Pilot
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 5, 2001
Molly learns that her mother has invited a cute guy Molly wants to date to dinner.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 5, 2001
Molly learns that her mother has invited a cute guy Molly wants to date to dinner.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 12, 2001
Molly is mortified to learn that her parents are planning to appear in a local theater production of "Hair," which may include a nude scene. Meanwhile, Fred fumes over Harriet's attraction to his best friend.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2001
Molly joins the school's cheerleading squad to be closer to Nick, but making the team comes at a price---her availability to the chess club. Elsewhere, Jerry and Rick grow mustaches as father and son compete to be more attractive to women.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2001
Molly gets little help from her family as she tries to deal with her breakup with Nick---they're much too busy preparing for Halloween. Meanwhile, Harriet waits for a call back from a gentleman suitor.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2001
Molly celebrates her 16th birthday and endures her family's bizarre rituals, which include peculiar songs and a seafood dinner at the same restaurant where cool kids from Molly's school are hanging out.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2001
At school, Molly finds a discarded CD with an eclectic mix of love songs on it, and she sets out to find the person who recorded it. Mary, meanwhile, is angry with Jerry but won't tell him why; and Harriet meets a mime and develops an interest in the art.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 16, 2001
Jerry sets Molly up with a high-school senior who works in his office and has nearly the same personality traits as her dad, but the teen has her heart set on a new student from England. Meanwhile, Harriet asks Grant to teach her to play the guitar; and Rick has money problems with a bookie.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Dec 7, 2001
Jerry agrees to house an exchange student from Brazil after learning that the girl plays on her country's Olympic soccer team. Meanwhile, Molly is upset that she can't go to a party with Nick because it's scheduled for the same night as a piano recital by the twins.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Dec 14, 2001
Molly suggests that Mary get a job to shake off her blues, but her advice backfires when Mary is hired as a lunch lady at Molly's school. Meanwhile, Rick is depressed after an attractive woman turns him down for a date.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Jan 11, 2002
Molly meets a cute guy outside her father's office, but soon discovers that the boy is the son of Jerry's business rival, a laser eye surgeon. Meanwhile, an attractive department-store clerk shows an interest in Grant, despite Rick's attempts to woo her.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jan 18, 2002
Molly and Grant clean out the attic during a day off from school and accidentally spill paint on their mother's wedding dress; Rick baby-sits the twins in their room, where they force their brother to participate in a humiliating tea party.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2002
Molly wins a chance to compete for a Dutch heritage scholarship for college, only to learn that her family isn't really Dutch. Meanwhile, Grant has trouble sleeping because of recurring romantic dreams about Mia.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2002
Jerry decides to build a boat and he enlists his family's help, but the bulk of the labor falls on Rick's shoulders. Meanwhile, Molly bonds with the family of a guy she wants to date.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2002
Harriet asks her family to stage a funeral for her and requests that her niece Tillie be allowed to attend, despite a rift that exists between Tillie and Mary. While Molly arranges the gathering, Rick struggles with the eulogy his grandmother asked him to write.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Mar 15, 2002
Molly decides to run for student-body president and casts Grant in a music video to announce her candidacy. But the voters who see the tape think that Grant is the candidate, and his new popularity leads him to toss his own hat into the ring.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Mar 22, 2002
A baby is left in a bassinet on the Stages' porch with a note written by the mother claiming that Rick is the child's father. While Rick tries to find the woman, Molly is stuck caring for the infant and the twins compete with the new arrival for their parents' attention.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Mar 29, 2002
Molly visits the home of an eccentric soccer teammate and meets the girl's bizarre parents, whose unusual behavior rivals that of her own folks. Meanwhile, Grant inadvertently agrees to do a school paper on Jerry's life, which hasn't been too exciting.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Apr 5, 2002
Molly's new lab partner in science class is Nick's current girlfriend, with whom Molly soon bonds after Nick dumps the popular girl. Meanwhile, Jerry arranges to take Mary to a swing-club outing to celebrate their anniversary, not realizing that it's not a dance group but rather a spouse-swapping coterie.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Apr 12, 2002
Molly teaches Rick how to be sensitive when he starts dating a new flame, but her efforts backfire when the woman dumps him. Meanwhile, Mary is obsessed with documenting her mother's past.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Apr 19, 2002
Mary enters Molly into the town's yearly Quahog Festival Pageant, which Molly doesn't even want to participate in until the teen hears someone insult Mary about her involvement in a previous competition. Meanwhile, Jerry recruits Grant to help him build a float for the festival's parade.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Apr 26, 2002
In Part 1 of a two-part episode, Molly develops feelings for her friend Ben and she considers asking him to the prom. Meanwhile, Rick learns that his name is on the deed to the Stage home and he inadvertently loses the property in a card game.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: May 3, 2002
In the conclusion of a two-part first-season finale, Molly grudgingly goes to the prom with the nerdy son of a gangster who holds the deed to the Stage home after Rick loses it in a card game. Meanwhile, the twins try to thwart Rick's attempts to attend the dance with a sexy student.