Grounded for Life

Brad’s father is boasting that Lily and Brad slept together; after confronting him about it, Sean confronts Claudia and learns that she already knew too. So when Brad gets injured by an airborne Christmas decoration, everyone thinks Sean lost his temper.

Claudia feels it’s time to smooth relations between the two families by having the O’Keefes over for dinner, but the evening falls apart when Brad’s mother blames Lily for taking Brad’s innocence.

Sean and Eddie hire strippers for the bar to help make ends meet then wind up being protested by the PTA. But what’s most shocking is who set the PTA on their tails. Meanwhile, Brad asks Lily to break up with Dean. She reluctantly agrees then he takes it far easier than she expected.

Brad is bothered that Lily is embarrassed to be seen with him, so Sean tries to make over his geeky image. Sean succeeds only in getting another student suspended from school, which leads to an in-bar confrontation with Sister Helen.

Brad plans a romantic date with Lily in New York City, but because one incident throws them off schedule, the rest of the evening becomes a disaster. Eddie breaks a window in the sewing room, leaving it wide open for an animal to wander in... which Henry wants to keep as a pet.

Lily and Brad stress over their upcoming SATS, and Claudia turns the SATs into a competition. Sean teaches Henry a lesson in compassion by taking in a homeless guy.

After Eddie buys an electric car to impress a girl, Sean unwisely gives Eddie a loan without telling Claudia, which results in her college enrollment check bouncing. Brad discovers Lily has a tattoo with Dean’s name, but Lily’s plea for her parents to pay for her tattoo removal goes ignored.

After a night of partying, Lily wakes up with a nasty hangover, her car parked on the porch, and no memory of how she got home. Sean and Claudia decide to sell her car and have her sign a contract that she will call them when she is too drunk to drive.

When Jimmy’s body odor becomes problematic, Sean and Eddie each intervene. Brad accidentally sees Claudia naked.

Sean becomes jealous when Claudia is asked to do some modeling for a fashion photographer, so she storms out, leaving him to continue hosting her bath-products party. Meanwhile, Lily hates her yearbook photos.

Sean and Eddie arrive at the bar to discover they’ve been robbed. Instead of calling the police, Walt insists on cleaning up. Lily and Brad wind up in a fight during a day at the mall, so Lily decides that shs’s going out with another guy.

Sean wants to go to a Sex Pistols concert, but Claudia has to study for a college test and Lily has a science project due, which leaves no one to watch the boys. Lily leaves Brad holding the bag by skipping off to a frat party where she runs into Claudia. Eddie hires a bodyguard.

Lily resents her ex-boyfriend’s ability to move on so quickly after she dumped him; Eddie’s stand-up routine flops until he incorporates material from Claudia and Sean’s personal life.

Sean forgets to give Claudia an important message from her professor; Jimmy hides the telephone bill to conceal his calls to a 976 number; Lily freaks out when Brad doesn’t call her for three hours.

During a romantic getaway at a hotel, Claudia and Sean watch an adult film and realize it was shot in their home; a girl bullying Jimmy might like him.

Sean and Claudia try to take advantage of an empty house to get in some alone-time; Lily realizes that Brad isn’t a good dancer; Jimmy and Henry vent their frustrations on each other by playing paintball.

Lily, Brad, and Jimmy sign abstinence pledges at school; Brad asks Lily to marry him; Jimmy throws out everything that reminds him of sex; Walt reveals that Eddie was born left-handed.

Brad’s dad claims to have been taking tennis lessons for years. After Sean beats him at tennis, it turns out that "tennis lessons" was the cover he gave while having an affair.

When the Finnertys throw Brad a birthday party to take his mind off his parents’ recent breakup, Sean invites Dan to the party as part of his "plan" to reunite him with Connie. But Connie has taken Claudia’s advice to "get some," which prompts her to pursue Eddie.

Claudia tries to set up a perfect family photo, but everything goes wrong. During a trip to the cemetery, Sean discovers that Walt buried his wife’s cat in the plot reserved for Claudia. Lily wants Brad to be in the family photo, but Claudia says no. Eddie is trying to get a girl pregnant.

Eddie runs into Crazy Amy while on a date with Hope. He is afraid that Amy is going to ruin his relationship. So Sean helps Eddie steal a safe that contains nude photos of him. Jimmy gets a date with a deaf girl.

Sean is having trouble keeping the bar alive and Claudia asks him to reconsider running it. With St. Patrick’s Day around the corner Eddie tries to lure customers over from rival pubs. Brad and Lily prepare for the parade and Jimmy is having trouble understanding the meaning of St. Patrick’s Day.

Sean disciplines one of Henry’s bratty friends; Lily asks Brad to choose between her and his geeky friends; Eddie uses a Jewish online dating service.

Claudia copies Lily’s school paper, only to find out Lily plagiarized the essay. Sean hints to Sister Helen that Lily may have cheated, but he learns too late that the school’s "zero-tolerance" policy on cheating could result in Lily being expelled.

Claudia’s father Tony has returned to the Finnertys’ for an operation; the family is very sympathetic, except for Sean, who knows what Tony’s having done.

Claudia tries to alleviate Sean’s hypertension and high blood pressure by running the household all by herself but everything goes awry. Jimmy gets suspended from school; and Lily and Brad break her bed so they steal the family car and get it impounded.

Lily is less than thrilled about Brad’s new job, which is taking up all of his time. Meanwhile, Walt’s having problems finding work, so Sean and Eddie offer him a job at the bar. Jimmy’s at the age where he finds his mother to be an embarrassment, so Claudia sets out to bond with him.

Brad tells Lily about his space-camp girlfriend Lana; Lily thinks he’s just making her up until she sees him board the bus to space camp with the very real, very cute Lana.