Do Over
Do Over
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Do Over

Joel Larsen is 14 today. The problem is, he was 34 yesterday.

6.8 / 10
2002
1 season
15 episodes
DramaComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Thirty-four-year-old Joel Larsen is an unmarried, dissatisfied salesman when a freak accident jettisons him 20 years into the past to his freshman year of high school. Now, back in 1981 with his 34-year-old mind trapped in his 14-year-old body, Joel (newcomer Penn Badgley) has the unique opportunity to make things turn out differently, both for him and his embarrassingly dysfunctional family. The ultimate wish-fulfillment comedy, Do Over proves that sometimes it does take a boy to do a man's job. Josh Wise, Angela Bethany Goethals (Storytelling), Gigi Rice (The John Larroquette Show), Michael Milhoan (Something So Right) and Natasha Melnick (Freaks and Geeks) also star.

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Seasons

  • Pilot

    1.Pilot

    19-09-200223m

    The year is 2002. Joel Larsen is thirty-four years old, but has never really done anything special with his life. His parents are divorced, and his sister is a drug addict. But whe...

  • Joel Strikes Back

    2.Joel Strikes Back

    26-09-200221m

    Joel picks a fight with a high school bully. This time around, he decides to stand up for himself.

  • Investing in the Future

    3.Investing in the Future

    03-10-200220m

    Joel is tired of his parents always fighting about money, so he decides to take a job. He eventually chooses the one he has been stuck in for years in his alternative world - paper...

  • The Anniversary

    4.The Anniversary

    10-10-200220m

    A new teacher by the name Ruben enters the school. But this is not what worries Joel the most - in the future, Ruben is his stepfather. So to avoid that his mother ever meets Ruben...

  • Take Me out of the Ballgame

    5.Take Me out of the Ballgame

    17-10-200220m

    Joel and Pat are both trying to cheat their fates. Joel is to play in the state baseball championship, but remembers that he choked in the last throw and blew the team's victory, h...

  • Rock 'n' Roll Parking Lot

    6.Rock 'n' Roll Parking Lot

    24-10-200220m

    Joel, Pat and Isabelle want to go to a concert, but Cheryl won't take them. They decide to drive there on their own. When they get there, both Joel and Isabelle experience new thin...

  • Halloween Kiss

    7.Halloween Kiss

    31-10-200220m

    Joel is trying to rewrite the start of his dating history by going to a party with Holly Kent, with the goal to get the first kiss from her instead of a boring girl named Bonnie. H...

  • Star Search

    8.Star Search

    07-11-200220m

    When Joel enters a Star Search-like competition using a hit song from the future, he reevaluates whether he should become an accomplished musician the honest way or by stealing som...

  • Block Party

    9.Block Party

    14-11-200220m

    When Joel has the opportunity to change the events of the street block party where his family was ostracized by the neighbors, he tries to teach his father that winning isn't every...

  • Cold War

    10.Cold War

    15-11-200220m

    After butting heads with his father over his curfew, school trips and adult responsibilities, Joel decides to stand up for himself and moves into Pat's home where the rules are mor...

  • Joel Larsen's Day Off

    11.Joel Larsen's Day Off

    05-12-200220m

    Joel decides he is not going to let turning 15 get in the way of celebrating what should be his 35th birthday, and cuts school with his friends Pat and Isabelle.

  • Hot for Teacher

    12.Hot for Teacher

    TBA20m

    Joel is failing in Biology and his parents think he needs a tutor, who happens to be very attractive. Joel works hard to impress his tutor, Abby, so that he can ask her out on a da...

  • Shot Cuts

    13.Shot Cuts

    TBA20m

    Joel Larsen competes in the science fair in order to not flunk the class. He tries to ride the coat-tails of Andrew Wages, a brainy science kid who supposedly invents the technolog...

  • Valentine's Day Dance

    14.Valentine's Day Dance

    TBA20m

    "It's all about timing", is Joel's motto as he uses his second chance in life to ask Holly Kent to the Valentine's Day dance.

  • Chilghetti

    15.Chilghetti

    TBA20m

    Joel edges Bill to support Karen's business ideas, and Karen is really excited to present her ideas to the world. But then he hears the idea for her first pitch - chili mixed with...

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