Loveday Writing

This episode kicks off with establishing why this episode was given its title. The cold open establishes that Kenneth and Joyce had some sort of fling due to Kenneth’s hyper-sexualised greeting of ‘Hey, You’ to Joyce. When the family point out how creepy it is to Kenneth, he tells them it’s his way of giving a nod to a good

I felt that this episode focused on the importance of honesty and also provided many meanings to the term roll/role model. The episode kicks off with JJ and Kenneth shopping in a rival grocery store of the store Kenneth works at, at Maya’s request. They run into Maya who tells JJ about a young boy, Owen, with cerebral palsy, and

This episode kicks off on a hilarious note with Maya thinking the family is holding a meeting but to her horror discovers it is an intervention for her. Jimmy reveals that USC called to schedule an interview for JJ and then called back to schedule an interview for Maya. Jimmy firmly tells her that she is not following JJ to

This episode is this season’s Christmas episode and kicks off with a bang. Well not a bang, but fire, as Ray is woken up in the middle of the night by Pepper’s barking, who is trying to alert the family to the Christmas tree somehow being set alight. Ray alerts the family, albeit by saying a TV show revolving around

The episode kicks off with the family celebrating the fact that they’ve managed to find a Christmas tree for their home early, only to undermine their own celebrations by pointing out their inability to follow through on individual promises they’ve made. This moment sets up the rest of the episode. Jimmy works on getting the garage ready for JJ’s man

This episode is this season’s Thanksgiving episode. The episode kicks off similarly to the previous Thanksgiving episodes, with Maya trying to get out of cooking and Jimmy’s brother, Billy arriving. Billy spouts off nonsense about dating a vegan and his hypocrisy about not dating someone who’s old enough to be on heart medication when he needs it himself. It’s his

The episode kicks off with Maya’s birthday and the kids giving her crappy thoughtless gifts with the word “Mom” printed on them in some way. Dylan’s gift is the worst of all as she describes it as a wearable gift but it turns out to be bags to pick up Pepper’s poo with. This leads to Maya complaining about the

This episode was a solid one as everyone split off perfectly into their subplots. The episode kicks off with the family (except JJ) celebrating JJ’s last IEP (Individual Education Program), which includes music, merchandise and a mysterious person in a bear costume that everyone mistakes for Dylan, until she walks in the room. The episode then switches focus to JJ

While the DiMeos have returned from London, this episode revolves around another theme—Halloween. The episode kicks off with kids thinking the DiMeo house is haunted and abandoned, which the family quickly disproves to them. While the majority of the time, the cold opens aren’t related to the rest of the episode, this episode is one of the rare exceptions. The