Pilot
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2000
32-year-old Lydia DeLucca astonishes everyone by breaking off her six-year engagement and enrolling in college.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2000
32-year-old Lydia DeLucca astonishes everyone by breaking off her six-year engagement and enrolling in college.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 7, 2000
A series of financial setbacks prompts Lydia to consider dropping out of school.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 14, 2000
Lydia is torn between dating a 23-year-old student and going back to Lou.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 21, 2000
Lydia is concerned about Paulie when he moves in with her following an argument with their father.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 28, 2000
Jackie becomes unglued when her irresponsible mother pays a visit. At the same time, Lydia threatens her relationship with Jackie when she chooses to attend a college lecture rather than keep a commitment. Lou inadvertently hurts Paulie's feelings.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 4, 2000
Lydia starts to have second thoughts about breaking up with Lou when her biological clock starts ticking. Unfortunately, Lou is dating someone else. Jackie dates a certain doctor and Dolly revamps her look.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 11, 2000
Lydia's relationship with her English professor could jeopardize both of their futures at the university. Dolly is depressed when Frank spends his free time in a karaoke bar.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 18, 2000
At the same time that a 13-year-old prodigy is tutoring her in math, Professor Cahill stuns Lydia by suggesting that she drop his class so they can date. After canceling a date with Candy, Paulie and Candy both avoid each other, though for different reasons.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 25, 2000
Lydia is upset when her lifelong role model for the modern independent woman gives up her idyllic life to get married to a man she has known for only three weeks.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 16, 2000
Lydia is conflicted when Lou buys "their" dream house. Dolly gets hooked on the Internet. Jackie opens her salon to younger clientele.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jan 6, 2001
After the death of one of her friends, Dolly divides her possessions between her kids while Lydia tries to spend some quality time with her. Lydia has trouble with a photography assignment and Paulie suffers an embarrassing on-the-job injury.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2001
Lydia has the worst week on record when her car breaks down, her apartment is robbed, and she must struggle with a psychology paper. Jackie looks forward to her first date with Professor Leski.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2001
The family becomes overly protective after Frank suffers a mild heart attack. Victor avoids dealing with his 11 year-old daughter and Candy reveals a startling revelation to Paulie.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2001
After losing her job at the bar, Lydia has trouble making ends meet while meeting her community service requirement. Jackie is wary about trusting Victor and Paulie rebounds from his breakup with Candy by working closely with Plum on the campus watch.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 10, 2001
Lydia's parents grow concerned about her continuing friendship with J.T. Paulie gets the wrong idea about Plum when she rescues him by paying for their dinner.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2001
To Dolly's dismay, Frank quits his job at the tollbooth without consulting her. Lydia tries to help J.T. get his G.E.D., despite his resistance and Victor proposes to Jackie.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 24, 2001
When Lydia suspects Paulie of wrongdoing, she gets herself into trouble. Frank tries to start a new career as a restaurateur and Jackie ponders Victor's proposal.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Mar 10, 2001
In the week of Cucina DeLucca's grand opening, the DeLucca family has a scare when Lydia learns there's a lump in her breast. Paulie meets Plum's father.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Apr 7, 2001
Lydia and Jackie think they've hit the jackpot when they win $10,000 in the lottery. Unfortunately a man with a gun claims the ticket is his. When the friends figure out that the gun isn't real, they beat the man up only to have him sue them for $250,000.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 28, 2001
A sprained thumb motivates Lydia to choose a major and inspire others. Jackie is faced with an unexpected pregnancy and a marriage proposal.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 5, 2001
Lydia learns that a physical-therapy aid is assisting the football coach in getting an edge over the competition. Jackie has an unpleasant encounter with Victor's mother. Paulie and Plum elope when Dolly won't accept their engagement.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 12, 2001
Lydia dates a hockey player and gets a false impression about him as well as Eric. A new employee starts working at the restaurant and jealousy gets the better of Paulie.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2001
Lydia discovers that Eric's wife is having an affair. Fed up with municipal bureaucracy, Dolly takes matters into her own hands.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2001
Secrets continue to weigh down Lydia, who continues to keep mum about Paulie's marriage and Karen's affair. Dolly gets depressed when she learns a sordid secret about her father's past.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2001
Paulie is frantic when Plum is reported missing on Halloween. Dolly is forced to entertain Plum's neurotic mother and Jackie receives a lesson in parenting from a lost trick or treater.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2001
Lydia's romantic advances toward Eric fall on deaf ears. Paulie is worried by the arrival of Plum's old boyfriend and Jackie gets in touch with Ray's sensitive side.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 16, 2001
Days before their official church wedding, Plum and Paulie reconsider the wisdom of being married. Lydia asks a hockey player to be her date for the wedding.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Dec 7, 2001
Scandal rocks Dolly's campaign thanks to a protest striptease by Lydia, and Paulie's decision to have sex with Plum in the park.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 21, 2001
Lydia reconsiders a romance with Eric, who begins to rethink his relationship with Samantha. Dolly tends to the needs of a lonely voter.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Jan 11, 2002
Lydia helps an actor bring authenticity to the role of an Italian-American from New Jersey. Jackie's romance with Ray is threatened when his past catches up with him. Lydia has her own share of drama in keeping her new beau a secret from Dolly.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jan 12, 2002
Jackie's conflict over leaving for Mexico with Ray or staying in New Jersey with a visiting Abigail puts a strain on her friendship with Lydia. Frank has difficulty in accepting a generous gift from Plum and Lydia is charmed into getting Mack's irresponsible brother a job at the sports clinic.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2002
Cucina DeLucca silent partner Paulie doesn't stay quiet for very long after distant cousin Lorenzo arrives from Italy to help in the kitchen and ends up making drastic changes to the restaurant's menu and ambiance. A laid-up Jackie thinks she's witnessed a murder.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate:
As Paulie's birthday approaches, he discovers that Jimmy is gay. Lydia finds a new apartment right above the Cucina, and reunites with Mack. Frank and Dolly get an unpleasant surprise when they enter Lydia's new place without knocking and Lydia discovers that Jackie and Mack had a brief affair fourteen years ago.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate:
Lydia and Mack decide to move in together. Dolly and Frank are unhappy and decide to use reverse psychology on their daughter by pretending to like Mack.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate:
Lydia advises a jock to pursue his dreams, encouraging him not to drop out of college. Jules returns for her grandson's christening.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate:
Plum discovers that Gavin is the new teaching assistant assigned to her class. Valerie comes to the rescue when an attractive divorced friend tries to seduce Frank.