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The Goode Family

An animated TV program that revolves around a family obsessed with doing the "right" thing environmentally, politically and socially.

Season 1 Episode Guide

13 Episodes 2009

Episode 1

Pilot

Wed, May 27, 2009 22 mins

For Ubuntu's 16th birthday, Gerald agrees to teach him to drive. Helen insists, though, that he can only drive in an emergency. While shopping, Helen is convinced by her peers that it is time to talk with Bliss about sexual activity. They wander onto the local college activity fair, and Helen is horrified that Bliss chooses the abstinence group over the sexually liberal reproductive health services. Gerald goes with Bliss to a purity dance, but both of them are afraid of the religious rituals associated with the event. They make an emergency call for Ubuntu to come and get them out.

Episode 2

Pleatherheads

Wed, Jun 3, 2009 22 mins

Ubuntu feels untalented until he is recruited for the football team. His success as left tackle brings out Helen's long-repressed football hysteria. Gerald and Ubuntu clash with the football culture, especially when the boosters want to kill a pig that represents the opposing team. Ubuntu stays on the team only when they agree not to kill the pig. Bliss schemes for a college scholarship to avoid being trapped going to Greenville Community College, but finds the only way she might qualify for a scholarship is to take a college class at GCC. She tries it but then wigs out in the first class and pulls the fire alarm to escape. Her dream comes true when she is banned from GCC for life.

Episode 3

Goodes Gone Wild

Wed, Jun 3, 2009 22 mins

Helen thinks she's finally won her father Charlie's approval when he adopts a bizarre animal named Gutterball from her pet rescue.

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Episode 4

Helen's Back

Fri, Jun 12, 2009 22 mins

Days before the Organic Gardening Club is to review the Goode's garden, Helen hurts her back.

Episode 5

A Tale of Two Lesbians

Fri, Jun 19, 2009 22 mins

Helen and Gerald befriend two chic lesbians, Jenn and Suki, in order to get on the Greenville Art Council.

Episode 6

Freeganomics

Fri, Jun 26, 2009 22 mins

The Goodes get the support of world-renowned freegan, Heinrich Mueller for their street festival to show the community ways to conserve.

Episode 7

Graffiti in Greenville

Fri, Jul 3, 2009 22 mins

Bliss' high school requires 30 hours of community service for graduation, so while her friends escape to Costa Rica for "charity work," Bliss, who can't afford the trip, gets stuck cleaning graffiti at a local park.

Episode 8

A Goode Game of Chicken

Fri, Jul 10, 2009 22 mins

Gerald's outraged when he discovers Cranky, a local BBQ restaurant owner, is selling "meatless chili with chicken" and soon takes a stand, protesting and trying to convince Cranky to remove the chicken.

Episode 9

After-School Special

Fri, Jul 17, 2009 22 mins

Gerald and Helen decide to help at-risk kids by teaching them the "arts".

Episode 10

Public Disturbance

Fri, Jul 24, 2009 22 mins

Gerald wants a PBR (Public Broadcast Radio) affiliate in Greenville so bad that he and Helen host a pledge drive and Gerald surprisingly raises all $100,000 needed, from an old woman named Ruth.

Episode 11

Trouble in Store

Fri, Jul 31, 2009 22 mins

When Helen finds out that Gerald isn't getting credit for his ideas at work, she arranges for the chancellor of the college to come to dinner at their house. However, while shopping for the dinner at her favorite store, One Earth, she is accused of shoplifting and banned from One Earth permanently. She tries shopping at the Sav Big discount warehouse instead, but being banned from One Earth leaves her barely able to function, and so Gerald has to find a way to get Helen back into good standing at One Earth. Meanwhile, Bliss looks for a job so she can buy some better jeans. She finds that the jobs open to her as a 15-year-old are limited to peddling candy door-to-door and farm labor, while Ubuntu, who's 16, can work in air-conditioned comfort at One Earth.

Episode 12

Gerald's Way or the Highway

Fri, Aug 7, 2009 22 mins

Gerald pays for the family to adopt a highway, but picking up trash requires them to work with a gang of white supremacist prison inmates.

Episode 13

A Goode Man Is Hard to Find

Fri, Aug 7, 2009 22 mins

When Ubuntu first grows facial hair, Charlie and Gerald become rivals in the effort to teach him what it means to be a man.

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