With the exception of a S8 episode called "April Fool's Is No Laughing Matter" any future episodes I post here over the next few months will be from my 1st Season. My revised list for the episode descriptions are below.
Stoop-idly Misguided Family
SEASON ONE REVISED
Last Updated: March 12, 2012
NOTE: The order of the episodes have changed. The episodes moved to a new episode number are in red.
1. Pilot/Never Trust Well Paid Doctors (COMPLETED - 12th Draft Literally)
(Daniel finally gets the courage to ask his boss for a raise unfortunately drunk and ends up jobless as a result. Not only have that, but the family runs amuck while at the police department’s ski trip. Now the Stoop family is left with no choice but to go to family therapy. While their secrets come out, not just among the family but with their suddenly shady therapist.)
2. The Christmas Period (COMPLETED/2ND DRAFT)
(It’s three days before Christmas and hormones are running high as Ana has her period for the first time which excites her mom Kara because it’s a step into official womanhood in her book, but it terrifies her dad Daniel who knows how emotionally edgy women can get during those times. Meanwhile the family and their friends decide to go to the mountains for the holidays, but things are turning sour when the guys are trapped in the cabin with four hormonal, sex driven women alongside them)
3. Playing Hookey, Getting a Hookey (New Revised Title - COMPLETED/2ND DRAFT)
(When Daniel, Jason, Ana and Dean go to a baseball game playing hookey from work and school, a fly ball hits Jason in the face. People start talking and assume Daniel is abusing his son. They both deny the rumors but they eventually have to tell the truth that they skipped work and school to stop the rumors from continuing.)
4. Bad, Bad Cheerleading Mom (COMPLETED/1ST DRAFT ON PAPER; ORIGINALLY IN SEASON 2)
(Kara volunteers to be a temporary cheerleading coach for her kid’s school which doesn’t turn out too well when the tables are turned and the cheerleaders are doing most of the leading while Kara sits on the sidelines watching.)
5. Girl Power (INCOMPLETE/2ND DRAFT TYPED HALFWAY DONE)
(Ana tries out for the school football team, but is given a hard time by her teammates once she makes the team. Unexpectedly, Melody becomes the new temporary football coach, but she proves to have quite the competitive streak that brings out the nastiness in her.)
6. Lazy Daze, Bummer Times (COMPLETED/2ND DRAFT)
(Jason, 13 and having not much of any goals in life starts hanging out with lazy bums who influence him into thinking he will get everything on a silver platter if he follows their motto.)
7. Be My Valentines (Mid-Season Episode COMPLETED/3RD DRAFT)
(Desperate to find a good Valentine’s Day gift for his wife Kara, Daniel sees a special offer for a cruise for two to the Caribbean, but he becomes upset when hears his neighbors the Humperdinkles have invited them to join them on the same cruise for the holiday weekend.)
8. Comin’ Out (INCOMPLETE/1ST DRAFT ON PAPER/3RD ACT UNWRITTEN)
(Dean feels ready to finally come out of the closet to his parents until something happens to change his mind. Eventually the secret slips out in the most unexpected way as Dean shouts he’s gay while performing in a school play. Will Daniel and Kara be able to accept having a gay son?)
9. 30 Going On Uh…Well 30 (INCOMPLETE/2ND DRAFT TYPED/MAJOR REVISION NEEDED)
(For her 30th birthday, Kara begins taking up dancing again, but when it doesn’t work out the way she plans, she has a mid-life crisis, a crisis that leads her to decide to dye her hair a ruby red to change her appearance, but the change brings onlookers which makes Daniel turn a furious red himself.)
10. The Stoop-id Man Who Made a Racist Comment (COMPLETED/2ND DRAFT)
(Daniel makes a regretful comment from a joke that leads to his co-workers believing he’s a racist.)
11. Sugar Rush (COMPLETED/1ST DRAFT ON PAPER; ORIGINALLY SEASON ONE FINALE)
(After the mayor bans the sales of sugar based items, Daniel resorts to illegally importing junk food into town and selling it to sweet tooth customers with the help of the mob. Unfortunately as is much the case, Daniel and his family may have to pay the price.)
12. The Pretentious Genius Brother and His Amnesiac Sis (New Revised Title/COMPLETED DRAFT 2)
(Jason cheats on his intelligence test and finds out that he got an extremely high score, high enough to qualify him as a genius, but Jason quickly realizes once he’s attending a prep school for gifted students that’s it’s not as luxury as he had expected when he becomes a victim of verbal bullying by his new peers for his less than intelligent remarks. Meanwhile, Melody finds out that she once had a boyfriend before Miguel and can’t remember him because she suffered memory lost from a water ski accident, Melody tries to go out with her previous boyfriend again, but he turns out to be very obsessive. At the end, it’s revealed that the entire thing with Melody was an April Fool’s joke orchestrated by her father Daniel.)
13. Popularity Contest (1st Season Finale/INCOMPLETE; NO DRAFT WRITTEN OR TYPED, ORIGINATED FROM S4)
(It’s the annual popularity contest at school and Jason knows he’s gonna win for a third year in a row until Trex, Devon, Ana, Dean and Melody start hogging all the spotlight that’s when things get dirty!)
