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22 Episodes 1995 - 1996
Episode 1
Wed, Sep 6, 1995
Feeling lonely, and for the sake of the wayward Malloy kids, Jennie tries to heal the family by letting Jack move back - into the basement. Mr. Floppy thinks they're going to Paris.
Episode 2
Wed, Sep 13, 1995
Ryan gets his own back on Tiffany by setting the bathroom scales ten pounds heavy, causing her to go into a tailspin at a time when she is embattled by having her first pimple, minuscule but devastating to her fragile ego. Tiffany flounders in her quest to make up for her 'lost looks' by developing a personality. Jack questions where his loyalty should lay.
Episode 3
Wed, Sep 20, 1995
Jack wants sex, Jenny wants to talk, and talk, and talk some more, so Jack retreats back to the basement, where he admits his love to a dismayed Mr. Floppy just as a psychopathic rat is on the loose. The neighbor's cat gets drafted into service, only to come to a grisly end. Tiffany gets a bright idea to get rid of the rodent, but Jack's dislike of Barbara Streisand could have lethal consequences.
Episode 4
Wed, Sep 27, 1995
Jack has to square up and go a round with a big, burly neighbor, because Jennie and the wife next door have been in a quarrel about stolen avocados and a garden sprinkler.
Episode 5
Wed, Oct 4, 1995
She'd been tossing her panties at him for years. No luck. Now Jennie gets the opportunity to date the rock hero of her teenage dreams. But how to slip it past Jack? How about if they play a game where they each get to choose a celebrity they could sleep with in that unlikely event, but with permission? Jennie embarks on her quest to live her dream. Turns out Jack has ideas of his own, and somebody gets arrested for stalking Cindy Crawford.
Episode 6
Wed, Oct 11, 1995
The kids take to the road. Learner driver Tiffany is a demon behind the wheel of the family car. Nightmare ride for Jack. Ryan regresses to a childhood memory of running over the family cat.
Episode 7
Wed, Oct 25, 199530 mins
Sheila enters the household. Sheila had been Jennie's dream. Sheila is a glass table. No gravy will be served at dinner - Sheila must be kept spotless. Revolt is in the air. And when it comes to bringing down Sheila, shattering Jennie's dream, guess which boy is gonna be the patsy?
Episode 8
Wed, Nov 8, 1995
Tiffany's nemesis, blond bully girl Patty McGurk, wants to beat her up Friday at three. Ryan has an unusual defense force. Jennie wants to go to Hawaii, Jack wants to go to Vegas, and stay-at-home Mr. Floppy finds more than ample solace in fantasizing about being cuddled by dream-girls.
Episode 9
Wed, Nov 15, 1995
Episode 10
Wed, Nov 22, 1995
Episode 11
Wed, Nov 29, 1995
P is for - Priddy High? Ryan finally finds something he is a whiz at - Helping the football team pass their urine tests. Tiffany is out in the cold, ousted as the favorite child.
Episode 12
Wed, Dec 20, 1995
Ryan and Tiffany's joy rides come to an end when Jack pretends to steal the family car, but his plan backfires when the car is actually stolen.
Episode 13
Wed, Jan 10, 1996
Inspired by a French movie, Jennie wants the ideal family picnic. Much to the dismay of everyone else. Weaving 'flowers' into Tiffany's hair turns disastrous, Ross gets bitten by a rabid gopher, and Jack falls down a precipice. All just to prove a point: Watching foreign movies is bad for your health.
Episode 14
Wed, Jan 31, 1996
Out shoplifting for designer labels to sew onto her knock-off, Jennie gets issued a parking ticket. Slugging one to the meter maid earns her the wrath of the disgruntled state employee. But without any witnesses, it is the meter maid's word against hers. So, the fuzz gets foiled. Vengeance is sworn. And it's discovered that Jack is responsible for Jennie's carload of outstanding traffic violations, so he gets thrown into jail. Where visiting Ryan discovers it's the one place where his popularity far exceeds Tiffany's, and romance-hungry Maureen bails out inmates left, right and center with the money meant to get Jack out from behind bars.
Episode 15
Wed, Feb 7, 1996
Virgo Ryan scores at long last. With a Capricorn. In a Taurus. No, that's not a lot of bull.
Episode 16
Wed, Feb 14, 1996
A boy in class has the surefire way to get unattainable Tiffany's attention. He ignores her. Now she just has to have him. And starstruck Mr. Floppy lands poor Jack in trouble with the U.S. Mail for sending obscene fan mail to Pamela Anderson.
Episode 17
Wed, Feb 21, 1996
More mid-life crisis for Jack. He doesn't want Ryan to beat him at basketball for the very first time. Because then he's an old man. Plus, Mr. Floppy spells out what is wrong with America.
Episode 18
Wed, Feb 28, 1996
Jennie lives vicariously through Tiffany being in the school play, 'Romeo and Juliet.' Childhood dream of Jennie, to be Juliet. And a scheme hatched to realize this. The bard is gonna turn over in his grave.
Episode 19
Wed, May 1, 1996
Mr. Floppy writes a dark and twisted tale, his autobiography. Down in the cellar, Jennie picks it up, and reckons Jack to be the new writing sensation. Tiffany believes they are all going to be rid of their middle class stigma. Happy days, happy family. Then Jack reads the sordid tale. He insists on a happy ending. But then the whole cake falls flat.
Episode 20
Wed, May 8, 1996
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the smartest of them all? Tiffany tests her mettle among the geniuses and discovers she might be just average, but then gives some real-life advice to a group of frumpy Gifted Girls. And Jack and Mr. Floppy revels in the show's original theme tune.
Episode 21
Wed, May 15, 1996
School's out, Jack works the night-shift, and Ryan gets fired from his first day on the job. Home for summer. The kids drive Jennie crazy, and she turns to liquid support. In her drunken state, Mr. Floppy reveals Jack's alter ego to her, in more ways than one.
Episode 22
Wed, May 22, 1996
Ryan brings home Crystal, a fetching blonde several years his senior. And already with two children. He thinks she's marriage material. Everybody else thinks he's nuts. They want her out. And Mr. Floppy has a thing about shoes. Ladies' shoes. Tiffany's patent leather. But then he gets squashed.