Grounded For Life: Season 1

Grounded For Life: Season 1

Starz / Anchor Bay (2001)
Comedy, Crime
USA / English / Color / 624 min
7.8
Cast View More ↓
Donal Logue Sean Finnerty
Damian Lewis Charlie Crews
Megyn Price Claudia Finnerty
Sarah Shahi Dani Reese  
Adam Arkin Ted Earley  
Kevin Corrigan Eddie Finnerty
Richard Riehle Walt Finnerty
Robin Weigert Lt. Karen Davis 
Jake Burbage Henry Finnerty
Bret Harrison Bradley 'Brad' O'Keefe
Lynsey Bartilson Lily Finnerty
Griffin Frazen Jimmy Finnerty
Brooke Langton Constance Griffiths 
Brent Sexton Robert Stark 
Lynsey Bartilson
Megyn Price
Donal Logue
Richard Riehle
Kevin Corrigan
Bret Harrison
Jake Burbage
Griffin Frazen
Crew View More ↓
Director Richard Boden, Ken Kwapis, Keith Truesdell, John Blanchard
Plot
Sean Finnerty and his lovely wife, Claudia, became parents right out of high school. Now 32, they struggle to keep their lives (and three children) under control. Claudia is a hostess at a swank restaurant, and Sean works in the subway tunnels. Working 9 to 5 and having three kids to maintain isn't an easy task, but they're doing the best that they can. Oldest daughter Lily, 14, is more than a handful. At that age where she thinks the world revolves around her, Lily devours the majority of the Finnerty's free time. Her little brother, Jimmy, is bookish to say the least, and stays out of trouble -- for the most part. And then there's the baby of the family, Henry, who's just a little off. Hyperactive and mischievous, Henry is usually secondary when it comes to problematic children. Helping Sean and Claudia deal with the brood is Sean's father, Walt, a crotchety man whose idea of a learning experience is teaching the boys how to dig a hole. If he hadn't been a father, he wo
Episodes
1
Lily B. Goode
30 min 2001-01-10
In a desperate attempt for attention, Lily makes out with the nerdish next-door-neighbor, Brad O'Keefe, in his car. Sean, who went to get a bucket of chicken, is out walking the dog when he spies his daughter and the neighbor boy. So Sean responds in a very unorthodox way -- by lobbing fried chicken at the car. Elsewhere, Walt babysits Jimmy and Henry, and decides to teach them how to dig a hole. And Eddie stays in the house and tries to illegally hook up cable so that he and Sean can watch soft-core porn.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Bonnie Kallman
Guest starring: Sabrina Bertaccini, Floyd Van Buskirk
2
In My Room
30 min 2001-01-17
Sean inadvertently finds a fake ID in Lily's bedroom. Sean and Claudia confront their daughter about her rebellious behavior, but they get few answers. They decide to hack into her e-mail to find out more about Lily's trouble-making friends. While they are checking, an e-mail comes in from a ""SweetandNastee."" Sean responds, pretending to be Lily. SweetandNastee gives Sean an address to a rave party in Yonkers. Sean and Eddie go to the address which turns out to be a dry cleaners. Convinced the rave is really at the dry cleaners, Sean and Eddie try to gain access to the party but end up getting beaten up by the dry cleaners' owner. Back at home, Sean and Claudia confront Lily, but she slams them for invading her privacy. Turns out she knew they broke into her e-mail account because she was online at a friend's house when she saw her name logged in. Lily made up the rave to teach her folks a lesson about snooping.
Director: Paul Lazarus
Writer: Brad Copeland
Guest starring: Vic Polizos, Stu Levin, Shannon Woodward
3
I Wanna Be Suspended
30 min 2001-01-24
Jimmy's science project, a model of the solar system, is due and he's eager to get back from the street fair to finish it. However, when Sean and Claudia find out The Ramones are playing, Jimmy's science project is forced to wait. Sean decides to write a note to Jimmy's principal, Sister Helen, to explain that he felt it was more important for Jimmy to attend the concert than to finish his science project. The note only ends up getting Jimmy suspended. To make it up to him, Sean and Eddie take Jimmy to the Statue of Liberty -- again with disasterous results.
Director: Ken Kwapis
Writer: Bill Martin, Mike Schiff
Guest starring: Miriam Flynn, Dan Martin, Oscar Nuñez
4
Devil with a Plaid Skirt
30 min 2001-01-31
Jimmy's claim of demonic possession and Lily's skirt length prompt Sean's perceived battle with school head Sister Helen
Director: Craig Zisk
Writer: Tyrone Finch, Tom Purcell
Guest starring: David DeLuise, Miriam Flynn, Carol Kiernan, Meredith Morton, Christine Weatherup
5
Action Mountain High
30 min 2001-02-07
Lily's trip to an amusement park with a group of her friends 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Bill Martin, Mike Schiff
Guest starring: Eddie Karr, Chachi Pittman, Lee Arenberg, Adam Brody, Lukas Behnken, Anastasia Emmons, Stefan Umstead, J.B. Gaynor
6
You Can't Always Get What You Want
30 min 2001-02-21
Lily freaks out when Sean says they can't afford to send her on a ski trip with her classmates. But things get worse when she learns that Sean inherited some money and spent it on a guitar for himself.
Director: Ken Kwapis
Writer: Tyrone Finch, Tom Purcell
Guest starring: Hal Ozsan, Raymond O'Keefe, Eddie Karr, J.B. Gaynor, Sara Williams, Timmy Fitzpatrick, Alyssa Hernandez
7
Like a Virgin
30 min 2001-02-28
Claudia is looking forward to a trip to New Jersey to try to bond with Lily. However, things go from bad to worse when Claudia tells popular cheerleaders 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.
Director: Dennie Gordon
Writer: Natasha Goldstone
Guest starring: Jamie Anderson, Rachel Roth, Geoff Stults, Steve Tom, Isabella Bonaduce, Alan Heitz, Nicolas Mize
8
Devil's Haircut
30 min 2001-03-28
Sean (Donal Logue) tries to disguise the fact that he cut Henry's (Jake Burbage) hair himself instead of taking him to a barber shop.
Director: John Blanchard
Writer: Bill Martin, Mike Schiff
Guest starring: John David Conti, Eric Kushnick
9
Eddie's Dead
30 min 2001-04-04
Sean (Donal Logue) tries to keep Eddie (Kevin Corrigan) from hitting on a woman (guest star Julie Claire) Claudia (Megyn Price) is consoling after a break-up.
Director: Brian Levant
Writer: Chris Kelly
Guest starring: Julie Claire, Katy Selverstone, Dan Martin, Eddie Karr, J.B. Gaynor, Sarah DeVincentis, Sean G. Griffin, Stacy Reed, Karri Bowman, P.J. Marino, Bonnie Hellman
10
Catch Us If You Can
30 min 2001-04-18
Sean catches a fly ball that's still in play and loses a game for the Yankees. Claudia's upset when the bachelorette party she's throwing for her girlfriend gets disrupted by Sean, Eddie and the boys, who have been chased home by irate fans.
Director: Ken Kwapis
Writer: David Israel, Jim O'Doherty
Guest starring: Jackie Debatin, Erin Beaux, Wesley Thompson, Karri Bowman, Van Epperson, Ken Abraham, David Lewis Hays, Greg Wendell Reid, Edith Jefferson
11
Jimmy's Got a Gun
30 min 2001-04-25
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.
Director: Paul Lazarus
Writer: Ned Goldreyer
Guest starring: Wren T. Brown, Octavia Spencer, Shannon Woodward, Trevor Wright, Edwin Hodge
12
Jimmy Was Kung-Fu Fighting
30 min 2001-05-02
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.
Director: Terry Hughes
Writer: Brad Copeland
Guest starring: Miriam Flynn, Sabrina Bryan, Jim O'Doherty, Kevin G. Schmidt
13
Loser
30 min 2001-05-09
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 opposing team's favor. . . Meanwhile, Lily flirts with the cute guy at the concession stand and the conversation leaves her walking on air. But when she starts to obsess over the introduction, she replays the scene over and over in her head, each time thinking that she made a bigger and bigger fool of herself.
Director: John Blanchard
Writer: Tyrone Finch, Tom Purcell
Guest starring: Michael Malota, Kevin Brief, Alberto Gutierrez, Lindsey Parks, Micah Williams
14
Mrs. Finnerty, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
30 min 2001-05-16
When Lily is miserable because she and her girlfriends have been booed off the stage at the school's talent show, Sean and Claudia have some explaining to do. Meanwhile, the Finnerty's get roped into buying cases of candy bars that the boys are selling for school.
Director: Kenny Ortega
Writer: Aron Abrams, Gregory Thompson
Guest starring: Miriam Flynn, Andrea Bogart, Heather Garbutt, Bermina Jackson, Jennifer Weston, Wesley Thompson, Mike Randleman, Jesse Stock, Jerry Ferrara, Jordy Masterson, Seth T. Walker
15
Love Child
30 min 2001-05-23
In the season finale, Lily is horrified when she learns that she was born before her parents were married, until she gets the whole story
Director: Craig Zisk
Writer: Chris Kelly, Ned Goldreyer
Guest starring: Elizabeth Berridge, Bruce French, Joshua Wheeler, Daniel Passer, Kate Orsini, Wesley Thompson, Grace Chen, Carol Kiernan, Frank Ertl
Editions
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013131376791 1 2006-02-07
683904524461 1 2011-09-13