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22 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
Wed, Oct 27, 200422 mins
Doug wants to go to Vegas with the guys. However, Carrie has to agree. Doug figures she can't refuse him anything if he takes her to a spa for a weekend. The spa is a living hell to Doug, but the thought of a trip to Vegas keeps him going. Arthur is told by Spence they're planning to go to Vegas and Arthur teaches Spence to count cards so he can win lots of money in Vegas.

Episode 2
Wed, Nov 3, 200422 mins
While Doug has a barbecue evening planned with her, Carrie has too much work to do to be able to barbecue. Carrie starts working late more and more and Doug suspects her of actually liking her job. When confronted with this, she admits she likes her job, especially since she's starting to make a career now. Doug feels challenged and says he'll out-career her.

Episode 3
Wed, Nov 10, 200422 mins
Carrie gets fed up with Doug and his weight problem and convinces him to go to an overeaters group. Doug goes but sees the food in the room is all healthy so he walks into a room with doughnuts. He soon finds out that it is a support group for people in abusive relationships. Soon Doug starts blaming his overeating on Carrie and her constant anger at him.

Episode 4
Wed, Nov 24, 200422 mins
Doug Heffernan (played by Kevin James) gets outrageously jealous when a new driver at his work becomes the center of attention and starts doing comedy bits of celebrity impressions, so he deliberately sends him to the wrong route. However, the driver gets brutally injured by a gang and Doug feels bad.

Episode 5
Wed, Dec 1, 200422 mins
Doug is forced to go to a work function with Carrie. When one of Carrie's coworkers comes up to him and starts talking he decides to fake a heart attack because he cannot remember her name. As a result of this, Carrie's boss decides to send Doug into testing to make sure he is in okay health.

Episode 6
Wed, Dec 8, 200422 mins
Doug's parents come to visit and Doug surprises them with tickets to see one of their favorite plays. Doug's dad does not want to go or even spend time with Doug's mom because he is busy getting ready for a model train expo. Arthur starts spending time with Doug's mom and soon he starts to like her.

Episode 7
Wed, Dec 15, 200422 mins
While Doug and Carrie are shopping Christmas gifts in the mall, Doug loses his wallet. When he tells Carrie he thinks the midget who hit on Carrie earlier on probably has stolen the wallet, Carrie is so disappointed in Doug she puts him on an allowance. Helped by Arthur, Doug wants to prove that the midget stole the wallet.

Episode 8
Wed, Jan 5, 200522 mins
Because Deacon and Kelly have found another couple to spend their Saturday evenings with, Doug and Carrie try to find a new go-to couple. This, however, turns out to be easier said than done and after embarrassing themselves in a DIY shop by asking random couples out, they resort to the Bergers, an extremely boring couple they know. On their night out with them, the Bergers meet a couple they once met via a book club. Doug and Carrie instantly love this couple but when they get back home they realize they don't even know their names, let alone their phone number. They see no other option than to go out with the Bergers again to ferret out the names and phone number of their dream go-to couple.

Episode 9
Wed, Jan 12, 200522 mins
While out shopping Doug finds a new cologne that he likes. Everyone is complimenting him on how good he smells, until he gets home and Carrie tells him that she hates it. Doug decides to keep wearing it in secret, and soon Carrie finds out and tries to get him to stop by doing things he hates.

Episode 10
Wed, Jan 19, 200521 mins
Carrie hires a new maid, Doug does too. When he feels the maid Carrie hired because she felt that she needed help in tackling the housework, is not to his liking, Doug hires Spence's mom veronica, who's both incompetent and an attractant for Arthur, who serves as a distraction to her doing her work.

Episode 11
Wed, Jan 26, 200522 mins
Doug takes an aptitude test at IPS, and the results reignite an old dream of becoming a bartender. He decides to go to bartender school, against Carries' wishes. Carrie then changes her mind after seeing all the money that Doug received from tips and wants her dream of having a Manhattan apartment.

Episode 12
Wed, Feb 9, 200522 mins
Doug discovers Carrie doesn't fit in her pants anymore and wants to find the best, preferably non-reducible to him, way to make her lose weight. At a yard sale Lou offers Doug and Carrie his exercise equipment with free training lessons for the both of them and Doug talks Carrie into them taking the offer. The exercises are hellish to him and the knowledge Lou likes to play video games gives Doug an idea. Meanwhile, Arthur remembers that he never got his reward for a television quiz he was in over thirty years ago.

Episode 13
Wed, Feb 16, 200521 mins
When Doug and Carrie Heffernan were dating, Carrie was afraid Doug was not serious about his relationship with her. Then Doug told her the most romantic thing she had ever heard in her life and she was in love with him ever since. She finds out that the line was from a stupid movie and was said to a monkey.

Episode 14
Wed, Feb 23, 200521 mins
Doug Heffernan is delivering a package to his old high school when he sees his old football coach. Soon he is returning constantly and being treated like a football legend. Meanwhile, Arthur loses his eye drops and temporarily goes blind, deaf, and mute, leaving him completely dependent on Holly.

Episode 15
Wed, Mar 2, 200530 mins
Carrie turns 35 which is problematic for everybody. Arthur hasn't got any money to buy her a gift. When Holly suggests to make a collage of photos, it turns out there aren't any photos of Arthur and Carrie together. Carrie meanwhile feels old and Doug has to deal with her crankiness. When she tells him the construction workers in the street don't even call her after Doug gets an idea to make her feel young again.

Episode 16
Wed, Mar 16, 200521 mins
Deacon Palmer has been spending a lot of time with a new friend. Doug gets jealous, but when he finds out that the friend is Black, he decides that Deacon is just fulfilling his "Black needs." Then he gets upset when he finds out that the new friend is basically a Black version of himself. Meanwhile, Carrie has a problem at her nail salon.

Episode 17
Wed, Mar 30, 200521 mins
It's Arthur's birthday and to avoid spending time with Arthur, Doug calls himself on his own cell phone and acts like he has to report to work. But when Carrie finds out that Arthur's birthday wish is to spend more time with Doug, she tries to force Doug on having more bonding time by him taking Arthur to St. Louis for the College Basketball Final Four. While Doug and Arthur are gone, Doug's dad stops by unexpectedly and Carrie is forced to spend some bonding time with him.

Episode 18
Wed, Apr 6, 200521 mins
When Carrie decides to take a shopping trip to Lowes because she's re-doing her office, she asks Holly to come along because Holly has more room in her van. Carrie tells her the reason she wants her to come along is because she thinks that Holly has good taste, but she and Holly have conflicting tastes. Doug tries out a new diner, but the waitress is slow to serve him and she overhears Doug whispering to Deacon that she's a "be-otch" so she threatens to kick his ass in the parking lot. Deacon assures Doug that he can take her, but Doug is intimidated by the diminutive but feisty server and takes plenty of time to finish his meal hoping to avoid a parking lot fracas. Arthur wants to go on a senior cruise so, to get the money, he starts to do a little gambling with other senior citizens by setting up a casino in the Heffernan house.

Episode 19
Wed, Apr 13, 200520 mins
There's a blizzard in Queens so Carrie hurries to buy herself an I-pod, but when the clerk doesn't ring the iPod correctly she gets a free iPod. When her car gets stuck in front of a church, she begins to feel guilty. Doug is out in the storm delivering, but he stays at a nice couple's house until the storm passes. Arthur stays at Holly's while she has a date come over.

Episode 20
Wed, Apr 20, 200522 mins
Carrie gets sky box tickets for a baseball game and brings along Doug, Deacon, and Spence to watch while she talks to a possible client. Doug offenders her and Carrie sends Doug and Deacon away before she can realize Doug is married to her. She then makes Spence pretend to be married to her.

Episode 21
Mon, May 9, 200521 mins
Doug Heffernan (played by Kevin James) decides to go listen to a presentation about a timeshare at a ski resort so that he can get a free plasma TV. Carrie gets worried that one of the salesmen will convince Doug to buy something and wants to leave. Spence and Danny pretend to be a gay couple to get a free TV too.

Episode 22
Wed, May 18, 200522 mins
When a man across the street dies, Carrie and Doug buy the house so they can sell it and make a lot of money.
