Brotherly Love

The boys fend for themselves when Claire goes to a spa for the weekend.

Perched at a bar on his twenty-first birthday, Joe reminisces about his dad and about turning sixteen, while at home Claire and the gang plan what they hope will be a nifty surprise party.

Claire has butterflies as she prepares for a first date. So do Matt and Andy, who fear that a newcomer will replace their dad.

Joe and Lou agree to be just friends and date others, but Joe fumes when Lou dates someone he doesn't know. He then unwittingly asks out Lou's best friend.

Both Joey and Matt ask Andy's new babysitter for a date.

The boys' lovable grandpa Big Mike rolls into town in a big rig and for a time endears himself to Joe with some promises he can't keep.

Lloyd's RV-driving mom visits as Joe is pushing to enter Andy in a pine-box derby to prevent a business rival's son from beating Matt's previous winning record.

Andy figures he won't get into any more trouble in school if Joe dates his teacher. Claire meets a potential date at the supermarket. Psychology student Matt fears he may have obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Joe regrets the path his life has taken after running into a once-unpopular classmate who's now headed for rock stardom.

Andy's excited about wearing his wilderness badge from the Young Pioneers, but his enthusiasm is dampened when a storm cancels his planned camping trip.

A merciless driver's-ed teacher may have Matt's future in mind when he passes out grades, but Joe has only revenge in mind when he rallies Matt, Lloyd and Lou in a payback prank on the man.

Lloyd quits the garage to fulfill his dreams after he sees a self-help video.

Even Joe agrees with Claire that the new girl in Matt's life seems to be out of his league, frequenting after-hour rave parties and drinking.

Matt's new girlfriend wants him to get a tattoo.

Joe is reunited with old friend Nell Bascombe.

Matt hopes to reinvent himself for a newcomer visiting her grandfather in the neighborhood; Andy fears getting hit by a comet.

Kristin gets Matt a job at a music store, but his future there looks bleak when the manager collars a shoplifter.

Joe helps Lou carry her art work to a gallery when the daughter's owner mistakes him for the artist. Also, Matt takes up playing the guitar & wants to write a song.

Romance is in the air at the pizza parlor as Matt's co-worker falls for Joe and Andy falls for a young girl who doesn't think his jokes are funny.

Andy becomes Joe's good luck charm on a trip to Atlantic City. Meanwhile, bad luck crashes the scene when Matt throws his first big party.

Joe moves in for the kill after Matt claims he's just friends with Kristin; an ice-cream vendor is a real treat for Andy and Claire.

Matt and Joe nearly come to fisticuffs over Kristin, who's unable to handle the truth when she hears it; and Lou receives an e-mail message from an admirer.

Mother's Day brings a surprise visit from Joe's hippie mom, who's pregnant and married to an aura-photographer.

Julia returns hoping to strike up a relationship with Matt again, but his friends aren't part of her plans. Meanwhile, Andy sells his childhood at a garage sale.

Matt and Andy mix like oil and water with Joe, who means to collect his share of their late father's garage.

Matt goes overboard trying to impress a girl; Joe warns Lou about an art dealer with connections who has convinced her he's interested in her junk sculpture.

Matt and Joe get into a heated debate over which of them should date Matt's forensics teacher after a field trip, Andy blames himself for the crack in the Liberty Bell.

Joe's merciless teasing destroys Matt's confidence for his role in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Joe could use a confidence-builder himself after agreeing to a nude-modeling gig for Lou's art class.

Taking Joe's advice nets Andy a new friend, but leaves Matt uncool at school; and Joe is anything but cool when he shirks his responsibilities for a free-spirited woman of independent means.

Lies and deceptions multiply when Lloyd meets a potential sweetheart on the Internet, and Matt tries to hid a blemish in anticipation of a first date.

An old girlfriend from high school visits Joe and he invites to spend the night. Matt accidentally sees the girl get out of the shower, causing Claire to tell Joe he is setting a bad example for the younger boys. Andy, meanwhile, can't face telling Claire that he isn't ready to go to a sleepover birthday party at a neighbor's house.

A fortuneteller gives Joe a Halloween scare, as does Andy's disappearance; Claire goes solo to a party; Matt endures the taunts of college-age trick-or-treaters. All this goes on while Lloyd watches the scariest movie ever made.

A conspiratorial Lloyd locks up Joe and Lou in the storeroom on a day that Lou has arranged a blind date and Joe has promised to aid Matt in a fight with a school bully.

Claire, Andy, and Lloyd come down with chicken pox. Joe makes an executive decision to expand Roman Customizing by signing a new account Claire had already turned down.

Lloyd promises Andy that Santa would get him anything he wants for Christmas but finds himself in a bind when he is unable to pull it off.

Matt hopes to shed his boring image by catching the action at a salsa dance club, where his mom and Lou suddenly show up; and so do Joe and Andy, who swing by in a Batmobile-style cruiser.

Matt wants to play Philadelphia's Lucky Burger clown for the money while Joey wants to join the motorcycle-racing circuit and follow in his father's footsteps, which worries Claire.

The younger Roman brothers consider their Designated Dad Jack a delightful companion, but to Joe he's an interloper in the family.

Lou weighs a heavy decision after accepting an engagement ring from her boyfriend; Matt's sarcastic new friends rib Lloyd.

Dissatisfied with their respective dates, Joe and Lou introduce the two on a double date.