The New Normal
A single mother's life after she accepts the offer to be a surrogate mother for a gay couple.
- Metascore61
- 2012-2013
- 1 season
- 20th Century Fox
- Comedy, Drama
- TV-14
A single mother's life after she accepts the offer to be a surrogate mother for a gay couple.
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
Pilot
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 23 mins
Spoiled-rotten Angeleno gay "queen" Bryan Collins' latest "must-have" infatuation is a tall order, but nothing is cuter than a baby. His indulgent partner, Dr. David Sawyer, even agrees to do all the hard work so "fun daddy" can just enjoy playing and prancing. However, a host mother is required, and that's not so easy to find--especially with Bryan's outrageous expectations. Then opportunity knocks: small-town mom Goldie Clemmons decides to abandon her dead-end waitress job and move to Los Angeles in search of a better life for herself and her supportive 9-year-old daughter Shania. She's a good mother and needs the cash to stay one.
Episode 2
Sofa's Choice
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 22 mins
David, Bryan and surrogate mother to be Goldie anxiously wait for confirmation of her pregnancy, which David MD ultimately can proclaim. Meanwhile her mother fields her secret weapon to attempt luring her daughter back home: her adulterous, deadbeat but hunky husband Clay Clemmons, who is coached how to act contrite and irresistible. The gay couple however elaborates a terribly sweet deal.
Episode 3
Baby Clothes
Tue, Sep 18, 2012 21 mins
Bryan can't resist buying baby clothes, but David sticks to the agreement to wait until elaborate medical test results indicate Goldie, whom they delight with use of their lavish guest house, is carrying a healthy kid for them. Bryan starts practicing the hard parts of parenting on weird Shania's self-inflicted ridicule at school and decides to stand up against gay-bashers as their kid shouldn't be embarrassed about its fathers. David is scared when his straight basketball mates scold his 'liberty-waste', yet finds new courage trough reliving how he met Bryan.
Episode 4
Obama Mama
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 22 mins
The presidential mock election at Shania's school opposes the Republican Clemmons family to the Democrat gays. Bryan foppishly accepts grandma's dare to disprove that they are sanctimonious liberals without actual colored friends, who support Obama just because of his race. Bryan recruits from his Hollywood circle, with surprising results. Clay finally files for sole custody.
Episode 5
Nanagasm
Tue, Oct 2, 2012 22 mins
David plans a family dinner to tell his mother about the baby; mother-in-law miseries plague Goldie; Jane feels a unique sensation when she happens upon a younger man; and Shania fears that her father will win a custody battle.
Episode 6
Bryanzilla
Tue, Oct 9, 2012 22 mins
Bryan can't resist planning an outrageous society extravaganza when Shania announces she wants a fake wedding with school mate Wilbur. The fuzz rekindles tensions about David's refusal to consider a gay marriage until it's legal, and even doubts if so, but both gays prove their parental skills. Grandma Jane's vicious sabotage campaign fails.
Episode 7
The Godparent Trap
Tue, Oct 23, 2012 21 mins
Are you there, God? It's me, Bryan.
Episode 8
Unplugged
Tue, Nov 13, 2012 22 mins
Bryan is furious and mortified when a cheesy private video he made as anniversary surprise for David is posted on Internet. That's the result of his PA using his laptop to demonstrate posting to grandma Jane, who converts to virtual communication to set up a real estate business in LA so she needs not return to Ohio. The boys can't resist cheating after grudgingly promising to partake in an unplugged Thanksgiving resulting from Goldie's dumb attempt to educate and shut up Shania. Amused and supportive 'audience' reactions at work make Bryan reconsider.
Episode 9
Pardon Me
Tue, Nov 20, 2012 22 mins
The gay couple agrees with Shania's plea for a non-traditional, 'green' Thanksgiving celebration, without modern amenities. That creates more problems then foreseen, such as a live turkey none of them dares slaughter. The guests seem rather at ram course then willing to give thanks for anything.
Episode 10
The XY Factor
Tue, Nov 27, 2012 22 mins
The parenting trio agreed not to ask for the baby's gender, but gynecologist Dr. Venkatashar slips out what seems to simpleton Goldie to state that it's a boy. David is ecstatic and starts planning cool boys' fun with his basketball buddies. Bryan, who hoped for a girl, now fears to be outnumbered by machos but tries to man up and join the Little League, where David already volunteers to coach. Bryan's athletic ineptness proves total, but his unorthodox way with knaves is an instant hit, despite his own father having been a nightmare bigot anti-role-model.
Episode 11
Baby Proofing
Tue, Dec 4, 2012 22 mins
Everything must go.
Episode 12
The Goldie Rush
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 22 mins
When Bryan invites his hottest ex Monty for dinner, as possible date or mate for lonely gynecologist Gary, the incurable womanizer reveals surprisingly having developed his own child wish. Worse, he wants Goldie to carry his baby, while David and Bryan want two more babies, also trough her.
Episode 13
Stay-At-Home Dad
Tue, Jan 15, 2013 22 mins
Bryan and David each want to enjoy fatherhood to the fullest, considering to stay at home while his partner continues earning the family income. So each has a go, by way of test, minding Shania while Goldie is treated to a spa holiday. Neither finds parenting the brat nearly as easy as expected.
Episode 14
Gaydar
Tue, Jan 22, 2013 22 mins
Grandma Jane is attracted to real estate colleague Brice and Bryan's production assistant Goldie to Latino outdoors studio handyman Chris. As there are doubts whether both men are suitably straight, before actual dating moves they are invited to a home dinner for an elaborate test process, devised by Bryan, which proves too invasive.
Episode 15
Dairy Queen
Tue, Jan 29, 2013 22 mins
As real estate colleague Brcie is definitely not gay, Jane works up the courage to date him, but keeps wrestling with fears from her unhappy marriage. The gay couple being envious of lactating mothers' intimate bonding bonus, Bryan takes charge of a campaign to eradicate intolerance to breastfeeding in public places, by flash-mob.
Episode 16
Dog Children
Tue, Feb 19, 2013 22 mins
Davis and Brian lovingly raise a darling puppy as 'practice child', but despite their heroic efforts it's killed in a fluke traffic accident, a trauma devout Catholic Bryan puts to his father confessor. Long-absent father Clay deals surprisingly well with brat Shania's insufferable, class-disruptive imitations of British aristocratic fictional characters.
Episode 17
Rocky Bye Baby
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 22 mins
The gay couple is treated to a pointless "baby shower" by the girls, so they decide to donate the absurd gifts to a foster program charity. Once there, they impulsively resolve to foster a child alongside their baby, which also inspires Bryan's assistant.
Episode 18
Para-New Normal Activity
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 22 mins
Halloween is Bryan's favorite holiday, when all costumes go and everyone always wears what he wants as a group. But now there's a contagious rebellion, starting with a fellow gay father's cross-dressing-obsessed son, which affects even David. Clay arrives and demands to take Shania Trick-or-Treating, scolding the absurdity of Goldie reproaching him for not being much of a father while denying him any opportunity even to see her.
Episode 19
Blood, Sweat, and Fears
Tue, Mar 19, 2013 22 mins
David poses as a fireman in birthing class to hide that he's a doctor, but he just can't help expertly correcting the medically-incompetent instructor. Bryan faints, so he stays home feeling guilty, but finds himself the hero of husbands who dared not tell their partners that they don't want to attend. Goldie gets contractions early, so David decides to stop the hospital-bound car and deliver their son, assisted by manning-up Bryan.
Episode 20
About a Boy Scout
Tue, Mar 26, 2013 22 mins
David is delighted by the local Scout troop's awe over his badges-attested skills when he joins despite the antiquated statutory ban on gays. Even Brian, who abhors the boyish "hardships", is delighted by the welcoming atmosphere and camaraderie. Yet David is ratted out to the HQ and officially expelled.
Episode 21
Finding Name-O
Tue, Apr 2, 2013 22 mins
David and Bryan are getting nowhere with their wedding preparations, as their tastes differ on just about everything, including names for baby boys. David convinces Bryan to invite his estranged, terribly bossy mother, who constantly sides with David. The guys decide to flip a coin, but it keeps piking David's preferences.
Episode 22
The Big Day
Tue, Apr 2, 2013 22 mins
Eager to spare their baby a 'bastard' trauma, David and Brian decide to get married. Determined to resume his rightful place as Shania's father, Clay proposes to remarry Goldie. The nuptial festivities are abruptly aborted when early contraction occurs, so the wedding party rushes to hospital. There it's David and Bryan's turn to rejoice in the start of their parenting journey.
