Upper Middle Bogan

Margaret and the Wheelers help the Brights move into a brand new family home, architecturally designed by Danny. The uber modern-verging-on-brutalist house leaves them all a bit bemused but Bess feels particularly uncomfortable in the cavernous concrete rooms, doubly when Danny won't let her set up any of her furniture.

When a spots shopowner spots Kayne's artwork on the side of the Wheeler truck, she commissions him to paint his designs on her expensive homewares store but, as Margaret is outraged to discover, has no plans to pay him.

Bess is alarmed to discover that Julie has a sister, despite Julie telling all the children that her sister was dead. Julie forbids the family from contacting her but Bess, desperate not to have any more secret relatives, enlists Brianna, Amber and Margaret to help her investigate.

Amber is appalled when Shawn arrives home with his new and highly alternative girlfriend, Ashley, in tow. Squeezed tight in the bungalow, Amber struggles to find space...not just with Shawn, but with the rest of the family too. Brianna is busy with Younis; Wayne and Julie are binge-watching TV in their newly installed private cinema.

Amber and Shawn settle into their new home but when Shawn announces he is dropping out of school, Amber despairs. She turns to Shawn's school Principal, Evan, for help, who, despite being world-weary and cynical, delivers salvation in an unexpected manner. A knee operation forces Julie out of the Top Fuel comp, so Kayne steps up to drive for Team Wheeler.

Bess vies for a position on the Board of the International Women of Medicine by attending a charity Mothers' Day Luncheon. Eager to celebrate the day with Bess, both Margaret and Julie join her, but the concept of Bess having 'two mothers' is to Margaret's horror, misconstrued.

When Edwina's rowing scull is woefully underprepared for the interschool regatta, she begs Brianna to step in as coach, who accepts the challenge with much more gusto than Edwina expected. To cheer them on, the Wheelers join Bess up at the Murray River replete with jet skis and giant tyres.

Exhausted by Margaret and Julie fighting over her, Bess decides to spend Christmas in New York with Danny and the kids. As expected, telling Margaret is challenging but it's telling Julie that proves impossible. Julie faces her first Christmas without Amber and Brianna, both travelling to their partners' families.