Grounded for Life

When Lily, with Brad riding shotgun, smashes the family car, she turns to Eddie for help, but the only alternative is to abandon the car and make her parents believe it's been stolen.

Claudia's sexy dream about Eddie leads to disaster when Sean is prompted to add some excitement and spontaneity to their marriage. Lily and her girlfriend get drunk on some of Walt's cider, and Jimmy gets lucky.

Sean puts the blame on Jimmy when Claudia finds a picture of a naked woman that Sean downloaded on Jimmy's computer. Jimmy helps Lily with an internet prank that backfires on her.

Sean humiliates Lily while he's trying to protect her after he sees her 'boyfriend' Brad buying condoms at the pharmacy.

Sean and Eddie revive their old high school band to play a wedding reception, but Sean gets nervous when Lily seems way too interested in their hot new drummer. Jimmy convinces Henry that the reson he can't find baby pictures of himself is that Henry's a robot.

When Claudia resumes smoking, a habit she and Sean dropped years ago, her erratic behavior as she attempts to conceal it makes Sean think she's mad at him and the boys think she's crazy. Lily finds out, but Claudia bribes her with a cell phone for her silence. It's a purchase Lily soon regrets when a conversation mentioning her feelings for Dean is accidentally recorded on her friend's voice mail.

Sean and Walt get into an argument which results in Walt being barred from the Finnerty Christmas festivities. This is especially troubling, because Henry still believes in Santa Claus, a role that is traditionally played by Walt. When Lily finds a gift on the doorstep, she assumes it's from Dean. And Eddie enlists Jimmy's aid to score a free Christmas tree.

When Henry walks in on Sean and Claudia having sex on Jimmy's bed, Sean thinks he's handled the situation with an open and honest discussion. But problems arise when Henry feels compelled to share his newfound knowledge with the world.

When they learn that Walt has a romantic interest, Sean and Eddie revert to childish, obnoxious behavior. And Lily's depressed when her best friend Kristin starts hanging out with Brad, the neighbor who Lily claims is only a platonic friend.

When the Finnertys' sewer line backs up, Claudia asks for help from her uncle Sal, who Sean's convinced belongs to the mob. And when Sean and Eddie run over a cat belonging to one of Sal's fellow mobsters, they think they're as good as dead.

Jimmy gets an 'F' on his science project when Sean insists on doing it for him. And Lily, an alternate, gets a shot at the school dance squad, but she's afraid her Uncle Eddie may have broken to law to make it happen.

Sean knocks out the neighborhood's electricity when he brings down a power line while trying to trim a tree. And he catches Lily with a bag of pot but is mortified when he learns where she got it.

When a declined credit card at the water park ends Henry's birthday party before it gets started, Sean blames the credit card company. But soon he and Claudia learn that an 'emergency' made Lily max out the card.

Sean's in a boxing tournament and wants to win on his own without any funny stuff from Eddie. And Claudia's irate when she hears a rumor that she had a boob job.

Lily and Dean are busted with a bottle of scotch at a school dance that her parents are chaperoning. When they protest their innocence, Sister Helen doesn't believe them, but Sean and Claudia know they're telling the truth.

Sean's mortified when he accidentally "outs" a co-worker, and Lily's paranoid that every girl who meets Dean falls for him.

Eddie baby-sits for Sean and Claudia, and they return from a weekend in Atlantic City to find that their house is trashed. Sean brags about all the money he won at blackjack, but Claudia finds out that he hasn't been telling the whole story.

Connie O'Keefe's thrilled. But Sister Helen looks at her and reconsiders. Claudia can keep her new position. When Sister Claudia curses Sean out during an argument, Sean thinks he has her where he wants her.

Sean winds up in jail for buying some shady diamond earrings for Claudia from Eddie's so-called "connection"; Lily protests the nuns's donkey-basketball game.

The minor insults of Claudia's visiting parents get so far under an insecure Sean's skin that it starts to look like he's gone out of his mind. Meanwhile, karaoke leads to an unlikely liplock between Brad and Lily.

Sean, Claudia and Eddie freak Walt out when they steal their cousin Scott's ashes to scatter them according to his life-long wish.

Sean finds a pregnancy test box in the trash and thinks it's Lily's. Lily feels betrayed when she and Dean go to get tattoos, and Dean chickens out. And Jimmy is plagued by the world's biggest zit.