Season 1

#1 Pilot Episode (Sep 21, 1998)
Doug and Carrie Heffernan are a couple whose castle is invaded by Doug's father-in-law, who comes to live with them.

#2 Fat City (Sep 28, 1998)
After seeing photos of Carrie's stout mother, Doug worries that Carrie will gain weight as well, and tricks her into starting a diet.

#3 Cello Goodbye (Oct 5, 1998)
Doug is afraid he'll lose Carrie when her boss drives her home in his Jaguar and gives her tickets to see a famous cellist.

#4 Richie's Song (Oct 12, 1998)
Doug learns a secret about Richie's wife after a disastrous dinner party.

#5 Paternal Affairs (Oct 19, 1998)
Doug is uneasy when Arthur starts dating Doug's aunt, especially when the relationship becomes intimate — in his basement.

#6 Head First (Oct 26, 1998)
When Doug takes Carrie's dad out for the night, Carrie shows her appreciation in a very amorous way, which leads Doug to spend more time with Arthur.

#7 The Rock (Nov 2, 1998)
Carrie has her engagement ring cleaned and learns that it's valuable, and the jeweler offers to buy it for $12,000.

#8 Educating Doug (Nov 9, 1998)
Doug joins Carrie at a course on the Victorian novel, but can't get past the second page of Jane Eyre.

#9 Road Rayge (Nov 16, 1998)
Doug helps a sportswriter, Ray Barone, cheat on the driver's exam.

#10 Supermarket Story (Nov 23, 1998)
Carrie, Doug and Arthur languish at a crowded market on the day before Thanksgiving, while Arthur shames Carrie into planning a huge feast.

#11 Noel Cowards (Dec 14, 1998)
Carrie, Doug and Arthur languish at a crowded market on the day before Thanksgiving, while Arthur shames Carrie into planning a huge feast.

#12 Fixer Upper (Dec 21, 1998)
Carrie fixes up Spence with a coworker, and everything is going fine until Doug offers Spence some advice on the relationship.

#13 Best Man (Jan 11, 1999)
Doug fumes when he learns, before attending the wedding of a guy Carrie grew up with, that Carrie and the groom had sex once.

#14 Dog Days (Jan 18, 1999)
Doug can't seem to confront his new neighbors when their dog keeps Doug and Carrie awake all night.

#15 Crappy Birthday (Feb 1, 1999)
Doug lies and tells Carrie that he's made big plans for her 30th birthday — and he then scrambles to make the arrangements at the last minute.

#16 S'ain't Valentine's (Feb 8, 1999)
Arthur hits it off with a woman at a Valentine's Day dance for seniors.

#17 Court Date (Feb 15, 1999)
When a cop who gave Carrie a traffic ticket asks her out on a date, Doug talks her into going out with him until their court date.

#18 White Collar (Feb 22, 1999)
When the shift supervisor leaves for heart surgery, Doug is selected for the position, but despite the promotion, he hates the job. On top of that, Deacon feels he was overlooked because he's black.

#19 Rayny Day (Mar 1, 1999)
A Government holiday is anything but for Carrie, who spends it cleaning her kitchen, and for Doug, who spends it golfing — or trying to — with pal Ray Barone

#20 Train Wreck (Mar 15, 1999)
Doug is distraught by Carrie's indifference when she learns that his new trainee is a beautiful woman, so he tries to make her think something's going on.

#21 Hungry Man (Apr 5, 1999)
Doug shows up at one of Carrie's client parties and embarrasses himself.

#22 Time Share (Apr 26, 1999)
Carrie scolds Doug for inviting their pesky neighbors over — until she learns they want to offer their time-share in the Hamptons.

#23 Where's Poppa? (May 3, 1999)
Doug and Carrie try desperately to ship Arthur off to friends for the weekend so they can enjoy some intimate time together, but no one's eager to take him.

#24 Art House (May 10, 1999)
Doug is ecstatic when Arthur moves out of the basement and gets his own apartment following an argument between the two men. But Carrie is saddened by her father's move and wants Doug to ask him to return.

#25 Maybe Baby (May 17, 1999)
Doug and Carrie feel pressure to have a baby after learning that a friend is pregnant. Meanwhile, Arthur recalls when Carrie was born.

Season 2

#26 Queasy Rider (Sep 20, 1999)
Doug buys a motorcycle after he takes a ride on Richie's new "hog." That seriously annoys Carrie and gives her an idea.

#27 Female Problems (Sep 27, 1999)
Doug encourages Carrie to make new friends but then he becomes jealous when she starts spending a lot of time with their new neighbor.

#28 Assaulted Nuts (Oct 4, 1999)
Doug accidentally shoots himself in a rather sensitive area with a staple gun. Meanwhile, Carrie tries to secure a loan to turn a room in their house into an office.

#29 Parent Trapped (Oct 11, 1999)
Doug and Carrie agree to become godparents to Deacon and Kelly's newborn, but then change their minds. Meanwhile, Arthur is put in charge of the pretzel store where he works.

#30 Tube Stakes (Oct 18, 1999)
When Carrie accidentally leaves the garage door open, someone steals Doug's large-screen TV — and he thinks she did it on purpose.

#31 Doug Out (Oct 25, 1999)
Doug receives four tickets to a Mets game when he is named driver of the month. Unfortunately, he's forced to take Arthur with him, which leads to some frantic on- and off-the-field antics by Doug.

#32 Get Away (Nov 1, 1999)
The Heffernans invite Deacon and Kelly along as they celebrate their anniversary at a romantic inn, but things quickly turn sour when Doug starts feeling inferior to his friend's prodigious lovemaking echoing from the next room.

#33 Dire Straits (Nov 8, 1999)
A dinner with Ray and Debra Barone goes awry when Doug gets stuck in an opening to the attic and Debra learns that Ray insulted her.

#34 I, Candy (Nov 15, 1999)
Doug thinks he's hot stuff after an attractive waitress asks about his "situation," but Carrie is not amused.

#35 Roamin' Holiday (Nov 22, 1999)
Doug tries to prevent a friend of Carrie's and her humorless husband from spending the long Thanksgiving weekend with them by persuading Spencer to temporarily move in with him and Carrie.

#36 Sparing Carrie (Nov 29, 1999)
Doug's bowling team's sponsor threatens to withdraw his support if the team doesn't start winning more games. Unfortunately, Carrie is the weak link and Doug is the captain who has to improve her game or fire her from the team.

#37 Net Prophets (Dec 13, 1999)
When Doug receives a hefty Christmas bonus, Carrie wants them to invest it all in Internet stocks, but Doug isn't sure it's a good idea. Meanwhile, Arthur is determined to have more elaborate Christmas decorations than their neighbors.

#38 Party Favor (Jan 10, 2000)
When Carrie learns that Doug's cousin Danny doesn't have a best man for his wedding, she volunteers Doug — much to Doug's dismay.

#39 Block Buster (Jan 17, 2000)
Doug hosts a reunion of his high-school football team and is devastated when the coach credits another player for a key block he made in the championship game.

#40 Frozen Pop (Jan 24, 2000)
Carrie regrets letting Arthur sleep in her upstairs office to escape the cold basement when it becomes obvious he intends to stay there permanently.

#41 Fair Game (Feb 7, 2000)
Doug is shocked as he spies Carrie cheating during a board game with some friends, but he doesn't know how to confront her.

#42 Meet By-Product (Feb 14, 2000)
Doug and Carrie recall how they first met when he was a bouncer at a club and she was Richie's date. Donny Osmond appears as himself in a cameo.

#43 The Shmenkmans (Feb 21, 2000)
Doug and Carrie go out with a new couple and take an instant liking to them — unfortunately, so do Deacon and Kelly, who steal them away.

#44 Surprise Artie (Feb 28, 2000)
Carrie throws a surprise birthday party for Arthur and invites two of his oldest friends, who can't stop bickering.

#45 Wild Cards (Mar 6, 2000)
Doug lies to Carrie that he has to make a late delivery so he can accompany Deacon to Atlantic City and gamble, instead of going with her to see a Broadway show.

#46 Big Dougie (Apr 17, 2000)
Doug decides to become a big brother to a fatherless kid, after he learns that Deacon is one; Carrie accidentally tells a coworker, also named Doug, that she loves him.

#47 Soft Touch (May 1, 2000)
Doug proves to be a soft touch when his pushy neighbor persuades him to buy into his water-filter business.

#48 Restaurant Row (May 9, 2000)
Doug's enthusiasm over a hot, new restaurant is quickly deflated after Carrie makes an ugly scene at the restaurant and bans Doug from ever eating there again.

#49 Flower Power (May 15, 2000)
Carrie gets jealous when a coworker receives flowers and she accuses Doug of not being romantic anymore; Arthur is picked for jury duty.

#50 Whine Country (May 22, 2000)
Carrie and Doug lock horns over how and where to spend their vacation. She wants to fly to Paris, while he wants to drive out West in a deluxe RV called "the Roadbird Freedom 5000."

Season 3

#51 Do Rico (Oct 2, 2000)
Doug turns Carrie on by imitating the sexy voice of Rico, a studly new Latin co-worker, but then he grows jealous of Rico, whom Carrie has never met. Meanwhile, after reading Tuesdays with Morrie, Arthur tries to get a young delivery guy to "chronicle his wisdom."

#52 Roast Chicken (Oct 9, 2000)
Doug gets burned when he's asked by his boss to roast him at a banquet being given in his honor and Doug really, really insults him.

#53 Fatty McButterpants (Oct 16, 2000)
Doug is determined to lose weight after he finds out that Carrie gets all of his clothes at a store that specializes in bigger sizes; Arthur fears he'll get mugged, so he buys a plastic torso called "Mr. Safety" to make would-be robbers think he's not alone.

#54 Class Struggle (Oct 23, 2000)
Carrie decides to go back to college after some lawyers from work look down on her for being a secretary; Doug's sister visits.

#55 Strike One (Oct 30, 2000)
Doug's car breaks down, so he goes out and buys a new truck — just as his union goes on strike against his employer.

#56 Strike, Too (Nov 6, 2000)
Doug discovers he has a lot to learn when he takes a job as a substitute teacher while his union is on strike.

#57 Dark Meet (Nov 20, 2000)
On Thanksgiving, Doug and Carrie recall the first time they said they loved each other and the first time Doug met Arthur and his wife, Lily.

#58 Twisted Sitters (Nov 27, 2000)
Doug and Carrie watch Deacon and Kelly's kids while they attend an out-of-town funeral — and things couldn't go worse.

#59 Work Related (Dec 4, 2000)
Doug and Deacon keep raising the stakes in their efforts to play the best practical joke on each other. Also, Arthur takes a job as a delivery man in Carrie's office.

#60 Better Camera (Dec 11, 2000)
Doug's Christmas gift of a camera to Carrie turns out negative when she gets a better one from Pruzan. Also, Lou Ferrigno moves in next door to the Heffernans, so Arthur plans to give him a screenplay.

#61 Wedding Presence (Jan 8, 2001)
Doug and Carrie try to get out of attending a friend's wedding when they learn it's going to be in Maryland, a five-hour drive away; Arthur and Spence pretend to be father and son to cash in on a shoe sale.

#62 Hi-Def Jam (Jan 29, 2001)
Doug sets up his sister with Carrie's boss so that he can watch the Super Bowl on a high-definition TV.

#63 Paint Misbehavin (Feb 5, 2001)
A birthday party for Deacon at a paintball park becomes a war when Doug becomes jealous over Carrie's attraction to Deacon.

#64 Deacon Blues (Feb 12, 2001)
Doug catches Deacon dining with another woman, but he doesn't consider it an affair since Deacon hasn't slept with her. Carrie strongly disagrees and insists on telling Kelly.

#65 Horizontal Hold (Feb 19, 2001)
Carrie bans sex for two weeks after reading an article about couples who use sex as a substitute for communication; Arthur dates a woman who claims she was once Frank Sinatra's girlfriend.

#66 Inner Tube (Feb 26, 2001)
Doug dreams he's a character caught lying on The Honeymooners, Wheel of Fortune and The Young and the Restless, after he lies to Carrie and begins to worry she's going to find out.

#67 Papa Pill (Mar 19, 2001)
Doug feels sorry for Arthur and agrees to let him go to a cocktail lounge instead of to the weekly dance at a senior center. Big mistake. When Carrie finds out, she goes ballistic and turns her father's care over to Doug. A bigger mistake.

#68 Package Deal (Apr 9, 2001)
Doug looks for work after he quits his job and is turned down by a rival delivery service that he thought had guaranteed him a position. Also, neighbor Lou Ferrigno asks Carrie to help him apply tanning lotion and she gets carried away with her own tan.

#69 Separation Anxiety (Apr 16, 2001)
Doug and Deacon attempt to thwart a date Carrie set up between Kelly and a computer guy from Carrie's work.

#70 Departure Time (Apr 30, 2001)
Doug, Carrie and Arthur have an unpleasant visit with Doug's parents at the airport during a layover when Doug argues with them over their living will.

#71 Swim Neighbors (May 7, 2001)
Carrie takes legal action when her neighbors install an above-ground pool that overlooks her backyard fence, but the pool makes a big splash with Doug.

#72 S'no Job (May 14, 2001)
Doug is roped into trying to get his unemployed cousin, Danny, a delivery job with him.

#73 Pregnant Pause (May 21, 2001)
As the third season ends, Carrie learns she's pregnant, but fears that she and Doug aren't prepared to be parents and can't afford a baby. It doesn't help that she imagines their new arrival as Doug in diapers. Also, Deacon attempts to reconcile with Kelly, but Spence gets jealous.

Season 4

#74 Walk, Man (Sept 24, 2001)
As the fourth season begins, the Heffernans are again thinking about getting pregnant, just four months after Carrie's miscarriage. But there's one problem: Arthur. Now that his last friend from the senior center has moved away, Arthur naps all day. By the time Doug and Carrie get home, Arthur is full of energy and has no one but them to unleash it on. Quality time alone for the couple is impossible. That is, until Doug hires an attractive dog walker to occupy an unsuspecting Arthur: she takes him for a stroll three times a week, under the guise that she's a student interested in learning about his WWII experiences.

#75 Sight Gag (Oct 1, 2001)
Doug thinks he has come up with the perfect birthday gift for Carrie: laser eye surgery. That is until Carrie ends up nearly blind from the operation.

#76 Mean Streak (Oct 8, 2001)
Doug tries to break his company's record for consecutive delivery days without incident, but his peers don't want him to set a new mark because the current record holder was a much-beloved employee.

#77 Friender Beholder (Oct 15, 2001)
Doug and Carrie's friendship with Deacon and Kelly is strained after Doug hits their car and it turns out to need expensive repairs.

#78 No Retreat (Oct 22, 2001)
Doug reluctantly accompanies Carrie on a retreat thrown by her law firm and resorts to lying to impress her co-workers.

#79 Ticker Treat (Oct 29, 2001)
Arthur inexplicably forbids Doug to celebrate or even to acknowledge Halloween, but Doug ignores him and lives to regret it.

#80 Lyin’ Hearted (Nov. 5, 2001)
As Arthur prepares to undergo heart surgery, Carrie discovers something that he did years ago that drastically affected her life. Meanwhile, Doug makes friends with a quirky stranger in the hospital and soon regrets it.