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A short documentary about the Owens family.

The ad that Marsha has placed seeking a housekeeper is answered by Mr. Belvedere who finds himself needing to adjust to suburban life as well as the Owens needing to adjust to having Mr. Belvedere around. Meanwhile, Wesley's hamster has gotten loose somewhere in the house, Heather's boyfriend is pressuring her into a more serious relationship and Kevin brings home a bad report card.

When Wesley and three other classmates are not invited to a fellow classmates party, Mr. Belvedere suggests that he throw a party of his own. However, during his party Wesley gets a belated invitation and walks out on his guests and then is ridden with guilt later.

George is all excited about Wesley joining the football team and goes all out to encourage him. However, little does he know, Wesley has really taken up ballet and the entire family is trying to keep it a secret from him.

George takes Mr. Belvedere and Wesley to a wrestling match where a spectator Max 'Meat Grinder' Maxwell (Hard Boiled Haggerty) picks a fight with George, which ends with Mr. Belvedere defending George. Dealing with a bruised ego, George becomes impotent and wanting to feel like a man, he buys a motorcycle. Meanwhile, taking a cue from Mr. Belvedere, Wesley begins to get in fights at school.

Kevin tries to win the affections of a girl by suddenly becoming interested in some of the causes that she believes in like animal rights. This leads to Kevin landing in jail after he spray paints a mink coat. Meanwhile, George is the host of a call-in sports radio show.

When George and Marsha take a vacation to Florida they leave Mr. Belvedere in charge of Kevin, a grounded Heather and Wesley. Immediatly after they leave, all hell breaks loose, when Heather sneaks out with her friends to see a Prince concert and Wesley brings a massage therapist over for a stressed out Belvedere.

Heather and Wesley are collecting canned items to take to a food drive and while there they run across a bag lady and decide to bring her home. Meanwhile, Kevin's sculpture class is giving him a pain, he's trying to sculpt the head of Prince Charles with no luck.

Needing a peaceful nights sleep, Marsha kicks the constant snoring George out of the bedroom. Meanwhile, Mr. Belvedere goes on a weekend trip and while he's gone George sleeps like a baby but the snoring returns when Belvedere returns.

A tornado watch adds to the tension between George and Mr. Belvedere after Belvedere takes it upon himself to edit a story George is writing. Things reach a head when a tornado forces everyone in the basement and a pool contest begins between George and Belvedere.

Heather and Angela have decided to go out for the cheerleading squad. However, when Marsha finds out, she takes an unusual attitude toward it, this just on the eve of her birthday, of which Wesley is scrambling to get a present.

During an accordian lesson, Wesley's teacher, Mr. Zabriskie suddenly dies right after a frustrated Wesley silently wished his death. This leads Wesley to believe he is the one responsible for his teacher's death and begins to believe he has a special power.

Kevin has his friend come over to help him on a science project and George and Marsha quickly become worried when the girl arrives 8 months pregnant and wanting to name the baby Kevin if it's a boy. That appears to be besides the point when the girl suddenly begins to go into labor.

On the night of his prom, Marsha has Kevin sign a contract promising that if he should drink, he should call home for a ride and George and Marsha would promise not hassle him. This leads Kevin to take the contract a bit too far and begins drinking all the time which is masking a deeper problem.

For their anniversary, George and Marsha act like it's just another day while the kids suggest they renew their wedding vows. However, after doing some digging, trying to find George and Marsha's original wedding picture, Heather and Kevin make a shocking discovery, that leads Kevin to re-examine his life.

When George's newspaper goes on strike, he finds himself board to death and becoming increasingly more irritating to Belvedere. Meanwhile, the family tries to cut costs which means no new car for Kevin and Wesley and Heather put together a garage sale where Wesley inadvertantly sells a priceless Fabrache egg of Mr. Belvedere's.

Wesley has joined the football team and is terrible at the sport much to the disappointment of George. This re-opens old wounds in Kevin and decides to secretly join the football team to get a letter and make George proud. However, when Kevin's grades slip, George comes down hard on him and Kevin decides to move out, just days before Thanksgiving.

George buys a pinball machine to recapture memories from his youth but quickly tires of it. However, Mr. Belvedere takes a liking to the machine and quickly becomes a pinball junkie and in the process begins to neglect his household duties. But when George sells the machine, Mr. Belvedere takes up a new residence, in the local arcade.

Wesley begins selling cookies door to door in an attempt to win a trip to Disney World. However, when he does win, he surprisingly gives it away to a sick kid in the hospital. Little does anyone know, that Wesley has hopes that this will lead to an even better trip. Meanwhile, George and Mr. Belvedere hold a contest concerning the stock market and Heather debates cheating on an algebra exam in order to bring her grades up.

When George learns that he is the winner of The Happy Guys of Pittsburgh Man of the Year Award he is thrilled. That is, until he learns he must give a speech, something he's terrified of doing. Meanwhile, a project in one of his classes has Kevin married to a nice girl but he's resistant to being seen with her in public.

With everyone busy with their own lives, Mr. Belvedere appears to be lonesome, at least from Wesley's point of view and decides what he needs is a woman in his life. However, the woman who peaks his interest, wasn't quite the woman Wesley had in mind, when Mr. Belvedere begins seeing Wesley's teacher.

Marsha is hitting the books for her finals but she doesn't feel her hard work is paying off after she fails her exam. This leads her to decide to quit college and become a full-time housewife, complete with a housedress and a string of pearls around her neck (shades of June Cleaver).

George and Mr. Belvedere become rivals in a contest over who can do without their favorite vice. George tries to give up smoking and Mr. Belvedere tries to give up junk food. Meanwhile, Heather's latest boyfriend has a strong attraction ... for Marsha.

When one of Wesley's friends is revealed to have AIDS, he is taken out of school due to the ignorance and uncertainty that many of the other children's parents share. This leads Wesley to shun his friend in fear of getting the disease himself.