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The Goode Family Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2009 - 2009
Episode 1
Pilot
Wed, May 27, 2009 30 mins
Animated comedy about a vegan politically correct family whose good intentions always seem to go awry. In the pilot, daughter Bliss tires of her mother's attempts to talk to her about sex and joins an abstinence group, and adopted son Ubuntu turns 16 and wants to learn to drive.
Episode 2
Pleatherheads
Wed, Jun 3, 2009 30 mins
Ubuntu becomes a star on his high-school football team, and Helen and Gerald struggle with being a "football family." Meanwhile, Bliss tries to improve her college prospects using unorthodox methods.
Episode 3
Goodes Gone Wild
Wed, Jun 3, 2009 30 mins
Charlie bonds with a repulsive dog at Helen's animal rescue and it winds up living with the Goodes because Charlie's home doesn't allow pets. Meanwhile, Che tries to help Gerald deal with a squirrel problem at the college .
Episode 4
Helen's Back
Fri, Jun 12, 2009 30 mins
Helen's back goes out, jeopardizing the Goodes' chances of being featured on the organic garden tour. A Latino gardening crew and Helen's childhood pen pal from Burma come to the rescue. But to the Goodes' chagrin, they discover they've unknowingly exploited the workers.
Episode 5
A Tale of Two Lesbians
Fri, Jun 19, 2009 30 mins
Gerald and Helen befriend a lesbian couple to impress the arts council, but it goes for naught when Gerald makes an inadvertent antigay slur.
Episode 6
Freeganomics
Fri, Jun 26, 2009 30 mins
Helen invites a noted guest to Greenville for the Eco Festival who turns out to be nothing more than a freeloader.
Episode 7
Graffiti in Greenville
Fri, Jul 3, 2009 30 mins
Bliss gets a job cleaning up graffiti but there's no work to do, so Helen starts tagging secretly. Her graffiti becomes a sensation, and an Oxford professor (voice of Elvis Costello) declares it the work of a major new urban artist.
Episode 8
A Goode Game of Chicken
Fri, Jul 10, 2009 30 mins
Gerald gets tricked into eating supposedly meatless chili that has chicken in it, so he confronts a local celebrity chef. Meanwhile, Che goes missing.
Episode 9
After-School Special
Fri, Jul 17, 2009 30 mins
Gerald and Helen tutor at-risk kids after school, leaving their own kids to their own devices. Ubuntu unknowingly joins an ecoterrorist group, and Bliss starts a fake ID business.
Episode 10
Public Disturbance
Fri, Jul 24, 2009 30 mins
Gerald tries to raise money to bring a Public Broadcast Radio station to Greenville and it looks like he's going to succeed, but an old woman who donated $100,000 may lose her house because of the donation. Andy Richter, Kevin Nealon and Julia Sweeney are part of the guest voice cast.
Episode 11
Trouble in Store
Fri, Jul 31, 2009 30 mins
Helen is accused of stealing what she thought was a free sample of wheatgrass at One Earth, and the store bans her for life. The timing couldn't be worse: She was planning a dinner party to help advance Gerald's career.
Episode 12
Gerald's Way or the Highway
Fri, Aug 7, 2009 30 mins
Gerald adopts a highway to show his kids that a person can make a difference, but things don't go as planned and the Goodes learn that the area is being used as a drug drop-off zone by neo-Nazis.
Episode 13
A Goode Man Is Hard to Find
Fri, Aug 7, 2009 30 mins
In the first-season finale, Gerald thinks Trish and Mo want him to be a sperm donor for their next child. Meanwhile, Ubuntu begins to grow facial hair, and Charlie decides to teach his grandson how to be a man, much to Gerald and Helen's chagrin.