Seasons & episodes

Willie's fantasy date with the prettiest girl in the seventh grade could be realized if he can just persuade Mark to make it a double date with the girl's cousin.

Valerie, the new coach of the twins' soccer team, benches Willie for laziness in practice while David, who wants a new car stereo, is put to work doing chores.

Although she's sworn off community theater, Valerie finds herself directing Annie's play, placating overworked stagehands Michael, Willie and Mark and trying to replace a leading lady who's under the weather.

When Mark's pet lizard dies while in David's care, Mark decides to haul David into small-claims court.

David takes his dad's new Italian sports car out for a spin to impress a young woman and ends up wrapping it around a tree. Meanwhile, the twins are feeling cooped up with the chicken pox.

Willie's wanton destruction of his brothers' personal belongings leads David and Mark to give him the silent treatment. Meanwhile, Valerie's dieting failures lead to an exercise in self loathing.

After borrowing Mrs. Poole's camper for a trip, Valerie and the boys are stranded in the woods when thieves with a taste for all the modern conveniences take off with it.

Valerie is less than thrilled with another visit from Michael's war buddy Skip Franklin who brings a surprise, his new bride, who may soon become his new ex-wife.

After Valerie's sudden death, Sandy, Michael's sister, moves in, and finds her school-counseling job a breeze compared with what she faces at home: David tries to be a ""supermom,"" while Willie and Mark are at odds over a science project.

Rich and Burt assume more than they should after David has a study session with the new girl in school and he lets them assume that they are much more involved than they actually are. Quickly he learns he's inadvertently destroying a reputation.

While moving in some of Sandy's belongings, the boys dig up old stuff in the attic, one of which is an old lamp David made as a gift for Michael. However, unaware to anyone, the lamp sparks a fire causing the house to go up in smoke and the Hogans to temporarily move in with the Pooles next door.

There's a hitch in the twins' school project on marriage when Willie goes after Mark's wife while David tries to best Sandy at anything.

David reexamines his belief in God after his history teacher has a heart attack and David saves him with CPR.

David risks losing his best friend when he locks him in a closet to keep him from driving while drunk. Meanwhile, Sandy, Michael, Mark and Willie pay a visit to a resort that Sandy had invested in.

David's on a roll at predicting football games and decides to bet some real money, but he could be wearing cement sneakers when he loses big.

Mark brakes David's fast times at high school when a special program puts Mark in the middle of David's classes and his love life.

The boys are all set for an evening of terror, watching a horror movie. However, when it's over each one of them is scared stiff and go on to experience their own version of ""Nightmare at Zombie High.""

Fresh from his triumphant A-plus in English, Willie crumbles under the pressure of composing a poem, while Sandy and David lose it when they lose Mrs. Poole's beloved dog.

Crushed by a girl's rejection, David's pal Burt falls hard for Sandy, while Sandy thinks her principal's the one with romance on his mind.

Sandy's ex-husband makes a move to get back in her life. Meanwhile, David moves into Michael's poker game.

There's a certain chemistry between David and his science teacher, while Sandy has a solution for a depressed Mrs. Poole, who's without her husband on their anniversary.

David's advice to Mrs. Poole to vent her anger against her overbearing mother-in-law backfires when Mother Poole moves in with the Hogans.

An eager Willie and a reticent Mark ditch school for the day, but when Mark gets caught, Willie feigns ignorance about the whole scheme.

Restaurant worker David smells trouble and it's coming from the kitchen as he tries to fend off the amorous advances of his boss's fiance. Meanwhile, Michael teaches Mark how to defend himself.