中年丧妻的Matt Stewart（Bob Saget）是一个抚养着2个女儿的单身鳏夫，让他尴尬的是最近自己正在青春叛逆期的大女儿Sarah(Kat Dennings)升学进入了他自己任职英语教师的高中，更让他烦心的是从波士顿红袜队退役的前棒球运动员老爸Sam (Jerr y Adler)也以帮忙照顾孩子为由，搬来和他们一起住。小女儿Emily (Larson)也并不让他省心，因为除了发色，她也继承了她母亲的怪脾气。不过最让Bob头疼的还是，连上班8小时都要与性格叛逆的Sarah同处一地却要保持职业形象尽量控制自己不过分干涉漂亮大女儿在学校的社交生活，同时还要想办法在一大堆家务琐事和女儿与老爸的干扰中能挤出时间再找到自己新的另一半。
The second series, Ben Harper, husband and father to three different and often difficult children has spent his working life as a dentist. Just as well as most of his life seems rather like pulling teeth. His wife Susan is usually busy showing foreign tourists around London, a place she knows much better than her own kitchen. Ben and Susan have been married happily enough to ha...
The first series, Ben, a dentist, and Susan, the worst cook in the world, are certainly loving, caring parents, they just have a problem showing it. Ben seems to be confused as to how much time and money his kids demand from him. Susan has to juggle motherhood, a career and a husband and does not have enough time to manage everything including improving her cooking skills. Nick...
In the tenth series, in the second episode ("The Son'll Come Out") Michael comes out as gay to his parents, first to his father after coming home drunk then later to his mother. He then tells them that he has been in a relationship with a guy for some time, a 25 year old solicitor called Scott Marsh, who later moves into the Harper residence, though he is later seen in gay club...
In series nine, chaos, paranoia and misunderstanding – yes, it's life as usual in the Harper household. Ben stands up to – and gets put down by – his own school bully and gets a little jealous as a rich business man falls for Susan – or is that Janey There are new worries as they discover Michael's seeing a therapist and Ben fails his retraining exam – and, while the family is...
In the fourth series, Susan is looking forward to the birth of her first grandchild, but dreading being a grandmother. Nick is getting fed up with living in his ghastly flat and trying to think of a way to move back into the family home. The gap between Michael's IQ and the rest of the family's seems to be increasing, but so is his libido. And Abi is still Abi, only more so! As...
In series three, life in the Harper household is as hectic as ever, Janey has left for university and has been replaced in the house by their cousin Abi, who is more than a little accident prone. Ben sees this new addition to their home as a threat to the peace and quiet he's wanted throughout his married life, while Susan is happy to have another woman in the house. As for Mic...
In the sixth series, Janey and son Kenzo spend much more time at the Harper house than is good for Ben, and Micheal moves from scam to scam with alarming ease. Add to that the ever-so-slowly blossoming of the Abi-Roger romance and the new cuckoo in the nest, wiser-than-he-looks Alfie Butts and the problems multiply. The family's hurdles include Ben joining a secret society (The...
In the seventh series, a mystery man arrives asking for Janey – Susan finally discovers the identity of Kenzo's father. Roger and Abi's marriage announcement gives Susan the idea to renew her marriage vows despite protests from Ben. A death in the dentist's chair is not very good for business, but, as Ben discovers, it is not very good for your private life either. Michael succ...
In the eighth series, love is in the air in the Harper house. Ben is in love – with an extremely large television; Janey is in love with a new man; and Michael's current love has announced that she is pregnant. Meanwhile, Ben and Susan's credit card statement highlights each of their secret vices and an armed robbery at the local bank leads to Ben and Janey being taken as hosta...
