Season 2 - Episode Guide

Claire goes away for the weekend to a spa and the boys have to look after themselves. Luckily for Joe and Andy Matt knows what to do.

It's Joe's 21th birthday , he spends the night in a bar thinking about his dad. The rest are planning a party for him, when Joe gets home he is drunk.

Claire prepares for her first real date since her husbands death and she is really nervous but so are the boys who fear that a new man will take over their dads place.

Joe and Lou agree to be "just friends" and date others, but Joe fumes when Lou's "other person" is someone he doesn't know -- and then he unwittingly asks out Lou's best friend.

Both Joey and Matt ask Andy's new baby sitter for a date. Meanwhile Lloyd gets a really big wig which everone is scared of. Also Lou looks forward too seeing her father but once again he does not show up. Or would he come after all?

The boys are really excited when their grandfather comes by for a visit, they all have a great time but Grandpa Mike makes some promises he cant keep.

Lloyd's RV-driving mom visits the garage. At the same time, Joe is pushing Andy to enter in a pine-box derby -- to prevent a business rival's son from beating Matt's previous winning record.

Andy figures he won't get into any more trouble in school if Joe dates his teacher. Claire meets a potential date at the supermarket and psychology student Matt fears he may have obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Joe meets an old class mate who is heading towards stardom ,this makes him think about the decisions he has made.

Andy is proud of getting his wilderness badge, he wants to wear this on the camping trip that his pioneers group was planning. Thanks to a storm the trip would be cancelled, but they end up having the camping trip in the garage.

A merciless driver's-ed teacher may have Matt's future in mind when he passes out grades, but Joe has only revenge in mind when he rallies Matt, Lloyd and Lou in playing a prank on the man in order to get back at him.

Lloyd sees a self-help video and decides to quit his job at the garage to try and fulfill his dream.

There is a new girl in Matt's life. Evryone around him agrees that the girl is out of his league because the girl driks and goes to rave parties.

Matt and Kirsten are still hanging out together. Matt starts hanging out with a depressive girl who wants Matt to get a tattoo.

Joe is reunited with old friend Nell Bascombe, who needs a new kidney.

Matt hopes to reinvent himself for a newcomer visiting her grandfather in the neighboorhood; Andy fears getting hit by a comet.

Kristin gets Matt a job at a music store, but his future there looks bleak when the manager collars a shoplifter.

Lou has some modern art she wants to take to the museum. So Joe helps her carry her work. A woman sees the artwork & thinks Joe did it. So he impresses her by doing some last minute art with help from Andy. Then Joe confesses that the artwork's Lou & not his & that all of these masterpieces were nothing at all. Also, Matt takes up playing the guitar & wants to write a song. Matt tries to find inspiration by his surroundings. When their garbageman Leo pays a visit, Andy tells him he's got a pigeon on his car. Then Matt comes up with a very bad song.

Romance is in the air at the pizza parlor as Matt's co-worker falls for Joe and Andy falls for a young girl who doesn't think his jokes are funny.

Andy becomes Joe's good luck charm on a trip to Atlantic City -- for a while. Meanwhile, bad luck crashes the scene when Matt throws his first big party.

Joe moves in for the kill after Matt claims he's "just friends" with Kristin; an ice-cream vendor is a real treat for Andy and for Claire.

Matt and Joe nearly come to fisticuffs over Kristin, who's unable to handle the truth when she hears it; and Lou receives an e-mail message from an admirer.

Mother's Day brings a surprise visit from Joe's hippie mom, who's pregnant and married to an "aura-photographer".

Julia returns hoping to strike up a relationship with Matt again, but his friends aren't part of her plans. Meanwhile, Andy "sells his childhood" at a garage sale.