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A modern All-American family deals with the struggles of life and love in mid-western suburbia.

Corky pictures the family at the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving; Drew, who opens the restaurant for the holiday, meets an old classmate who is homeless.

The new order of Libby as the primary breadwinner and Drew as the homemaker creates new strains in their marriage that scares Corky into thinking that they might divorce.

Corky befriends an older man with Down Syndrome who leads the kind of life Corky would like to live.

When Becca goes on a weekend camping trip with Jesse and several classmates, she gets sprayed by a skunk and then knocks over a kerosene lantern. This starts a fire in the barn where they are all staying and forces them to fend for themselves.

A 40-something Becca looks back on the summer of '92 and Jesse's return from Arizona, but their reunion is bittersweet; Becca's avoiding Jesse to be with her new friends who don't know that Jesse is HIV-positive.

Becca becomes manager of Tyler's band and sets up a gig at the opening of a new mall with a prerequisite of a female singer. Also, Libby is offered a chance to leave the restaurant and return to her old high-pressure, but higher-paying job.

Becca writes an article for her school paper but clashes with the faculty adviser. When she discovers an underground paper is published at the school she decides to work there instead. An article she writes has unintended consequences she is forced to make some ethical decisions.

Becca falls in love with Gabe, the bad-boy lead singer of a garage band who encourages her to stay out past her curfew which resorts Becca getting into trouble with her parents.

A hospitalised Jesse is challenged to fight his disease by an irrepressible AIDS patient who refuses to passively accept his condition.

Libby has a chance for a comeback, of sorts: at the community college's "Autumn Follies". Meanwhile, Corky is having trouble in math class but doesn't want to take arithmetic tutoring with kids 10 years younger than himself.

The Special Olympics, a time for warmhearted competition and fun, also bring love to Corky and a challenge to Tyler, whose father won't permit Tyler's brother, Donny (who also has Downs) to participate.

Just as Drew begins a construction project on sacred Native American soil, the spirit of a long-gone brave appears to Corky.

Libby is forced to take care of everything when Becca, Drew, and Corky all come down with chicken pox. During her illness, Becca draws even closer to Tyler who has broken up with Rona again.

In the aftermath of the car accident, Corky is still rendered mute while Becca grapples with guilt and grief over Tyler's death. Meanwhile, Paige bonds with Michael while they're locked in a refrigerated room.

Paige has a great heart-to-heart with Drew about her upcoming marriage to Kenny, after which Drew takes matters into his own hands and convinces Michael to go after Paige, then behind both their backs he hires Michael's band to play at the wedding. Paige and Kenny break up at the altar and Paige runs off with Michael; meanwhile, Corky proposes to Amanda. Jesse leaves for Arizona with his mom but later returns, saying that Becca is his family now.

At 18, Corky wants out from under his parents' wings -- even if it just means taking the bus to school. Unfortunately, he ends up hanging out with the rough and tough "bad" crowd at school.

Corky tries out for the football team. But when the coach hits a student, one of his former players, and all the team stands up for the coach except Corky who is compelled to tell the truth.

After a few snafus, everything is going swimmingly for the Thatchers on their Hawaiian vacation with Corky riding with the dolphins and Becca falling for a surfer.

Encouraged by Rona Liberman, Corky runs for freshman class president with the help of smart, but very unpopular classmate, Lester. Thinking that Rona likes him, Corky doesn't know he was only nominated by her as a joke.

Becca and Corky are paired off with other students who must pretend to be engaged for a week to investigate issues of marriage and family life. Meanwhile, Libby's feuding parents hole up at the Thatcher residence.

Romance blossoms between Corky and Amanda, a girl with Albinism-related Down Syndrome, but her parents nip it in the bud. Elsewhere, Jerry sponsors Becca in a need-based scholarship contest.

Corky gets lost and wanders around the mean streets of Chicago leaving Becca and a newly single Tyler to spend a rainy, frustrated evening driving around Chicago looking for him.

Libby's vivacious cousin Gaby breezes in from Sicily like a whirlwind, touching everyone's lives and leaving Libby turning green with envy.

Jesse paints a nude painting of Becca, who decides to let it be shown in the Nevermore Bookstore, leading to a nice scandal and endless date proposals on her answering machine.