29 episodes in the catalogue. Explore the stories and air dates, then choose an episode to open FRAME’s player.
Air date: 2003-09-23 · 30 min
Jim is outraged to learn they pay for groceries to be delivered. Cheryl says they have deliveries for a lot of things. He says he will take over the job of grocery shopping and other errands himself to save money, but it does not work out.
Open episode 1 ↗Air date: 2003-09-30 · 30 min
Kyle has a new favorite toy - a Packers Team football. Since Jim's favorite team is the Chicago Bears, he does not like that Kyle has a different team's ball.
Open episode 2 ↗Air date: 2003-10-07 · 30 min
Jim wins a water-bed when playing bingo at a church fund-raiser. The pastor realizes Jim cheated, and talks to him about doing the right thing.
Open episode 3 ↗Air date: 2003-10-14 · 30 min
Jim gets Cheryl a pair of expensive pair of earrings that is similar to the pair of earrings she usually wears. Cheryl accuses Jim of not knowing her. To get back in her good graces, Jim tries to notice everything and buys more gifts.
Open episode 4 ↗Air date: 2003-10-21 · 30 min
The girls get permission to open a lemonade stand to earn money. When the neighbors start a better lemonade stand in competition, Jim, Cheryl and the others up the competition.
Open episode 5 ↗Air date: 2003-10-21 · 30 min
Jim tells Cheryl she is making a big deal of Ruby doing homework. Cheryl tells him that he should try it. Since Jim does not want to, he talks to Ruby's teacher to give less homework because Cheryl cannot read. His story gets back to Cheryl.
Open episode 6 ↗Air date: 2003-10-28 · 30 min
Dana's new date is similar to Jim in many ways. Cheryl teaches Dana that she is basically dating Jim, and when Dana realizes it is right, she gets upset at Cheryl for pointing out the similarities. Cheryl hosts a Halloween party.
Open episode 7 ↗Air date: 2003-11-04 · 30 min
Jim takes the girls to see a scary movie even though Cheryl tells him not to. When the girls have nightmares at bedtime, Cheryl thinks she did something wrong.
Open episode 8 ↗Air date: 2003-11-11 · 30 min
Jim seems to always be busy helping a friend when he and Cheryl are to visit with some friends. Cheryl realizes this happens only when it is a specific couple.
Open episode 9 ↗Air date: 2003-11-18 · 30 min
Jim is tired of Cheryl always picking activities for them as a couple, especially the cooking class which was a disaster. He picks paint-ball for the next activity, thinking she will hate it.
Open episode 10 ↗Air date: 2003-11-25 · 30 min
Cheryl climbs the roof to get the tablecloth Jim tied there for a Halloween. When she is stuck on the roof and no one notices she is missing, she realizes she is taken for granted. Jim says he will make Thanksgiving dinner but then doesn't.
Open episode 11 ↗Air date: 2003-12-02 · 30 min
Jim is puzzled when Cheryl apologizes to him in the morning, but he accepts the apology and decides to use it against her to get out of everything he does not want to do.
Open episode 12 ↗Air date: 2003-12-09 · 30 min
Dana does not have money to buy Jim a Christmas gift, so Cheryl tells her to just take one Cheryl already purchased and say it is from her. Dana ends up putting her name on the most expensive gift and claims it as hers to give.
Open episode 13 ↗Air date: 2004-01-06 · 30 min
The house across the street from Jim & Cheryl is on sale. The Devlins visit and announce they are placing a bid on the house. Jim & Cheryl are upset and thinking of moving to get away from them.
Open episode 14 ↗Air date: 2004-01-27 · 30 min
Dana is fed up because she attracts only shallow men. Jim is in trouble because his bowling team is missing one player. It just happens that Reverend Pierson is the solution to both problems. Unfortunately, there is a catch.
Open episode 15 ↗Air date: 2004-02-10 · 30 min
Danny and Laraine announce their intent to marry, and Danny asks Jim to be his best man. Cheryl tells Jim he better not get Danny drunk at a bachelor party. So instead, Jim takes him for a cold swim in Lake Michigan and gets him sick.
Open episode 16 ↗Air date: 2004-02-17 · 30 min
Cheryl decides to sing in Jim's band to prove to her cousin that she has talent. Trouble is, Cheryl cannot sing.
Open episode 17 ↗Air date: 2004-02-24 · 30 min
At Dana's new job, she gets to cast a family for a vacation commercial. She hires Cheryl and her family. The producer likes everyone except for Jim.
Open episode 18 ↗Air date: 2004-03-02 · 30 min
Jim is troubled because his replacement in the commercial, Ted, gets to be a bit too intimate with Cheryl in front of camera. So when a role opens, he grabs it. Mysteriously, Kitson turns gay when Andy is in the table.
Open episode 19 ↗Air date: 2004-03-09 · 30 min
Gracie has been acting up lately, and Jim says that Cheryl's gentle ways are not working for improvement. Jim comes up with a harsh punishment plan but takes it too far when he blames her for something she did not do.
Open episode 20 ↗Air date: 2004-03-16 · 30 min
Jim's sister Roxanne visits Cheryl and Jim. She tells them she is going to have a baby, and Andy is the father.
Open episode 21 ↗Air date: 2004-03-30 · 30 min
Jim is working hard to please his new client, Veronica, which actually means that he's making Andy work hard. Because the boss can't be seen working hard publicly. But then Andy and Veronica have a talk.
Open episode 22 ↗Air date: 2004-04-06 · 30 min
The girls made a large paper mâché bear for the school for team spirit. Jim has to take the bear to school in his truck, but he lost his truck in an arm wrestling match and does not want to tell Cheryl.
Open episode 23 ↗Air date: 2004-04-27 · 30 min
Cheryl promises to take Jim's opinions seriously when she decides to remodel the bathroom, until Jim insists it include a hideous high-tech stainless steel toilet – that talks.
Open episode 24 ↗Air date: 2004-05-04 · 30 min
Pack rat Cheryl asks Jim to rent a storage unit to house seven years' worth of the kids' art projects, but Jim refuses to pay the fee, so he tosses everything out, thinking Cheryl won't notice – until she needs some of the projects for a special retirement party for Ruby's art teacher.
Open episode 25 ↗Air date: 2004-05-11 · 30 min
Thinking it might get Cheryl to let him go on a fishing trip with Andy, Jim makes a "deposit" in the "marriage bank" by agreeing to go to a couples seminar with her. Jim's plans are foiled, however, when Dr. Ted, the marriage guru, declares the whole marriage bank mentality unhealthy and Cheryl learns Jim's real motives – so that Dr. Ted must intervene.
Open episode 26 ↗Air date: 2004-05-18 · 30 min
Jim develops a friendship with Dana's new boyfriend, despite the fact that the guy dumped Cheryl years ago.
Open episode 27 ↗Air date: 2004-05-25 · 30 min
Cheryl protests when a heat wave sends the family sneaking into a vacationing neighbor's pool -- until she starts sneaking over on her own.
Open episode 28 ↗Air date: 2004-05-25 · 30 min
Jim chickens out of having a vasectomy, but Cheryl is so effusive in her praise that he's unable to admit he didn't go through with it.
Open episode 29 ↗