Summary:Jim tries to prove his competence at running errands for Cheryl, but soon realizes that he's becoming her fetch-it boy. And Andy, in the meantime, thinks that flashing his wedding ring around will somehow transform him into a "chick magnet."
Summary:When Jim's son becomes attached to a Packers football, Jim tries to turn him into a Bears fan instead.
Summary:Jim wrestles with his conscience after he cheats at a church fundraiser bingo game.
Summary:When a girlfriend of Cheryl's gets an expensive necklace from her husband, Cheryl presses Jim to do the same for her.
Summary:Jim encourages Gracie and Ruby to earn money for new scooters by opening a lemonade stand, but he doesn't anticipate fierce competition from the neighbor kid's stand — and his parents.
Summary:Jim tells Ruby's teacher that Cheryl is illiterate in order to lessen his struggling daughter's homework load.
Summary:Dana falls for a guy just like Jim — but she denies the similarities.
Summary:Gracie and Ruby have nightmares after Jim secretly takes them to see a scary movie.
Summary:Jim creates an imaginary friend to avoid going to a couple's baby shower with Cheryl.
Summary:Cheryl cajoles Jim into attending a couples cooking class, which turns into a disaster, so she lets Jim pick out the next couples activity — paintball.
Summary:Cheryl feels very much taken for granted as she prepares Thanksgiving dinner this year, especially when she gets stranded on the roof retrieving a tablecloth Jim had fashioned into a Halloween ghost — and no one notices her absence until she unhooks the satellite. To make amends, Jim tells her that he, Dana and Andy will prepare the holiday feast. He assumes the mere gesture will be enough, and so doesn't bother to actually make the dinner. Unfortunately, neither does Cheryl.
Summary:Cheryl caters to Jim's every whim to make amends for a big fight they had the night before — except Jim doesn't remember the fight at all.
Summary:Dana admits to Cheryl that she can't afford to buy Jim a Christmas present, so Cheryl lets Dana put her name on one of the presents she bought for him. Dana innocently picks out Cheryl's big present to Jim, but when Jim is thrilled with the gift, Dana is ready to take all the credit for it.
Summary:The Devlins return to haunt Jim and Cheryl when they decide to put a bid on the house across the street.
Summary:Dana falls for the Reverend Pierson after he sets her up with a promising job lead.
Summary:Jim tries to convince his nervous friend, Danny (Dan Aykroyd), not to back out of his wedding plans with Laraine (Laraine Newman).
Summary:Cheryl tries to impress her braggart cousin, Mindy (Rachel Harris), by telling her that she is the singer in Jim's band.
Summary:Dana's first task in her new ad agency job is to cast the perfect TV family for Disney's cruise line. Cheryl and the kids get the job, but for the role of "dad" Dana's new boss picks a handsome actor over Jim.
Summary:Dana's first task in her new ad agency job is to cast the perfect TV family for Disney's cruise line. Cheryl and the kids get the job, but for the role of "dad" Dana's new boss picks a handsome actor over Jim, on a two-part story arc.
Summary:Gracie's recent misbehavior spree makes Jim think she's lying when she claims her new Gameboy was a gift from a new friend.
Summary:Jim's sister, Roxanne (Jennifer Coolidge), shows up on his doorstep — pregnant — and Andy discovers he may be the father.
Summary:Andy resents a rich, bossy client (Nana Visitor), then dates her.
Summary:Cheryl ask Jim to use his truck to transport a giant paper-mâché grizzly bear the girls made for "spirit week" to their school -- except Jim just lost his truck in an arm wrestling match and, in a gesture of macho pride, refuses to ask for it back.
Summary:Cheryl promises to take Jim's opinions seriously when she decides to remodel the bathroom, until Jim insists it include a hideous high-tech stainless steel toilet -- that talks.
Summary:Pack rat Cheryl asks Jim to rent a storage
unit to house seven years' worth of the kids' art projects, but Jim
refuses to pay the fee, so he tosses everything out, thinking Cheryl
won't notice -- until she needs some of the projects for a special retirement party for Ruby's art teacher.
Summary:Thinking it might get Cheryl to let him go on a fishing trip with Andy, Jim makes a "deposit" in the "marriage bank" by agreeing to go to a couples seminar with her. Jim's plans are foiled, however, when Dr. Ted, the marriage guru, declares the whole marriage bank mentality unhealthy and Cheryl learns Jim's real motives — so that Dr. Ted must intervene.
Summary:Tensions rise when Cheryl discovers that Dana is dating one of her ex-boyfriends, Doug, who dumped her without explanation 15 years ago. When Jim learns that Doug has season tickets to the Cubs, bygones are bygones and he's suddenly Doug's best friend. But when Doug, characteristically, ends up dumping Dana — and Jim too - they all vow to get to the truth about Doug.
Summary:During a heat wave, Jim, the kids, Dana, Andy and Andy's new girlfriend sneak into a vacationing neighbor's pool to beat the heat -- despite Cheryl's initial protests. But then Cheryl starts sneaking over to the pool by herself and hides this from everyone else.
Summary:Cheryl asks Jim to get a vasectomy after a pregnancy scare. Jim reluctantly agrees, but chickens out right before the procedure. When Cheryl lavishes him with praise for his unselfish move, he can't admit to her that he didn't go through with it, on the season finale.
