As of July 2026, Jesse Season 1 aired in 1998 with 22 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Jesse Season 1

1998 22 Episodes Comedy ⭐ 6/10

Right now you can watch Jesse Season 1 on streaming — and it is funnier than its reputation suggests. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. 16 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Christina Applegate sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Jesse Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Sharp writing and a well-matched ensemble are what separate Jesse Season 1 from the crowd. Season 1 of Jesse includes 22 episodes. It aired from September 1998 to April 1999. This season stars Christina Applegate, George Dzundza and Bruno Campos. Christina Applegate and George Dzundza lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1998. The real test of any comedy is whether it is still funny once you know all the jokes, and Jesse Season 1 holds up on rewatch in a way that separates it from one-off curiosities. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Comedy fans looking for a reliably funny watch will find it in Jesse Season 1. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Christina Applegate's comic timing carries it through its weaker moments. The kind of comedy you recommend to someone who claims they do not watch much.

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🎬 Jesse Season 1 — Episode Guide

A Side of Chile

Diego moves next door to Jesse Warner and her family, and asks her out.

Goober Up the Nose

Jesse's movie date with Diego ends up in the emergency room when she gets a piece of candy stuck in her nose.

Bees Do It, Birds Do It, But Not in a Car

Jesse's been taking it real slow in her relationship with Diego, but things begin heating up and she may not wish to cool them off.

Jesse learns that Diego once had a relationship with the nude model he's been painting at his house.

On the eve of Halloween, Jesse gets quite a scare---her ex shows up after seven years and wants to be back in Little John's life.

The Methadone Clinic

Jesse's brush with an art-gallery owner may cost Diego a chance to show his work.

Jesse's ex-husband surprises her with a kiss, just after she and Diego have a spat.

The Cheese Ship

Jesse invites Diego to Thanksgiving dinner, even though her ex will be in attendance.

Barko, the Holiest Dog in the World

Little John is in a school play, Darren is in a commercial and Diego goes to great lengths to try to prove to Jesse that Roy is a jerk but Jesse won't listen.

Diego decides that if Jesse wants Roy he won't stand in the way. So he goes to Roy's to tell him, but he catches Roy with another woman. He tries to tell Jesse but she won't listen, that is until Junior finally speaks and tells her it's true. She throws Roy out.

The Best Deal Possible

Diego and Jesse pretend to be husband and wife while shopping for a car. Also now that Junior talks, he and Darren try and pick up girls.

The Mischievous Elf

Jesse decides to go back to high school. Her teacher asks her out and she doesn't know if she should say yes because he's her teacher. She finally decides to go out with him but finds out that he's a weirdo so she dumps him. Diego dates a student.

My Casual Friend's Wedding

Jesse, Linda and Carrie go to the wedding of a former high school classmate and Jesse is asked to be the maid of honor because the bride's sister couldn't make it. Jesse agrees. Linda makes out with a guy in the coat checkroom only to find out later that he's the groom. Jesse goes to talk to him to ...

Hickory, Dickory, Death

Although they have split up, Jesse turns up for a date with Diego that they arranged long before, only to find him about to go out with his new girlfriend. Jesse deals with it by acting it out her fantasies of a forties film noir.

Crazy White Female

Diego feels that Gwen is becoming increasingly clingy, but Jesse thinks she is just being nice, until Gwen transforms herself into a Jesse look-alike. John Warner Sr. dates an old friend, Mary Anne that he meets up with after thirty years.

John Warner Sr. decides to go off to Alaska to climb Mt McKinley with Mary Anne, leaving the bar to the care of his three children. When they fail to sell it, they have to decide between them how to fit in running it with the other things that they want to do in their lives.

Touched by an Angel

Darren suggests a Charlie's Angels theme for the bar. Diego invites Jesse round to dinner, but it is a disaster, capped by her being so fearful that things won't work out well between them that it ruins what is left of the evening. It takes Diego some time to convince her that things could work out ...

Cecil, the Angry Postman

When Jesse writes a love letter to Diego she never plans to send and little John sends it she tries to retrieve it. But she angered the mailman because he doesn't put the mail in the right mail slots and now to anger her he refuses to give her the letter she wrote to Diego because it's addressed to ...

The Parent Trap

Diego's parents come to Buffalo and Jesse has to go pick them up at the airport but she picks up the wrong Vasquez's. When she goes with Diego to pick up the right Vasquez's they don't seem as happy to see Jesse as the wrong ones were.

Momma Was a Rollin' Stone

Another kid is beating up Little John at school so Jesse goes to talk to his mother. His mother is actually his stepmother and her mother. Jesse now has a stepbrother and Little John has an uncle his own age. She asks Jesse to borrow five grand because her relationship with her new husband, Fez Foos...

🎭 Cast of Jesse Season 1

Christina Applegate

Christina Applegate

George Dzundza

John Warner, Sr.

Bruno Campos

David DeLuise

Eric Lloyd

Little John Warner

Jennifer Milmore

Jennifer Milmore

John Lehr

John Warner, Jr.

Liza Snyder

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