Charlie Harper just had his pants down and a willing girl stripping for sex when his brother Alan calls, whose wife Judith threw him out with ten year-old son Jake. They ...

Alan learns that asking Charlie to help him punish Jake makes it harder, the naughty knaves rather play together. Charlie learns, also the hard way, a boy that immature c ...

Alan and Jake move into Charlie's beach-house permanently, ex Judith even helps arrange Jake's room. When the kid gets sick and insists on getting nursed 'at home' by his ...

While Charlie tries to write a chocolate jingle, his maid Bertha quits, tired of caring for three Harpers and Alan's perfectionist suggestions. Alan offers to do the dome ...

Charlie objected to being commandeered by Alan to bring Jake to soccer, and to the wimpy idea to 'teach' the boys not to keep scores. However he finds Ernie's army brat s ...

Charlie tries to teach Jake how to avoid female scorn by carefully screening telephone calls. However, grandma Harper knows all the tricks and comes unannounced, to comma ...

Charlie demonstrates to Alan how to keep people happy by telling them 'I understand' without committing to anything, not even actually listening. When Judith complains be ...

After being tricked into helping Alan and Judith produce Jake's classroom musical, Charlie is flattered to find out that the kids know all the words to his jingles. Alan ...

Charlie is not amused when his latest flirt Wendy's eagerness to help out with Jake and the Harper brothers' household seems to land him into a 'real' relationship. He's ...

Thanksgiving winds up being the least thankful day of the year for Charlie, who has to bribe various members of his household to even come to a traditional turkey dinner. ...

Alan and Charlie discover Judith is dating again - with Jake's soccer coach. Alan is jealous and wants to start dating again too, but he's as hopeless at it as Charlie in ...

Grumpy maid Berta's airhead daughter Cheryl Ann needs a babysitter for her daughter, so Charlie allows Berta to bring her along. Alas, at sixteen Prudence is mentally bar ...

Charlie enjoys teaching 'blank page' Jake dirty jokes. Alan has flu, so Rose imposes herself as his 'intimate' nurse, until Evelyn arrives and takes over. Charlie insists ...

Alan lectures Charlie for teaching Jake to gamble and tipping pizza boy Ted $50. Alas, Berta's shopping shows that his credit-card is maxed out and is cut up. Stan explai ...

Seeing Frankie completely vandalize her therapist's car for telling her she has anger control issues, Alan just wants to run, but Charlie just sees unrestrained sex poten ...

Now that Frankie has tricked the Harpers into taking her and her daughter Joanie in, she explains that Bob's parents want her declared mentally incompetent in order to ge ...

Alan enjoys winding up his ex, Judith, who just increased his alimony burden by pretending that Charlie will get custody of Jake if they both die. However, both Charlie a ...

Charlie's old flame, Jill, comes for a visit, she had an operation and is now called Bill. Then Evelyn starts dating Bill. ...

When Jake's mother Judith gets a visit from her ever-rivaling, sexier but less smart sister Liz, Alan fears trouble because she had sex with Charlie in the cloakroom at h ...

Jake plays electric guitar all day long and doesn't want to do anything else. Alan and Charlie can't figure out why. Jake refuses to discuss anything with anyone, includi ...

After Charlie is given a witness interview by Alan's expensive, power-hungry divorce lawyer, Laura, she sets her sights on him, but warns him that it must be kept a secre ...

Alan has consented to pay for Jake's appointment at the child psychologist, self-confessed mere guesser Dr. Freeman. Charlie finds that Alan is the one who sleepwalks and ...

Whenever Jake repeats Charlie's flippant rule 'not to marry as long as you have women for domestic and intimate services', the Harper boys get into trouble. It's worst fo ...

Charlie is sure he isn't ready for fatherhood after a year of trying to raise Jake, so he opts to have a vasectomy. But when the doctor performing the procedure keeps get ...