I too like making themed playlists.

I’ve got over 50 music-themed playlists, and close to 25 TV-themed ones... give or take.

Me personally...I don't mind watching an episode or two from a series I don't particularly care for if it fits into a themed playlist of mine....


We all have birthdays, yet in the sitcom world, many birthday episodes usually turn into some sort of disaster or disappointment, which makes them fun to watch while celebrating our own birthdays alone, or in a group...or even at someone else's party.

They don’t have to be from your favorite series, or even ones you’ve seen, just post them, if you want, so we can compile a collection of them.

Giving a description is not required, but supplying the name of the episode really helps, especially if it’s a series the rest of us are not familiar with.
If not, maybe at least supply the season #?


Cake Fear - Mad About You ~ It’s 1995, and Paul looks back in reverse chronological order on five birthdays, then relives them again in chronological order, until he’s back where he started, at his current calamity.

Happy Birthday, Lou! ~ The Mary Tyler Moore Show ~ Lou hates parties, and he hates surprises...so why not throw him a 'Surprise Party'!

Crappy Birthday - The King Of Queens ~ ~ Doug has plans to watch a wrestling match, but it turns out it's on the same day Carrie turns 30.
He throws her a party alright, but it may be less than happy.

Diane Meets Mom - Cheers ~ It’s Norm birthday and he gets hit on the forehead with the cork from a wine bottle.

Never Look A Gift Tractor In The Mouth - Green Acres ~ Lisa wants to buy Oliver a tractor, or is it for someone else?

The One Where They All Turn Thirty - Friends ~ Everybody reminisces about their 30th birthday when Rachel turns 30.

Surprise Artie - The King Of Queens ~ Doug and Carrie decide to throw Arthur a surprise 75th party with a party list that includes two guests who are at each other's throats, but there's a reason that it doesn't bother Arthur!

Diane’s Allergy - Cheers ~ Carla receives unwanted gag gifts for her b’day.

A Surprise Is A Surprise Is A Surprise - The Dick Van Dyke Show ~ Rob thinks Laura is having an affair when she's merely trying to throw one for him.

The Deal - Seinfeld ~ Jerry and George are are baffled when it comes to choosing a gift for Elaine.

The Surprise Party - Everybody Loves Raymond ~ Debra's mother suggests to Raymond that she will throw a surprise birthday party for her daughter and Ray won't have to lift a finger.

Leave it to Beaver #53 (S2Ep14) - Wally's Present - Beaver planned to get Wally a camera for his birthday, but is irritated when Wally makes birthday plans that don't include him. So, Larry talks him into buying a bow and arrow set, which Larry promptly breaks. Beaver substitutes a cheap paddle toy for Wally's present, causing trouble.

Leave it to Beaver #160 (S5Ep04) - Beaver's Birthday - Beaver gets money from relatives for his birthday, and gets in trouble for spending the $10 Uncle Billy gives him, on a model car. The trouble stems more from lying to cover up what he did, than buying the model.

Father Knows Best #15 - A Friend of Old George's - It's Kathy's birthday, and the Andersons plan to take her to the circus. An acquaintance of an old friend of Jim's, Lyle, stops by and radically overstays his welcome, even inviting himself to their dinner. Eventually Jim tries a telephone ploy to get rid of him, which succeeds. When the Andersons arrive at the circus, they find it sold out, but all is OK when they find out Lyle is the circus manager, and he gets them ringside seats.

Leave it to Beaver #53 (S2Ep14) - Wally's Present - Beaver planned to get Wally a camera for his birthday, but is irritated when Wally makes birthday plans that don't include him. So, Larry talks him into buying a bow and arrow set, which Larry promptly breaks. Beaver substitutes a cheap paddle toy for Wally's present, causing trouble.

Leave it to Beaver #160 (S5Ep04) - Beaver's Birthday - Beaver gets money from relatives for his birthday, and gets in trouble for spending the $10 Uncle Billy gives him, on a model car. The trouble stems more from lying to cover up what he did, than buying the model.

Father Knows Best #15 - A Friend of Old George's - It's Kathy's birthday, and the Andersons plan to take her to the circus. An acquaintance of an old friend of Jim's, Lyle, stops by and radically overstays his welcome, even inviting himself to their dinner. Eventually Jim tries a telephone ploy to get rid of him, which succeeds. When the Andersons arrive at the circus, they find it sold out, but all is OK when they find out Lyle is the circus manager, and he gets them ringside seats.


Classics!

The Bed Jacket - The Andy Griffith Show ~ Andy gives Aunt Bee a box full of canning jars for her birthday, instead of the dinner jacket she expected.

Sight Gag - The King Of Queens ~ Doug gives Carrie the gift of sight with Lasik eye surgery.



Bob Newhart Show: "The Man with the Golden Wrist." Emily buys Bob a very expensive watch for his birthday.

Ya' beat me to the punch...I was gonna include that one in this batch!

Famiy Ties Season 2 Ep 11 Birthday Boy-Alex's friends Neil and Doug want to take him to West Virginia, where the drinking age is 18, for his birthday, but Elyse is opposed to this plan.

I Dream of Jeannie Season 2 Ep 10& 11 The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday: Part 1&2 -Jeannie tells Tony she never had a birthday party since she does not know when she was born. Tony sends her back home to find out.Tony and Roger make another attempt to have ERIC the computer figure out Jeannie's birthday. Since Tony is scheduled to leave for Alaska on a mission, Dr. Bellows uses Tony's office while his own is being painted.

Modern Family Season 11 Ep 22-A Year of Birthdays- In the past, the family relive the birthdays they have had in the past year. In the present, Haley gives birth to a boy and a girl.

The Middle-A Birthday Story Season 2 Ep 7--For his ninth birthday, Brick wants to hear the story of what happened when he was born, which puts the family in an awkward position.

Full House- Happy Birthday Babies Season 5 Eps 9& 10--As Michelle is waiting for her fifth birthday party (with a Flintstones theme) to start, the entire family looks back at all the good times from Michelle's life. Michelle gets upset however when she realizes her baby book will end.Michelle's birthday party is interrupted by Becky going into labor, and Jesse having appendicitis. In the end, Becky gives birth to twin boys: Nicholas and Alexander

The Big Bang Theory -The Celebration Experimentation Season 9 Ep 17--When Amy plans a birthday party for Sheldon because he made her birthday so special, he is reluctant on account of a traumatic childhood experience in which his twin sister Missy and her friends lied to him that Batman was coming to their sixth birthday, thereby ruining all his birthdays thereafter. Nonetheless, he relents, and the friends hire TV's Batman, Adam West, to attend as their present. When Sheldon arrives, he is initially happy, but quickly panics and runs into the bathroom. Penny tries to talk to him and they open up to one another. He emerges to apologize to everyone, after which Amy and all assembled share a toast in Sheldon's honor. Sheldon is delighted to hear all the nice things said about him

Gilmore Girls-Rory's Birthday Parties Season 1 Ep 6-It's Rory's sixteenth birthday, and her grandmother and mother each plan a party representative of their respective styles. Emily's elegant party so discomfits Rory that they argue. To make peace, Emily and Richard attend Lorelai's informal bash the next evening.

That 70's Show "Kitty's Birthday (Is That Today?!) Season 3 EP 17-Eric and Red forget Kitty's birthday and the two must make up by doing something she's wanted to do for a long time. Kelso decides to be Jackie's "boy-friend" and Hyde finds Caroline's obsession with Fez a little disturbing.

The Office Michael's Birthday Season2 Ep 19-Michael Scott is disappointed when only Dwight Schrute celebrates his birthday. Meanwhile, Kevin Malone spends the day waiting to find out if he has skin cancer.

The Goldbergs Dinner with the Goldbergs Season 5 Ep 12-Geoff surprises Erica by inviting her entire family out to join them for her birthday dinner at Beefsteak Charlie's. Erica is not pleased with this, because her family members are horrible restaurant patrons; Murray takes too long to decide what he wants, Beverly is way too specific about the details of her order and asks for ridiculous substitutions, Barry always orders some unusual dish that he ends up hating, Adam rebels against having to order off the kids' menu but cannot finish an adult-sized meal, and Pops always chats up patrons at nearby tables. Further, the family frequently complains about their entrees and returns them, but still wants the returned food packed up to take home. After the debacle, Geoff completely loses it and loudly berates the Goldbergs in front of the whole restaurant, which is what Erica feared would happen.

My Two Dads-In Her Dreams Season 2 Ep 10-Nicole's dreams reveal how her life might be different if her mom had married Joey or Michael. Each of the gifts she gets from the guys reflects the type of life she would have had.

Frasier-Back Talk Frasier celebrated his birthday but all the stress cause him to hurt his back and while on muscle relaxers, he blurts out that Niles is in love with Daphne while Daphne is giving him a massage. Needless to say Daphne is shocked. Thus begins the Will They, Won't They dynamic with Niles and Daphne.

Growing Pains-Charity Begins at Home It's Jason's birthday and while everyone has money to get him nice gifts, Ben finds himself only able to give his father the ashtray he made in school since he has no money. But he prays to God to provide him with money; Mike jokes around and tells Ben to take a can and go door to door and ask for money. Ben thinking Mike is serious does so and ends up with enough money to buy his dad and expensive camera. When everyone finds out the truth, Ben has to apologize to everyone and give the money back. Jason makes Ben see that a gift isn't how much you spend but the thought you put behind it so Ben decides to give the ashtray to his dad after all. Jason is touched by the sentiment and Ben has learned an important lesson.

Growing Pains-Gone But Not Forgotten While out start celebrating Maggie's birthday, the Seavers are robbed. They come home to find their house broken into and trashed. This causes the entire family to be insecure and scared until Jason talks to them and reassures them that they can't allow the burglars to win and control their lives. They have to be strong and carry on or they will spend the rest of their lives afraid.

Growing Pains-The Birth of a Seaver Maggie goes into labor during Ben's birthday party and gives birth to a baby girl they name Chris, in memory of a man Ben met while waiting for his new sibling to he born, he was feeling ignored and feeling jealous. He finally meets his baby sister and becomes fond of her right away and that's when he insisted on naming her Chris. She is christened Christine Ellen Seaver which eventually becomes Chrissy as she gets older. A very touching episode. ��

agree with Growing Pains-Charity Begins at Home it's one of the better shows from season 1

Home Improvement

Jill's Birthday - When Tim finally thinks he has the perfect birthday gift for Jill, it backfires, and he must find a new one. In order to fund Jill's present after blowing their money on a baseball card, Brad and Randy lie to Mark about a "Little Brother's Tax" and they take all his money.

Good one.

I had it in a word doc ready to copy and paste with the others but forgot to...you snooze, you loose....

Some other ones:

All in the Family-Edith's 50th Birthday Season 8 Ep 4& 5--A would-be rapist attacks Edith on her 50th birthday.


Judging Amy - Happy Borthday- Season 6 Ep 14--Amy receives bad news on her 40th birthday.

Malcolm in the Middle-Lois's Birthday- Season 2 Ep 3-Reese, Malcolm, and Dewey are given money to buy birthday presents for Lois (with her even telling them what she wants) only for them to spend most of it on candy and give her cheap gifts instead. However when Hal also forgets Lois' birthday as well, she runs away from home and goes to a batting cage. Francis, who had come home for Lois' birthday, convinces an African woman to ditch her bus tour and see America with him instead. When he learns what Reese, Malcolm and Dewey has done, he disciplines them for their selfishness. At the batting cage, Hal and the boys throw together a lame makeshift party for her but Lois isn't impressed especially when she realizes this is literally the best they can do. However when the lead clown hired insults her, Lois witnesses first hand just how much her family really care for her when they defend her honor and get into a huge fight.


The Big Bang Theory- Season 9 Ep 11-The Opening Night Excitation--After an iconic Star Wars-like opening credit crawl, the men are overjoyed to get opening night tickets to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie, which premieres on Amy's birthday. As Sheldon bought his ticket when he and Amy were broken up, he still wants to see it, despite Penny saying he should be with Amy. Sheldon has a dream/visitation where Arthur Jeffries' ghost talks with him while dressed as a Jedi master, and convinces him Amy is more important, leading him to tell Amy he'll spend the day with her as well as give up his Star Wars ticket to the rest of the men. Talking over birthday gift ideas with Penny and Bernadette, he shocks them by saying he is going to have coitus with Amy to show her how much she means to him. On Amy's birthday, Sheldon and Amy are nervous about having sex, but enjoy the experience more than they expected. Sheldon wants to do it again on her next birthday, which is fine with Amy. Arthur later appears to Sheldon again, asking for details about the sex, but Sheldon replies by discussing the movie, oblivious to Arthur's real question. Meanwhile, the rest of the men go to the movie with Wil Wheaton, who arrives dressed as Spock in a Star Trek uniform to spite the viewers. After the movie, the men lie back in the afterglow, much like Sheldon and Amy did.

One Day At A Time- ‘Stick ‘em Up’- Season 7, Ep 12

A planned a birthday party at Barbara's job goes awry when,as she arrives,there's a hold up attempt. Resulting in her and her family/friends getting locked up in the storeroom by the crooks.

"Dear Max" - One day at a time Season 9

During a surprise get together for Grandma Katherine's Birthday , Max gets a registered letter from Julie who has been away visiting a friend in Chicago saying she isn't ever coming back!:( Basically abandoning her wonderful Husband Max and adorable baby Annie!:(

Good one.

I had it in a word doc ready to copy and paste with the others but forgot to...you snooze, you loose....

Thank you.

Thank you.


You're welcome.


Surprise Birthday Party - The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show ~ Gracie picks up the phone at Blanche's and mistakenly thinks the people on the other end are throwing a party for George.
What ensues is Harry can't understand how everybody forgot his birthday and George can't figure out why they're throwing a party for him.

Fit, Fat And Forty One - The Bob Newhart Show ~ Bob’s physical reveal he’s 8 pounds heavier then he should be, so he enrolls in a weight-reducing class that seems to be mostly full of women.

The One With the Two Parties - Friends ~ The surprise party that the gang throw for Rachel has a real surprise…her divorced parents decide to show up uninvited and un-announced.

The Ride Home - Mad About You ~ In an episode wherein most of the scenes are filmed twice, Paul and Jaime recount their separate adventures on the way home from Fran’s birthday.

Pardon My Glove - The Honeymooners ~ The party Ralph thinks Alice is throwing him never materializes and he has his suspicions why it was cancelled.