Step by Step

After accepting the role of "Juliet" in a community theatre play, Dana is horrified to learn that Cody will be portraying "Romeo." Frank loses his wedding ring on the golf course after he lies to Carol about playing golf.

When Dana moves into her own apartment, Frank struggles to keep Carol from interfering with her daughter's independence.

Frank and the Lambert children promise to attend a Sunday morning church service to please Carol and the Reverend Fielder but have trouble sacrificing their televised football game to do it.

When J.T. steals several book reports from Mark's computer and sells them to some of the school's athletes, Dana gets him in trouble by "rewriting" them herself.

To settle a family argument, Frank and Carol agree to portray the teenagers for a weekend, while Dana and J.T. portray the parents.

When Frank buys a new home video game system, Mark becomes addicted to playing it. Cody discovers the healing power of transcendental meditation.

J.T. and Cody open their own motorcycle repair service, while Frank and Carol compete to see which of them can buy the most expensive anniversary gift.

Cody moves into the Lambert's living room while his van is being repaired and interferes with the family's privacy.

While Dana and Karen help Al increase the size of her breasts, Cody becomes engaged to a woman with a 6-year-old son.

When Karen accuses Dana of stealing one of her potential boyfriends, she ruins Dana's new romance with a jealous lie.

On Christmas Eve, Frank and Carol are mistakenly arrested by Deputy Feif for robbing a toy store.

Following the suggestions of a guidebook to marital bliss, Frank and Carol reveal secrets about their pasts that almost ruin their marriage.

Frank and Carol worry when Al makes friends with a gang of punk rock girls and starts to behave like them.

While leading a children's reading class at the library, Cody realizes one boy is terrified to read aloud. When Frank learns he made less money than Carol last year, he gets a humiliating second job.

During his thirteenth birthday party, Mark falls in love with a pretty girl but is soon heartbroken when she rejects his gift of flowers.

When Cody predicts that Dana will be attacked by a man dressed in a dark suit, he secretly follows her to an important interview with the Dean of Admissions at a big Chicago college.

Karen is jealous when Al is chosen to be the new model for a company that makes fashion jeans for women. Cody experiences the return of a "good-luck curse."

Frank takes Carol to a romantic lodge, and belatedly remembers that he took his former girlfriend there. The Lambert and Foster children watch a grisly horror video and take turns scaring each other.

Frank and Carol worry that J.T. will never pursue a college education after earning his first commission as a used car salesman.

Carol buys some new diet pills to help her lose weight and look younger. Unfortunately, she becomes addicted to them. Cody meets Abraham Lincoln's ghost.

When Karen accuses one of her siblings of stealing her diary, Cody writes a story about it in the style of a 1940s film-noir detective mystery.

Cody reluctantly becomes a senior vice president in his father's real estate company. Carol unknowingly arranges a date for Dana and Karen with two boys who resemble Beavis and Butt-Head.

After Dana teases J.T. about the 13-year-old girl he was tricked into taking to the senior prom, her own date deserts her.