Living with Fran

Fran invites Riley's parents over for dinner. Donna and Tom (Riley's mom & dad) are shocked when they meet Fran. Apparently, Riley has never mentioned that Fran is older, divorced, and with two children {oh yeah, and she's Jewish}. Tom (Rileys Dad) seems to except Fran and move on but Donna (Rileys Mom) just cannot seem to move passed Fran's age. After a small emergency, the two women realize that they both love Riley and will try to be friends.

When Fran is planning a family vacation her ex-husband Ted pays the family a visit. Ted comes beacuse he is trying to buy is family back by, trying to mend his relationship with Josh, buying Allison gifts and offering Riley a job he can't refuse. The whole family including Riley seems charmed by Ted, but the only one that is not charmed is Fran. Fran does not want her children to get hurt by their father again. Also Josh gets a job at a video store.

Fran's worries about impressing Riley's high school friends at Riley's high school reunion, but at the high school reunion Fran is being worshiped by Riley's friends' wives. Riley is also high-fived, but they soon think that Fran is Riley's ""sugar mama."" So during the a post-reunion gathering at their house, Riley is determined to prove to his friends that he is not a kept man. Also Fran is shocked to learn that the wives applaud her for having a boy toy.

Fran wants Riley to feel like part of the family, so she decides to start their own family album and is taken aback when Riley mentions adding pictures of their kids one day. Also Josh is comforted when Fran reassures him that being pregnant with him was the best thing that could have happened. So Riley gets his first taste of fatherhood when Allison starts to have boy problems.

Allison's new boyfriend Kurt makes alarm bells to go off for both Josh and Riley. So that causes Fran to re-think her trust in Allison's ability to make smart choices when it comes to dating.

Disapproving of Riley's plans for their first Valentine's Day together, Fran makes a few changes with out consulting Riley, making him feel that Fran controls the relationship. Also Fran does not know that Josh wants to break up with his girlfriend Lilly, so Fran advises her on how to win him over. And Fran's advice to Allison to pursue her secret admirer backfires when the secret admirer's identity is revealed.

Josh's latest girl-friend Gina's phone number became partially illegible after Fran washed his trousers complete with his wallet, but he tries every possibility till he finds the girl, and dates for a concert. When they hear it's Ryan's favorite band, while his job forced him to rush off to building sites so often they hardly ever spend any time together anymore, Fran decides to pretend looking forward to it so they'll be together there, dragging Josh along. Alas Ryan's firm has another emergency, so she's stuck with a date-hungry guy and gets crowd-surfed off. When Gina invites Josh backstage with two friends, he generously invites Ryley and ma, provided they don't betray to be family, but Fran spots Alison, with disastrous consequences for everyone.

After 'family night' charades were a walkover for the girls, Fran is eager to find something Riley and Josh can do - in order to grow closer together, so when he has a construction vacancy, she decides her lover 'obviously' hires her son, never mind neither darling wants that. Both boys try terribly hard, but Josh is as gifted for construction work (roofing, in this case) as Hitler for equality programs. After a long day, Riley tells Fran he just can't keep such an incompetent worker on, and having hired Joshua she should fire him, but she just can't. Only after an extremely painful accident, which hits Riley by cascade from shoulder to nuts, Fran puts the 'father son' job out of its misery, or was that the wrong way to look at it after all?

Josh has a date with an ex of Riley.

Ryan built a shoe-carousel for his six months anniversary with Fran, so what can she give him? She goes for strip- classes, from obviously queer dance instructor Allan. Josh expects a surprise for his birthday on Sunday, so when she asks him to make himself scarce on Saturday 'for a girls book club' -actually to strip for Ryan- he assumes that's to be his surprise party. Ryan loves his self-unwrapping present, till Josh walks in on them. Alison's unorthodox 'self-expressive' school project has Fran, Ryan and Josh visit the principal- it's a piñata in the shape of the team mascot, which spills not just peppermints but also condoms, as a protest that the school budget for sex seduction was cut to pay for new athletic equipment. After witnessing the atypical family dynamics, which they all defend, Josh not quite, Sir decides she turned out better then could be expected and lets her off.