When Doug does the voice of a new co-worker, he feels that Carrie will only listen to him if he does the voice. Doug now wonders if Carrie is still attracted to him.

When Doug's boss sees what a comedian he is, he asks him to "roast" him at his banquet. However, Doug finds that he is not as funny as he first thought. Will Doug be able to "roast" his boss?

Doug is offended that Carrie wants him to lose weight, so he vows to lose thirty pounds. In the process, Doug gives Carrie a remark that she wears too much make up to settle the score.

Carrie decides to return to college, with very little time to get things done.

While Doug's company is in strict negotiations, he decides to buy a brand new SUV. When Carrie finds out, she demands him to take it back. At this time, IPS has gone on strike. Now Doug is out of work.

It is week two of the IPS strike, and Doug still has not gotten a job. To get back on his feet, his sister Stephanie get him a substitute teacher job at her school. However, it is a high school, and the kids are not so nice. Can Doug survive?

Carrie and Kelly decide to have Arthur, Doug, and Deacon spend the whole day together. However, their plan backfires, because the three of them become uncontrollable delinquents.

Doug, Carrie and Arthur are thinking about the first Thanksgiving they (and Arthur's second wife Lily) spend together.

Doug and Carrie watch Deacon and Kelly's kids while they are out of town. When one of the kids sees them making love in the Palmers' bedroom, they must keep him from telling his parents.

When Arthur goes to Carrie's workplace with her, he's offered a menial job there which soon begins to irritate her. Doug competes to be "Mr. April" for IPS, but Deacon is in the way of his getting it.

It's the Christmas season and the Heffernan's see that they have a new neighbor who happens to be Lou Ferrigno.

Doug and Carrie run into an annoying couple who are happening to get married. The couple invite them and Doug and Carrie say they will be there for sure.

In order to watch the upcoming Super Bowl on a high-definition television, Doug hatches a plan to have his sister Stephanie (Ricki Lake) date Carrie's wealthy boss (Alex Skuby).

Doug plans a paintball party for Deacon, but he gets angry at Carrie because she finds Deacon attractive.

Doug sees Deacon with another woman while he told Kelly he had to work late.

Carrie bans sex for two weeks because she's afraid she and Doug don't talk enough.

When Doug lies to Carrie so he can play mud football, he gets sick and starts feeling guilty.

Doug tells Carrie he doesn't agree with the way she treats Arthur and because of that Carrie lets Doug take care of Arthur.

Doug receives an offer from FedEx and tells his IPS boss that if he wont give Doug a better route than he will transfer to FedEx.

During Deacon and Kelly's separation, Doug and Carrie go out with Kelly and run into a guy, Bill, Carrie knows from work. Bill and Kelly end up going on a date...

Doug's parents are coming in town so Doug and Carrie decide to go and pick them up at the airport and they bring upsetting news to Doug.

A hurricane devastates the adjoining backyards of the Heffernans and the Sackskbys. When Carrie rejects their idea of combining the two backyards and builds a tall fence, the Sacksbys retaliate by installing an above-ground swimming pool.

Danny's father Stu asks Doug to arrange a job interview for Danny at IPS. Doug however doesn't want Danny to work with him.

Carrie finds out she is pregnant but she thinks it's not the right time to have a child. Meanwhile, Deacon and Kelly begin to reconcile.

A second job being a limousine driver, Arthur asking him to make a lavatory in the basement, supporting Carrie and realizing he'll be a father in a few months all becomes too much for Doug.