document_title: List of The Last Man on Earth episodes

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text: List of The Last Man on Earth episodes

text: Series overview[edit]

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Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
13
March 1, 2015 (2015-03-01)
May 3, 2015 (2015-05-03)

2
18
September 27, 2015 (2015-09-27)
May 15, 2016 (2016-05-15)

3
18
September 25, 2016 (2016-09-25)
May 7, 2017 (2017-05-07)

4
TBA
October 1, 2017 (2017-10-01)
TBA

text: Episodes[edit]

text: Season 1 (2015)[edit]

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1
1
"Alive in Tucson"
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
Will Forte
March 1, 2015 (2015-03-01)
1AYB01
5.75[8]

After a virus wipes out most of humanity, average man Phil Miller (Will Forte) scours North America for other survivors but finds no one. During his travels, he paints "Alive in Tucson" on billboards and highway signs, hoping others might see the message. Returning to his hometown of Tucson, Arizona in the summer of 2020, he moves into Bonita Estates, a luxurious, gated cul-de-sac; hoards priceless artifacts and adult magazines; uses a pool as a toilet; and breaks or destroys whatever amuses him. About five months later, he feels lonely and depressed with no one else to celebrate his birthday, so he adopts assorted sports balls as "buddies" and draws faces on them, then flirts with a mannequin. Finally, just before he attempts suicide by driving a truck into a rock, he suddenly sees a pillar of smoke and finds a campsite with a bra on a clothesline. As Phil gleefully sniffs it, he passes out and is then revived by an eccentric woman named Carol Pilbasian (Kristen Schaal), whom he talks out of shooting him.

2
2
"The Elephant in the Room"
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
Andy Bobrow
March 1, 2015 (2015-03-01)
1AYB02
5.75[8]

Carol tries to get Phil to once again respect the rules of civilization so the two can prepare to repopulate the Earth. To do so, Carol convinces Phil to marry her. Phil also attempts to prove himself by finding a way to bring running water back to the cul-de-sac and succeeds when he builds a drip irrigation system.

3
3
"Raisin Balls and Wedding Bells"
Jason Woliner
Emily Spivey
March 8, 2015 (2015-03-08)
1AYB03
4.35[9]

Phil and Carol's marriage is threatened before it even begins by Phil's lackadaisical attitude, especially when he forgets to bring the rings to their wedding. When the two of them eventually marry, they run into a limousine driven by Melissa (January Jones), another survivor, the next day.

4
4
"Sweet Melissa"
Phil Traill
Liz Cackowski
March 15, 2015 (2015-03-15)
1AYB04
3.76[10]

Phil's attraction to newcomer Melissa Chartres makes him reconsider his marriage, so he tries to impress Melissa by shaving his beard, neatly cutting his hair, and finding her a new car since he damaged her limousine. This infuriates Carol, so Phil tries to make amends by fixing the door to Carol's house in the cul-de-sac but injures himself in the process. In the evening, while Carol is making dinner, a drunk Melissa tells Phil she has been longing for a man for two years but knows she can't start a relationship with Phil. Phil, torn between proving his loyalty to Carol and satisfying Melissa, remains unsure of what to tell either of the ladies.

5
5
"Dunk the Skunk"
John Solomon
John Solomon
March 22, 2015 (2015-03-22)
1AYB05
4.55[11]

An ominous figure in an Audi R8 sees one of Phil's "Alive in Tucson" signs and begins driving that way. In Tucson, Phil hopes to manipulate Carol into allowing him to impregnate Melissa, but Carol, who believes in the importance of marriage, sees through his plans when he admits he already told Melissa about this. Phil then tries to atone for his actions by inviting the ladies to drop him in a dunk tank, which neither one does. Finally, Carol agrees that, for the sake of the human race, Phil should try to impregnate both her and Melissa, but Phil's efforts to bed Melissa are stopped short by the arrival of the mysterious driver, who was alerted by Phil's celebratory fireworks and turns out to be an ordinary, nonthreatening man named Todd (Mel Rodriguez).

6
6
"Some Friggin' Fat Dude"
Michael Patrick Jann
Tim McAuliffe
March 22, 2015 (2015-03-22)
1AYB06
4.42[11]

As Todd is welcomed into the group, Carol tries to nudge him and Melissa together, while Phil unsuccessfully attempts to drive them apart. At the end of the day, Phil invites Melissa to the bar where he keeps his sports balls and tries to court her by reading a romantic piece he claims to have written for Carol, but Melissa implicitly rejects his offer.

7
7
"She Drives Me Crazy"
Peter Atencio
David Noel
March 29, 2015 (2015-03-29)
1AYB07
3.40[12]

The knowledge that Todd and Melissa are having sex drives Phil to manic despair, so Phil arranges a community meeting to discus grievances. However, his plans go awry when everyone instead agrees that he should clean out the pool he has been using as a toilet. The next day, Phil schemes to leave Todd in the desert to die, but his conscience prevents him from doing so. After he finally cleans out his toilet pool, Phil brings an outhouse into his home, which delights Carol.

8
8
"Mooovin' In"
Claire Scanlon
Liz Cackowski
March 29, 2015 (2015-03-29)
1AYB08
3.33[12]

Phil becomes annoyed at all the attention Todd is receiving and schemes to bring the attention back to himself when he finds a stray cow. To do so, he pretends to steal the cow, but when he really does lose it, Todd eventually finds it and allows Phil to take the credit. That night, the group discovers that the cow has apparently wandered up the stairs of Carol's house and is now stranded, causing Carol to officially move in with Phil. In a brief flashback, Carol is seen purposely bringing the cow upstairs.

9
9
"The Do-Over"
John Solomon
Tim McAuliffe
April 12, 2015 (2015-04-12)
1AYB09
3.22[13]

Phil is out shopping at Carol's request when he starts sincerely resenting his marriage and begs God for a "do-over". Almost immediately afterwards, a car appears and two women, Erica (Cleopatra Coleman) and Gail (Mary Steenburgen), emerge. Phil tells the women he is a widower, gives a fake surname, and claims he hasn't met anyone else who is alive. The three have dinner and drinks, but when they are on their way to skinny dip in a lake, they run into Carol, Todd, and Melissa.

10
10
"Pranks for Nothin'"
Chris Koch
Emily Spivey
April 12, 2015 (2015-04-12)
1AYB10
3.37[13]

Everyone is mad at Phil for lying, and he is shunned. Carol also holds a grudge against Erica and Gail. Phil confronts the group and tells the truth about various issues, including the fact that he never wanted to marry Carol. Carol, who is a notary, divorces Phil, then forgives him and invites him back to the cul-de-sac.

11
11
"Moved to Tampa"
Jason Woliner
Erik Durbin
April 19, 2015 (2015-04-19)
1AYB11
3.41[14]

Phil's post-divorce romantic prospects are very bright as both Gail and Erica are interested in him now that he is "single". To prevent any other men from showing up, Phil starts changing his billboard messages from "Alive in Tucson" to "Moved to Tampa", but his ladder falls while he is working on his first sign, leaving him stranded. A new, handsome man (Boris Kodjoe) arrives and rescues Phil, driving him home. To everyone's surprise, the new man is also named Phil Miller. Confusion over having two Phils causes a competition that the original Phil loses. As a result, he is now to be known by his middle name, "Tandy".

12
12
"The Tandyman Can"
Claire Scanlon
Matt Marshall
April 26, 2015 (2015-04-26)
1AYB12
3.29[15]

Tensions heat up between the new Phil and Tandy to the point where the group chooses the new Phil, who has been using his construction skills to make numerous improvements around the cul-de-sac, as the new POTUS. Tandy then decides to plant his own farm to win back the ladies' favor, disregarding Phil's insistence that Tucson's climate is too arid to grow food. The new Phil's presence also puts a strain on Todd's and Melissa's relationship. Meanwhile, the three other ladies all try to woo the new Phil, with recently-divorced Carol winning him over. These events cause Tandy and Todd to set aside their differences and plot to murder Phil.

13
13
"Screw the Moon"
John Solomon
Erik Durbin & John Solomon
May 3, 2015 (2015-05-03)
1AYB13
3.51[16]

Tandy purposely knocks over a lamp that Phil has powered using solar energy, so Phil, tired of Tandy's antics and fully aware of his plans to kill him, orders Tandy to leave Tucson, but Tandy seeks refuge in his bedroom for several days. When Carol invites Tandy to come out of hiding, he finds everyone except Phil singing together around the community fire pit to forgive him, but Phil attacks him and leaves him in the desert with limited supplies, threatening to kill him if he returns to Tucson. Carol drives out in search of Tandy and decides to stay with him so they can start a new life together somewhere other than Tucson. Upon reuniting, Tandy alludes to having a brother (Jason Sudeikis), who is shown to be still alive and stranded in the International Space Station.

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14
1
"Is There Anybody Out There?"
John Solomon
David Noel & John Solomon
September 27, 2015 (2015-09-27)
2AYB01
3.14[17]

Phil and Carol have now been away from Tucson for about six months and gone on their own road trip in Phil's RV across the United States, even stopping at Carol's old apartment on the East Coast. At first, Phil is reluctant to return because of his banishment. However, when he decides to take the risk for Carol, who is pining for their friends, she refuses to go back, even at Phil's suggestion. Phil decides to put drugs in her evening wine, and when she awakens, she realizes they are well on their way to Tucson and begins sulking. At a gas stop in Oklahoma, a still sulking Carol quietly slips out of the RV. Phil, thinking Carol is still in the RV, leaves without her. Phil searches for her and reluctantly returns to Tucson, hoping she might be there, only to find the whole cul-de-sac abandoned and his house inexplicably burned. Meanwhile, in space, Phil's astronaut brother Mike searches for human life through a telescope and tends to his pet worms, two of whom die.

15
2
"The Boo"
Jason Woliner
Andy Bobrow
October 4, 2015 (2015-10-04)
2AYB02
3.30[18]

Phil successfully sends a message to Carol via train that he is in Tucson. Phil finds a letter from Melissa in Carol's old house asking her to join the rest of the group in Malibu but telling her not to bring "Tandy" because it would be too dangerous. Phil initially hides the letter from Carol but then tells the truth, and she decides she will not go to Malibu if Phil isn't welcome there. Phil gets her drunk and drives to Malibu with her anyway. On their way, they discover several dead whales on the beach. They eventually find the group and look from a distance, where they see another man, Gordon (Will Ferrell), with them. When Carol surprises them, Gordon is shocked and has a fatal heart attack as a camouflaged Phil watches through binoculars.

16
3
"Dead Man Walking"
John Solomon
Erik Durbin
October 11, 2015 (2015-10-11)
2AYB03
2.70[19]

The survivors deliver eulogies for the recently deceased Gordon, in whose mansion they now live. Carol tells them that Phil had died too and feigns mourning. When no one shows sympathy for Phil, Carol tells the group that Phil is actually alive. Phil is torn between pretending he doesn't care about the group's opinion of him and honestly wanting to make amends with them despite his fears of rejection. Knowing the right thing to do is to apologize, Phil walks into the house and tries to convince the others that he has changed, but he does so while holding the group at gunpoint and threatening them if they decide to attack again. Carol tells him that the group was planning to forgive him, but because of his threats, Phil is soon locked in a pillory as punishment and is told he will remain there until the group decides otherwise.

17
4
"C to the T"
Matt Villines & Oz Rodriguez
Emily Spivey
October 18, 2015 (2015-10-18)
2AYB04
2.29[20]

Carol tells the others that locking Phil in a pillory is an uncivilized form of punishment. The group then decides to put Phil in solitary confinement in the exercise room of the mansion for a week. However, Phil, feeling that he deserves to "do the time" for threatening the others, insists that the punishment last five weeks. One night, Phil attempts to steal some cheese and is punished by being forced to wear a shock collar and to stay on the lawn with the group's cow. Over the next few days, Phil ends up wearing a more dangerous shock collar triggered by his talking aloud and being locked in a metal booth for throwing potted plants to get attention. Later, Phil breaks out of his booth through the floor when he spots a fire from a fallen torch, which he extinguishes with buckets of water despite being shocked dozens of times. Although his punishment is rescinded, only Carol shows sympathy for Phil, and when he thanks the other survivors for his release, they walk away.

18
5
"Crickets"
Jason Woliner
Tim McAuliffe
October 25, 2015 (2015-10-25)
2AYB05
3.36[21]

The group discovers live crickets, which Carol cooks up into disgusting stew. Tandy investigates Todd, who hasn't been eating any crickets, after watching him sneak into a neighboring house. He finds that the house has solar power and a freezer full of bacon Todd has been keeping for himself. Instead of telling on him, Tandy has Todd share the bacon with him, then tries to convince Todd to share the last three bacon packets with everyone else. After Todd refuses, Tandy takes the bacon to the group and praises Todd for sharing it. Tandy tries to dispose of the bacon packets he and Todd emptied by sending them out to sea on a jet ski, which finds its way back to the beach. As Todd attempts to tell the truth, Tandy lies to defend Todd, but both are locked in pillories, where they mend their friendship. Meanwhile, tension builds up between Carol and Erica as Phil frequently hits on Carol, making Erica resentful of her, but they reconcile after Erica calls out Phil's behavior.

19
6
"A Real Live Wire"
Jason Woliner
Erica Rivinoja
November 8, 2015 (2015-11-08)
2AYB06
2.57[22]

With Phil on strike from doing work, Tandy and Todd decide to solve the group's power crisis themselves by putting up solar panels, but they cannot find out how to stop a live wire from sparking dangerously around the area. Tandy reluctantly asks Phil for help, only to have Phil punch him upon mentioning Carol. Meanwhile, Carol attempts to convince the other ladies in the group to try to have babies, but each refuses for various reasons. In the end, everyone takes Tandy's side and suggests Phil take a turn in the pillory, but Phil chooses to leave after he shows them an on/off switch to the solar panels. Before he departs, however, he professes his love for Carol and begs her to leave with him, only to have Erica announce that she is pregnant.

20
7
"Baby Steps"
John Solomon
Matt Marshall
November 15, 2015 (2015-11-15)
2AYB07
2.84[23]

Phil attempts to apologize to Erica for his misdeeds despite his being treated as the new outcast. On Carol's advice, Tandy attempts to take advantage of Phil's new status and make the group feel sympathy for him. Although everyone now hates Phil, Tandy feels some empathy after seeing Phil build some wooden toys and a crib for Erica's future baby, then suggests that Phil take his turn in the pillory to seek forgiveness. Angered, Phil instead states that he resents saving Tandy from dying atop a billboard and that everyone is worse off for knowing him. That night, Phil drinks heavily and passes out on the beach. As the tide rises, Tandy uses a surfboard to drag Phil back to the mansion, where he locks the still-unconscious Phil in the pillory. Meanwhile, Melissa and Todd argue when he finds out that she was previously going to have children with Tandy to help repopulate the Earth but is now unwilling to do the same with him. At the same time, Carol helps Erica with her new pregnancy while lamenting her inability to have children with Tandy.

21
8
"No Bull"
Payman Benz
Liz Cackowski
November 22, 2015 (2015-11-22)
2AYB08
3.27[24]

After the cow gives birth, the group believes that there is a bull somewhere and decides to search for it. Thinking Phil could earn forgiveness from the group, Tandy releases him from the pillory, but Phil leaves Malibu for Canada instead of helping in the search. Tandy then tries to have everybody stop looking for the bull and start looking for Phil, but the group members verbally attack each other, especially when Tandy describes how all of them, like him and Phil, are imperfect. The next morning, a bull indeed shows up on the mansion's back porch, and the group rapidly shoots tranquilizers at it, accidentally killing it. Phil, who found the bull, arrives and joins everyone for a beef dinner, having regained the group's trust. Meanwhile, Todd accidentally catches Gail with a Gordon mannequin and tries to refrain from mentioning it. They then start their own relationship after he and Melissa officially break up. In space, Mike fixes a broken radio and becomes excited when he hears a possible signal from Earth, only to realize it is simply an echo of his own signal. Disappointed, he gets high from inhaling nitrous oxide.

22
9
"Secret Santa"
Nick Jasenovec
Kira Kalush
December 6, 2015 (2015-12-06)
2AYB09
3.58[25]

With Christmas quickly approaching, Carol organizes a Secret Santa gift exchange for the entire group. Tandy receives Erica's name but gives it to Phil so that he can give a gift to regain Erica's trust. Tandy then gives Phil the Hope Diamond as a possible gift for Erica, but he rejects it, stating he has his own ideas, which annoys Tandy. On Christmas Day, everyone exchanges gifts with Phil being the last to present his. Phil reveals that he has prepared an ultrasound scan for Erica, impressing everyone except Tandy, who is irritated that Phil rejected his gift idea but still accepts his invitation for celebratory drinks. Later in the evening, Melissa proposes to Todd. Before Todd can answer, Phil collapses. Meanwhile, in space, Mike Miller's last worm dies, so he decides to commit suicide by opening the airlock and releasing himself into space. At the last moment, however, he sees a newborn worm and tries to abort the opening of the airlock. This fails, and he is launched into space.

23
10
"Silent Night"
Jason Woliner
Tim McAuliffe
December 13, 2015 (2015-12-13)
2AYB10
3.16[26]

Phil has a severe case of appendicitis, which the group learns will kill him if they cannot remove his appendix. They choose Gail to perform the operation, and she reluctantly agrees as long as she can practice on something. Finding no viable bodies in a local morgue, Tandy and Todd decide to dig up the recently deceased Gordon. As they drag Gordon's body to Gail, they see she has found a medical dummy to practice on, so they quickly re-bury the body. In space, Mike Miller succeeds in reentering the space station since his suit is still tethered to it. Once inside, he tells his newborn worm friend "Phil" he has decided to return to Earth. Gail and Todd begin operating on Phil, but soon encounter complications. As Mike's landing capsule begins tumbling upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere, Phil flatlines.

24
11
"Pitch Black"
John Solomon
David Noel & John Solomon
March 6, 2016 (2016-03-06)
2AYB11
2.72[27]

Mike's reentry capsule parachutes into a weathered cruise ship, sinking it, but Mike escapes on an aqua-cycle with his worm. After three days of wandering the sea, he encounters a yacht. On board, he is cornered by Pat Brown (Mark Boone Junior), a grizzled sailor who threatens him with a harpoon gun, fearing that Mike could be carrying the virus. Mike defends himself by explaining his arrival from space, then convinces Pat to take them ashore to find supplies. In the morning, they don decontamination suits and go to Miami, Florida, where they visit the site of a failed triage operation and play some tennis. On the drive back, Mike sees an "Alive in Tucson" sign and hopes to go to Tucson, but Pat knocks him unconscious and believes the sign is part of a government conspiracy to trap survivors. When Mike regains consciousness, he fights over a gun with Pat, who again knocks him unconscious and notices a tear in his suit. Thinking he has exposed Mike to the virus, Pat abandons him in the triage operation site. Mike soon wakes up again, takes off his suit, and starts driving an ambulance to Tucson.

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12
"Valhalla"
Payman Benz
Erica Rivinoja
March 13, 2016 (2016-03-13)
2AYB12
2.56[28]

The group holds a Norse funeral for Phil by sending his coffin out to sea on a makeshift Viking vessel. Tandy mourns losing Phil, as he was making amends with Phil just before he died. He seeks closure by rummaging through Phil's possessions and learns that, despite Phil's earlier claim he had no middle name, his middle name was Stacy. He then offers to help raise Erica's baby, but she tells him Phil's last request was to keep him away from doing so. Outraged, Tandy tries to fool Erica into thinking Phil was more morally loose than he actually was. When he fails, he builds a fire that night to burn Phil's possessions. Suddenly, Phil's coffin washes up on shore, and Erica catches Tandy grieving beside it. After they bury the coffin in the sand, Erica helps Tandy find closure. Meanwhile, Tandy tells Carol that Todd and Gail have been seeing each other, but he warns Carol against telling Melissa. Following Todd's apology to Gail for not telling Melissa the truth, Melissa attempts to win back Todd, kissing him without Gail's knowledge. When Melissa announces this to Carol, Carol confronts Todd and shames him before giving him a kiss of death.

26
13
"Fish in the Dish"
Jared Hess
Liz Cackowski
April 3, 2016 (2016-04-03)
2AYB13
2.11[29]

Carol decides to figure out why she and Tandy haven't been able to have children. Tandy's fertility tests reveal that he has a low sperm count, which may prevent him from having a family. However, he lies to Carol and tells her the tests are expired, then uses one of Todd's tests, which is positive, as his own. At the same time, Todd tries to reconcile his relationships with both Melissa and Gail, but things become more complicated when Erica reveals that the late Phil chose him as a surrogate father for her baby. As Tandy and Todd are both angry at themselves, they agree to tell all the ladies the truth. Before they can, Carol notices Mike Miller arriving on the beach, so Tandy runs towards him. To everyone's surprise, as Mike tries to hug Tandy, Tandy punches him in the groin.

27
14
"Skidmark"
Claire Scanlon
Kira Kalush & Matt Marshall
April 10, 2016 (2016-04-10)
2AYB14
2.70[30]

The Miller brothers break out in a fist fight on the beach, then tearfully apologize when Mike tells Phil how he thought fondly of him in space. Mike joins everyone for dinner, explains how he found his way to Malibu, and tells stories about life with Phil. When they were younger, Mike gave Phil an embarrassing nickname: "Skidmark", a reference to Phil's bygone habit of accidentally dirtying his underwear after using toilets. Furthermore, when the brothers last spoke to one another, Phil had found out his former girlfriend Christine was cheating on him with Mike. Sibling rivalry resurfaces when Mike receives all the attention at a bonfire on the beach the next night. This provokes Phil to throw a party of his own the night after and point out Mike's flaws, humiliating his brother. Carol tells Phil that he shouldn't be treating Mike so harshly, as Phil is the only survivor with a confirmed living relative, so Phil plans to apologize in the morning. When he wakes up the next day, he realizes that Mike shaved the entire right half of his body and head while he was asleep. Meanwhile, Melissa and Gail eventually agree to simultaneously date Todd.

28
15
"Fourth Finger"
Jason Woliner
Erik Durbin
April 17, 2016 (2016-04-17)
2AYB15
2.52[31]

Phil and Mike's prank war escalates, with Mike staying consistently one step ahead of Phil. Phil becomes paranoid, so he welcomes Todd's offer to help him get back at Mike. Todd shaves half his entire body and head to show his support for Phil. Fearing the consequences of bringing others into the prank war, Mike promises to stop his share of the pranks. Phil thinks he is lying, so he writes a pretend letter from their mother from when the apocalypse began. Mike is heartbroken by this prank, so Phil makes peace by giving him a collection of real letters, and the brothers tell each other how their parents were proud of them both. As Phil walks out the door of Mike's new home, a bucket of flour falls on him, which upsets him despite Mike's pleading that he didn't expect Phil's apology. Meanwhile, Todd continues to stress over the increased involvement with Gail and Melissa, which culminates in him addressing all the women, explaining that he can give his fullest efforts to each of them, including Carol and Erica. In the end, Carol approaches Todd with a surprise request to impregnate her.

29
16
"Falling Slowly"
David Noel
David Noel & John Solomon
April 24, 2016 (2016-04-24)
2AYB16
2.13[32]

Carol tells Phil about her asking Todd to impregnate her, detailing how she wants to briefly marry him so they can have a “legitimate” child, but Phil is concerned because he has not yet told Carol he loves her. During Todd and Carol's wedding on the beach, Phil objects to the marriage and insists that Mike marry Carol instead. Feeling betrayed by Phil, Todd shaves the remaining half of his head and face. That night, fearing that he may never have a chance to tell Carol the truth, Phil begs Mike to let him watch him try to impregnate Carol. As he ultimately joins his brother and wife in bed, he finally tells Carol he loves her. In the morning, Phil feels ashamed for ruining Mike and Carol's night, while Carol discards an ovulation test, which Erica finds out is actually a positive pregnancy test. Mike concludes that the future child must be Phil's, so everyone celebrates. Later that day, while on the lawn, a drunk Gail notices a UAV flying ominously overhead.

30
17
"Smart and Stupid"
Payman Benz
Emily Spivey
May 8, 2016 (2016-05-08)
2AYB17
2.21[33]

Gail tries to report seeing the UAV that was hovering over the lawn, but, due to her poor description and consistent drunkenness, no one believes her. With Phil and Carol happily celebrating the latter's pregnancy, Todd, feeling heartbroken, tells Phil he is angry that Phil chose Mike over him as a sperm donor for Carol. Meanwhile, Mike starts dating Erica and learns that she was wrongfully imprisoned for armed bank robbery before getting a job at the U.S. State Department under an assumed name. The next day, while Mike is tending to the cows, Phil asks him to be the godfather to his future baby. Todd appears and confronts Phil again, but their fight is interrupted when Mike coughs up blood, a sign of the virus. Phil believes his brother is only suffering from a non-life-threatening disease, but that night, Mike is asked to sleep in a quarantined bed. Mike's worries then heighten when Melissa announces that the mother cow has died. The group pushes Mike's bubble out of the house, but Phil chooses to sleep beside him. The following morning, Phil realizes that Mike has disappeared and left a note saying goodbye.

31
18
"30 Years of Science Down the Tubes"
John Solomon
Edward Voccola & Maxwell R. Kesser
May 15, 2016 (2016-05-15)
2AYB18
2.23[34]

Phil drives a modified DeLorean to his childhood home in Tucson, where, on his arrival, Mike pranks him by feigning death. Over the day, Mike ruins Phil's experiment to see if a bottled fart still smells after 30 years, falls for Phil's virus-themed prank, and cuts the remaining half of Phil's hair and beard at Phil’s request. Phil insists on staying despite Mike asking him to leave, so Mike lashes out at Phil and calls him a loser but soon learns Phil buried their parents in the backyard and made a grave for him. Finally, Mike tells Phil it is his "dying wish" that he leave, and Phil agrees. As a parting gift, Mike gives Phil a new bottled fart, and Phil gives Mike all of his sports ball "buddies" before returning to Malibu, where everyone sees the drone Gail saw before. When it passes by again, the survivors hold up signs of welcome and peace until Melissa destroys it with a shotgun. That night, Melissa is awakened by what she thinks is an intruder and accidentally almost shoots Carol, so she is put in the pillory. The next day, Gail sees Pat Brown's yacht. Through binoculars, Phil sees Pat and two others approaching in an inflatable dinghy, all carrying assault rifles and dressed in decontamination suits.

text: Season 3 (2016–17)[edit]

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32
1
"General Breast Theme with Cobras"
John Solomon
David Noel & John Solomon
September 25, 2016 (2016-09-25)
3AYB01
2.23[35]

Pat and his crew land on the shores of Malibu. Phil and company attempt to escape using their cars, but Todd's van from The A-Team is blocking the way, so they arm themselves with objects around the mansion. When Todd finds the van's keys, he accidentally sets off the ringer. In the ensuing chaos, Melissa, released from the pillory, shoots Darrell (Jon Hamm), one of the crew members. Following Darrell's funeral, Phil convinces his friends to allow Pat and Lewis (Kenneth Choi), his other crew member, into their group. Phil and Pat initially bond when Pat demonstrates his designer jean artwork for Phil. Meanwhile, the others make Lewis confess that Pat is delusional and has killed a person, whom Lewis does not know was Mike. After Phil and Pat return from detonating the Santa Monica Pier, Pat thanks everyone for giving him a reason to take off his decontamination suit, but he then notices Phil's family photo and, recognizing Mike, accuses Phil of carrying the virus and threatens to kill him. Phil's group and Lewis attempt to escape in Todd's van. As Pat tries to blockade the van, Todd runs over him and immediately thinks he has killed him.

33
2
"The Wild Guess Express"
Peter Atencio
Andy Bobrow
October 2, 2016 (2016-10-02)
3AYB02
2.50[36]

The survivors flee to a mansion once owned by Cher, who had died inside. Phil goes to see if Pat is still alive, but Pat remains motionless, so Phil hides him in a heap of garbage. When Phil informs the group about Pat, Todd is overcome with remorse for killing the paranoiac, so Phil tells him Pat is still alive, then creates a false crime scene to make it look like Pat stormed the Malibu mansion. A conversation with Todd and the others confuses everyone as to whether Pat is alive or dead until Phil states that he is alive, causing a panic. While he and Carol are alone, Phil explains that Pat is truly dead, so they stage a brawl between Phil and a Pat mannequin with Phil emerging victorious. The others can see through this ruse, so Lewis demands Phil to tell the truth. Phil tells him Pat is dead, so everyone but Lewis, who still thinks Phil's well-intended plan was ridiculous, gives Todd a group hug. As the survivors return to the Malibu mansion, Carol notices Pat's yacht has disappeared, and when they visit where Phil hid him, they find he has vanished, too.

34
3
"You're All Going to Diet"
Jason Woliner
Tim McAuliffe
October 16, 2016 (2016-10-16)
3AYB03
2.66[37]

The survivors follow a trail of blood from where Phil hid Pat's body to the beach. Phil predicts Pat's fear of the virus means he may never return to harm them, but, in case he does return, Phil sets up an alarm system with novelty singing fish animatronics. He also decides to teach the group self-defense but tasers and infuriates Lewis. That night, Erica accidentally sets off the fishes, causing mayhem. Carol, who has redecorated the house to cover up Phil's pretend crime scene, asks everyone to wear whistles, and Melissa sets up self-defense "stations" with axes embedded in the walls. Phil and Lewis make amends while playing football on the beach, but they set off one of the land mines Melissa buried under the sand. Lewis suggests everyone leave despite Phil's belief that Malibu is the group's home. When the ocean waves set off the land mines, and car alarms and Melissa's shooting outside result in chaos, the survivors agree to leave Malibu. Before leaving, they pack their belongings and say goodbye to both their deceased group members and Cher.

35
4
"Five Hoda Kotbs"
David Noel
Emily Spivey
October 23, 2016 (2016-10-23)
3AYB04
2.14[38]

The survivors continue their search for a new home in several vehicles, which break down or are lost one by one. Carol suggests going to San Francisco, but when they arrive, they find it burned because Phil set fire to a fireworks factory two years ago. As the group continues traveling, they become annoyed by each other quickly: after Lewis tells the others he is gay, Phil is unable to drop the subject and irritates Lewis with dreadful singing. Meanwhile, Todd and Gail fight over whether or not Gail is done grieving over the late Gordon, and Carol and Erica argue about their pregnancies and the air conditioning in their car, which then overheats. Everyone joins Todd in the A-Team van until it breaks down, so they all join Phil in his prison bus until it runs out of fuel. Continuing on foot to an abandoned patio furniture store in San Jose, California, the group argues over where to live next until Gail declares she wants to move to Napa alone. As Phil and Todd try to persuade Gail to stay, Melissa calls the survivors over to where she sees a brilliant light. When they investigate, they discover an illuminated building.

36
5
"The Power of Power"
Peter Atencio
Matt Marshall
November 6, 2016 (2016-11-06)
3AYB05
2.13[39]

The survivors move into a self-sustaining but never completely finished office building. Phil gives everyone different floors to live on, and the survivors enjoy their numerous electricity-based luxuries until the power suddenly goes out. Phil checks the fuse box and experiments with flipping switches until the power comes back on. He then stops an art display from falling on Carol, notices a wire cutter nearby, and suspects that Lewis, who was at first uncertain about living in the office, cut the power. He goes out of his way to get Lewis to confess until Carol admits that she cut the power because she had hoped to raise her family in a normal home. She insists on being locked in a pillory as punishment, after which Phil moves his wife into a mock home of her dreams. Meanwhile, Gail breaks up with Todd as he is taking a fire sprinkler shower, so he talks things out with Phil before telling this news to Melissa, who has been acting strangely lately for having killed Darrell. Melissa starts feeling emotion for Todd until she scares him when she burns all her shirts and announces she is ready to have children with him.

37
6
"The Open-Ended Nature of Unwitnessed Deaths"
John Solomon
Liz Cackowski
November 13, 2016 (2016-11-13)
3AYB06
2.64[40]

Phil seeks to rebuild trust with Lewis. As they get to know each other more, Lewis tells Phil that he last saw Mark, his partner, board a plane to Tokyo. When the virus broke out and grounded all flights, Mark had planned to travel to the U.S. by boat. Phil forces Lewis to go to Seattle to see if Mark made it home. In his former house, Lewis finds no trace of Mark, then opens a bottle of wine that he and Mark were saving for their anniversary. Though Lewis walks away angrily, Phil says there is always hope. Lewis leaves a note for Mark, "Just in case", then drives with Phil to Tucson to see if Mike is alive. Phil chooses to not enter Mike's room and instead leaves a note, taking his old volleyball "Gary" with him. In San Jose, Carol decides that she needs a mother and her baby needs a grandmother, so she asks Gail to adopt her. After much emotion, thought, and discussion, Gail reveals she had a child who had died before the virus, but then signs home-made adoption papers and adopts Carol. Also, Todd is concerned about Melissa, who continues to act strangely.

38
7
"Mama's Hideaway"
Payman Benz
Kira Kalush
November 20, 2016 (2016-11-20)
3AYB07
2.04[41]

Carol wants to take the perfect family photo with Phil and Gail, but Gail refuses because of Carol's various matching outfits. After sabotaging a photo by closing her eyes, Gail retreats to her "hideout", where Carol finds her and brings her alcoholism into the fact. Meanwhile, Melissa, carrying a toy infant like a real baby, breaks up with Todd because he doesn't want a child with her. She then asks Phil to impregnate her, but a flattered Phil declines and soon learns that she also asked Lewis, who has been teaching himself aviation so he can fly to Tokyo and see if Mark is alive. Another power outage during a flight simulation causes Phil and Lewis to discover four other self-sustaining buildings in the complex, and they unknowingly trap Gail in one of the new buildings' elevators while tampering with the power. That evening, Carol, who wants to apologize, calls Phil, Erica, and Lewis to search for Gail. Todd interrupts and tells them that Melissa has run away and left a note saying goodbye.

39
8
"Whitney Houston, We Have a Problem"
David Noel
Tim McAuliffe & David Noel
December 4, 2016 (2016-12-04)
3AYB08
2.48[42]

The five remaining survivors begin searching for Melissa. Gail fires her gun to get Phil's attention just as he honks his car's horn to get Carol's, blocking out the fire. At the end of the day, everyone calls off the search except Todd, who spends all night looking for Melissa and falls asleep in the shower the next day. Phil promises to help him in his search, while Carol asks Phil to help her find Gail. Phil then admits that Gail most likely disappeared because of Carol's behavior, so Carol decides Gail doesn't want to be found and rejoins the search for Melissa with Phil and Todd. Before leaving, they see a pizza delivery car near a liquor store that resembles one in the complex. Meanwhile, Gail tries to pry open the elevator doors and ultimately uses her Gordon mannequin's head, which opens the doors to a solid wall with a small opening leading to one of the building's floors. When Phil, Carol, and Todd return to the building where Gail parked her delivery car without their knowledge, Gail fires her gun once again to get attention, but as they approach the building, Melissa appears with a gun, and they depart thinking she fired the shots.

40
9
"If You're Happy and You Know It"
Jason Woliner
Erik Durbin & Will Forte
December 11, 2016 (2016-12-11)
3AYB09
2.21[43]

Carol is upset by Gail's absence, so Phil decides to take her on a honeymoon they never had. As they realize how their pre-apocalyptic civilization is truly gone, they discover a live catfish, but are horrified when they subsequently find it lying on the ground seemingly lifeless. When the fish suddenly comes back to life, an overjoyed Carol and Phil bring "Gail" back to the office building as a pet. Lewis and Erica continue working on the flight simulator and are ecstatic when Lewis successfully completes a flight sequence, moving him closer to his goal of flying to Tokyo to find Mark. The group tries talking to Melissa, but she does not seem to remember acting strangely. Todd then finds her standing on the edge of the roof on the tallest building and reluctantly locks her in a focus room, where she screams at him from behind two-way mirrored glass. In the powerless building's elevator, Gail's attempt to put a rescue note on a stray robotic vacuum cleaner fails, and she accidentally shoots herself after getting angry and shooting several times at the ceiling. She is last seen loading the last bullet from the box, and a single gunshot is heard from outside.

41
10
"Got Milk?"
John Solomon
Maxwell R. Kessler
March 5, 2017 (2017-03-05)
3AYB18
2.19[44]

In the first year of the virus outbreak, Pamela Brinton (Kristen Wiig) and her husband Benjamin (Timothy V. Murphy) are wealthy socalites. As an auction at Pamela's foundation that saves dogs begins, a party guest named Leonard catches the virus. The next day, Pamela's friend Catherine (Laura Dern) and her husband Robert purchase a new underground bunker, while Pamela fears the worst upon learning her maid Christina, as well as Mike Pence and his presidential successors (mostly from Donald Trump's cabinet), have died. Benjamin soon catches the virus, too, so Pamela escapes with her dog Jeremy to Catherine's house and finds her dead. She then leaves for Catherine's bunker and, over time, bonds with Jeremy and celebrates various holidays. Using a surveillance drone, she investigates life on the outside. Three years later, the drone spots Phil's group in Malibu, but it stops working when Melissa shoots it (which was depicted at the end of the second season). Pamela chooses to go above ground.

42
11
"The Spirit of St. Lewis"
John Solomon
Liz Cackowski & John Solomon
March 12, 2017 (2017-03-12)
3AYB10
2.04[45]

The survivors take turns talking to Melissa, who plays hurtful mind games with each of them. Erica researches new ways to help Melissa with her condition, Todd installs a baby video monitor in her room, and Phil tries giving her pills before Todd dismisses the idea, as none of the survivors is a doctor. Lewis celebrates completing his flight training with Phil, who surprises him with a real airplane and convinces him he is ready to fly an actual plane despite the group's worries for him. However, Lewis crashes very soon after take off and dies. Phil then delivers a eulogy for Lewis and tries to spread his ashes using a drone, which crashes into a tree and falls into a lake. In a church, Phil asks God to tell Lewis his apologies and expresses his desire to help the group however he can. He suddenly has an epiphany and lights the front of the group's main building with a rainbow pattern in Lewis's honor. Though Phil fails to lift his friends' spirits, his installation of the lights causes the power to return to the building where Gail is stranded. The elevator door opens, and Gail's fingers are briefly seen moving.

43
12
"Hair of the Dog"
Payman Benz
Edward Voccola
March 19, 2017 (2017-03-19)
3AYB11
1.97[46]

Gail escapes the elevator, reunites with the main group, and passes out briefly before reviving and learning about Lewis' and Melissa's fates. Todd decides to go to Melissa's hometown of Akron, Ohio with Phil and Melissa to investigate her situation. Once there, Melissa gives them a fake address, allowing her to escape. The men soon find a billboard advertising the real estate agency where Melissa worked. From there, they locate Melissa's real house and find her asleep in bed. In the morning, Melissa takes a mysterious pill at breakfast, so she, Todd, and Phil return to San Jose with questions about the pill. Meanwhile, Carol tries mending her recently formed relationship with Gail, which culminates in retaking their family photo. Carol is alerted when she sees a masked figure lurking in the background of the photo.

44
13
"Find This Thing We Need To"
Steve Day
Erik Durbin & Tim McAuliffe
March 26, 2017 (2017-03-26)
3AYB12
1.97[47]

Carol shows the group photos of the figure in a Yoda mask she saw. She takes Phil and Erica to search for "Yoda", and they find a house filled with children's toys and drawings of Phil and Carol's honeymoon. Phil states that they should leave the place undisturbed but barrel rolls out of their disguised car and waits all night, urging "Yoda" to return and sensing a young version of himself in the child. Carol and Erica arrive in the morning to take a frustrated and cold Phil back to the office, only for "Yoda" to spring up behind them in the car. Meanwhile, Todd asks Melissa about her unidentified tablet, but she keeps stating, "Santa's penis". He and Gail try to match the pill with other samples at a pharmacy until Gail drops and loses it, angering Todd. On the drive back, Gail reminds Todd to rescue her accordion from the elevator where she was trapped. Seeing what Gail experienced there, Todd apologizes for overly focusing on Melissa and fixes Gail's Gordon mannequin. Later, Gail notices a medicine labeled "Clozapine", which resembles Melissa's and has a matching effect.

45
14
"Point Person Knows Best"
Maggie Carey
Jeff Vanderkruik
April 2, 2017 (2017-04-02)
3AYB13
1.74[48]

The group tries talking to the newcomer "Yoda", who does not speak but takes off his mask to eat some pizza and turns out to be a preadolescent boy. Phil names him "Jasper" after his JanSport backpack and tries bonding with him, but Jasper remains silent and either ignores or dismisses Phil's increasingly manic attempts to be his friend. Phil shocks the group when he bonds with Jasper by offering him cigarettes. He agrees to let Jasper pick a parental figure but is left in tears when Jasper chooses Erica. Carol consoles Phil, who is worried that their own child will hate him, and Erica kindly lets him say goodnight to a sleeping Jasper before he takes from the child a patched-up "Gary" the volleyball, whom Erica trampled earlier. Elsewhere, Carol is suspicious when she sees Todd put a friendly hand on Gail's shoulder as they discuss Melissa's recovery, and she repeatedly confronts Gail about tempting Todd to cheat on Melissa until Gail tells her to stay out of her business with him.

46
15
"Name 20 Picnics... Now!"
David Noel
Matt Marshall
April 23, 2017 (2017-04-23)
3AYB14
1.73[49]

The survivors discuss how Jasper has never been exposed to birthdays or major holidays, so they plan a party to celebrate every major holiday. Todd thinks this may help Melissa, but Phil, who believes Jasper was recently frightened by Melissa wandering for seemingly no reason, refuses to let the boy near her. Their disagreement worsens when Phil catches Todd trying to set up a picnic for Melissa and Jasper. Todd gets drunk on the night of the party to calm down, then approaches Phil and Jasper to admit to the boy that something is wrong with Melissa. Before the men can start a fist fight, they hear police sirens and find out Melissa and Jasper are pranking them. Todd, having not seen Melissa so happy for a long time, apologizes to Phil as a shooting star passes by and turns out to be a satellite, which crashes into a shopping plaza. Elsewhere, Erica gets her baby bump, which makes Carol jealous and concerned that she might not get hers until Erica reassures her otherwise.

47
16
"The Big Day"
Nisha Ganatra
Erica Rivinoja
April 30, 2017 (2017-04-30)
3AYB15
1.96[50]

Six months after the holiday party, Erica and Carol are both visibly pregnant; Jasper is now speaking, showing himself to be annoyed by Phil's antics; Melissa has regained her sanity and married Todd; and Erica and Gail have become a romantic couple. Todd's "re-virginization" process tests Melissa's nerves because she wants to have sex with him right away. Phil is thrilled about the arrival of Carol's first child, but Gail's increasing insistence that she should deliver the baby puts her at odds with Phil as she tells him that Carol also wants her to do so. Finally, Phil tells Carol he wanted to deliver the baby because of how helpless he felt when the late Phil (Stacy) died and how he loves Carol too much to bear it. Carol says that Phil will play the most important role in delivering their baby: holding her hand. Gail permits Phil to be Todd's assistant at the birth of Carol's child. Erica suddenly arrives and announces that her water has broken.

48
17
"When the Going Gets Tough"
Payman Benz
Tim McAuliffe
May 7, 2017 (2017-05-07)
3AYB16
1.80[51]

Erica goes into labor with Gail and Todd preparing to deliver her baby. Carol becomes scared of childbirth and fears dying due to Erica's loud and painful screams. Erica passes out from a lack of oxygen, but Todd resuscitates her with smelling salts. Gail and Todd soon discover they have to manually turn the baby into the correct position. With the help of Melissa and a now-confident Carol, they move the baby to the right position, and Erica gives birth to a girl she names Dawn. Meanwhile, Phil is kicked out of the makeshift delivery room as he is still forbidden from helping Erica raise her baby, so he takes Jasper to a water park, where Jasper expresses his worries that Erica may die. After Phil assures him that she will be fine, they discover a distant fire and find out it is a melting nuclear power plant.

49
18
"Nature's Horchata"
David Noel
Kira Kalush
May 7, 2017 (2017-05-07)
3AYB17
1.80[51]

Knowing the immediate danger of radioactive fallout from the burning nuclear power plant, the group leaves the office building in an RV, but not before cleaning up Lewis' last remains, forgetting their calf, and attaching Carol's makeshift house to the trailer. They stop at a library to figure out where to go. Since the United States is covered with nuclear plants, they begin traveling to Mexico. While Todd drives, Phil annoys Erica by continually observing her difficulty with getting baby Dawn to nurse. Phil's Geiger counter sets off as they get closer to Tijuana, so they return to the Los Angeles area to instead use a boat to flee to Mexico, hoping to avoid Pat Brown along the way. In L.A., Carol's makeshift house catches fire, due to Phil placing candles in her house to calm her nerves, sending off a huge plume of black smoke. Pat sees the smoke and follows them to a marina. On the boat, Erica finally breastfeeds Dawn. Phil gives a celebratory speech long enough for Pat to arrive with a shotgun. Before pulling the trigger, he is shot by Pamela Brinton, who introduces herself to the group.

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50
1
"M.U.B.A.R."
John Solomon
Rich Blomquist & John Solomon
October 1, 2017 (2017-10-01)
4AYB01
2.28[52]

Pamela introduces herself to the group, explaining that she had met Pat in Malibu and the two had become intimate. She then introduces her new lover, Rear Admiral Roy Billups (Jack Black), but Pat, having briefly revived, shoots and murders Billups. Pamela then kills Pat outright. Once the group is out at sea, Phil decapitates Pat and sends his head and body out on two separate jet skis in opposite directions, but they crash into each other. Pamela gradually irritates the group by wasting their supplies, claiming the yacht's only bedroom for herself, and flirting with Phil. Melissa pilots the boat while drinking, and Gail botches dropping the anchor, so the boat drifts overnight and leaves them stranded in mid-ocean. After days without Gail telling anyone, they finally find a remote island. While sailing towards the island on a dinghy, Pamela, who had heard the women agree to abandon her on dry land, tricks Phil into untying the dinghy from the boat. She knocks him unconscious, sends the rest of the group away with useless supplies, and steals the yacht, intending to keep Phil for herself. The others reach the island, unaware that someone already lives there.

51
2
"Stocko Syndome"
David Noel
Megan Ganz & Tim McAuliffe
October 8, 2017 (2017-10-08)
4AYB02
2.23[53]

To escape being held hostage, Phil tries convincing Pamela that he has lost interest in Carol, but she sees through his ruse and makes it clear, with her gun, that he is hers. As he thinks of Carol in everything he sees, including a toenail clipper, Phil improvises cutting himself free with sharp toenails, then threatens to throw overboard or eat Pamela’s dog Jeremy if she does not agree to peace. She gives in, but they soon realize they are no longer near land. On the island, the main group meets Glenn (Chris Elliott), a castaway who missed the apocalypse and knows nothing about the virus, so he hopes to return to the U.S. and reunite with friends and family. He shows Carol a signal fire he has saved to alert a plane or boat, but Carol wants to use it to find Phil, so she tells a saddened Glenn about the virus. That evening, they agree to light the signal fire, allowing Phil and Pamela to find and reunite with them the next morning. The group wants to abandon Pamela on the island to fend for herself, but since Glenn says he lasted as long he did alone because he didn't know about the virus and had hope, and since Pamela takes responsibility for her actions and tells them to desert her and take the blameless Jeremy with them, they agree to take her back to the mainland on the condition she rides in the dinghy attached to the yacht.

52
3
"Skeleton Crew"
John Solomon
Kassia Miller
October 15, 2017 (2017-10-15)
4AYB03
1.96[54]

Pamela is welcomed aboard the yacht after falling out of the dinghy, then begins a gradually intimate relationship with Glenn. Before Glenn can announce this, Jasper spots Zihuatanejo, Mexico. However, the group discovers that the whole town is the site of another triage operation from the apocalypse littered with body bags. Phil and Carol move into a hospital near a motel, but they notice Pamela crying in the nearby courtyard and learn that Glenn has been treating her poorly following their apparent breakup, which he caused after seeing signs of the virus and not explaining them to her. Meanwhile, Todd laments that Zihuatanejo isn't the paradise he had hoped it would be, but Melissa assures him that any new home is perfect as long as they are together. At dinner that night, Carol forgives Pamela for what she did to the group, and Pamela demands answers from Glenn. Glenn evades the truth until he finally admits he loves Pamela but wants to return to the United States in search of his children, and was treating her badly so she would not be devastated when he returned to the ruined world and faced the likelihood of not finding his family and contracting the deadly virus himself. He and Pamela pack up a car and leave the next day to begin the search.

53
4
"Wisconsin"
Jennifer Arnold
Matt Marshall
October 22, 2017 (2017-10-22)
4AYB04
1.96[55]

Todd and Melissa announce their plans to go on a honeymoon, while Erica and Gail decide to live on their own for a time. Carol worries about missing precious life moments with the scattered group, so she takes Phil to visit Gail but is upset because the rest of them were enjoying dinner together and lamely try to reassure her they weren't snubbing her or Phil. To show them why she feels they should stay together, Carol feigns going into labor, so the others follow her to the recently restored medical clinic. When Gail arrives, she thinks she sees Carol holding her baby, but it turns out to be Phil. Melissa, Erica, and Gail fake injuries and life-threatening situations to get back at Phil and Carol and think Todd is joining them, but they soon realize Todd is suffering a genuine heart attack from repeated consumption of energy drinks. They rush him to the medical clinic and set him up to a heart monitor to successfully revive him. Gail apologizes to Carol as she reflects on how the group is a disaster together but much worse apart, then agrees to live with everyone in a location much less horrible than the abandoned medical clinic.

54
5
"La Abuela"
David Noel
Kira Kalush
November 5, 2017 (2017-11-05)
4AYB05
1.94[56]

The group settles into a mansion once occupied by the drug cartel leader "La Abuela" Gordillo (Alma Martinez). In flashbacks, La Abuela fights against a rival cartel. While searching for the traitor who let in the intruders, she kills her henchman Victor for not solving a Rubik's Cube in 10 seconds. Fearing he may be next, henchman Hector (Jack Guzman) prepares a bomb, then brings a piñata presumed to contain the bomb to her birthday party. Henchman Panchito purposely fails to hit the piñata when the police arrive, and the criminals hide in a nearby room. As La Abuela holds the two men at gunpoint, Panchito shoots her, revealing himself as the traitor, and asks Hector where the bomb was placed. Hector does not say the exact answer and is arrested. In the present, Phil babyproofs the mansion at Carol's insistence, shows Jasper how to break the piñata (which only contains candy), and struggles with Victor's Rubik's Cube. Carol worries about the babyproofing and fears that their child will contract the virus, so Phil tells her that they can't plan for everything and have to prepare for the unknown. Meanwhile, Melissa extensively safety-proofs Todd after his heart attack, annoying Todd until he understands how much she cares for him, and they finally agree she should take a break from her protectiveness. Erica and Gail wonder why baby Dawn is constantly crying until Gail almost crashes their car, and they discover that Dawn is an adrenaline junkie. They then hang a stuffed angry bear in her room to calm her.

55
6
"Double Cheeseburger"
Lucia Aniello
Emma Rathbone
November 12, 2017 (2017-11-12)
4AYB06
2.18[57]

Carol and Phil awaken to find that Carol has given birth to a baby girl in her sleep, whom they name Bezequille. Carol later feels cramps in her head, so she goes to Gail, and they find that Carol has an unborn second baby. They try various methods to make Carol go into labor. When these fail, Gail decides to perform a C-section, but Phil refuses to let Gail do so. During the argument, Carol painlessly gives birth to another daughter, whom she names Mike after Phil’s brother. Meanwhile, Erica and Gail plan a date night and choose Todd to babysit Dawn. When they cancel because of the arrival of Carol's twins, Todd becomes depressed by baby fever, which Melissa notices. He convinces Erica to let him babysit Dawn but is soon caught by Melissa, who subsequently allows him to babysit Dawn after Erica and Gail reschedule their date.

56
7
"Gender Friender"
Kristen Schaal
Rich Blomquist
November 19, 2017 (2017-11-19)
4AYB07
1.62[58]

Phil solves one side of Victor's Rubik's Cube but bothers the women of the group by calling them "guys". He then tries to prove he is a feminist by changing words and phrases and performing an awkward song. Carol also annoys Gail about spending more time with Erica and Dawn than Bezequille and Mike, but Gail explains that she and Erica are like a married couple and do not need a marriage contract to validate their relationship. When Gail wakes up in the night to take care of Dawn, she notices Erica and proposes to her the next day, so they quickly marry. At the reception, Carol believes Gail is ditching her for Erica, who confides to Carol that she isn't trying to take Gail for herself and that nothing can come between Carol and Gail. Carol endorses their marriage, and the ladies have a mother-daughter dance as Phil performs a reprise of his song. Elsewhere, Todd tries to cure his baby fever by unsuccessfully bonding with Jasper over a game of catch. Todd admits he had to teach himself various life skills, including shaving his back, which he teaches Jasper. At Erica and Gail's wedding, Jasper chooses to wear a costume at first but finally decides to wear the suit and tie Todd had picked out for him.

57
8
"Not Appropriate for Miners"
Jared Hess
Arielle Diaz & Megan Ganz
December 3, 2017 (2017-12-03)
4AYB08
1.90[59]

Jasper begins acting recklessly as he drives a limousine wildly and detonates a stuffed giraffe with a firework. Todd tries grounding him, but his efforts fail, so he goes to Phil for help. Meanwhile, Carol is upset by Erica and Gail joking about how Jasper has affection for baby Dawn, so she tries to familiarize him with Bezequille and Mike. Erica becomes annoyed by this as she catches Carol trying entertain Jasper by putting makeup on her twins, and the ladies feud for the boy's attention. Uncertain about the source of his recklessness, Todd takes away Jasper's video games, but Jasper interrupts Melissa's attempt to solve the Rubik's Cube. Melissa finally tells the other adults that they are behaving like lunatics as they argue about Jasper, but when they all go to apologize to him, they find he has run away. As they all search the area for Jasper and apologize to one another, Phil and Todd hear a police siren and follow the sound to a prison wherein a mysterious inmate resides.

58
9
"Karl"
Jason Woliner
Kassia Miller
January 7, 2018 (2018-01-07)
4AYB09
2.96[60]

In the days before the outbreak of the virus, Karl Cowperthwaite (Fred Armisen), the prisoner first seen in the previous episode, is a secret cannibal who goes on a date with Zoe (Leighton Meester), who fakes a phone call to escape their terrible dinner. When Karl walks his dog Zeus to find some bullion for his cannibalistic dish, the police arrive at his apartment, but Karl escapes and, after killing an unnamed SUV driver (Martin Short), takes the SUV to Juárez, Mexico. There, he starts a home painting business as a front to hide his murders. As he prepares to kill again, the man he is painting notices a decapitated head in the refrigerator, forcing Karl to escape to a motel. The next morning, the police arrest him and charge him for murder and desecration. In prison, Karl tries reusing his painting scheme, but his next victim, Javi, falls ill from the virus. As time passes, all of the inmates and guards die from the virus, leaving only Karl and a guard named Martinez to bond. Eventually, Martinez tells Karl that it is last day, so he gives him two months' worth of food and a noose. Karl kills him and escapes his cell but cannot escape the prison. Before attempting suicide with the noose, he hears a distant horn honking. Phil and Todd enter the prison believing that they have found Jasper but instead discover Karl.

59
10
"Paint Misbehavin'"
Payman Benz
Matt Marshall
January 14, 2018 (2018-01-14)
4AYB10
3.35[61]

Karl changes into Martinez's uniform, so Phil and Todd mistake him for a prison guard and welcome him into the group, which is still searching for Jasper. Later that day, after Gail burns her finger, Karl struggles not to take one of her band-aids from the trash, but he gives into temptation and removes it. Phil, seeing Karl dig through the trash, becomes suspicious. Though Phil’s suspicions are dismissed due to his historically poor judge of character, he spies on Karl eating the band-aid with a cup of tea and reports this to Todd, who offers to help Phil deal with Karl. Karl, helping Gail with her finger, secretly consumes an ice cube used to treat the burn. Karl offers to paint Gail's portrait as a gift for Erica’s birthday. While painting his usual low-quality portrait, Karl is so tempted to kill Gail that he runs away and drives to a graveyard. Phil and Todd follow and watch in shock as Karl digs up a long-dead corpse and eats a piece of it. Elsewhere, Melissa leaves a food cooler for Jasper, who takes it to an unknown location.

60
11
"Hamilton/Berg"[62]
TBA
TBA
March 11, 2018 (2018-03-11)
4AYB11
TBD