This is an amazing show, its funny and a great listen! Delivery man Doug Heffernan has a good life: He has a pretty wife (Carrie), a big television, and friends with which to watch it. Then Carrie's goofy and annoying father Arthur moves in with them.
Deacon finds a new friend and Spence convinces Doug that the reason his has been spending time with him is that he is black; Carrie's mani/pedicurist 'cancels' her.
With Doug and Carrie moving towards divorce, there are only two options. On a flight to China can they come together to make a double or nothing bet?
Carrie discovers that their Chinese baby is ready for adoption, but Doug wants to end the marriage because she didn't give up her apartment in Manhattan. Meanwhile,Arthur is forced to find a replacement bride for his wedding.
Carrie moves to Manhattan but Doug refuses to leave the house in Queens. Ultimately they find the one thing that will keep them together--or so it seems.
Carrie wants to move to an apartment in Manhattan, but Doug wants to stay in Queens. Their impasse makes them realize they have very different ideas about their future.
It's Doug's high school reunion, and he's going "Stag", while Carrie relaxes at home and tries to watch a movie with Arthur.
After almost running over a chicken on the highway, Doug becomes more animal-sensitive and decides to become a vegetarian.
When Deacon and Kelly buy a vacation home, Carrie is upset because they could have easily afforded it, but they were too cheap.
An unflattering picture by Major prompts Arthur to ask Doug and Carrie for braces. Meanwhile, Kelly hires an out-of-work Spence to help out around the house.
Doug adopts a dog at a block party to look like a better person, without telling Carrie. After Doug turns the dog into him (lazy) the couple tries to find a way to get rid of it.
Deacon and Kelly don't want Doug around Major anymore after he inadvertently scares him, and Arthur begins a new business selling senior citizen services to carpoolers.
Carrie gets upset because one of her fellow secretaries "steals her moxie" and gets a promotion, and everything at IPS falls apart after Doug temporarily takes over the office.
Things get out of hand as Doug frantically tries to stop a woman who claims to have spent a romantic weekend with him from calling the house.
When Carrie insists that Doug figure out how to invest their tax return check, Doug decides to buy an ice cream truck from a stranger.
Carrie is finally fed up with Arthur, so she decides to put him in a retirement home. Doug, of course, is excited but after a touching story told by Arthur, Doug tries to decide whether or not Arthur should go.
Doug befriends a driver from one of IPS' competitors, but eventually discovers it's just a ruse to make him the butt of a joke.
Doug crashes Carrie's weekend company retreat, not realising she's blown it off for a relaxing day with her girlfriends.
Doug and Deacon discover they have more in common with each other's wives than their own, so they start hanging out with each other's wives as well.
It's Doug's 40th birthday and Carrie begins to try to make Doug realize that he should start wanting to do more with his life. So Doug decides he wants to ride a roller coaster that he was to afraid to ride when he was younger.
While they're having dinner at a restaurant a man who's in wigs tells Doug Carrie's hair is worth $3,000 dollars.
On the party for their eleventh anniversary, Doug and Carrie get a portrait of the two of them from Deacon and Kelly. They dislike it so much they stage a fake robbery to get rid of it.
After Carrie pushes Doug down the stairs she starts to feel guilty, and Doug milks it for all he can get.
Doug and Carrie hire an exterminator (Chris Elliott) to rid their house of bed bugs. Spence and Danny try to decide where to go on vacation.
Doug, Deacon, Spence and Danny all secretly rent an apartment, but soon Deacon, Spence and Danny move out and Doug lives by himself. Carrie tries to sell a condo to Kirstie Alley but it turns out to be more work than she expected.
After Carrie is told she might not get a promotion because of her accent she seeks Spence for help. Doug's mom comes to visit and after seeing her play poker, Doug takes her to Vegas to hustle some people out of their money.
Doug borrows the baby Danny is sitting to prove to Carrie he'd make a good dad.
Carrie is asked to bake a cake for the church bake sale, but she cannot bake.
Carrie goes away with Arthur to visit her mothers grave and finds out she's not who she thinks she is. Doug and Ray spend the weekend trying to pick up girls, attempting to outdo each other in a nightclub.
Doug and Carrie decide to go out to a karaoke club, where Doug's singing catches the attention of a stranger, who then becomes obsessed with Doug.
Doug and Carrie try to get Deacon and Kelly to buy the house next to them, but a couple with eight kids moves in instead. Meanwhile Danny and Spence compete over a girl from Albania named Zana.
Doug and Carrie's weekend at a quaint bed and breakfast turns out to be less than desirable. Worse, they do not feel comfortable about leaving because they are the only people at the inn for the entire weekend.
Spence wants to go to a Fantasy Fest with Lou Ferrigno but dumps him after Adam West agrees to go to the Fest with Spence. Meanwhile Doug frequently visits a very pretty hairdresser.
Deacon gets a sandwich named after him at Cooper's, infuriating Doug. Holly (Nicole Sullivan) announces she is moving away with her boyfriend, but Carrie is not fond of the idea and Arthur cannot seem to say good-bye.
Doug finds out that Jared does not like him, so he tries to become friends with the guy but comes on too strong.
Carrie learns that when they were dating, Doug lied to her about his (un)employment status to get her in bed.
Doug and Carrie consider marriage counseling while Arthur wants to direct (and act in) a play at the senior center.
Doug wants Carrie to take pole dancing lessons so she can give shows for him in the bedroom.
When a man across the street dies, Carrie and Doug buy the house so they can sell it and make a lot of money.
When Doug finds out that he can earn a free Plasma screen TV at a timeshare ski resort, he tricks Carrie into going. But they both find out it will be difficult in getting that TV when the sales people enter the picture.
Carrie has a work event at a ball park, and she's trying very hard to impress a client, but Doug makes it very difficult.
During a snow storm: Carrie gets an iPod for free after a cashier is busy talking on the phone and accidentally does not scan it, but Carrie's guilty conscience gets the best of her.
Carrie gets Holly to go with her to Lowe's secretly because of her large van. A masculine waitress at a restaurant frightens Doug. Arthur and George pull a casino party to earn some extra cash which ends up backfiring.
Carrie gets Doug to take Arthur on a recently won game tickets and trip to St. Louis after they make a deal that he never has to do anything with him any more.
When Doug delivers a package to his old high school, Doug reminisces about the time when he went there and played football, which makes him act very childish.
Carrie discovers a romantic line Doug once said when they were dating comes from a film where the main character said it to a monkey. Meanwhile, Danny falls for Holly and thinks she feels the same way about him.
When the Heffernans begin working out with the Ferrigno's, Doug secretly makes a pact with Lou so he can sit around instead of working out.
Doug pursues his dream of becoming a bartender. Meanwhile Arthur wants to become chairman of the senior center.
Doug buys a new cologne which seems to impress everyone who smells it except Carrie. Arthur shows Spence and Holly how to sneak into movie theaters.
When Doug and Carrie notice that their really good friends Deacon and Kelly are spending time with a new couple, Doug and Carrie do whatever they can do to find new friends.