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A divorced man tries to get his life back in order after losing everything to his ex-wife.

John hires a Santa Claus for a Christmas party at the day-care center.

John learns Kirk did not finish high school so agrees to help a slothful Kirk get his diploma. Annie gets a part in Mary Beth's show and is pridefully impertinent to Kate.

Angry at his uncaring father, Red's troubled teenage nephew Danny visits her and asks to stay with her. The support group offers help, so he stays with some of them. However, he connects only with Kirk, whose bad influence worries Red.

Louise reluctantly agrees to let John watch her baby, so Kate and Mary Beth can treat her for her birthday. John along with Kirk and Ralph go to get Louise a baby portrait at a photo study where the baby is switched.

John dates a woman whose daughter thinks her mother's dates are grown-up dweebs.

John has big date planned for him and girlfriend which includes watching a show. But she's busy and John already got the tickets. A girl who just had her own break up joins the group. John asks her if she would like to accompany him to the show. And she says yes. But when John's girlfriend is free to join him, he lies to the other girl to get out of going with her. When she finds out John lied, she sues him for the cost she put in to get ready for their date.

Kirk starts an awkward relation with an overly fawning young Japanese woman who stumbles into the support group while looking for English class at the center and John is often inconvenienced to translate.

John has an opportunity to go study in Paris for a year. All he has to do is get the headmaster at his school to approve his leave of absence. And to get it, he does all sorts of stuff for man. Right now he is taking care of his parrot. When he has Kirk and Ben over, Kirk says something derogatory about the man and the parrot repeats it. Mary Beth invites the girls to her place and when Annie arrives, she's a wreck. She reveals that her ex is back in town and she's still not over him. So they tell her to call and ask him over so she can get closure.

John clashes with his ex-wife over visitation issues with their son Matthew. To maximize the time they have, John takes him to a cabin in the woods. When an epic snowfall traps them in, it looks as though he doesn't plan to return him.

Suffering from an irritated stomach and under doctor's order to avoid stress, John ends friendship with Kirk after concocts another imposing scheme but John is bored with his other friends and Kirk tries to force Kate to be his friend.

Andrew Garberg comes to John claiming to be his son.

John accompanies Kate to her aunt's funeral as a calming influence for Kate's hard feelings about her ex-husband who had taken control of the funeral and her family. Then Kate is blamed for an accident John causes for the ex-husband.

Mrs. Philbert decides to attend her high school reunion, but Tom won't be able to take her. John tries helping out but old high school rivalries make John wish he had stayed at home.

Kate has idealized remembrances of her relationships with group members at a parting celebration as the group plans her wedding at John's, while Kirk is particularly obnoxious. Wendy's prenatal demands on John are increasingly intrusive.

After taking out a blind date on a romantic evening, the woman decides to start a new life with John much to his dismay.

Kirk invites John to accompany him on a ski trip for two that Kirk has won. John encounters a man with whom he connects and spends all his time on the trip with that man while ignoring Kirk.

After presenting on publishing for career day, a former admiring student of John's offers John a job with a tempting salary.

Despite the good salary and rewards of being an editor for a publisher, John has misgivings about his new job because his former admiring female student who hired him expects romantic reciprocation.

John skips the group meeting persuaded that he has become too dependent on it by the coach who wants him to join a poker game. In John's absence, the group debates whether the group is an addictive force curbing their progress.

Kate tries to convince Alejandro that they have no future, but an expensive ring and thoughts of his wealth persuade her otherwise. Kirk gets John a cheap stand-by ticket to Hawaii and John is continually bumped during his vacation.

Kate is unjustifiably cautious of her new relationship with a cop whom she met as he was investigating a robbery of the group. John takes extreme lengths to cajole an elderly neighbor woman in hopes of acquiring her superior apartment.

The group decides to go to the grocery to meet someone. While there Kirk runs into his ex-wife. The gang wants to spy on them but Louise tells them to go. But she stays and learns why Kirk's wife left him. Later at the meeting, before Kirk arrives, Louise tells them that Kirk's wife left him for another woman. And when they let it slip that they know, Kirk bolts out. John goes to see him and Kirk doesn't want to go out because he thinks that his wife left him because he wasn't man enough for her. John tells him he should go talk to her. Kirk at first doesn't want to do it but he later changes his mind.

Kate is excited about a man to which Mary Beth introduced because of his boyish charm until Kate realizes the man is just immature. Kirk falls in love with a strident woman from a smoke quitters group while John dates his female dentist.

Louise starts dating her IRS audit agent but is put off by his Indecisiveness. Wendy's call to John worries Janet that John is still attached to Wendy. Jackie asks a list of recent lovers from Kirk of which there are none.