Fri, Dec 10, 2004
Kyle swears he doesn't want a girl-friend because dating turns real guys into wusses, ultimately like Sam, who even minds his Angela's poodle Sally Sue. However when Josie, the only girls who gets more detentions then Kyle, kisses him there, he's lost and commits more mischief to get extra detention. Attempts to hide it to the brothers prove futile. Remains the problem he promised a sled-ride to TJ on the day Josie wants to go out.
Fri, Nov 19, 2004
Since Nick no longer works on Friday evening, his boys take an active interest in his love-life to get him off their backs and out of the house. So they put his macho fireman identity on an Internet dating site, where uncle Jimmy posted himself- in bath. Nick is lured to a restaurant, resists the method, but at the bar bumps into Maggie. Back home, he tells the boys the encouraging news, but also that he pretended to have her dream family: just two kids. Gentile Sam and 'baby' TJ feel flattered, the three rascals act up jealously.
Fri, May 27, 2005
Sam works really hard removing graffiti (mainly 'Kyle rules'!), hoping to win the newspaper's youth commitment award. Brenda meanwhile is collecting for the children's hospital and is no competition, chance really rules. His scamp brothers lazily refuse to do anything and just play 'Canadian' ice-hockey, but so clumsily their puck breaks nasty neighbor Riley's window. She comes after them with a shotgun, but succumbs to cardiac trouble. The rascals refuse to touch her, even if she is dying, but using Sam's bike-pump they get her respiration going again and are nominated favorites for the prize Sam deserves.
Fri, Dec 17, 2004
Nick decides the boys should learn the 'true spirit of Christmas' by earning money for presents with seasonal jobs. When TJ and Kyle protest they're too young, he finds worse torture: help collect and wrap gifts for 'needy kids', some neater than they expect. The older brothers eagerly apply in a lingerie shop, but find themselves mere stock-boys in a basement. Sam hides this for Amanda and does it so well he gets a chance at sales on commission, but the jealous brothers pull a fatal prank.
Fri, Jan 14, 2005
Jack's preparation for the school ball is simple: choose a date. Sam helps Angela to prepare the hall, but takes her request for opinions seriously. Nick and Jimmy counsel give in to whatever she wants, but Sam wants the truth and a confetti blaster rather then a chocolate fountain. Chris is delighted to be asked to the ball, until Jack points out she's the dance captain while he can't dance. Jack coaches him on "dance-avoidance" techniques, and if that fails - elementary dance. Kyle and T.J. are determined too prove on YouTube they're exceptionally stupid idiots, in ways infuriating Nick.
Fri, Oct 29, 2004
Chris left his biology homework so late that Sam can't help out and makes a stand after recognizing their former class pet frog Franklin. He still has to cut him open, is ridiculed as 'sissy' and gets a nightmare mission to save Franklin's successor, Lily. Kyle decide he's to old for trick and treat with his father and T.J. He insists that the big boys take him along for a daring Hollywood prank. They demand he thinks up a clever prank. Both problems meet head to head at night.
Fri, Nov 12, 2004
Now Sam's dream girl Angela has broken up with Britton Joffrey, he hopes to become her new boyfriend, but she asks him out strictly as a friend. The truth may work better. Chris and Jack attend the same church carnival, intending to find dates and spend not a penny too much, but that bill doesn't square. Kyle manages to get security at his heels repeatedly. Only T.J. is stuck home, having put off an essay on Lincoln. When he finally saves his file, the dog swallows his memory stick, which dad finds hard to believe, given the boy's lying record.
Fri, Jun 3, 2005
Sam wouldn't react to rascals throwing food at him in the school cafeteria, so Chris and Kyle 'save the Savage honor by food-fight. Only the get the three brothers punished by mean principal Holmes, who assigns for a week to the lunch ladies, back-breaking chores on tip of full classes. Despite their own predicament, they end up sympathizing with the professionals, and try to help them- alas. Meanwhile Jack convinces dad 'little' T.J. needs a babysitter: his present girl-friend, T.J. is paid off to leave them alone.
Fri, Jun 17, 2005
Nick has bought a hot-tub for him and Jimy to relax in after a grueling day of fire-fighting. he makes the boys sit trough another officer Cox safety movie, yet forbids them to use the jacuzzi without express permission. As always, the forbidden fruit proves irresistible, not indestructible. The industrial glue Sam was using to make a paper-weight as sentimental gift for 4 months relationship with Angela now gets an emergency use. It fails, as the knavish brothers claim his thoughtful gift will, and indeed she shows up with an expensive looking box. Should Sam trust his idiotic siblings?
Fri, Sep 24, 2004
Since his wife left him, fireman Nick Savage raises his five boys alone. After another housekeeper deserts the impossible household, pa declares it's time they learn to become more self-sufficient, for their own good. They disagree, Jack makes his point making sure things get even sloppier. Nick won't cave in, so a battle in pigging out ensues. However Sam has a weak spot: the desperate virgin finally has a shot at a date, albeit it with their unattractive female neighbor.