
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 learns that his neighbor (Julie Newmar) has written a series of children's books, modeling a grumpy old man on him.

Jim suspects that the father (Joseph Bologna) of one of Ruby and Gracie's classmates is his own real father, who abandoned him as a child.

The household is annoyed when Gracie adopts an abandoned bird.

Dana pretends to be Ruby's mother to attract the attention of a single father she met in the park.