 (2012)

6.35 avg 23 episodes 6.9 → 6.3 22 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Escape from Goochland	6.9	281
2	Menace II Secret Society	6.5	290
3	A General Thanksgiving Episode	6.3	249
4	Turkey Pot Die	6.2	239
5	A Vas Deferens Between Men & Women	6.1	222
6	'Tis the Cleveland to Be Sorry	6.3	269
7	Hustle 'N' Bros	6.3	226
8	The Wide World of Cleveland Show	6.2	256
9	Here Comes the Bribe	6.2	226
10	When a Man (or a Freight Train) Loves His Cookie	5.9	245
11	Brownsized	6.2	220
12	Pins, Spins and Fins... (Shark Story Cut for Time)	6.4	216
13	A Rodent Like This	6.4	216
14	The Hangover: Part Tubbs	6.3	219
15	California Dreamin' (All the Cleves Are Brown)	6.7	237
16	Who Done Did It?	7.2	233
17	Fist & the Furious	6.4	226
18	Squirt's Honor	6.1	215
19	Grave Danger	6.4	218
20	Of Lice & Men	6.4	215
21	Mr. & Mrs. Brown	6.2	215
22	Crazy Train	6.2	232
23	Wheel! Of! Family!	6.3	235

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