Pilot
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 7, 2006
Eddie Stamm tries to talk his new neighbor Jeff out of getting a pool table.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 7, 2006
Eddie Stamm tries to talk his new neighbor Jeff out of getting a pool table.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 14, 2006
Once discovering that their wives are trading sex for furniture and other such items, Jeff and Eddie try to turn their manipulation around to their advantage.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 21, 2006
Eddie is forced to buy a diamond engagement ring for Joy after she hears the story about the Woodcocks' romantic engagement.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Sep 28, 2006
Eddie battles with his wife to keep his precious pile of wood in their garage.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2006
Jeff wants some alone time and find out Eddie's secret about his garage band.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2006
Eddie gives Jeff advice to make sure Steph won't get Jealous of his mother.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 16, 2006
Jeff gets Jealous of Eddie, when Steph tells him that she had a sex dream about him.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2006
Joy thinks Eddie might be dying and things start really picking up in the bedroom. Eddie then has problems with telling her the results of his medical tests.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Dec 14, 2006
Eddie and Joy get into a fight about who's right and who's wrong.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 21, 2006
Eddie and Joy are excited for their daughter Allison to come home for the holidays, but Eddie is perplexed when she turns to Joy for comfort after an unexpected break-up.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jan 4, 2007
Eddie and Joy attend the 25th anniversary party of their neighbors Stan and Vicki, even though they forgot to RSVP.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jan 11, 2007
Jeff finds out Steph lied about liking hockey.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 18, 2007
Joy wants a new refrigerator. Eddie says no. Then Joy suggest that they see a counselor.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2007
Jeff start hanging out with the cool kids at school. In the mean time Joy is jealous when Eddie is spending more time with a female colleague of his instead of her.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 8, 2007
Upon finding out that Jeff never had a bachelor party, Eddie decides to throw him one with Cofeld and Stan, much to Steph's dismay.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2007
Jeff develops pictures of a holiday Joy and Eddie took in Italy 20 years ago, much to Eddie's dismay.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Mar 14, 2007
Eddie and Joy go visit Allison's college for Parent's Weekend and are horrified to find out her major.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Mar 21, 2007
The Cofelds become the Woodcocks' new best friends. To their horror, the Starks start to miss them.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Mar 28, 2007
When Steph gives a cappuccino machine to Eddie and Joy, it causes problems for both the Woodcocks and the Starks.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Apr 4, 2007
Joy leaves to spend spring break with Allison, leaving Eddie alone. But just when Eddie gets ready to have a great time, the TV stops working.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Apr 11, 2007
Much to Eddie's dismay, Joy sets up his friend Webby with her friend Denise. Meanwhile, Steph insists on wearing a blouse Jeff finds hideous.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Apr 11, 2007
It's summer vacation and Allison comes home...with Doug. Meanwhile, Jeff is horrified by Steph's way of "working" on her thesis.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 19, 2007
Eddie tells Joy that she needs to scale back on her over-singing in public and the amount of cleavage she shows.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 26, 2007
Eddie and Joy try to get a part in a neighbor's funeral, only after they discover that Jeff is a pallbearer and Steph is delivering the eulogy.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 3, 2007
Eddie fakes an injury to get out of playing in a basketball game, because he doesn't want his wife to know that he's a horrible player.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 10, 2007
Eddie agrees to review a porn DVD that Jeff rented at his wife's request to "spice things up" in the bedroom. But what will Joy think when she finds Eddie with the movie?
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 17, 2007
Eddie and Steph become yoga partners, while Jeff and Joy become tennis buddies.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 7, 2007
Eddie gives Jeff a bottle of wine from Joy's liquor cabinet as a last-minute birthday present, not knowing that the bottle is worth hundreds of dollars.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 14, 2007
Eddie shows no concern when Joy's new bedroom lamp doesn't work, mainly because his lamp works just fine.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2007
Jeff is appointed as temporary principal of the school, and one of the first decisions he makes is to suspend Eddie without pay for disrespecting him.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2007
Jeff hires Eddie and Joy's daughter's loser boyfriend, Doug, as Eddie's substitute teacher while he is suspended. And Joy refuses to back up Eddie when he says that Doug and Allison can't sleep together under their roof.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Mar 25, 2008
Eddie signs up to be a Big Brother, but he is paired up with a grown man who has been in the system for 25 years.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Apr 16, 2008
Eddie thinks Kenny is wrong when he turns a case of bad service at a movie theatre concession stand into a racially-motivated incident, but he's afraid to confront him on it.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Apr 23, 2008
When a pregnancy scare rattles Eddie and Joy, they decide that they need to take care of business.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Apr 30, 2008
Joy confronts Eddie about his inability to show his emotions, and they go to a New Age guru to get help.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: May 7, 2008
Eddie and Jeff discover that Karl's second wife is really cool, and the two of them begin to fantasize on paper about their second wives.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: May 14, 2008
Eddie thinks he's off the hook when Joy decides they should sit this anniversary out.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 10, 2008
Joy considers plastic surgery once she discovers that her boobs can no longer get her out of speeding tickets.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 17, 2008
Eddie gets in trouble when he buys a sports car without consulting with Joy first, and he soon regrets getting rid of his old car.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Sep 24, 2008
When Joy awakens from a bad dream, she looks to Eddie for comfort, only to realize she was better off finding help in dreamland.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2008
Eddie and Joy try to break up their daughter and her loser hippie boyfriend--until they discover that his family is filthy rich.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2008
Eddie tells Joy that he would be willing to move downtown one day, only so that he can get hotel sex.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2008
Eddie tries to talk Kenny out of getting circumcised because it would mean that he has to go a musical theatre series with Joy if he does.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2008
Eddie is disappointed when Joy finds out a pathetic "secret" he's been keeping from her for 20 years, mainly because it's the last thing she didn't know about him.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Oct 2, 2009
Eddie and Joy's daughter Ally returns from Ecuador with her new husband, and they move their RV into their backyard.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Oct 9, 2009
Joy and Eddie decide to get separate beds after years of putting up with each other's sleep habits.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 23, 2009
Eddie sells his book idea to a publisher, and Ally discovers that Doug's father is rich and wants to give them money, but Doug doesn't want any of it.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Dec 25, 2009
Eddie and Joy unsuccessfully vow to become less negative, while Kenny causes problems as a mall Santa.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Dec 25, 2009
While visiting Eddie's parents in Florida, Eddie and Joy learn that his parents are getting a divorce for insurance purposes.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Dec 25, 2009
When Joy discovers that her new, sexy friend once dated Eddie and got her heart broken, she begins seeing him in a new light.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Dec 25, 2009
Eddie and Kenny's bonding through the Big Brother program extends far beyond their groovy t-shirts when they attend a picnic with other members. Kenny's recent woes prompt Eddie to welcome Kenny into his home which proves great for Eddie but problematic for Joy.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2010
Joy loses her job when the travel agency is converted to a sub shop.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2010
Eddie and Joy are forced to make sacrifices after Eddie buys a 52-inch high-definition television, while Doug begins to suspect that he is just a character in a sitcom.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2010
Joy is jealous when Eddie becomes infatuated with their new female doctor friend after he goes in to see her for a checkup.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2010
Joy decides to make Eddie pay when she finds out that he went to a baseball game without her, while Doug and Ally try to save a tree.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Feb 14, 2010
After Eddie gets treatment for his sleep apnea and stops snoring, Joy realizes that she relied on his annoying habit to help her get to sleep.
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Feb 14, 2010
When Joy and Eddie's friends have a fight and break up, Eddie and Joy step in to try and restore the peace, but it ends up backfiring on them.
Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Feb 21, 2010
When Eddie and Joy befriend Stephen and his wife Simona, Eddie clicks with them right away causing Joy to feel left out.
Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Feb 21, 2010
When Joy convinces Eddie to visit Simona for an annual check-up, he catches a nasty head cold before his big interview with a Hindenburg blimp survivor.
Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Feb 28, 2010
When Joy goes overboard planning Ally and Doug's wedding, Eddie convinces them to elope.
Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Feb 28, 2010
When the Starks meet Simona and Stephen for dinner, they decide to ditch them with the bill resulting in an all out war dining war between the couples.
Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Mar 7, 2010
Joy and Eddie attempt to relive their past by going to a concert. After Ally becomes frustrated by her cramped living conditions, she and Doug move into Joy and Eddie's house for a night.
Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Mar 7, 2010
Eddie is pressured into taking a student's bribe by Mr. White in order to get a pay raise from Principal Duffy, so he and Joy can afford their vacation. Doug pays another visit to Dr. Bialik, as he believes his wife has been "recast" by a new Ally.
Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Mar 14, 2010
Doug and Ally meet their new neighbors: a rich, obnoxious, unattractive 50-year-old man and his trophy wife who unapologetically admits that she's in the relationship for the money.
Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Mar 14, 2010
With Doug and Ally's wedding approaching, Joy, Eddie, Ally and Doug have animated dreams.
Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Mar 21, 2010
When Allison's boyfriend Doug is hospitalized, she rushes to his bedside only to be surprised with a proposal. No one is more surprised by their daughter's engagement than Eddie and Joy who plot to put the brakes on wedding planning.
Episode: 4x23 | Airdate: Mar 21, 2010
Joy's opinionated mother Donna comes for a surprise visit.
Episode: 4x24 | Airdate: Mar 28, 2010
Eddie and Joy resort to role-playing to spice up their sex lives, while Kenny begins searching for lost dogs to collect the reward money.
Episode: 4x25 | Airdate: Mar 28, 2010
Eddie and Joy consider selling the house and moving into a condo so that Doug and Ally can't come along and freeload off of them.
Episode: 4x26 | Airdate: Apr 4, 2010
During a vacation in Florida, Eddie and Joy frighten a young couple about to get married, while Doug and Ally are expelled from their hotel room while Kenny hooks up with a woman.
Episode: 4x27 | Airdate: Apr 4, 2010
When Ally and Doug announce that they're going to be parents, Joy has a meltdown about becoming a grandmother, forcing Eddie to call in his mother-in-law for help.
Episode: 4x28 | Airdate: Apr 11, 2010
Eddie becomes annoyed by his students' use of cell phones in class, and soon learns that he and Joy are the only ones not infatuated with new technology.
Episode: 4x29 | Airdate: Apr 18, 2010
Eddie feels self-conscious when Tommy and Mr. White boast about their endowments, so Joy does her best to convince him that being average is just fine.
Episode: 4x30 | Airdate: Apr 25, 2010
With Eddie's brother, Charlie, and his new boyfriend, Terence, coming to visit, Eddie isn't exactly looking forward to a weekend of wine-tasting and antiquing. Much to Eddie's surprise, though, he hits it off with Terence as they both opt to watch football over participating in the planned weekend activities.
Episode: 4x31 | Airdate: May 2, 2010
When Joy loses her job at Eddie's school, she accepts a position as Stephen's executive assistant.
Episode: 4x32 | Airdate: May 9, 2010
Joy goes overboard planning for Ally's baby shower and becomes obsessed with baby gifts.
Episode: 4x33 | Airdate: May 16, 2010
When Whitey decides to throw a surprise party for his 93-year-old grumpy uncle, his party guests are surprised to discover that Whitey is a hoarder and his house is overflowing with junk.
Episode: 4x34 | Airdate: May 23, 2010
Eddie's book finally gets published but on the day of his book signing, Ally goes into labor and everyone shows up to welcome the new addition to the family.
Episode: 4x35 | Airdate: Jun 6, 2010
Joy feels inferior for not finishing college, so she decides to hit the books and earn her degree.
Episode: 4x36 | Airdate: Jun 13, 2010
When Joy gets angry at Eddie for forgetting her birthday, she decides to cash in on all the coupons he has given her over the years for massages, pedicures and chores.
Episode: 4x37 | Airdate: Jun 20, 2010
When Joy suspects Eddie of keeping secrets from her, she decides to launch an investigation.