Right out of high school, Sean Finnerty got his girlfriend Claudia pregnant. Now she’s his wife, and at just 32, he’s somehow found himself with 14-year-old daughter Lily, two little boys, and a constant struggle between his need to be responsible and his desperate desire to be irresponsible. His judgmental father Walt and devil-may-care brother Eddie are no help at all. When they all get together, stories always start to fly. Of course, Sean’s family will never let him finish a story; they interrupt, they debate, they derail, they defend themselves; just like any good family would.
Right out of high school, Sean Finnerty got his girlfriend Claudia pregnant. Now she’s his wife, and at just 32, he’s somehow found himself with 14-year-old daughter Lily, two little boys, and a constant struggle between his need to be responsible and his desperate desire to be irresponsible. His judgmental father Walt and devil-may-care brother Eddie are no help at all. When they all get together, stories always start to fly. Of course, Sean’s family will never let him finish a story; they interrupt, they debate, they derail, they defend themselves; just like any good family would.
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After Sean confronts Brad's father, who's boasting that Lily and Brad have slept together, he confronts Claudia -- and finds out she already knew too. So when Brad mysteriously gets injured by an airborn Christmas decoration, everyone thinks Sean finally lost his temper. Meanwhile, the boys have spent Sean and Eddie's Liberty quarter collection, and Eddie is disgusted. So Eddie takes the boys out to teach them a lesson about stealing from other people -- by stealing a toy machine that Henry loaded with quarters.
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Directed by John BlanchardGuest stars Gregory Jbara, Jim O'Heir
Claudia feels it's time to smooth relations between the two families by having the O'Keefes over for dinner, but the evening falls apart when Brad's mother blames Lily for taking Brad's innocence. Meanwhile, Eddie teaches Jimmy and Henry a lesson in respecting other people's property after he finds out that they used his coin collection to play arcade games.
Sean and Eddie hire strippers for the bar to help make ends meet -- then wind up being protested by the PTA. But what's most shocking is who set the PTA on their tails. Meanwhile, Brad asks Lily to break up with Dean. Lily doesn't want to hurt Dean, but agrees, only to find that he takes it far easier than she expected.
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Directed by John BlanchardWritten by Brad CopelandGuest stars Mike Vogel, Shea Curry, Miriam Flynn, Bobby Boriello, Kelly Rebecca Walsh, Sybil Azur, Frank D'Amico
Brad is bothered that Lily is embarrassed to be seen with him, so Sean tries to make over his geeky image. But all Sean succeeds in doing is inadvertantly getting another student suspended from school... Which leads to an in-bar confrontation with Sister Helen. Meanwhile, Jimmy's ""trademark"" hair-length has become an issue at school. Elsewhere, Claudia helps Eddie deal with an unwise purchase he made for the bar -- by getting drunk with the customers. And Lily confesses her relationship with Brad in front of the entire school.
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Directed by John BlanchardGuest stars Miriam Flynn, Sam Horrigan, Richard Alan Brown, Dan Lemieux, Siri Miller, Louis Iacoviello, Chris Flanders, Jacy DeFilippo
Brad plans a romantic date with Lily in New York City, but because one incident throws them off schedule, the rest of the evening becomes a disaster. Meanwhile, Eddie breaks a window in the sewing room, leaving it wide open for an animal to wander in...an animal which Henry wants to keep as a pet.
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Directed by John BlanchardGuest stars Jeff Austin, T.J. Thyne, James Giordano, Paul Hayes, David Zepeda
Lily and Brad stress over their upcoming S.A.T. tests... and Claudia turns the SAT's into a competition. Meanwhile, Sean teaches Henry a lesson in compassion by taking in a homeless guy (Dave Sheridan).
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Directed by John BlanchardWritten by Aron AbramsGuest stars Dave Sheridan, P.J. Marino, Chris Hogan, Patrick Gallo
After Eddie buys an electric car to impress a girl, Sean unwisely gives Eddie a loan without telling Claudia, which results in her college enrollment check bouncing. Meanwhile, Brad discovers a tatoo with Dean's name, but Lily's plea for her parents to pay for her tattoo removal goes ignored.
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Directed by John BlanchardWritten by Bill Martin, Mike SchiffGuest stars Jesse Burch, Angel Boris Reed, Vanessa Vander Pluym, Toshi Toda, Hal Devi, Rhomeyn Johnson
After a night of partying, Lily wakes up with a nasty hangover, her car parked on the porch and no memory of how she got home. To teach Lily a lesson, Sean and Claudia decide to sell her car and have her sign a contract that she will call them when she is too drunk to drive. Angry at losing her car, Lily pretends to be drunk night after night in order to make her parents give her a ride home. Meanwhile, Eddie makes a huge profit when he sells Lily's car for Sean.
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Directed by John BlanchardGuest stars Brian Palermo
Sean becomes jealous when Claudia is asked to do some modeling for a fashion photographer. So she storms out, leaving him to deal with a bath products party that she'd organized. Meanwhile Lily recieves her yearbook photos, which are terrible.
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Guest stars Jamie Renée Smith, Dave Foley, Karri Bowman, Bobby Boriello, Chris Flanders, Michael Christian Alexander, Valarie Ianniello
Sean and Eddie arrive at the bar to discover they've been robbed. Instead of calling the police, Walt suspiciously insists on cleaning up. Meanwhile, Lily and Brad spend a day at the mall and wind up in a fight, so Lily decides that she's gonna go out with another guy.
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Guest stars Richard Riehle, Jamie Renée Smith, Patrick John Flueger, Steve Larson, Lee Garlington, Tom Kiesche, Michael Dean Jacobs, Cutter Garcia
Sean wants to go to a Sex Pistols concert, but Claudia has to study for a college test and Lily has a science project due, which leaves no one to watch the boys. But Lily leaves Brad holding the bag by skipping off to a frat party... where she runs into Claudia. Meanwhile, Eddie hires a bodyguard.
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Guest stars Danny Trejo, Colin Bain, Brandon Noll, Michael Horan
Lily resents her ex-boyfriend's ability to move on so quickly after she dumped him; Eddie's stand-up routine flops until he incorporates material from Claudia and Sean's personal life.
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Written by Ned GoldreyerGuest stars Mike Vogel, Tiffany Dupont, Jessica Stier, Michael Christian Alexander, Robert M. Koch, Aris Alvarado, Karin Co, Alycia Cooper
Sean forgets to give Claudia an important message from her professor; Jimmy hides the telephone bill to conceal his calls to a 976 number; Lily freaks out when Brad doesn't call her for three hours.
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Guest stars Julie Claire, Brandon de Paul, David A. Kimball, Alfred Dennis, Steven Shaw, Patricia Place, Michael Graziadei, Regi Davis
During a romantic getaway at a hotel, Claudia and Sean watch an adult film and realize it was shot in their home; a girl bullying Jimmy might actually like him.
Lily, Brad and Jimmy sign abstinence pledges at school; Brad asks Lily to marry him; Jimmy throws out everything that reminds him of sex. Meanwhile, Walt reveals that Eddie was born lefthanded.
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Guest stars Richard Riehle, Miriam Flynn, J.B. Gaynor, Keaton Savage, Michelle Durham, Tim Lucason, Howard Chan, Tim Sitarz
Brad's (Bret Harrison) dad, Dan (guest star Gregory Jbara), claims to have been taking tennis lessons for years, however, after Sean (Donal Logue) beats him at a tennis game, it is revealed that Dan has been having an affair and not taking lessons.
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Guest stars Allison Scagliotti, Gregory Jbara, Nancy Cassaro, Chris Flanders
When the Finnerty's throw Brad a birthday party to take his mind off his parents' recent breakup, Sean secretly invites Brad's dad to the party as part of his ""plan"" to reunite him with his wife Connie (guest star Nancy Cassaro). Unfortunately, Connie has taken Claudia's (Megyn Price) advice to ""get some,"" which prompts her to pursue Eddie.
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Guest stars Autumn Reeser, Gregory Jbara, Jarrett Lennon, Nancy Cassaro, Daniel Farber, Di Quon
This one might be better: Sean is having trouble keeping the bar alive and Claudia asks him to reconsider running it. With St. Patrick's Day around the corner Eddie tries to lure customers over from rival pubs. Meanwhile, Brad and Lily prepare for the parade and Jimmy is having trouble understanding the meaning of St. Patrick's day.
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Directed by John BlanchardGuest stars Miriam Flynn, Jarrett Lennon, J.B. Gaynor, Steve Larson, Keaton Savage, Chris Flanders, Jessica Stier, Michael Christian Alexander
Sean disciplines one of Henry's bratty friends; Lily asks Brad to choose between her and his geeky friends; Eddie uses a Jewish online dating service.
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Directed by John PutchWritten by Ned GoldreyerGuest stars Miriam Flynn, Jarrett Lennon, Hira Ambrosino, Emmett Shoemaker, Lisa Arch, Daniel Hartley, Vanessa Vander Pluym, Chancellor Miller
Claudia copies Lily's school paper, only to find out Lily plagiarized the essay. Sean hints to Sister Helen that Lily may have cheated, but he learns too late that the school's ""zero-tolerance"" policy on cheating could result in Lily being expelled.
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Written by Erica RivinojaGuest stars Miriam Flynn, Danielle Savre, Nigel Gibbs
Claudia tries to alleviate Sean's hypertension and high blood pressure by running the household all by herself but everything goes awry. Jimmy gets suspended from school, which causes a set of problems all its own, and Lily and Brad break her bed so they steal the family car... and get it impounded.
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Directed by John BlanchardWritten by Eric KentoffGuest stars Mark Christopher Lawrence, Peter James Smith, Kevin McDonald, Bill Lee Brown, Katrina Begin
Lily is less than thrilled about Brad's new job, which is taking up all of his time. Meanwhile, Walt's having problems finding work, so Sean and Eddie offer him a job at the bar... but they soon find that he takes over. Jimmy's at the age where he finds his mother to be an embarrassment, so Claudia sets out to bond with him.
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Directed by John BlanchardGuest stars Richard Riehle, Jack De Sena, Kristin Dattilo, Adam Brody, Michael Christian Alexander, Jake O’Flaherty, Emil Beheshti, Cleavon McClendon
Lily has her doubts when Brad tells her about a girl he once had a relationship with at space camp named Lana. But Brad, tired of Lily thinking this, changes his Summer plans and boards a bus to space camp with a very cute, and very real, Lana.
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Directed by John BlanchardWritten by Chris KellyGuest stars Mila Kunis, Kristin Dattilo, Brian Kolodziej, Daniel Hartley, Chris Hogan, Brenden Jefferson, Roberto Enrique
Ned Goldreyer, Chris Kelly, Mike Schiff, Bill Martin, Brad Copeland, Aron Abrams, Tom Purcell, Jim O'Doherty, Bob Kushell, Erica Rivinoja, Jeremy Hall, Eric Kentoff, Dave Tennant, Bonnie Kallman
Production details
Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
91
Original language
English
Networks & production
FOXUnited States
The WBUnited States
Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Productions
Themes
dysfunctional familyfamilyirish-americanmiddle classsitcomstaten island, new york city
