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Titus
2000 - 2002 7.0 (41 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Comedy Drama
Networks
FOX
Created By
Jack Kenny
Christopher Titus
Brian Hargrove

Titus

Overview

Titus is an American dark comedy sitcom that debuted on Fox in 2000. The series was created by its star, Christopher Titus, Jack Kenny, and Brian Hargrove. This sitcom was based on Christopher's stand-up comedy act, more specifically his one-man show Norman Rockwell is Bleeding, which was based loosely upon his real-life family; lines from Norman Rockwell is Bleeding were spoken by Titus as commentary. Titus plays an outwardly childish adult, who owns a custom car shop. The show follows him and his dimwitted halfbrother Dave, his girlfriend Erin with the "heart of gold", his goody-goody friend Tommy, and his arrogantly lewd, bigoted and multiple-divorced father Ken "Papa" Titus.

Key Crew

Producer: Jack Kenny, Christopher Titus, Brian Hargrove, Adam Belanoff

Top Cast

Christopher Titus
Christopher Titus

Christopher Titus

Cynthia Watros
Cynthia Watros

Erin Fitzpatrick

Zack Ward
Zack Ward

Dave Scoville

David Shatraw
David Shatraw

Tommy Shafter

Stacy Keach
Stacy Keach

Ken Titus

Seasons

Season 0 ()

No overview available.

4 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Hard Laughs Featurette

Titus confirms what that many of the plots barely got network approval. Chris had to coax them into the episodes by explaining how funny they could be. Very few shows on network television have ventured this far in terms of the kinds of stories they do. The people in this show are dysfunctional and real. There is no weekly reconcilliation at the end of each episode. In fact, it's lucky if the characters' situations aren't worse off by the end than they were at the beginning.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Rehearsal Footage

A 9-minute featurette showing the cast doing a rehearsal for episode 1x05 - Titus Integritious.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Homecoming Part 1
2020-08-21

Eighteen years ago, Titus ended with Christopher being put away in a mental hospital following his nervous breakdown over his mother's suicide. After being released from his eight-year stay (caused by Dave foolishly trying to spring Titus from the mental hospital), Titus discovers that his cars have been sold to keep the shop from going under, his father has gone to Mexico to party, and Erin has fallen for Tommy.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: Homecoming Part 2
2020-08-21

Eighteen years ago, Titus ended with Christopher being put away in a mental hospital following his nervous breakdown over his mother's suicide. After being released from his eight-year stay (caused by Dave foolishly trying to spring Titus from the mental hospital), Titus discovers that his cars have been sold to keep the shop from going under, his father has gone to Mexico to party, and Erin has fallen for Tommy.

Runtime: 19 min
Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2000)

No overview available.

9 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Sex With Pudding
2000-03-20

Titus, Dave and Tommy snoop in Erin's office when Titus suspects she's having an affair.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Dad Is Dead
2000-03-27

Titus and Dave suspect their dad is dead: he's been in his room for four straight days--without getting a beer. But they're both too scared to go in and check.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Dave Moves Out
2000-04-03

Dave is arrested for grand theft--charges brought by his dad--for taking the VCR when he moved out secretly, per Titus's suggestion.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: The Breakup
2000-04-10

"All this happiness [with Erin] is freaking me out," says Titus. So he finds a way to sabotage their relationship, as he learned from his father.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Titus Integritous
2000-04-17

Dave and Tommy get a chance to override Titus, whose integrity is questioned when he refuses a customer's request that will mar an otherwise perfect car.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Red Asphalt
2000-05-01

Dave helps, Erin hinders and Tommy panics as Titus jockeys with another driver in a car he customized for Ken's birthday.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Mom's Not Nuts
2000-05-08

Titus is the only one to remain on full alert when his institutionalized mother shows up, officially released and apparently cured.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Intervention
2000-05-15

Ken's recent behavior prompts Titus to organize an intervention--to start him drinking again, revealing a wealth of secrets and lies among the participants.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Episode Eleven
2000-05-22

Ken has a heart attack while driving and blames Titus, who has a picture that proves otherwise.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (2000)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Titus Is Dead
2000-10-03

Ken blames his heart attack on Titus, and the private nurse Titus hires sides with Ken, who feels much better, thank you.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: The Test
2000-10-10

Questions before donating blood for Papa Titus reveal neither Erin nor Titus had safe sex when both cheated, but Titus balks at an HIV test.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: The Surprise Party
2000-10-17

The plan to derail Ken and Kathy is itself derailed when Ken announces that Kathy is moving in, prompting another plan--and another derailment.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: What's Up, Hollywood?
2000-10-31

After Ken uses "proud," "love" and "son" in the same sentence, Titus instinctually prepares for something bad, a prescient move as Ken blames him for another driving mishap.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Locking Up Mom
2000-11-14

Titus's schizophrenic mother's competency hearing brings everyone together--to keep her locked up.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Perfect Thanksgiving
2000-11-21

Erin's family is on hand when she and Titus plan to announce their engagement at Thanksgiving dinner--which ends up in an emergency room.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Tommy's Girlfriend
2000-11-28

The return to town of his first love inspires fear and excitement in Tommy, while she knows only fear.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: The Reconcilliation
2000-12-12

Juanita springs another surprise as she dines with Titus, which makes Ken jealous.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Last Noelle
2000-12-19

Little by little, Erin learns why Titus lied about going to an ex-girlfriend's wake--and it's not pretty.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
2001-01-09

At a hot-rod show, Dave and Tommy note that Titus is taking sole credit for their entry--and Ken notes it even more.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: When I Say Jump
2001-01-16

Thrill-seeker Titus is undaunted by the death of the parachutist who jumped off a bridge before him. Erin, though, is daunted--fiercely.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Episode 27
2001-01-30

Titus fires back after Ken's fiancée, Kathy, replaces him as best man at the rehearsal dinner that Titus organized.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: The Smell of Success
2001-02-06

News of the car-show incident prompts clients to cancel their orders--and Titus writes a bad check to return a deposit.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Deprogramming Erin
2001-02-13

Having driven her away with his drinking, Titus gets Erin back--by tying her in a sack and kidnapping her from her parents' home.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: NASCAR
2001-02-20

Erin gets Titus and Ken to drive across the country together--by telling each that the other is dying.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Life Forward
2001-02-27

A self-help guru's seminar brings personal breakthroughs for Erin, Titus--and himself, courtesy of Ken Titus.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Gift of the Car Guy
2001-03-13

To finance a move into drag racing, Titus makes a bold move, without telling Erin--who's also kept something from Titus.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Tommy's Girlfriend No. 2
2001-03-27

A gathering includes Tommy's new girlfriend--the waitress Titus slept with during a one-night breakup with Erin.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Hard Ass
2001-04-10

Titus and Erin differ on how to handle their new housemate, Erin's 15-year-old niece, a hellion who's selling pot to finance college.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Private Dave
2001-04-17

Titus tries to undo what he sees as damage when Dave's response to a Dear John letter is to join the Army.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Three Strikes
2001-04-24

Erin is left with a broken leg after an encounter with a burglar. The crook is suspected to be her lowlife brother, whose next conviction will send him away for life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: The Pit
2001-05-08

Titus enters a funny car in races to rebuild his business, and Ken is part of the pit crew--until father-son tensions mount.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: The Pendulum
2001-05-15

Ken and Erin confront the uncertainty of Titus's fate following his accident.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: The Wedding
2001-05-22

Family members gather for the nuptials of Erin and Titus, against the couple's fervent--and wise--wishes.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (2001)

No overview available.

21 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Racing in the Streets
2001-11-14

Titus starts street racing for cash, fueling fury in Erin, who nursed him back from his last racing injury.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Amy's Birthday
2001-11-21

Erin's surprise birthday party for niece Amy is an eye-opener for Erin when she sees the squalor in which the girl lives.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Tommy's Not Gay
2001-11-28

Titus is determined to mend fences after Tommy rejects his father, who's just revealed he's gay.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Shannon's Song
2001-12-05

Titus's sister Shannon, who's outshone him at every turn, does so again at the reopening of his shop.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Grad School
2001-12-12

Erin disdains, then requests Titus's help when she visits troubled teens for her first grad-school assignment as a interning social worker.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Houseboat
2001-12-19

Christmas on a houseboat brings a kinder, gentler Ken when he thinks his best friend has fallen overboard.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: The Trial
2002-01-02

Titus tries to keep Ken from testifying as his mother goes on trial for murdering her last husband at Titus's wedding.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Grandma Titus
2002-01-09

Phyllis Diller plays Grandma Titus, who still intimidates Ken despite her Alzheimer's, which has her trying to teach a high-school class.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Errrr
2002-01-16

Suicidal over a broken romance, Amy listens to Titus as he tries to talk her out of it with tales of his own youth—which don't make that great a case.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Tommy's Crush
2002-01-23

Titus is firmly opposed to romance between his sister Shannon and Tommy, neither of whom is listening to him.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Into Thin Air
2002-01-30

Tired of carrying Dave, Titus decides it's finally time he learns to fend for himself--when they're both stranded on an icy cliff.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Too Damn Good
2002-02-06

A car executive seeks a new design from Titus, who turns to Ken for inspiration when he has a creative block.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Bachelor Party
2002-02-13

En route to Vegas for Titus's bachelor party, the boys encounter a woman in labor, delaying Titus's call to Erin, who imagines the worst.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Hot Streak
2002-02-20

Titus weighs whether to be a concerned son or a passive buddy to Ken, who tells his buddy to ignore the heart-attack signs he's experiencing.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: The Session
2002-03-06

As part of Erin's therapist training, the Titus clan participates in a family session, where issues of trust surface between Titus and Erin.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Same Courtesy
2002-03-20

A cannon is key to Titus's plan for vengeance on Erin--on her birthday, no less--for her role in his humiliating therapy session.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: After Mrs. Shafter
2002-07-29

A softer side of Ken emerges as he courts a new woman, who happens to be Tommy's mother.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: The Visit
2002-07-29

Titus's schizophrenic mother visits as he and Erin are scrutinized by a social worker regarding their care of Erin's niece.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Insanity Genetic (1)
2002-08-05

Following his personal loss, Titus disdains grief, until an olfactory memory triggers an emotional flood while flying home.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Insanity Genetic (2)
2002-08-05

Removed from the plane by the FBI, the unhappy quintet undergoes interrogation, including questions about Titus's sanity.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: The Protector
2002-08-12

Titus aims to throw a scare into a boy who's been insulting Amy and nearly gets himself thrown in jail, but for the intervention of Erin--and the offender's father.

Runtime: 30 min

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