Seasons & episodes
S1 · E12Model Behavior 2002-01-23 · 22 min
Jim and Cheryl agree to let Ruby model for a print ad as a one-time thing, but when the photographer calls her a natural, Jim gets Ruby an agent.
S1 · E13The Money 2002-01-30 · 22 min
Cheryl decides to go behind Jim's back and loan Andy $1,000 for a downpayment on a new condo.
S1 · E14Blow-Up 2002-02-13 · 22 min
When Cheryl has a revealing photo of herself taken as a Valentine gift to Jim, he proudly shows it to all his friends.
S1 · E15Racquetball 2002-02-27 · 22 min
When Cheryl reminds Jim that she beat him at racquetball years ago, he claims he was only letting her win to gain her affections, so Cheryl challenges him to a no-holds-barred re-match.
S1 · E16Under Pressure 2002-03-06 · 22 min
After Jim is diagnosed with high blood pressure, Cheryl decides to do everything to help him. She makes him special food, give him backrubs, and keeps asking about his day in order to free him from stress. But Jim doesn't know how to share so much and tells her an old financial problem of the firm. Cheryl stays up all night doing math to figure out a way out of the problem. Jim says she has a disease and is always trying to help people, which Cheryl responds with stop caring about him. In the end, they finally settle their issues when Jim says he loves her and would be a total mess without her.
S1 · E17Date Night 2002-03-13 · 22 min
While out for dinner and a movie, Jim loses a parking spot, and later loses Cheryl when he can't let go of it.
S1 · E18Birthday Boys 2002-03-20 · 22 min
It's Kyle and Andy's birthday, and Andy is feeling a little left out of his own special day. They decide to take him to a restaurant that serves a 4,5 lbs steak, and Jim offers to pay for the check because Cheryl isn't feeling equal to Dana, who's spending a lot of money on their kids. On the table, Dana says she doesn't mind paying the check because she makes more money than Jim, which enfuriates him. He buys a donkey for the girls so they can know he's the one they should go to if they want stuff (in this case, they wanted a poney, but "they'll never know the difference"), and it isn't until the donkey ruins a painting Dana bought for Kyle's room that they talk it out and settle their issues.
S1 · E19The Receipt 2002-04-24 · 22 min
When the new DVD player breaks, Jim must find the receipt in order to exchange it. He can't find it anywhere and blames Cheryl of losing it. She says he was the one who lost it, and in order to "win" the fight, Jim buys another DVD player and tells Cheryl he exchanged the broken one. Later, Dana shows up with the receipt, in which Cheryl wrote her a recipe, and Cheryl - after realizing it was her fault after all - burns it. They get into a fight but soon decide to drop the point scoring and just be happy again.
S1 · E20Old Friends 2002-05-01 · 22 min
Jim has a run-in with an old friend from his wild and crazy days who is now a cop. Jim sets out to prove he's not an 'old married guy' by staying out all night and partying. Unfortunately, this has bad consequences for both of them...
S1 · E21Cheryl's Day Off 2002-05-08 · 22 min
Jim agrees to take the girls for the day while Cheryl and Dana go to a doctor's appointment. At the park, Jim leaves the girls with another mom and goes to the movies... where he's busted by Cheryl. Things go from bad to worse when he tries to retrieve the kids and can't remember who he left them with.
S1 · E22No Surprises 2002-05-15 · 22 min
Jim plans a surprise party for Cheryl's birthday, but gets angry and cancels it when Dana spills the beans. To make it up to him, Cheryl plans a party for him... but he's too busy bowling to show up.
S2 · E1The Importance of Being Jim 2002-10-01 · 23 min
Cheryl and Jim clash when he breaks a promise to save a digital photo she values.
S2 · E2Cars and Chicks 2002-10-08 · 23 min
Jim claims women aren't capable of getting a good deal on a car, and prophetically, when Cheryl helps Dana buy a new car, it turns out to be a lemon. Dana begs Jim to use his macho influence at the dealership to help her, but instead he allows sexy sales manager Gretchen to talk him into trading the family van in for a sports car — without consulting Cheryl.
S2 · E3The Baby Monitor 2002-10-15 · 23 min
Jim and Cheryl meet the new neighbors and find out that they can hear their conversation through the baby monitor. When the neighbors find out, Jim tries to come up with a story to smooth things over.
S2 · E4The Pizza Boy 2002-10-22 · 23 min
Jim's pizza delivery boy moves in with him and Cheryl after the boy's father kicks him out of the house because of his dream of doing standup comedy.
S2 · E5The Closet 2002-10-29 · 23 min
Jim is upset when Cheryl's stuff takes over the entire house, leaving him with no private place of his own.
S2 · E6Punch & Ruby 2002-11-05 · 21 min
Cheryl is concerned that Jim is being a bad influence on the kids when he takes them to a Bears game and they witness him punching a spectator, but Cheryl's disparaging remarks about her body image put her equally at fault as an example.
S2 · E7The Bachelor 2002-11-12 · 23 min
When Dana is picked to be a bachelorette on the reality series The Bachelor, Jim gives her a little advice on how not to be herself.
S2 · E8Father Disfigure 2002-11-19 · 23 min
The charismatic new preacher at Cheryl and Jim's church holds a grudge against Jim for a childhood dodge-ball incident.
S2 · E9Thanksgiving Confidential 2002-11-26 · 23 min
When Jim and Cheryl are caught fooling around after hours on the set of their kid's Thanksgiving play, Jim tries to find a way to reinstate Cheryl in the good graces with the PTA.
S2 · E10The Christmas Party 2002-12-10 · 23 min
Cheryl and the kids are invited to a neighbor's annual Christmas party, but Jim, who is feuding with the neighbor, isn't invited.
S2 · E11The Brother-in-Law 2002-12-17 · 23 min
Country singer Brad Paisley guest stars as Dana's new boyfriend, an amazing musician who can get Jim the gig of his dreams — once Andy is out of the way.
S2 · E12Moral Dilemma 2003-01-07 · 23 min
Jim treats Cheryl to a romantic weekend with money he knows was mistakenly credited to his card.
S2 · E13You Gotta Love Somebody (1) 2003-01-21 · 23 min
Cheryl and Jim try to play matchmaker to a cop and his female partner, and Jim and Cheryl's memory of how they met doesn't mesh with the recollections Andy and Dana have, on a special one-hour episode.