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- Louise and Johnny are getting married. They set the date in two weeks on Valentine's Day and she wants the family to take part. Lauren and Tina will be the bridesmaids, Brian will play the guitar, Bill will give her away and Judy will be her matron of honor. However, Judy is less than thrilled but if she doesn't accept, Louise said the wedding will be postponed indefinitely. Louise has Judy running ragged and she is wants to quit, but Bill tells her she only has 3 days left and things will be great after that. Al, meanwhile, has flown in from Florida and he says he going to stop the wedding. Would Judy still go ahead with the wedding?
- Bill mistakes Lauren's purse for Judy's and is shocked to find e pills there. Then he learns that Lauren has been car pooling with some Nick guy from school and can't help but try to find out if Lauren is having sex. He tries to eavesdrop on her using a baby monitor, but when that backfires, an ever-escalating chain of paybacks and cons begins... Who's making fool out of whom in the end and who's *actually* telling the truth?
- Brian has a crush on a girl called Carrie at school, but to her, he is invisible. Lauren encourages Brian by saying that he has a lot of potential - with a little bit of work, he "could actually be... a pretty good-looking guy". She then offers to give Brian a whole new look, because that would be a challenge to her. It all goes well, until a slight accident happens... Meanwhile, Bill wants to buy a muscle car of his dreams. Judy does not approve. Linda stops by with Perry, who is about to start making a music video of his dreams - but he hasn't even written the song yet! Since the video would be partly funded with Linda's money, Judy asks if it is really wise to spend the money that's been reserved for Linda and Perry's wedding. When Linda tells Bill about Judy's comment, he declares Judy a dream-crusher and suggests that Linda encourage Perry to make the music video. Then... Linda tells Judy about Bill's advice, and an argument ensues. In the end, Judy storms out, predicting that Bill's advice will result in things falling apart...
- "Christmas Hell" is causing Judy stress and she proposes that this Christmas, she and Bill reduce the workload, like, for example, by not getting presents for each other. Bill takes this seriously, but luckily for him, his pal Kyle, on basis of experience from three divorces, advises him to get Judy a present. Brian loses his job as a Christmas carol singer at the mall and has to help Judy decorate the house. That job was supposed to belong to Lauren, but she doesn't have to do it since she has one at a restaurant - or so she claims. Brian finds out that she is lying and wants in on the scam. Suddenly he has "a job" too. Also, having "jobs" mean they don't have to go see Judy's mother with the others. Can they pull it off?
- Bill and Judy want Tina to go to a birthday party held at Willie Gault's, a 1985 Chicago Bear house. But Tina doesn't, she wants to go to her best friends birthday party.
- After Judy expresses a desire to have a better relationship with Bill's mother, Louise dupes her into accepting a cruise invitation. Meanwhile, Brian and Lauren compete to be the entertainment at Tina's birthday party.
- Bill's mother, who nobody likes, arrives to spend a week at the Millers. And she brought her cross-stitching equipment, buttons and glue gun. Meanwhile, Brian is about to flunk in gym. Bill was in high school with Brian's teacher and tries to help Brian, with the usual results.
- Judy gets alarming news from her doctor and gets the impulse to write a heartfelt farewell letter to Bill, just in case should the worst happen. She asks Bill to do the same, but he doesn't quite have the talent as a wordsmith so he has to seek alternative options of coming up with the letter...
- Brian has the chance to go to Italy for three months as an exchange student and he couldn't be more excited, until Linda tells him about her misadventures in France. Reluctant to go, he tries to sabotage the trip by breaking the rules at home. Bill and Judy are wondering why he's acting this way and they figure that he may be afraid of going and doesn't want to admit it. Brian, now more enthusiastic about going, looks foward to camping, hiking and fishing in the country. This bothers Bill, because he always promised Brian they would go camping and he has yet to do it. They eventually argue and the camping trip is off. Judy wonders why...
- Lauren wants to go to a under-21 club but Judy won't let her go. There is a picture of Lauren and her father on the newspaper, except that the man in picture is actually Becca's dad. Judy concludes that Bill isn't spending enough time (or, more precisely, no time at all) with Lauren and Bill agrees to do something with Lauren. Not surprisingly, they find they have nothing to talk about, so they hatch a plan to make Judy think they have spent time together. Meanwhile, Judy can't resist trying out Linda's wedding gown.
- Linda and Perry are finally getting married. The main reason being, Perry's Foghat Cover band, that was supposed to go on tour, got canceled. The wedding will be at the local VFW Hall and will have a rock n roll theme. Although Judy is happy for Linda, she's skeptical about the whole thing. She wonders if this wedding is what Linda wants and if Perry is the right man for her. To Linda, all that matters is that she's marrying Perry. In addition, Judy wonders how Perry will support Linda and a family since he's unemployed. Bill says that he and his band will have steady work performing in a casino/lounge in Reno, as they signed a contract for 2 years, and that Linda will accompany him. Judy is upset because Linda never mentioned this to her and feels that Linda should be with someone more stable, like Glen, the stockbroker she used to date. Judy and Linda go out to dinner to plan for Linda's bachelorette party, but in actuality, Judy's arranged to have Glen come, to show Linda that, with someone like him, she could do a whole lot better than Perry. Linda is tired of Judy putting Perry down and says Judy shouldn't come to the wedding if this is how she feels about him. Now Judy is upset because she won't be going to the wedding. She says she can't change the way she feels about Perry and that Linda is throwing her life away by having Perry force her into quitting her job and following him to Reno. Perry pays a visit to the house to drop off marital gifts and has a talk with Judy. He convinces her that he loves Linda, that she decided to go to Reno with him, and that she (Judy) needs to be at the wedding. He asks her to come. With Judy and Linda making up, Linda has her bachelorette party, with Bill getting designated driving duty for the highly drunk women. When it's down to just Bill, Judy and Linda, and Judy passes out, Linda talks to Bill. She tells him she's happy marrying Perry but that she would've settled for almost anybody, just as long as she got married before she turned 40. When Bill asks her if she's serious about that, she passes out. By wedding day, Bill is still bothered about what Linda said in the mini-van. He thinks about saying nothing, but then confronts Linda and asks her if she's marrying Perry for the right reasons. Bill says she shouldn't marry Perry just to meet a certain deadline and that she deserves to be happy. She convinces Bill that she's marrying Perry because she loves him. She and Perry get married. After they return from their honeymoon, Linda and Perry announce their future plans.
- Bill doesn't notice that Fitz is behind him and makes the mistake of calling Kyle "the best friend" he's ever had. Bill had invited Fitz to watch the game, but forgot all about it while in paint ball war with Kyle. The game is over, but Fitz has recorded it and Bill makes amends by watching it with him. Judy is worried because she has a lot of chores for Bill to do while she's at work, but Bill assured that he can do them all. But when Kyle shows up and invites Bill, Fitz and Brian to see his new 70" big screen TV, Bill's priorities get mixed. And that's not all Kyle has acquired. Trouble ahead.
- Each caught by their wives with the tape, Bill and Fitz blame each other, but when their wives reconcile from a past grievance, their web of lies threatens to unravel.
- Boyfriend issues lead to man issues. Linda attends AA meetings just to be near Danny W, her latest interest, while Lauren plays basketball to be with Robbie, a boy who accuses her of cheating when she regularly bests him on the court. Judy, having just given the family car an oil change, explains that men don't like women who can do everything better - unlike Bill. At hearing this, Bill explains that he "gives" Judy some of the "lesser" man duties. Even so, Bill feels the need to prove his manliness for a change and answers Tina's call to kill a spider in her room. He goes after it demolishing Tina's doll house in the process. He says he'll fix it himself, but winds up having trouble and enlisting Brian's aid. Even so, he eventually gives up and heads to Tiny Town with Brian to shop for a new doll house, only to find that Judy'd been there and already purchased an exact replica from the store. Bill defiantly turns back to repairing the doll house. Seeing Lauren let Robbie beat her at basketball and Robbie become a swelled-headed jerk about it, Bill warmly tells her to be herself from now on and beat him. She agrees, since it's more work pretending to be less capable.
- Both Bill and Judy are spending way too much time at Kyle's "Polsky Mansion". Perry is on a tour and refuses to come home to celebrate his six-month wedding anniversary with Linda. Having decorated her and Perry's home apparently for nothing, Linda gets the idea to decorate Kyle's place, because Kyle has been divorced for 5 years and is looking for a more mature woman as a permanent partner. When Bill discovers that Linda is ruining Kyle's place, he turns to Judy, pointing out that she's going to lose her much-loved steam room at Kyle's. Judy tries to talk Linda out of the project, but fails. She then has only one option: to make Bill place an anonymous call to a jealous Perry.
- The Millers go to dinner at Bill's mother and stepfather's new, 5,000 sq.ft mansion, on a Friday night and Lauren is not happy - she'd rather be at three parties taking place that night. But then again, she's got her 16th birthday coming, so she's looking forward to that. Judy and Linda are actually trying to come up with a theme for the party. Then Lauren says she's been thinking and has decided that she does not need a party. Brian rats her out by revealing that Lauren is afraid her party will be lame because "people have major sweet sixteens these days - they have DJs and catering and the whole thing." Judy announces that she will deliver the party Lauren wishes for - even if it means taking the money from BCF, a.k.a. Brian's College Fund. Then Bill's stepfather hears that the BCF is not enough and offers to pay for Lauren's party. Everything seems perfect. What could go wrong?
- Much to Bill's delight, his mother Louise has a new man in her life - Johnny. Bill's happy since he doesn't have to drive Louise on errands or take her shopping anymore and can be at home relaxing on "Couchy" (the family's couch: his words). After Bill and Judy meet him at a Chinese restaurant and later for dessert at their place, Judy isn't sure about him, thinking Johnny may have grabbed her butt. Unsure if she should tell Bill and Louise, she confides in Linda. Bill eventually finds about this. Judy decides that, since everyone will be at her and Bill's house for Louise's birthday, she will make herself very tempting for Johnny to want to do it again by wearing her best pants that will show her butt off, with Linda ready to witness it. Meanwhile, Brian and Tina are wrapping their grandmother's gift, leaving Lauren in a bind. She didn't get her "Nanna" a gift, so she declares she'll come up with a poem "from her heart" (she says) by that evening.
- Judy tries to stand her ground when Bill's mother tries to hone in on her Mother's Day tradition with her own mom. Judy finally convinces Bill to take Louise wherever she wants to go while she, Helen and Lauren go to their traditional tea. But chaos ensues when they all convene at the same place.
- Judy fakes being sick so her Mom will take care of the daily tasks around the house. Bill discovers Judy's secret and decides to join her in the deception.
- Lauren is starting to hang around some new friends; Caitlin, Amber and Jenna. In addition, she's quit choir and Becca is no longer her best friend. While at the mall with her new friends, Lauren is accused of shoplifting a bracelet. Lauren denies it and she says she was trying it on and forgot about it. Bill is willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, but Judy is convinced she did it, because she did the same thing when she was Lauren's age. When Bill and Judy are going out, Judy goes to Lauren's room to borrow some lipstick; She finds an MP3 player under her bed; The one Lauren asked her parents if she could get some money for and they couldn't do it. When they confront Lauren about it, she says she has no idea how it got there and Bill is now convinced that she lied about the bracelet and she stole the MP3 player. For punishment, Lauren is grounded for one month; She has to return and apologize for stealing the MP3 player. In the end we find out that Lauren did not steal the MP3 player. Meanwhile, Linda wants to use Tina in an experiment for her psychology class.
- Brian is in a panic because the PSATs are coming soon and when he did a practice test, Hakim did better. He wants to get a tutor, but his parents can't afford one. Judy suggests that he should get a job to pay for it and work at Bill's job at Berensen's. While working there, Brian is assigned to clean the stockroom and he gets that done quickly and with efficiency. This upsets "Mack" and "Fitz", because what he did, might make them work harder. Brian is constantly worrying about doing a good job and about the PSATs, so Bill convinces and teaches Brian to relax and stop worrying about things. Brian starts to relax, but he problem is he's too relaxed now and is considering skipping the PSATs. Judy is upset with Bill because he has Brian becoming lazy and if he skips the PSATs, he will regret it. Bill tells Brian that if he has an opportunity to better himself, he should take it. Brian points out that there is an announcement on the bulletin board in the stockroom for a management test they used as a hockey puck and why isn't he trying out for it. We find out that Bill has no desire to take the test, because the promotion means more stress, work for just a little more money and the test will be next week. Judy says she will help Bill study for the test, plus he needs to take it to set a good example to Brian and of all the kids, he will be the successful one, which Lauren and Tina hear it and Lauren, more than Tina is insulted. When Bill and Judy are going through Bill's employee handbook to study, they find it boring and are easily distracted. Bill starts to study on his own and Brian decides what to do with the PSAT test. Meanwhile, Linda has a new boyfriend, Kevin, but he has his son Jordan with him, so she recruits Lauren to accompany them, so they can double date.
- Bill and Judy have agreed to meet Tina's classmate Timmy Clark's parents over a dinner and are reluctant to go - until they discover that the Clarks too hate their own kids! Later, Bill is shocked to find out that Judy has already had other activity with the Clarks - without him. And the Clarks have invited Judy exclusively to dinner at a restaurant with them. Bill decides to crash the dinner. Linda and Brian buy matching cell phones and later they accidentally get switched. To Brian and his friend Douglas's shock, Linda's cell phone contains a video of Linda spanking herself.
- When an after school program is cancelled, the kids' parents decide to have a meeting to determine how they can raise money to reinstate the program. They decide a silent auction offering items donated by the parents will be a good way to raise money. Everyone seems to have good items to offer, but Bill and Judy have nothing. They decide to offer a beef dinner for 2, followed by a tooth cleaning by Judy. No one bids on it, while the other items all have been bid on. Judy and Bill figure out that the reason people want the after school program to continue is to be able to get rid of their children for a couple of hours. At the last minute they change their donation item to an arts and crafts party for the 10 highest bidders. The parents rush the table and their item is a success, beating out the Halversons. The Halversons congratulate them and then suggest they will help with Bill and Judy with the party if they accept 20 highest bids. They all agree. A few days before the party, the Halversons call Judy and tell her they can't help with the party, since they have a sick aunt out of town and must go help her. The party goes on as planned and Judy and Bill are overwhelmed with children running everywhere and problems occurring. Bill returns from the store with some items for the party and tells Judy there are dozens of cars parked at the Halversons and they are having a party, apparently laughing at pulling a fast one on Bill and Judy, who then round up the children and bring eggs and toilet paper to "decorate" the Halversons house. Inside the Halversons are having a memorial for their aunt who died. As eggs hit the windows and toilet paper is streaming everywhere, the Halversons open the door and confront the Millers, who are then embarrassed about the huge mistake they made. A police siren can be heard in the distance and the Millers and kids scatter.
- Bill's father makes a visit
- Bill becomes inseparable best buddies with Linda's new boyfriend, which continues on the sly after she dumps him for cheating.
- After Judy screams at the entire family because of a dirty roasting pan she intentionally left on the kitchen table (it's become a a week). She wanted to see if it would be cleaned by someone other than her. She says she does all of the grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning. Bill starts cooking secretly after he's been watching a late night cable cooking show, "Debbie Does Dinner"; Thing is, he's good at it but he doesn't want the entire family to know, since he would have to do all the cooking duties. Eventually, when he's found out, he takes over all the cooking to Judy's delight, since she doesn't have to do it and the family has been eating well. With Bill's cooking, there's a problem; When Bill starts putting on an apron, Judy is turned off, because when she sees Bill, she sees Mrs Doubtfire and she feels, that he's becoming less of a man. Now Judy is torn between his great cooking and her perception of his less manliness.
- Judy sees how fast the kids are growing up and wants to create a family night. However Bill's bowling team tryout causes complications.
- Judy is upset because Lauren is taking all easy classes like basic math instead of algebra in high school and she's afraid she will not get into college. When Linda is joining the family for dinner, Judy is venting her frustrations regarding Lauren to her. Linda says that in her psychology class she's learned the best way to deal with a teen is to negotiate with her. Judy scoffs at Linda's suggestion, and she made Lauren take algebra, but the problem is, Lauren is not even trying and Judy is tired of fighting with her. Bill decides to go to her room and be "Big Angry Guy" to scare her into straightening up, but Lauren ends up laughing at him. Judy thinks she should try and negotiate with Lauren and Bill suggests that they should trick Lauren, where they say if she sticks with algebra, in return, they will give her something vague where they don't have to keep it it like respecting her privacy. Judy is all for it, so they negotiate with Lauren, using that. Lauren agrees to the verbal agreement. Linda asks if the agreement is in writing and when the answer is no, she tries to get a contract written. Brian finds out about it and says the agreement is too vague, so a real negotiation is established. Some of the terms includes, besides sticking with algebra and the privacy issue as originally agreed upon, if Lauren washes the dishes, she gets phone privileges sand she can study in her room with her friends and the door can be closed. Judy is happy because the Lauren does the dishes and doesn't have to be asked to do it and they're not fighting. Problems arise when Lauren brings Jason home to help her with algebra and they will be in her room. Judy is okay with it but Bill is totally against it. Lauren and Bill get into a fight, resulting in Bill removing Laren's door from it's hinges. They talk about terminating the contract, until Judy puts a stop to it. Lauren's door is put back into place and Judy finds out that Lauren has Jason doing her homework for her and in the end, Bill finds a way to get Lauren to continue taking algebra and putting effort into it.
- Linda is choosing wedding invitations with Perry. This leaves Judy without company. Judy tries to make new friends in the park without coming across as a freak. When that fails, he tries to get Lauren and Fitz to hang around with her. Bill and Judy question Brian about his savings that have disappeared. Brian confesses that he is now playing a trading card game called Wizards: The Beckoning (a spoof of Magic: The Gathering), and bought cards that cost $200 - "But by now my collection has to be worth at least a thousand dollars", he claims. When Bill realizes that Brian has won $800, he and Judy try to make Brian sell his collection of cards before they lose their value. Bill attends one of Brian's game tournaments where he is known as Miller the Merciless. Lord Hades taunts him and suddenly Bill does not want Brian to sell his cards - he wants him to beat the other players.
- Brian and Lauren are getting along, and a pile of fake I.D.'s and stashed cash in Brian's bedroom only confirm for Judy and Bill that they're both up to something, but trying to find out what, exactly, only shows up their shortcomings as parents.
- The Oprah show. Louise really gets under Judy's skin. Lauren impeaches Brian as president of the meteorology club, and uses the clubs $4000.00 on a ski trip.
- Judy is upset at Bill because she must always take the "bad-cop" role with the kids while Bill always gets to be "good cop." Bill feels Judy should lighten up. The roles end up switched and Judy loves it while Bill hates having to clean up the kids' messes while Judy relaxes in the bathtub and gets plenty of sleep for a change. Bill concedes to Judy's point but she refuses to change back, so he drops the bad-cop role so both of them are the good cop. While the kids run amok, Bill predicts that Judy will "blink first." A couple of incidents with Lauren and Brian finally make Bill and Judy realize that "bad cop" is a good thing.
- Lauren writes a paper her role model; aunt Linda. Judy feels unfulfilled because she's not the creative type. Bill makes an effort to stop insulting Linda.
- Bill tries to spend more father-son time with Brian by teaching him how to drive.
- Bill learns. to his disappointment, that Brian is a vice president of the school kite club. Bill also notices that Lauren's friend Chris is hanging around in their living room a lot. On Lauren's request, he retreats to upstairs. When Bill comes down for a snack after midnight, he catches Chris sneaking out and flips out even though Chris claims that he did "nothing" with Lauren. Judy arrives to calm Bill down and has a discussion with him. She trusts Lauren and Chris, but Bill claims that Chris's lesbian mothers have an undesirable influence on him. So they visit their neighbors in order to get them to help keep an eye on Chris, but they have an unwavering trust on their boy. Judy then suggests that Bill try to bond with Chris and earn his respect, which would make him respect Lauren as well. But how to bond?
- Bill flirts with a waitress at an exclusive in town, making Judy upset and tricks him.
- Brian volunteers to help a hot "elderly" woman. When Bill finds out, he offers to help Brian ogle. Tina is sick. Bill and Judy continually forget to pick up Lauren from her school activities.
- When Bill and Judy discover that their pediatrician has the teddy bear that they used to hide their stash in, they must come up with a plan to get it back. When they find that the toy isnt in the donation bin at Dr. Blooms office anymore, they go back to his house where Lauren is babysitting his granddaughter, Ella. They discover that Ella is sound asleep holding it but as they prepare to get it away from her, Dr. Bloom returns home.
- After Linda meets a nice man and goes out with him hours after being dumped by another guy, Judy advises her not to go so fast. Linda and Judy have a fight, where Judy is blamed to always be nosing on her sister's life. Judy then decides to let her sister live her own life, and as a result she starts overcontrolling her children's lives with all the extra time she has in her hands. When they can't take it anymore, Bill decides to get the two back together and establish peace in the family
- Bill comes down with a bad case of accumulated sick days, which he'll lose if he doesn't use them by staying home for a few days. Lauren is about to go to her first school dance, but bullying another girl at school gets her grounded. Judy tries to impress Lauren about the wrongfulness of bullying by telling her the story of her own bullied time with classmate Jeana Mirelli. When Lauren later confides to Bill that Judy told her about Jeana, Bill thinks Judy shared the real story, where Judy was the merciless bully and Jeana was her victim. Lauren is outraged at Judy for lying, Judy is mad at Bill for revealing, and Bill is upset at Judy for not updating him on this latest lie to the kids. Since Bill seems to think Judy is being too harsh on Lauren, Judy puts Bill completely in charge of her punishment. To Lauren's delight, Bill allows her to attend the dance, so Judy further allows Bill to shop for Lauren's party dress, for which Bill, unschooled in the ways of aggressive dress shopping, is woefully unprepared.
- Bill takes Brian out to a gentlemen's club for his 18th birthday, but worries when Brian starts spending all his time there. Meanwhile, Linda regrets giving Lauren a poem for her homework when it may end up winning an award.
- As Brian is happily decked out in his new cheerleader sweater, Lauren is bummed. She used to be popular, but now in high school she's no longer getting accepted in anything she auditions for, lately the Fall dance show. Rather than have Lauren resort to taking up the clarinet again, Judy drags Bill to visit the school dance teacher. While there, Bill meets up with Madelyne the new drama teacher, a former classmate with whom Bill had a passionate summer fling 20 years ago. Following this happy reunion, Lauren gets a small part in the school play. Coincidence? Bill doesn't think so, not with a note from Madelyne asking for help back stage, a comment about a lot of catching up to do, and an offer of chili and beer at her house at night. Bill wearily avoids going to Madelyne's, and Lauren's monologue is thereafter cut from the show. Still a coincidence? Being told something of their past relationship, Judy immediately sends Bill back to flirt with Madelyne for the sake of their daughter, and Lauren winds up with a bigger role in the show. All a coincidence? Maybe, but will several revelations of that "Free Pass" summer, as Judy proclaims it, bring down the curtain on Lauren's stage career?
- Lauren goes to see a doctor about her rash. When her parents hear that she might be depressed, they want to do everything to help her. Brian and Lauren then realize they can benefit from pulling a scam on their parents.
- Brian is dating the school wallflower Brenda, but is also interested in the hot Kaitlin. Bill tells him how to "pull a Murphy": he used to date the school wallflower, which made him seem sensitive, and therefore interesting, in the eyes of the hot "school slut". Bill then broke up with the wallflower and got together with the "slut". Brian has a problem: his conscience does not allow him to pull a Murphy on Brenda. To his surprise, a solution presents itself, when Brian learns that Kaitlin would like a boyfriend like him AND he has to break up with Brenda because she is moving away - a "perfect Murphy", in Bill's words. But the surprise is not the last one...
- Bill's new manager is younger and smarter. When he takes an interest in Brian, Bill gets work perks.
- Bill and Judy have to put up with Marion going on about how wonderful her and Fitz's marriage is so after finding out that Marion & Fitz are going to the Rolling Stones concert conceive to buy tickets for the same concert and then end up playing a cat and mouse game with each other when both 'lose the tickets' which they haven't bought in order to guilt Marion and Fitz to giving them their tickets - but they didn't bargain on Brian.
- Bill's dad Al is coming for a visit and the girls are temporarily accommodated in the basement. Bill tells Judy that Al has changed for better since meeting his fiancée, Joy. And Al has promised to be a better father. Turns out that Joy has a son an Al is going to be a better father to him. Oh, and Bill's new step-brother's name is also Bill, so the original Bill (vol. 1) has to change his name. Unless he can sort out this terrible mess.
- Lauren is promoted to Honors Science, but Bill and Judy do her assignments.
- Bill and Judy intentionally and unintentionally interfere with Brian and Lauren's personal lives. After it backfires, they try to fix their mistakes.
- After complaining that Bill and Judy never give them money, Brian and Lauren get jobs. Brian connects more with his new boss than he ever did with Bill. Now that she is babysitting, Lauren does more for that family than she ever did at home, upsetting Judy.