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A whiny news reporter is given the chance to step into God's shoes.

The Hennessy clan -- mother Cate, daughters Bridget and Kerry, and son Rory -- look to one another for guidance and support after the death of Paul, the family patriarch. Cate's parents lend a hand.

A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.

Two straight, single Brooklyn firefighters pretend to be a gay couple in order to receive domestic partner benefits.

God contacts Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his deceased wife through her patients' near death experiences.

Scientist Sherman Klump's inventions, his upcoming marriage to his pretty colleague Denise Gaines, and his reputation, are threatened by his evil clone Buddy Love.

Director Tom Shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what's wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way we live in it.

Two friends travel across America to expose the truth behind girl-against-girl "crime".

The comedy centers on the doctor with the world's worst bedside manner who undergoes a transformative experience that makes him overly empathetic.

Local morning talk show co-hosts don't realize they're meant to be a couple.

C.J. plans to leave for Las Vegas to spend Christmas there because his parents always spent their holiday at some exotic location while he was "dumped" to some nanny. Cate shows C.J. a Christmas photo from when she was 10 years old and succeeds in changing his mind. Cate makes the mistake of promising that the family celebrates this Christmas exactly like in the photo - and C.J. wants all the details duplicated... Rory surprises everyone with the revelation that he has a rich girlfriend. But what kind of Christmas present can he give to a girl who has everything?

Paul decides that he is going to make this Christmas the best one ever. As he and Cate decorate the Christmas tree the kids tell him what they want for Christmas. Rory wants a motorcycle, Bridget wants to be with Kyle on Christmas Eve, and Kerry wants to keep a lost puppy that she just found wandering in the street. Paul wants to win the brightest lights competition in the neighborhood, but it seems like the neighbors are winning.

Cate brings Kerry home after giving her a tour of the hospital. Kerry tells Paul about the starving twins she saw and how disappointed she is in the state of the world. Cate suggests that Kerry become involved with the Great American Bake Sale, an event Cate's hospital is participating in where people volunteer to bake goods to give to the hungry and homeless. Kyle and Bridget come home carrying a sack of flour bundled in a baby blanket. They have been paired up in heath class with an assignment to take care of the sack like it is a real baby. Kerry and Rory spend an evening together cooking in the kitchen. Rory has apparently developed a knack for baking and tries to give his sister advice. When Kerry continues to make mistakes, a frustrated Rory kicks her out of "his" kitchen.

Paul gets angry at Bridget for spending too much money on fashion, and tells her to find a job to learn more about money responsibility. Bridget gets a job at a local clothing store. Bridget receives a 40% discount off merchandise for being an employee of the store. She abuses the discount and overspends and receives no money on her first paycheck.

Paul and Cate come home to find Rory rolled up in a carpet in the living room. Bridget and Kerry are punished for what they did to their brother. Later on, the doorbell rings and Paul answers it to meet Anthony, a white kid acting and dressing ghetto. Anthony asks for Bridget and Kerry in a ghetto lingo unfamiliar to Paul who slams the door on him. Cate discovers Paul is reading a parenting book - Paul says he's tired of always being the bad guy and reveals some of what he has learned from reading the first five chapters. Later on, Rory comes to Paul claiming to have helped out with the laundry and having conveniently found a fliers for an extreme rock concert in Bridget's pocket and under Kerry's bed, which he feels he needs to show Paul. Rory tells Paul that the concert is the same night the girls' sleepovers are planned...

Bridget is going to a sleepover - or is she? Kerry's driving license test is approaching and she needs lessons. Turns out Gramps has to take the test too. C.J. holds a party at the campus, which leads to complications.

A novel development takes place: Kerry is jealous of Bridget. C.J.'s biological father comes to see him for the first time ever.

Rory has reached the age of regular self-pleasuring. A stunning younger woman is hanging around with principal Gibb. He introduces her as his "friend" Cheryl, but she is much more intimate with him than that. Cate is jealous. Gibb asks C.J. to let Cheryl attend his classes in preparation for her upcoming final exams to get a GED certificate. Gibb wants to make sure Cate is not uncomfortable about him dating Cheryl. Cheryl, meanwhile, asks "personal tutoring" from C.J. - in the privacy of her home... What will C.J. do? And Rory gets caught with his pants down - literally.

Rory is enamored with Marnie the Slurpie Girl and knows she'd like to see OutKast live. But he hasn't got a driver. Nor tickets like her sisters. *Then* he gets left with the keys and wrecks the mini-van. Surely he is doomed? Right?