List of Unhappily Ever After episodes

When Jennifer and Jack Malloy's marriage ends, Jennie is left with the house and the kids and Jack is left out in the cold - with a talking toy bunny named Mr. Floppy that only he can hear.

When Jennie invites her almost-ex to an anniversary dinner, he is convinced that she is trying to cook up a reconciliation, but she just wants his VCR.

Jennie decides to teach Jack a lesson when he asks Ryan's teacher on a date.

Jennie's plan to sell her engagement ring to finance breast-enlargement surgery is a bust when she discovers her precious diamond is a fake.

Jack has a run-in with Maureen when he takes a reckless ride on his moped.

Jack decides to run for the border after his flu-ridden family runs him all over town attending to their needs.

Ryan and Ross move in with Dad after he urges them to boycott "women's work" at home.

A family feud ensues when Ross decides to cut off Mr. Floppy's foot for luck.

When a handsome housepainter does not put the moves on Jennie, she worries she is no longer attractive and looks to Jack for reassurance.

Jennie asks Jack to help her get out of the affair she is having with a married man.

Jennie and Jack regret letting Tiffany spend the night with her friends, including a male one.

Tiffany turns to her parents for help when she loses her school's dance fund in a bad investment scheme.

Jennie embarrasses the entire family when she is asked to give a speech at Ryan and Tiffany's school.

Jack moves back into the house for the kids' sake, but must live in the basement until he gets Jennie back.

When Tiffany gets a pimple and Ryan sets the scale to 10 pounds more than normal, Tiffany tries to develop a personality and Jennie starts jogging. Jennie becomes Vicky Vixen on the Internet and Ryan finds that Vicky Vixen has the hots for him.

Jack leaves Jennie's room for the basement because she will not let him have his way, but he finds a giant rat in the basement and makes the kids get rid of it.

Jennie gets into a fight with neighbor Susan, and drags Jack into fighting Susan's husband Vic.

When Jennie gets a date with her teen crush, Ray Paul Jones, she gives Jack the right to fantasize about a celebrity; he picks Cindy Crawford and gets arrested for stalking her.

Disasters occur when Jack teaches Ryan and Tiffany how to drive.

Jennie gets a glass table on Ross's ninth birthday and throws everyone out of the house for getting the table dirty.

When the family earns 40,000 frequent-flyer miles, Jack wants to go to Las Vegas and Jennie wants to go to Hawaii; Tiffany gets into a fight with Ryan's cheap crush Patty.

When Ryan gets all Ds and Fs on his report card, Jennie says he cannot have the car keys until he gets a B, so he makes a deal with his civics teacher Miss Taylor; Jack tries to figure out why Ryan is so dumb, and Tiffany suspects the mailman is her father.

Tiffany thinks Jack does not trust her when he does not let her boyfriend Mike into her room.

When Ryan starts taking urine tests for football players, he gets a lettered jersey and a football player's respect; with Ryan on the football team, nobody notices Tiffany when she gets the highest SAT scores in the school and becomes a National Merit Scholar.

When Tiffany and Ryan take Jack's car to a party without his permission, Jack and Jennie pretend the car is stolen, but then learn it actually is. Ryan and Tiffany get caught, and Ryan gets severely punished while Tiffany escapes responsibility.

After seeing a movie, Jennie takes the family on a picnic to bond - but the trip is ruined by gophers, poison ivy, and pesticide.

Jack is mistakenly thrown in jail when Jennie punches a meter maid; Jennie will not bail Jack out and things are terrible around the house without him.

When the family becomes obsessed with horoscopes, Ryan looks for a girl and Jennie tries to be nice.

Tiffany is disturbed when Danny does not want to go to the Valentine's Dance with her. Ryan plans to take his chemistry teacher Ms. O'Hara, but she blows herself up; Mr. Floppy sends obscene mail to Pamela Anderson.

Jack uses his height to beat Ryan at basketball for the 2,001st time.

Jennie relives her high-school days when Tiffany is cast as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Jack helps Ryan practice his one line for the play.

Jack starts writing stories that are really Floppy's and gets a big break, but later tries doing his own writing.

Tiffany is not the smartest girl in the class anymore when she is put into a smarter class.

It is the summer after Ryan finishes senior year. After he gets fired from the used-car lot, Jack threatens to kick him out of the house if he does not get a job, so Ryan goes to Cheeseburger Community College, but finds he must repeat senior year. Jack tries to keep the family out of the basement and works the night shift to avoid dealing with the kids.

On Jack's advice, Ryan becomes engaged to Crystal, a 30-year-old woman with two kids.

Sable, a girl as smart and beautiful as Tiffany, comes to Priddy High in the new school year, and she and Tiffany become rivals after exchanging secrets.

On a school "ditch day," Tiffany competes with Sable for surfer Moondoggie; Jennie does not want to be home when the maid comes, so she asks sick Jack to take her to the beach.

Tiffany jeopardizes her Princeton scholarship by taking fake prom pictures with nerds and leaving sexy messages on their answering machines for money.

Jennie makes Jack go talk to Sable's mother Morgana, who tries to seduce him; Ryan becomes Sable's boyfriend but feels more like her slave.

After getting struck by lightning, Ryan is convinced that he is superhero Lightning Boy.

Jack gets lonely when Jennie gets Tiffany addicted to bingo.

The Mad Hair Hacker stalks Tiffany, Sable, and Amber to chop off their long hair; Jack and Jennie look forward to terrorizing the neighborhood kids and giving them candy cigarettes on Halloween.

Ryan gets angry when Tiffany changes his band and they become a success; Mr. Floppy starts going into the washer to get into alternate worlds.

When Sable starts playing a sport for her scholarship, Tiffany joins the volleyball team.

Jennie expects to see stars when the family visits the House of Hollywood restaurant, but she only sees Erik Estrada, whom she does not recognize.

Jack and Jennie think Ryan is on drugs when they finds globs of his sweat in the car.

Deciding to do something bad, Tiffany steals some lipstick and becomes a rebel.

When Tiffany stops dating an actor, he offers the whole family parts in his TV show.^[48]

After Tiffany nominates Ryan for school president, he makes rules that benefit himself; Jack and Jennie must do Ryan's homework so he can maintain a C-average.

Jack cannot cope when Tiffany starts dating biker Johnny Stompanado; Jennie remembers her biker boyfriend.

Ryan, Tiffany, and their friends protest against the school's disgusting mashed potatoes. Jack suffers from insomnia.

Tiffany gets a B− on her essay because she does not agree with her teacher Mr. Monteleone's opinion while Ryan repeats everything Mr. Monteleone says for his report and does well. Jack and Mr. Floppy want to make a movie with naked women.

Ryan gets a mail-order bride.

Tiffany must work at an ice cream parlor.

Tiffany's advice causes Ryan to get lots of women at his new job as a hairdresser. Jack worries that Ryan is gay because of his new job, but respects him when he sees the women he is getting.

Jack goes to a loan shark for the $18,000 Tiffany needs to attend Harvard, but she decides to go to Northridge Junior College with Ryan when she meets Professor Alfred, a professor there. Then she finds that Professor Alfred is going to teach at Harvard and Mr. Monteleone is taking his spot.

Ross makes the family become vegetarians so he can win an environmentalist award and a $10,000 check, but Tiffany will not give in.

Tiffany becomes the gossip writer for the school newspaper and writes a story about Mr. Monteleone loving sheep.

For class projects, Tiffany pretends to be stupid around a guy and Ryan acts like a girl.

Guy Macaroon tells the family that Jennie has died by falling asleep on a tanning machine, so they must give her a good funeral to stop her ghost from pestering them.

When Jennie's ghost continues to pester the family, they call Father Guido Sarducci to perform an exorcism.

Mindy, a girl on the basketball team with a crush on Ryan, beats him at basketball. Ryan is embarrassed when Mindy tells the whole school, so he challenges her to a rematch with the school watching.

To join a sorority, Tiffany and Amber must be Ryan's slaves. Seeing Ryan and Tiffany enjoy college, Jack lists "college graduate" on his resume and becomes a doctor and an accountant.

After Bunny Mufflewits rejects him, Ryan becomes a vampire-slayer and uses Tiffany and Ross for bait.

Tiffany is arrested when Ryan uses her name and picture for his Internet cybersex scam.

When Tiffany breaks up a couple by asking the guy for the time, she starts to think he is her boyfriend, without meeting him. Ryan starts getting sympathy from girls who have been dumped.

Ryan meets a cute girl named Bitsy Berg who actually likes him, but she is way too perky and cannot stop talking in a fast, ditzy voice. The rest of the family hates her, but Ryan things she could be "the one" But it turns out Ryan was just one of a long list of men she had to sleep with as part of a sorority initiation.

When Barbara, the attractive new girl at Northridge Junior College who is a network executive, flirts with Jack, Jennie and Tiffany tell him to flirt back so they can get a network meeting.

Tiffany decides to present Teacher of the Year Mr. Peebody (Richard Sanders) with dinner at her house, then learns that he is an escaped murderer.

Working as night janitor to pay for the school computer he destroyed, Ryan finds the answers to an exam in the trashcan and starts selling them to other students.

After writing a report on Ryan cheating on a test, Tiffany goes undercover as one of the cheerleaders to expose them for her paper.

Tiffany plans to lose her virginity to her new boyfriend, then discovers he is saving himself for marriage.

Ryan's career-aptitude test reveals that he should be a teacher, so he becomes the student-teacher in Ross's class. When he accidentally stabs the teacher, Mr.Moss, to death with scissors, he takes over the class. Ross' girlfriend, 12-year-old Kitty, gets a crush on Ryan, so he has Tiffany pretend to be his girlfriend.

When Tiffany goes on a weekend ski trip and wakes up in bed and tied up with her skis, she tries to think back to what happened, while Ryan says that he beat up the Abominable Snowman. Meanwhile, Ross witnesses Jack and Jennie having a high old time while Tiffany and Ryan are away.

After making an unassisted triple-play in baseball, Ryan stars in many commercials, making money and gaining fame.

When Tiffany turns 20, she remodels her room and thinks she is old while Jack and Jennie fight over which is her favorite parent.

When Tiffany finds an Old-West book while planting flowers, she wonders what living in those times was like.

When Ross nails the front door shut to make everyone except Jennie watch his 5-hour story, Jack thinks about Floppy, women, and beer. Tiffany thinks about clothes, clothes, clothes; and Ryan thinks about Lightning Boy.

In a parody of The X-Files, Ryan and Tiffany investigate the Dancing Baby conspiracy.

Tiffany must run errands for A. Cyril Studebaker, her literature teacher, to get an A.

After being fouled-out by a girl in a basketball game, Ryan decides to prove that men are better than women in basketball.

Tiffany is annoyed when her sensitive boyfriend Jerome will not stand up to rude people at a movie.

Tiffany's love letters to her European boyfriend Jacques end up in Barbara's hands. Mr. Floppy holds a phone vote to decide if he should stay with Drew Barrymore.

After Tiffany remembers Ryan locking her in a closet 10 years before, Tiffany makes phone calls to him warning him to beware of the Closet Monster. Later, Ryan finds Jack, Barbara, and Ross dead and suspects Tiffany.

After Ross scores an average 100 on his IQ test, he gets Ryan and Tiffany to sign as his parents so he can retake it.

Tiffany faces off against Barbara in a fencing competition to get a good job.

To get money for the cable bill, the family goes on a game show called Smart and Stupid, but Tiffany tells Barbara she looked fat and stupid on TV.

School-newspaper editor Elliot sues Tiffany for sexual harassment when she tries to get him a front-page story; Ryan takes over the paper's horoscope section.

Ryan tells Tiffany he slept with Penny, whom she hates, and she cannot keep it secret.

Jack sells expensive toilets illegally so Ryan and Tiffany can buy a Corvette.

Rich, overweight Taffy has a crush on Ryan, so he dates her for her money.

Tiffany's bank wants her to be a spokeswoman to appeal to young savers.^[93]

Jack does not want to compete in a father-son basketball tournament with Ross, so he has Ryan pretend to be Ross. Tiffany and Barbara have Ross help them bake a cake for the homeless food drive so he will be distracted when Jack goes to the tournament.

While Tiffany and Barbara write up their applications for college, Tiffany lies that she can play the violin, then discovers she will need to prove she can play.

Jimbo, a fast-food millionaire with a burger joint, hires Ryan and tries to win Tiffany's heart by naming a new burger creation after her.

When Tiffany finds the guy who might be the one to lose her virginity to, Barbara gets in the way.

Tiffany decides to help Ryan try to win Barbara over.

Tiffany must paint a picture for art class but mixes up her works with Ryan's and becomes a success, then feels bad about using his work for her success.

After discovering that none of the Northridge Junior College teachers passed a teaching exam, Tiffany worries that all her time there will not count for Harvard, so she decides to teach her teachers so they can pass the exam before it is too late.

In the final episode, Tiffany is finally accepted into Harvard--without financial aid, so Jack becomes a successful used-car salesman and soon moves up to selling new cars, then sells cars to celebrities. But Mr. Floppy "dies" because Jack is so caught up in his work, he will not pay attention to him. However, drinking beer brings him back.