Grounded for Life (season 1)

In a desperate grap for attention, Lily makes out with the nerdish next-door neighbor, Brad O'Keefe, in his car, causing Seasn to respond in a rather unorthodox way-by throwing fried chicken at the windshield. Walt babysits Jimmy and Henry and teaches them how to dig a hole. Eddie stays in the house and tries to hook up illegal cable so he and Sean can watch soft-core porn.

While snooping around in Lily's room, Sean discovers a fake I.D., and along with Claudia and Eddie, tries to find out what his daughter is doing in her spare time.

Jimmy's new science project, a scale model of the solar system, is due and he's eager to get back from the street fair, but, when Sean and Claudia discover The Ramones are playing, is forced to wait. Sean writes a note to Sister Helen, the principal of Jimmy's school , which gets Jimmy suspended. Sean and Eddie take Jimmy to The Statue of Liberty.

Jimmy's claim of demonic possession and Lily's skirt length spark a battle between Sean and Sister Helen. Sean brings home an old friend and Claudia's former boyfriend who has become a priest.

Lily's trip to an amusement park backfires when she calls Sean to pick her up. He doesn't like what he sees, and when he realizes HE was the one called because everyone thought he would go easy on them, he proceeds to get them all in trouble by telling their parents.

Lily freaks out when Sean says they can't afford to send her on a ski trip with her classmates. Things get worse when she learns that Sean inherited some money and spent it on a guitar for himself.

Claudia is looking forward to a trip to New Jersey to try to bong with Lily. Thinks go from bad to worse when Claudia tells popular cheerleader from Lily's school that her daughter is still a virgin. Lily takes off, leaving Claudia stuck - with no daughter, no luggage, and no clothes.

Claudia asks Sean to take Henry to the barber but it is closed. Sean decides to cut Henry's hair himself, making a real mess of things.

Sean tries to keep Eddie from hitting on a woman Claudia is consoling after a break-up.

Sean catches a fly ball that's still in play and loses the game for the Yankees. Claudia's upset when her bachelorette party she's throwing for her friends gets disruptive by Sean, Eddie and the boys, who have been chased by irate fans.

Walt gives Jimmy a BB gun for his birthday, prompting an all-out war between him and Sean, which ends up with Walt in the hospital, shot in the rump.

To save for a dream vacation to Mexico, Sean and Claudia start working extra shifts at work. This leads to chaos at home, with Eddie raising the kids, Lily getting her tongue pierced, Jimmy becoming a bully, and Henry panhandling and eating out of the garbage.

Sean Volunteers to referee Henry's soccer team and ends up making an unethical decision in the team's favor. Which in Hindsight wasn't a great idea, when Henry gets an inflated ego. So Sean tries to make things right the following week by making an unethical decision in the opposite team's favor. Meanwhile, Lily flirts with the cute guy at the concession stand and the conversion leaves her walking on air. But when she starts to obsess over the introduction, she replays the scene over in her head, each time thinking that she made a bigger and bigger fool of herself.

Lily's dance for the talent show is removed from the show by the school principal, and Sean agrees to sell thirty boxes of chocolate to have it in the show, proving to be a big mistake when Sean discovers that Lily and her friends will be performing the sexually suggestive song "Big Spender" from the Broadway play Sweet Charity.

After the family car goes missing one night, the Finnerty's find themselves at an impasse: Sean is in mourning over the loss, while Claudia hopes to gain from the inflated insurance claim. But when the battered remains of the car are towed to the hous a few days later, it becomes clear that Lily has been covering her tracks about an ill-fated joyride - and the reason why her parents have to buy the missing parts from Eddie's mechanic.

Claudia's erotic dream about Eddie has Sean seeing red, so he sets out to reignite the passion with his wife. Meanwhile, Henry decides to make "candy apples" out of anything he can find, and Lily and her friend Allison get drunk on apple cider.

Sean freaks out over Lily's attending a bash at Brad's after he spots the nerdy neighbor nervously buying condoms at a drugstore.

After Henry catches Sean and Claudia having sex, Sean is determined to handle the inevitable topic of the birds and the bees with Henry in a better way that Walt did. After having a father/son talk with Henry about sex, Sean feels good about how he handled things. When Sean and Claudia catch wors that they have a "reputation", they discover that Henry told his entire class about what he caught Sean and Claudia doing, forcing them to do some damage control.

The Finnerty's plan to push Walt back into the social scene backfires when he's social with a lady they don't like. Meanwhile, Lily's fears that her bad behavior has thrust Brad into Kristina's arms.

In the season finale, Claudia and Sean tell Lily the story of how she was born - which upsets Lily when she realizes that she was born before Sean and Claudia were married.