Dave tries to coach his son's soccer team.

After Shel's van is stolen from in front of the Barrys' home, they install a home security system.

The Barry family gets the flu.

The Barrys celebrate their anniversary.

When a class frog dies everyone starts thinking about the meaning of life and death.

Kenny gets into a fender bender and Dave helps out his friend.

Various complications plague the Barrys' trip to Disney World.

Dave struggles with a deadline for a column during a heatwave.

Dave struggles with writer's block while writing his column; Tommy develops a crush.

Beth's mother visits for Thanksgiving.

A ghost is haunting the Barry's house.

The Barrys search for Christmas gifts at the mall on Christmas Eve.

The Barrys celebrate Christmas after a rough Christmas Eve at the mall.

The Barrys' choice of words land them in trouble.

Shel buys a boat after his divorce is finalized.

Shel gets back into the dating game by going out on a double date with the Barrys, but he tries too hard to impress his lady.

Dave and Beth search for Dave's lost wedding ring.

Kenny looks after the kids and loses one of them while Dave and Beth spend a weekend out of town at a hotel with some unusual people.

After a rat chews through the dishwasher cable, Dave argues with exterminators and burrows under the house to kill the rat. Willie tries gardening as a class project.

Dave worries about Willie when he struggles in kindergarten and lags behind obsessive Fred Bakersfield's son Brendan. Then Dave schedules a dull class field trip to the newspaper office.

Dave and Beth have theater tickets, but her great-aunt Lillian, who dislikes her, has died, and Beth's mom Maggie pressures them to skip the play and attend the funeral like the rest of the family.

While Dave goes on a book tour, Shel, Kenny, Beth, and the kids go to Shel's cabin and run into Shel's ex-wife Estelle--and her handsome new boyfriend.