Just as Karen is musing that nothing ever happens, Cody returns from his overseas trip after two years, bringing with him gifts for the family. For Frank and Carol he has ...

Flash continues his record attempt, even acting in the Indiana Jones show as the intrepid adventurer. The girls repeat Karen's Country and Western number for hours; when ...

Frank's widowed ma Helen Lambert makes the whole family an 'early inheritance' gift': a week with her in Disney world, so the couple can forget about a mountain weekend t ...

Given her varied interests, Dana takes a placement test at the Newton center to choose a major; J.T. and Rich join her as 'naked volleyball' is not accepted. The improbab ...

Since Rich Halke passed on 20 copies of a chain-letter, he has nothing but good luck, while the Lamberts who laughed at the nonsense, even his mate J.T., pile up misery; ...

J.T.'s school sends an academic probation note for terrible grades, Frank says buckle up or get a job. He studies for a change, then his even dumber mate Rich offers him ...

When Cody wears his cheese-head, he guesses the lotto numbers without fault, but never plays because he only enjoys winning, not the 'burden' of fortune; when Mark and Ka ...

Cody invents greeting cards- for weird occasions, and on 'appropriate' objects instead of cards. When Karen is furious a girl-friend stole her date, J.T. and his mate Ric ...

Valentines day approaches, but after catching a date cheating on her, Dana hates men more then ever. Cody encourages her to take in interest in a romantic secret admirer, ...

Cody has the hiccups badly, scaring him doesn't work; Mark hypnotizes him, again no luck. Reading a murder story 'Die, Mommy, Die' in bed makes Carol frighteningly itchy, ...

Frank is caught in the middle of a dispute between Carol and his well-meaning but overbearing mother, Helen, over the rearing of baby Lily. He wants to stay out of the ar ...

Cody figures his camping trip is ideal to test his latest invention: edible food, so he doesn't have to carry provisions, but grizzly bears love eating more... J.T. convi ...

Despite Al's assurance Casey Maxwell isn't his type, J.T. can't resist dating a fox with a limo driver when she calls him cute. Alas the spoiled crime princess of a Chica ...

Cody has got himself electrocuted with high voltage on his van's Christmas lighting for a local contest. J.T. proves himself a gifted salesman eager to pay for a ski trip ...

Dana was eager to see 'the Amazing Codini' perform, but realizes too late he takes her into the magic box, hasn't fixed the necessary link to get out again and has no bac ...

To Dana's surprise, both other members of her aggressive-paranoid feminist club accept Cody as first-ever male member and de facto prime interest; anyhow, everybody on ca ...

Cody proudly announces he got a back-breaking 'dream job', as 'stagehound' (roadie) for Mark's idol, rock band singer Christi Rose and Petal to the Metal, and gets the ge ...

Being fired at her last job, Al must work at a chain's local new cookie-place where the corporate mascot chimp Mr. Chips is madly venerated. When the trainer can't pick M ...

Fed up with the kids' endless petty demands, Frank and Carol tell them they can do it all themselves. They dare not ask for help, even when Brendan needs a signed permiss ...

Now the Lamberts are auditioning for a housekeeper, J.T. chooses Carrie Clark without qualifications for first-sight-obvious reasons; they get 24 hours, and it looks like ...

J.T. and Dana help a friend man a crisis hotline as part of a class project. While the two are alone, a call comes in from a suicidal subject named Todd, whose living sit ...

Dana moves out at 19 to a college dorm- well, Frank and the other kids move it up, anything to get her out! Carol is heartbroken her 'baby' is gone, so infant baby Lilly ...

Cody believes his own obituary, especially when the money machine does the same. Meanwhile, Frank and Carol desperately need quality time together and ask the girls to ba ...

J.T. and his pal Rich Halke plan to make out with their girlfriends at the drive-in theater, but when J.T. realizes that Rich's girlfriend is Al, he determines to keep th ...

Carol has decided to get rid of most of Frank's 'junk' (a matter of taste and memories) by holding a garage sale, so he overprices; she even wants to give in to a shamele ...

Frank is pleased enough with Cody's construction work, actually bright compared to Dave, to promote his cool cousin to foreman, but Cody has the natural boss-authority of ...

When JT makes fun of Karen for wearing a fake pregnancy suit while Carol is expecting, Dana dares JT to wear one for a whole weekend to prove which is the weaker sex; mea ...

Dana can't believe that night-school student J.T., a marginal student at best, earned his first A-plus in class, then learns that the teacher wants to seduce him. J.T. re ...

Cody is told by his professor he uses the word dude too much when giving a talk. He comes up with a plan to stop him using the word, with the control going to Dana. She z ...

Dana is proud as a peacock to be selected as tutor for a remedial class - until she learns that her colleague is Cody. Nobody pays attention to Miss Foster's dry academic ...

Dana is over-sensitive to painkillers, but after a serious dentist job can't stand it, and gets stoned badly enough to get frisky with the Codemeister and try his ice-cre ...

It's Frank's birthday, and he knows exactly what he wants (a trout tracker), but Carol believes in shopping for a surprise gift, and comes up with a 'treat' he considers ...