Grounded for Life

When the family car disappears one night, Sean is in mourning over the loss while Claudia hopes to gain from an inflated insurance claim.

Claudia’s erotic dream about Eddie has Sean trying to reignite the passion in their marriage. Meanwhile, Henry makes "candy apples" out of anything he can find; and Jimmy serves "turned" apple cider to Lily and her friend Allison.

Claudia is shocked to discover porn on Jimmy’s computer and insists that she and Sean confront him, but Sean wants to ignore it. Meanwhile, Lily and Jimmy doctor a picture of Sister Helen and use it as an e-mail joke. Then Sister Helen receives the e-mail.

When Sean spots Brad buying condoms at a drugstore, he freaks over Lily attending a bash at Brad’s.

Sean and Eddie revive their high-school band to play a wedding reception, but Sean gets nervous when Lily seems interested in their hot new drummer. Jimmy convinces Henry that the reason he can’t find baby pictures of himself is that Henry’s a robot.

During a stressful day at work, Claudia takes a puff of a co-worker’s cigarette which quickly turns into an entire cigarette and then a daily habit. Lily catches and busts her, then agrees to keep her secret for a price.

Playing Santa Claus, Walt promises Henry a $350 AstroJammer Battle Buggy for Christmas; a ticked-off Sean brings violence to Santaland. Meanwhile, Lily tries to figure out whether the blurry gift tag on her boxer shorts reads "from Brad" or "from Dean."

After Henry catches Sean and Claudia having sex, Sean is determined to handle the inevitable topic of the birds and the bees with Henry in a better way than Walt did. After having a father/son talk with Henry about sex, Sean feels good about how he handled things.

The Finnerty’s plan to push Walt back into the social scene backfires when he’s social with a lady they don’t like. Meanwhile, Lily fears that her bad behavior has thrust Brad into Kristina’s arms.

A favor for Claudia’s well-connected Uncle Sal goes awry, leading Sean to fear that the guy may be a goodfella. Meanwhile, a plumbing problem forces Lily to shower at Brad’s.

Sean creates a "first place" robot for Jimmy’s science fair, then stands up at the fair and admits that he made his son’s robot.

Sean’s swing at tree surgery causes a blackout during the Super Bowl, but his biggest concern was that while chopping the tree he saw, through Lily’s window, Lily holding a bag of pot.

Lily’s compulsive credit-card usage sinks Sean’s plans to take Henry and his friends to a pricey water park; Eddie refuses to open up to his family about the contents of his mysterious locked box.

Sean accepts Dan O’Keefe’s challenge for a boxing match, then discovers that Eddie has tried to fix the fight. At the match, Claudia is enraged to learn of a rumor that she has had breast-enhancement surgery.

Sean and Claudia chaperone Lily’s school dance, but it is Sister Helen who catches Lily and Dean making out and with bottle of liquor in their possession. Lily insists that it is not hers, but everyone is surprised at whose it is. Meanwhile, Eddie takes to using Walt as his goon to shake down shady business associates.

Sean accidentally "outs" a gay co-worker so he tries to get him to come out officially. Lily’s ready to rumble when women keep hitting on Dean.

When Sean and Claudia win a free weekend in Atlantic City, they reluctantly leave the kids in Eddie’s care. They return to find Jimmy and Henry locked in the basement and obvious remains of a party. But Eddie may not be the perpetrator....

Sean exploits a nun’s foulmouthed faux-pas to get Claudia and the kids everything they’ve ever wanted from St. Finnian’s.

Sean winds up in jail for buying shady diamond earrings for Claudia from Eddie’s so-called "connection"; Lily protests the nuns’ donkey-basketball game.

Claudia’s visiting parents’ minor insults get too far under an insecure Sean’s skin. Meanwhile, karaoke leads to an unlikely liplock between Brad and Lily.

Sean and Eddie plan to honor their late cousin’s wishes by scattering his Tupperware-borne ashes over the old water tower; Lily meets a cute guy at the funeral.

Sean finds a home-pregnancy test in the trash and immediately suspects Lily, but... Meanwhile, Lily learns more about the circumstances of her birth and Jimmy sings the blues over an aggressive zit on his face.