
Jim is a couch-potato dad and husband trying to achieve picket-fence ideals while keeping a firm hold on his manliness. His beautiful wife tolerates his childish antics because of his tireless loyalty to her and their three kids. Jim's penchant for taking the easy route in everything frequently backfires, landing him in comical situations.

Jim feels guilty after cheating at a church's fund-raising bingo game.

Jim must pay for an expensive operation to keep the family's pet guinea pig alive.

When Cheryl's friend gets expensive jewelry from her husband as gifts for no reason, Cheryl expects Jim to do the same; Jim finds these to be unreasonable requests and doubts the husband's intentions.

Jim's pizza delivery boy moves in with him and Cheryl after the boy's father kicks him out of the house because of his dream of doing standup comedy.