The Ellen Show • TV Show (2001

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"What's a small-town girl turned L.A. businesswoman to do when her high-profile, high-finance start-up Internet company goes belly up? And when her social life out west is not doing so great either? Well, as played by Emmy winner Ellen DeGeneres, she reacts by saying goodbye to her dot-com world and heading back to her hometown to put her life together. It remains to be seen, however, whether the best way to do that is by becoming a counselor at her old high school--they still teach Home Economics, for crying out loud--and by moving in with her eccentric mother and unlucky-in-love sister." "Ellen Richmond (DeGeneres)...decides to trade the stresses of her fast-track, big-city lifestyle for the slower pace of her quieter hometown, where she is known and loved. It remains to be seen, however, whether or not returning to her hometown, a fishbowl of a place, and her eccentric mother, Dot (Cloris Leachman), and scatter-brained sister, Catherine (Emily Rutherfurd), is the best course o

Ended
TV series created in 2001 and concluded in 2002 by Ellen DeGeneres, Carol Leifer, Mitchell Hurwitz.
The show consists of 1 season and 18 episodes.

Comedy

Best episodes

S01E09 : Missing the Bus 7.7/10 (29 voting) When Mr. Munn realizes that long-time school bus driver Mrs. Gibson has reached the school's…
S01E11 : Ellen's First Christmess (a.k.a. Ellen's First Christmas) 7.5/10 (19 voting) Ellen decides to surprise Dot by flying in her aunt Mary, to whom Dot hasn't spoken in years. Mary…
S01E04 : Vanity Hair 7.4/10 (19 voting) Vanity Fair decides to do an interview with Ellen about former dot-commers who went out of…

Seasons

Posters

Actor	Role	Actor	Role
	Ellen DeGeneres Ellen Richmond		Jim Gaffigan Rusty Carnouk
	Martin Mull Ed Munn		Emily Rutherfurd Catherine Richmond
	Cloris Leachman Dot Richmond		Kerri Kenney-Silver Pam
	Diane Delano Bunny Hoppstetter		Seán Cullen Christian Snee
	Brian Sites Tug		Patrick S. Harrigan Man