List of The Last Man on Earth episodes

The Last Man on Earth is an American post-apocalyptic comedy television series created by and starring Will Forte.^[1] The series premiered on Fox on March 1, 2015.^[1] On April 8, 2015, the show was renewed for a second season,^[2] which premiered on September 27, 2015.^[3] On March 24, 2016, the show was renewed for a third season,^[4] which premiered on September 25, 2016.^[5]

As of December 4, 2016, 39 episodes of The Last Man on Earth have aired.

Series overview

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	1	13		March 1, 2015	May 3, 2015
	2	18		September 27, 2015	May 15, 2016
	3	18[6]		September 25, 2016	TBA

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Alive in Tucson"	Phil Lord & Christopher Miller	Will Forte	March 1, 2015	1AYB01	5.75[7]
After a virus wipes out most of humanity, average man Phil Miller 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 a luxurious house in Bonita Estates, a gated cul-de-sac, and hoards priceless artifacts. About five months later, he starts feeling lonely with no one else to celebrate his birthday, so he adopts assorted sports balls as "buddies" and draws faces on them, then starts flirting with a mannequin. Finally, just before he attempts suicide, he suddenly sees a smoke signal, and when he investigates, he 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, whom he talks out of shooting him.
2	2	"The Elephant in the Room"	Phil Lord & Christopher Miller	Andy Bobrow	March 1, 2015	1AYB02	5.75[7]
After Phil meets Carol, she tries to get him 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	1AYB03	4.35[8]
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 another survivor's car the next day.
4	4	"Sweet Melissa"	Phil Traill	Liz Cackowski	March 15, 2015	1AYB04	3.76[9]
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	1AYB05	4.55[10]
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 Todd, the second-last man on earth.
6	6	"Some Friggin' Fat Dude"	Michael Patrick Jann	Tim McAuliffe	March 22, 2015	1AYB06	4.42[10]
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	1AYB07	3.40[11]
The knowledge that Todd and Melissa are having sex drives Phil to manic despair, so Phil hatches a plan to leave Todd in the desert to die, although his conscience prevents him from doing so. Meanwhile, at the survivors' first community meeting to discuss grievances, everyone agrees that Phil should clean out the pool he has been using as a toilet. After he finally does, he brings an outhouse into his home, which delights Carol.
8	8	"Mooovin' In"	Claire Scanlon	Liz Cackowski	March 29, 2015	1AYB08	3.33[11]
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. Unbeknownst to the others, Carol purposely brought the cow upstairs.
9	9	"The Do-Over"	John Solomon	Tim McAuliffe	April 12, 2015	1AYB09	3.22[12]
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 and Gail, 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	1AYB10	3.37[12]
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	1AYB11	3.41[13]
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 arrives and rescues Phil, driving him home. To everyone's surprise, the new man is also named Phil Miller. Confusion over having two Phils results in 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	1AYB12	3.29[14]
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, even at Phil's insistence that Tucson's climate is too arid to grow food. The new Phil's presence also puts a strain on Todd 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	1AYB13	3.51[15]
After Tandy purposely knocks over a lamp that Phil has powered using solar energy, 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, who is shown to be still alive and stranded in the International Space Station.

Season 2 (2015–16)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
14	1	"Is There Anybody Out There?"	John Solomon	David Noel & John Solomon	September 27, 2015	2AYB01	3.14[16]
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	2AYB02	3.30[17]
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	2AYB03	2.70[18]
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	2AYB04	2.29[19]
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	2AYB05	3.36[20]
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	2AYB06	2.57[21]
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	2AYB07	2.84[22]
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	2AYB08	3.27[23]
After the cow gives birth, the group realizes that there is a bull somewhere and decides to search for it. Believing 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. In an unexpected turn of events, a bull indeed shows up on the mansion's back porch, and the group rapidly shoots tranquilizers at it, accidentally killing it. Phil then arrives, revealing that he brought the bull to them. Having regained the group's trust, he joins everyone for a beef dinner. 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	2AYB09	3.58[24]
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	2AYB10	3.16[25]
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	2AYB11	2.72[26]
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, 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 later play some tennis. On the drive back, Mike sees an "Alive in Tucson" sign and is inspired to go to Tucson against the wishes of Pat, who knocks him unconscious and believes the sign is part of a government conspiracy to trap survivors. When Mike regains consciousness, he dodges being shot and killed by Pat, who again knocks him unconscious and notices a tear in his suit. Thinking he has exposed the astronaut 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.
25	12	"Valhalla"	Payman Benz	Erica Rivinoja	March 13, 2016	2AYB12	2.56[27]
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 investigates Phil's possessions and is surprised to learn that, despite Phil's earlier claim that he had no middle name, his middle name was Stacy. He also hopes to help raise Erica's baby, but she tells him that 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 reveals to Carol that Todd and Gail have been seeing each other, but he warns Carol against telling Melissa. Some time after Todd apologizes 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	2AYB13	2.11[28]
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	2AYB14	2.70[29]
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	2AYB15	2.52[30]
Phil and Mike's prank war escalates, with Mike staying one step ahead of Phil most of the time. 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. Realizing that Mike wasn't lying, Phil decides to resolve his issues with Mike, 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	2AYB16	2.13[31]
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	2AYB17	2.21[32]
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	2AYB18	2.23[33]
Phil drives a modified DeLorean to his childhood home in Tucson, where Mike pranks him by feigning death. After ruining Phil's experiment to see if a bottled fart still smells after 30 years, telling Phil to take life more seriously when he falls for Phil's virus-themed prank, and cutting the remaining half of Phil's hair and beard, Mike begs Phil in his "dying wish" to leave. Phil objects until Mike explains that does not want Phil to have to bury him beside their parents' graves in the backyard. As a parting gift, Mike gives Phil a new bottled fart dated February 11, 2024. In return, Phil gives Mike all of his sports ball "buddies." In Malibu, everyone finally sees the drone Gail saw. When it passes by a second time, the survivors hold up signs of welcome and peace, but Melissa, sensing a threat, shoots it with a shotgun. That night, Melissa is awakened by what she thinks is an intruder and almost accidentally shoots at Carol, so she is sent to the pillory. The next day, Gail sees Pat Brown's yacht. Phil looks through some binoculars and sees Pat and two other survivors approaching in an inflatable dinghy, all carrying assault rifles and dressed in decontamination suits.

Season 3 (2016)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
32	1	"General Breast Theme with Cobras"	John Solomon	David Noel & John Solomon	September 25, 2016	3AYB01	2.23[34]
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	3AYB02	2.50[35]
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 prop "Pat" 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	3AYB03	2.66[36]
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 landmines 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 landmines, 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	3AYB04	2.14[37]
The survivors continue their search for a new home in several cars, 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	3AYB05	2.13[38]
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	3AYB06	2.64[39]
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	3AYB07	2.04[40]
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	3AYB08	TBD
40	9	"If You're Happy and You Know It"[41]	TBA	TBA	December 11, 2016	3AYB09	TBD

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External links

• Official website
• List of The Last Man on Earth episodes at the Internet Movie Database