Ron and Ellen's families try to adjust to the marriage, while Lester befirends a turkey scheduled to become dinner.
Sara comes to Lester's defense when he is mistakenly accused of stealing expensive basketball shoes.
After Lester joins Sara and her friends for mah-jongg, he starts behaving like his step-grandmother—including seeing things.
Katie inadvertently jeopardizes Terry's chance for a student athletic scholarship.
Ellen washes Terry's lucky t-shirt, and he gets injured playing football soon after. Sara brings Ron bad luck when they take a flight together.
Ron gets the blues when Katie gets a visit from her dad on her 16th birthday.
Lester's continued drawing and dreaming land him in hot water, both at school and home.
Sara agrees to let Ron look at her teeth after her former dentist passes away.
Ellen disapproves of Katie's relationship with a collegiate environmental activist.
Sara's easily able to find a date to a wedding—a gentleman who may make a proposal to her of his own.
To protect his frail aunt, Ellen pretends to still be married to Leonard.
Lester and Katie hope to cure Terry's aerophobia by taking him to the roof and making him face his fear.
The family bands together to build the confidence of Ron's cousin before an audition to join a puppeteering group.
Ron and Ellen use the family Christmas gathering to reflect on both how they first met and how they revealed their romance to their loved ones.
Ellen's afraid her being white will hinder Ron's ability to win an award from a black magazine.
An hysterical Sara is hospitalized for a gallbladder operation.
Terry teaches Lester some ways to approach girls with confidence, but neglects to teach him how to handle rejection.
On a date, Terry regrets giving Katie a lift after his car breaks down.
A horror movie marathon frightens Katie and Lester. Meanwhile, Ellen and Terry find themselves stuck in an elevator en route to a banquet.
Mom puts a downer on Katie's hoped-for romance on a ski vacation, while Ron and Terry aren't pleased with having to take care of Sara.
Ellen's plan to bring her students to see Ron's dental office is met with resistance by a racist parent.
Terry's conscience eats away at him after plagiarizing a paper of Katie's.
Sara's friend accidentally gets a locket that was a gift for Ellen, and she comes up with a plan to retrieve it.
Ellen's joy at throwing a surprise party for Ron is ruined by his pushy mother.
Terry's girlfriend proclaiming that 'she's ready' leaves him speechless.
Terry's fraternity needs a housemother to avoid losing its charter.
Ellen shapes Terry's fraternity into respectable young men, but makes them lose respect amongst their peers in the process.
Terry loves Reggie's way with handling women—until Katie ends up his next date.
Terry and Lester's squabbling takes a backseat when they find themselves accused of stealing from a hardware store.
Sara's senior citizen friends hang out with Terry's fraternity.
Lester tries to fix Sara up with a singer appearing at a rest home.
Fed up with Terry and Lester, Katie moves out to be with her dad.
As Christmas approaches, Ellen finds living with her father to not be all she'd hoped it would be.
Terry's joy at making the football team is tempered when he learns it's so he can pose as the star player, who needs to pass a test to continue playing.
Lester's elated after a perfect date with Ron's new assistant.
A depressed Ellen is encouraged by the family to get back in touch with her artistic side.
Grandpa Bernard can't believe that Katie and Lester's school dances might be segregated.
Terry finds himself unable to follow through on a promise he made to Donna.
Lester hopes he can get a rapper to use his influence to help dissuade a friend from joining a gang.
Terry's excitement over a new job is quickly tempered when he learns he's not been hired for his merit, but as affirmative action.
Ellen's worried when her sister thinks an 'up with feelings' guru is the man of her dreams.
Finding a tape of his dead mother's voice stirs resentment inside Lester, who finds himself irrationally angry at Ellen for replacing her.