Hot in Cleveland - Season 3

First aired: 11/30/2011 24 episodes

Episodes

1. Elka's Choice

Aired: 11/30/2011

Elka faces a choice of three suitors: her fiancé, Fred ; her ex-boyfriend Max; and Bobby, the husband she thought was dead. Meanwhile, Victoria gets some mileage out of her marriage to Joy in a TV appearance.

2. Beards

Aired: 12/7/2011

Victoria brings Joy, Melanie and Elka along for the ride when she's a guest speaker on a gay cruise, where Melanie has a surprise reunion with her estranged sister, and Victoria and Joy's lesbian facade could come crashing down when they meet the ship's handsome captain.

3. Funeral Crashers

Aired: 12/14/2011

Elka teaches the ladies how to go funeral crashing to find the dress lost by Melanie's dry cleaner; Elka has a reunion with a man from her past.

4. Happy Fat

Aired: 12/21/2011

The ladies treat their neighbors to makeovers, while Elka adjusts to dating a younger man.

5. One Thing or a Mother

Aired: 12/28/2011

The ladies host a dinner party to solve their dating dilemmas, which include Roy's mother's hatred of Elka, Victoria's hand-model boyfriend and Melanie's boyfriend's resemblance to Winnie the Pooh.

6. How Did You Guys Meet, Anyway?

Aired: 1/4/2012

How Did You Guys Meet, Anyway?

7. Two Girls and a Rhino

Aired: 1/11/2012

Joy and Elka camp out at the zoo to help save an endangered species of rhinoceros. Meanwhile, Melanie dates a senator; and Victoria goes out with a janitor.

8. God and Football

Aired: 1/18/2012

On Elka's (and Betty White's) 90th birthday, Melanie takes her to the Browns' locker room and ends up dating the kicker. Joy and Elka get some surprising medical news. And after a near-death experience Victoria's convinced that Elka is God.

9. Love is Blind

Aired: 1/25/2012

Victoria's daughter, Emmy, arrives for a visit with the news that she and Melanie's son, Will, are engaged. Meanwhile, Joy's blind boyfriend thinks she's 26; and Elka has a ball prank calling the New York Yankee's third baseman.

10. Life with Lucci

Aired: 2/1/2012

Victoria's enemy Susan Lucci comes looking for support after the cancellation of "All My Children," but Victoria warns her friends that the soap star is not to be trusted. Meanwhile, Elka talks hoops with Baron Davis of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers.

11. I'm with the Band

Aired: 2/8/2012

Victoria takes a trip down memory lane when her old flame Johnny Revere comes to Cleveland to record a song for charity. Meanwhile, Elka wants a lock of a singer's hair for a good cause; Joy wonders what life is like as a rock star; and Melanie chases a musical idol.

12. Lost Loves

Aired: 2/15/2012

Valentine's Day inspires the women to look for their lost loves, including the man who jilted Joy at the altar.

13. Tangled Web

Aired: 3/7/2012

The ladies seek refuge at a lake house after Victoria loses a poisonous spider that belongs to her ex-husband; Melanie's potential new beau turns out to be Joy's former fiancé.

14. Hot & Heavy

Aired: 3/14/2012

Eyeing an opportunity to win a Newsie Award, Victoria dons a fat suit at Overeaters Anonymous, and Elka comes along to claim she lost 600 pounds. Meanwhile, Joy dates a man who's not exactly her type; and Melanie meets a new guy in an unusual place.

15. Rubber Ball

Aired: 3/21/2012

When Melanie, Joy, and Victoria try to join a prestigious Cleveland country club, they discover that Elka has a long history with the clubs president and he's bent on revenge.

16. Everything Goes Better With Vampires

Aired: 3/28/2012

Melanie dates a professor who makes her feel dumb; Victoria wants to get rid of the housekeeper; Elka's frustrated by her writing partner; Joy goes out with a guy she thinks is Rick Springfield.

17. Claus, Tails & High Pitched Males: Birthdates 3

Aired: 4/11/2012

On another round of "birthdates," Elka thinks her date is Santa Claus; Victoria is reunited with Capt. Lebeau; Melanie goes out with a guy with a high-pitched voice; and Joy is a man's first date since leaving the priesthood.

18. Cruel Shoes

Aired: 4/18/2012

Victoria tries designing shoes and uses Melanie and Joy as runway models, but Elka is more anxious to see the latest in tracksuits. Meanwhile, Joy dates a man who lives life to the fullest.

19. Bye George, I Think He's Got It!

Aired: 4/25/2012

Elka's twin sister returns for a visit; Joy accepts a proposal from her terminally ill boyfriend; a billionaire wants a makeover from Melanie and Victoria to make him attractive to women.

20. The Gateway Friend

Aired: 5/2/2012

The ladies need to get a friend visiting from Los Angeles back together with her boyfriend—a popular Beverly Hills dermatologist—if they hope to ever have another appointment with him.

21. Some Like it Hot

Aired: 5/9/2012

The cast and crew look back at the favorite moments and best bloopers from the third season.

22. Storage Wars

Aired: 5/16/2012

An abandoned storage unit up for bid contains an important historical artifact that calls for Artie Firestone's expertise. Meanwhile, Joy befriends a truck driver and learns how to operate a CB.

23. What's Behind the Door

Aired: 5/30/2012

When Victoria wants to turn her cancelled soap opera into an app, she has to get the series creator on board. They enlist the cast, including the actor who played Honor St. Ravens ex-husband, to film a new episode picking up where the finale left off.

24. Blow Outs

Aired: 6/6/2012

When Melanie's hair blow out lasts unusually long, Joy and Victoria demand to know who's blowing her. When Melanie tries to keep it a secret from them, tensions arise amongst our ladies and the two rival hairdressers at Elka's favorite salon.