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27 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
Tue, Sep 21, 200422 mins
Jim gets a hole-in-one and celebrates himself tired. But he's supposed to give his sperm sample that day and the aforementioned activities are forbidden. He gets Andy to give the sample instead. Well, it seemed a good idea at the time.

Episode 2
Tue, Sep 28, 200422 mins
Jim is supposed to spend a romantic evening with his wife, but he is torn because he wants to see a certain sports event that very same night. Desperate, he decides to con Cheryl - deluded that he can get away with it.

Episode 3
Tue, Oct 12, 200422 mins
Jim sells his old grill to Andy for $200, but Cheryl says that Andy should have it for free. Jim agrees. Then things take a twist when Jim just cannot give the grill away for free. An escalating tug-of-war between Jim and Andy begins.

Episode 4
Tue, Oct 19, 200421 mins
Jim and Cheryl argue over men and women having different innate skills. When Cheryl and the kids get trapped in the garage because the females do not remember the code, Kyle opens the door with the code. Cheryl does not want Jim to find out.

Episode 5
Tue, Oct 26, 200421 mins
Jim is unnerved by Kyle's choice of Halloween costume: Cinderella.

Episode 6
Tue, Nov 9, 200421 mins
Jim gets upset when Ruby stops giving him a goodbye kiss outside school. Cheryl explains that Ruby is going through a phase and Jim tries to respect that. But when Ruby starts rebelling against him, he has to try really, really hard.

Episode 7
Tue, Nov 16, 200421 mins
Jim makes burial plans by arranging to be buried next to a famous football player rather than being buried in the family plot.

Episode 8
Tue, Nov 23, 200421 mins
Jim and Andy want to prove they have the manly hunt and kill instincts by going out to shoot their own turkey for Thanksgiving. Their plan backfires when Jim is chased and bitten by a 40-pound turkey.

Episode 9
Tue, Nov 30, 200421 mins
Jim's doctor tells him the sperm count is still too low - to increase it, he should have orgasms only when trying to make a baby and avoid his loud outbursts. Difficult, when Dana and a difficult customer give him cause for outbursts.

Episode 10
Tue, Dec 14, 200421 mins
Christmastime. A man bumps his car into Jim's car and upsets him. Cheryl talks Jim into settling the issue officially. When Jim sees the man as Santa at the shopping mall, he gets into a dust-up with him. And things snowball from there.

Episode 11
Tue, Jan 11, 200521 mins
Jim finds something in common with the Devlins: fandom of The Bulls. He starts believing that the Devlins are a good luck charm. When Cheryl forces him to watch a game without the Devlins, he starts meeting them secretly on game nights.

Episode 12
Tue, Jan 18, 200522 mins
Jim buys a nanny-cam to spy on the new babysitter but ends up spying on Cheryl and learning something unusual about her. She retaliates by getting her own nanny-cam to spy on Jim.
Episode 13
Tue, Jan 25, 200522 mins
While having dinner with Cheryl, Dana & Ryan, Jim gets jealous over a male waitress. He reveals to Ryan that he's just pretending, to please Cheryl. Ryan sees it working and wants to learn. So Jim teaches, but forgets one lesson.

Episode 14
Tue, Feb 8, 200522 mins
Cheryl rents a chick flick and claims that Jim should watch it because women like sensitive men. Jim denies this, but when Andy watches the movie, Jim is drawn in. Then Cheryl returns before the movie ends. Jim has to finish it secretly.

Episode 15
Tue, Feb 15, 200522 mins
Cheryl finds out that Jim made Kyle lie about his age at the cinema, and lectures how there is only right and wrong. Then Dana enlists her to cook for Ryan who thinks Dana is doing the cooking. When Jim finds out, it's only the start.

Episode 16
Tue, Feb 22, 200522 mins
Dana's driving Ryan nuts with the wedding preparations. Jim assures him "there's always a way out." Ryan puts the advice to use. When Cheryl suggests Dana use her 1991 dress, Jim panics. As it happens, it burned in 1991. What way out now?

Episode 17
Tue, Mar 8, 200521 mins
Following attractive delivery girl Alicia's suggestion, Jim grows a mustache. Cheryl hates it and tries to make him lose it by dying her hair dark - but Jim loves it! Then Cheryl meets Alicia and starts manipulating Jim through her.

Episode 18
Tue, Mar 8, 200530 mins
Dana and Ryan's wedding is approaching and Dana needs someone to represent her late father in the traditional father & bride dance. Andy is a disaster and Jim is known to have no dancing skills. How can he make Dana feel better?

Episode 19
Tue, Mar 15, 200522 mins
Jim's elderly neighbor, Bertram, gives Cheryl two opera tickets. Jim won't go with her, so she asks Bertram. When Cheryl wants to see a foreign film, Jim asks Bertram to accompany her. Then the guys remind him that Bertram is still a man.

Episode 20
Tue, Mar 22, 200522 mins
Jim's pride in Gracie's newfound spelling-bee aptitude quickly turns to dismay when he has to drive her to tournaments all over the state.

Episode 21
Tue, Mar 29, 200522 mins
April Fool's Day. Jim has retired from pranks. Cheryl brings his baseball cards to the garage where his band rehearses. Then Jim's most valuable card vanishes. After that, Andy tells that Beltzman, the guitarist, died. Is it a coincidence?

Episode 22
Tue, Apr 12, 200522 mins
Jim & Cheryl find a way to get free time by moving the clock and sending the kids to bed early. Then comes the day they are to try making a baby, but now neither of them wants a baby and doesn't want to hurt the other by admitting it.

Episode 23
Tue, Apr 19, 200521 mins
Jim & Andy take part in a hot dog eating contest. Jim tells Cheryl that since women lack competitiveness, a man will always win. But then an Asian woman, Yoki, is declared winner, and Cheryl revels in it. Worse, Andy starts dating Yoki.

Episode 24
Tue, May 3, 200521 mins
Cheryl throws a bachelorette party for Dana, but it's a bit underwhelming. Jim secretly taped it and, frustrated, offers to throw Dana a real bachelorette party. Against her better judgment, Dana accepts.

Episode 25
Tue, May 10, 200522 mins
Ryan wants to go stock car racing and Dana threatens to cancel the wedding if he endangers himself. Cheryl has to teach Dana the basics of a Man and His Thing. Meanwhile, Jim teaches Ryan about the Sovereignty of a Man.

Episode 26
Tue, May 10, 200522 mins
Jim actually remembers his and Cheryl's anniversary - but Cheryl didn't! Improvising, she gives him the photo album that covers years worth of memories. They start reminiscing.

Episode 27
Tue, May 17, 200529 mins
Cheryl has a nightmare about Dana's wedding. When the priest needs to picked from the airport, Cheryl forbids Jim from participating. Upset that Cheryl doesn't trust him, Jim tags along with Andy, who's picking up the priest.
