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See Dad Run Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
See Dad Run Home
Sat, Oct 6, 201222 mins
David Hobbs has spent the last decade playing a beloved father on one of TV's biggest sitcoms. When his series ends, he transitions into a stay-at-home dad watching over his children, Emily, Janie, and Joe. Meanwhile, his wife, Amy, returns to her television career. Now, David must accustom to tending to his kids' every need. His children worry since he is never around, and barely knows anything about being a parent. David soon realizes how challenging it is to be an actual father.
Episode 2
See Dad Lose Janie
Sun, Oct 14, 201222 mins
David has to take Emily and Joe to school and take Janie to Mommy and Me class and get everybody home in time for a much-anticipated piano lesson. Meanwhile, Emily has ruined Amy's favorite sweater and asks David to pay for it in exchange for finding Janie.
Episode 3
See Dad Play Coach
Sun, Oct 21, 201222 mins
Seeing how pitifully Joe's baseball team performs, David volunteers to replace the desperate Hawks coach, assisted by Kevin. Alas, a bantering wager with the next opponent coach Vince locks him in, while no grueling training effort yields any improvement in Joe. Unlike Amy, David gives no second thought to his advice to ignore As-student Emily's atypical procrastination of her next assignment, actually on parental student stimulation. On Joe's march day, Amy's indignation over Vice's wife's rude nickname abuse escalates, while Joe and David finally see reason.
Episode 4
See Dad Rise from the Dead
Sun, Oct 28, 201222 mins
At each sleepover with mates, Joe fakes illness to return early in crawls into his parents bed after a nightmare. David wants his sleep back and tries to help, which seems easy once he realizes the problem are the scary movies, but showing it's all Hollywodd make-believe just doesn't help. Desperately sleep-deprived, David and Amy offer to stay in the car as moral support at hand, with unforeseen consequences. Meanwhile selfish Emily and her buddy Marty scheme poorly to scare Janie so she'll want her parents rather then big party animal sister babysitting her, but the brat's tear face is the scariest of all.
Episode 5
See Dad Get Wah-Wah'd
Sun, Nov 4, 201222 mins
David and Marcus are producing a new TV show and try to get Ricky Adams (James Maslow), an actor who played David's son on his old TV show to star in it. However, Ricky's self-centered attitude annoys David. Amy is reluctant to get reading glasses.
Episode 6
See Dad Meet Matthew Pearson
Sun, Nov 11, 201222 mins
David grudgingly plays 'bad cop parent' instead of Amy when they suspiciously vet Emily's latest flame, classmate Matthew Pearson, but the polite, handsome lad soon convinces him to be ideal son in law material, posing as a super-fan baring cup-cakes and a fellow golf amateur. They spend so much time together that Emily grows jealous and dumps the knave, while Amy forces David to cut him off over a misunderstanding, but Matthew perseveres at David's fan day. Joe and thief Janie wrestle which fan day questions to pose.
Episode 7
See Dad One Night Only
Sun, Nov 18, 201222 mins
David and Amy learn that Emily will be an extra in the school play. But after the director learns that Emily is David's daughter, she is then given the lead role, despite the fact that she is a terrible actress. Joe and Janie try to make a viral video.
Episode 8
See Dad Catch a Rat
Sun, Nov 25, 201222 mins
David tries to catch a rat loose in the house without the help of an exterminator. He also lies to Emily saying that he will catch it humanely since she is now a member of an animal rights group. Amy is not pleased with David having his reclining chair from his old TV show in the house so she tries to get rid of it.
Episode 9
See Dad Run Christmas Into the Ground
Sun, Dec 9, 201222 mins
Joe is starting to doubt Santa's existence and Amy's lonely soap director keeps his actors endlessly repeating scenes, so she can't handle Christmas Eve preparations, which does fall to David. He takes the kids and Marcus shopping in the supermarket, but despite the very helpful, other fans and irrelevant products so the traditional cheesy potatoes end up forgotten. When the family pulls together, the Christmas spirit materializes seasonally.
Episode 10
See Dad Campaign
Thu, Jan 17, 201322 mins
The Hobbs family holds a grudge against David's former TV son Ricky Adams, who seemed to have forgotten about them after making his own musical career, but only Emily meanly holds out when he sweetly comes make up. Ricky ends up her secret weapon in the class president election, where she stands against David's adult arch-rival Ted McGinley's charming son Xander, with the fathers taken charge of a campaign war, although the kids actually get along.
Episode 11
See Dad Get Schooled
Sun, Feb 24, 201322 mins
Joe having won the family quiz, but believing dad let him win, David naively accepts to partake in his school's annual parent-pupil history bowl. Realizing he knows nothing about history, David seeks help from wife and Emily, only to find he can't learn from books and enlists Marcus to cast the whole family is 'historical tableaus'. Emily meanwhile wines endlessly about the presenting teacher, the only one who ever dared giving her a B while she believed earning another A, only to learn a motivational lesson.
Episode 12
See Dad Assist Kevin
Sun, Mar 3, 201322 mins
David hopes a caravan as 'man cave' will solve his male bonding problems, at risk to be ousted from his golf and poker bands, but when devoted PA Kevin strains his back trying to get it leveled, the family agrees to help the kid trough his disabled period. While Joe does his best, Emily's selfish obsession with concert tickets she's supposed to earn helping out gets Kevin injured again. David learns about lone single Kavin's paternally-neglected youth root of Hobbs-adoration, and grudgingly makes some suitable sacrifices.
Episode 13
See Dad Run, But He Can't Hide
Sun, Mar 10, 201322 mins
Mean paparazzo Mitch picks David as next celebrity to discredit with the public by photos taken out of context. Whatever he does, it is turned against him and even his favorite Italian restaurant switches its fandom to John Stamos. While Amy is desperate she's not even recognized as sop star, social media-addicted Emily stops at nothing to get her confiscated cellphone back, yet finds a commendable use for it.
Episode 14
See Dad Get Married and Married
Sun, Mar 17, 201322 mins
David encourages Joe to patiently play along with the braggart lies of his classmate pretending to be 'Indiana Jones's son', compensating for his sad home situation. Clumsy at social media, David accidentally contacts his first wife, who suddenly arrives and by reminiscing their great Caribbean wedding renders Amy jealous, so family and friends concert to give her a star-fitting vow renewal.
Episode 15
See Dad as the Great and Powerful Hobbs
Sun, Mar 31, 201322 mins
When David and Amy learn their security system has a surveillance feature, and they allow Emily to have a party, they must decide how much supervision they want to have over their daughter.
Episode 16
See Dad Play Hard to Get
Sun, Apr 7, 201322 mins
David feels the juice company he's commercial frontman for isn't wooing him hard enough for renewal, so he; Kevin and Marcus play hard to get, and Joe realizes that's a chance for the kids to score freebies too. Eager to bond with Emily before she leaves for college as closely as May, David is determined to step up as confident. Emily feeling her Matthew has lost interest i favor of his hamburger job, he advises playing hard to get, which only results in a breakup after dating tutored simpleton hunk Dean, before working out he's actually saving up for a gift.
Episode 17
See Dad Get Janie Into Kindergarten
Sun, Apr 14, 201322 mins
David hopes to gain quality time by entering Janie in a top-reputed kindergarten just in time for next term, but Amy had other obligations, so he leaves Kevin babysit Joe and Janie, who shamelessly milk the opportunity to milk his over-caring. David finds Janie loves the place, but its client list has too many celebrity offspring for his status to impress the new intake officer Mccaffrey, and accidentally appears unfit.
Episode 18
See Dad Host a Play Group
Sun, Apr 21, 201322 mins
While observing the many different parenting styles of the moms at a playgroup for Janie, David realizes he needs to find a technique of his own. He tries out different styles on the kids until they finally stage an intervention
Episode 19
See Dad Get Attacked by Promzilla
Sun, Apr 28, 201322 mins
Kevin gets to babysit Joe and Janie while Amy is shooting for her soap with Santiago, hence can only advice by video phone, but the rascals soon exploit Kevin's fear anything might happen to them by being waited on hand and foot. David gets dragged into Emily's absurd ideal prom quest by helping her fight childhood Mary for a 'perfect dress' against her father, his mate Marcus, who gets taser-electrocuted by a guard. A reconciliation attempt goes pear-shaped, yet a nostalgic solution is urgently found.
Episode 20
See Dad See Through Grandma
Sun, May 5, 201322 mins
David invites his mother Maggie to attend the special mother's day for Amy, but grandma takes over everyone's lives, drawing all attention to herself. As Joe grows tired of her the busybody and she completely rewrites the script Kevin was to follow starring herself, David realizes what a dragon in law she always was for Amy and gathers courage to stand up to his maternal tyrant, who resorts to emotional blackmail after seemingly seeing the light.