Post by George WK Newman on Apr 5, 2010 22:52:04 GMT -5
Just Mike ~ Season 1
~episode guide~
1.01 - "Pilot: I said Posse" When Jennifer's daycare suffers a series of break-ins, Mike springs into action with his childhood friends. Spend a night with these big overgrown children as they do a stakeout. With or without robbers the friends are bound to find trouble.
*********************
Mike comes home early from his company to have dinner with his family. His fiery Brazillian wife Billie is mad because Jennifer's daycare has been broken into for the 4th time. The security company is too slow to catch the thieves, and they keep vandalzing the rooms. The more Mike thinks about it the more upset he beomces. That evening he calls his childhood friends and brother in-law over for drinks in the basement. He locks Billie out saying they are conducting secret business. That night he tries to sneak out of the house but Billie catches him. He tells her of his plans and she's pleased giving him a big kiss goodbye and promising him more when he gets home.
Mike is picked up by the rest of the guys in Doug's big white diesel truck, along with Paul, Fletcher, and Epstein. They do a 7-11 run and the truck is filled with Nacho bags, M&M's and Big Gulps. The guys are on a sugar high, and begin to swap embellished high school stories.
Next we see them at 1:00am on a sugar low. Trying to hang on, to stay awake they start playing old 80's heavy metal songs and doing a bit of air guitar. They are parked in an empty lot across the street, kitty corner from the daycare. They see a car pull into the daycare lot but its only a police car.
They set up watches, with Doug taking the first watch, and the other guys begin to nod off.
They all awake with a start, Doug had fallen asleep, as the lights and siren of a police car beside them, wailing to come out of the car with their hands-up. They open the door and their improvised weapons they had packed for defense, a baesball bat, golf club, tire iron, etc come spilling out. The cops are going to take them in for questioning until Mike convinces them of their ill conceived notion of vigilantism. The cops let them go with a warning and tell them to go home and leave this to the pros.
The guys watch as the cops pull away. Instead of going home though they decide to turn around and go for breakfast. As they pass by they see a green van parked beside the daycare and the window busted.
The guys spring into action to catch the crooks entering the daycare and chasing them outside. Doug can't keep up, he's overweight and huffing and puffing. Fletcher wrenches his back trying to boost Epstein over a fence so he's out. And Paul trips over a crack in the concrete and smashes his head into a signpost. Epstein and Mike catch up the crooks as they try and get away in their van. There are 3 crooks and the boys don't have any of their weapons, so now they're backing up, making excuses for not fighting. We're old, you dont want to hurt senior citizens, the boys in the pen won't like that. They stall long enough for the same cops from earlier to show up. Not fully understanding what is going on the cops haul in Mike and Epstein as well as the crooks who then try and blame the boys.
Back at home the next morning Mike's family give him a hero's welcome, which makes it all worth it. Then Mike promptly passes out on the couch from exhaustion.
1.02 "The Big Game"
When "Football Nation" comes to their old high school Mike and his pals relive the glory days as their alma mater takes on the cross town rivals. It also happens to be a great opportunity for Mike to get some revenge on a business rival from the other side of the tracks.
In the end however Mike's team is blown away by their rivals. But Mike gets the last laugh when his business rival is falsely depicted by Football Nation as a drunk lunatic fan.
1.03 - "Get yer tickets here"
Mike gets an offer he can't refuse to trade his 2nd row tickets to Jennifer's dance recital for back row tickets, and then receive 2 tickets with backstage passes to a big country concert as compensation.
Paul & Fletcher spend the night camped out for tickets to that country concert only to fall asleep in the last hour and have everyone walk past them to get tickets.
Billie tries to convince Connor to let her take out his loose tooth. He refuses and goes on an eating binge instead of hard foods in an attempt to get it out.
Billie explodes on Mike when she finds out about his ticket exchange. He receives the silent treatment and Paul and Fletcher receive the tickets and backstage passes from Mike to the country concert to see the "hottest woman in country music".
1.04 - "Pilgrimage"
The men (Mike, Doug, Fletcher, Epstein, & Paul) decide a late night walk to their old slurpee providing 7-Eleven is in order. On their journey they meet a local rock and roll star who Epstein swears died years ago; a clerk who was the high school jock who made fun of them; and get into a fist fight in the parking lot with a group of guys half their age.
Billie and her kids Connor and Jennifer have fun with a new Karaokee machine she wins at work.
Upon their return the men, somewhat battered and bruised find the Karaokee machine and do an embarrasingly awful rendetion of Born To Be Wild air band, until they are discovered by Billie.
1.05 - "VietGnome"
Mike's neighbor Han gets out of control with his use of garden gnomes forcing Mike into covert action. Epstein loses his job and takes up unofficial residence in Mike's household, driving Billie crazy. Jennifer amazes her parents with some new four letter words she has picked up.
1.06 - "The Last Supper"
Mike's father (a talk-aholic) is in town for a visit and the family gives Mike the gears about having to meet him for dinner. Mike hurts Connor's feelings when he doesn't take the 9 year old's break-up with his girlfriend serious. 5 year old Jennifer suffers from stage fright the night before her music recital.
1.07 - "In and Out of Love"
After a fight Mike & Billie divide up the duties on a Saturday clean-up day with Mike doing the outside work and Billie the inside. Each reminces about the day they met and the resulting courtship. Of course the two memories are not even close to each other, and it takes Doug to remind them both of the middle ground.
1.08 - "That New Car Smell"
Mike and family spend the evening shopping for a new vehicle. Mom wants the mini-van, Jennifer develops a thing for trucks, Connor has a fit when they won't get an expensive sportscar, and Mike tries to justify his needs for a convertible.
1.09 - "Daddy's Girl"
When Jennifer begins to spend a lot of time with her imaginary Daddy, Mike gets jealous and begins to pamper and spoil her. Jennifer though knows a good thing when she finds it and milks it for all its worth, until Billie puts an end to it.
When a portion of their fence blows down Mike receives no actual help from his volunteer buddies, instead he works with Han to fix it while his buddies drink beer and crack jokes.
1.10 - "Gym Class"
Mike & Billie are brought into Connor's school when an over imaginative teacher has concerns over Connor's unwillingness to change in the dressing room. Mike revels the teacher and his wife with gym class stories from that same school when Mike was a student. The stories of course involve Mike, Fletcher, Epstein, and Paul.
1.11 - "Birds and the Bees"
guest star; Vida Guerra
When Billie's younger and sexually overt sister (Vida Guerra)comes for a visit from Brazil it awakes new feelings in Connor, and Billie insists that Mike sit him down for "the talk". Billie's sister brings Mike's buddies out of the woodwork and the house fills up quickly driving Billie crazy.
1.12 - "Radio Wars"
As the temperature outside rises so do the neighborhood tempers. When Mike's neighbor insists on leaving his backyard radio on all day, Mike retaliates by doing the same with a country station. Han falls asleep leaving his sprinkler on all night, making his and Mike's front yards a mess, and the street swamped. Billie explodes with her Latin temper when no one else in the family wants to get a professional family portrait done.
1.13 - "Big Brother"
guest star; Neil MacDonald
Mike's famous brother Mark visits from Washington where he is a well known on-air political correspondent. Mark's success brings out the worst in Mike's behaviour, and causes his friends to go to elaborate set-ups to make Mike appear larger then life.
guest- Neil MacDonald (Norm's real life brother and CBC Canada correspondent in Washington)
1.14 - "The Girl Who Cried Bear"
The family gets away from it all with a nice weekend tenting at a State Park. When Jennifer starts to see a bear cub in the woods behind the tent the others are quick to discredit; to their later dismay. Mike & Doug are sent by Billie to quiet down some teenage partiers at night, but instead the two end up in a drinking contest with the youths and get kicked out of the park.
1.15 - "Neighborhood Idol"
When a new family moves in across the street, the young son takes to Mike like an idol. At first Mike finds it cute, then it becomes an irritant and makes Connor jealous. Attempts to prove he is not worthy just causes the boy to duplicate Mike's bad behaviour, getting both of them in hot water. The answer may lie in diverting the boy's attention to someone else; Paul.
1.16 - "Weekend Away"
When the kids go away for the weekend with their grandparents Mike and Billie have opposite reactions. Mike tries to cram in every fun outing with his friends he can, while Billie becomes depressed missing the kids. This leads to Billie fawning attention over the neighbor's kids, a pair of brats that Mike can't stand.
1.17 - "Mixed Messages"
When one of the kids in Connor's class floods the bathrooms the teacher makes all the boys clean up the mess (including the toilet overflow) when no one will tell the teacher the identity of the culprit. Connor gets mixed messages from his parents, with Mike telling him it's a bad idea to rat on a friend, and Mom Billie telling him to do the right thing and tell the teacher. Mike takes his anger to the teacher over the incident, only to accidently admit to having spraypainted the outside of the school with his friends when they were students there (earning him and his angry friends a little work detail of their own).
1.18 - "I Don't Like Mondays"
It's a typical flurry of morning activity as Mike & Billie try and get the kids ready for school Monday morning, making themsevles late for their jobs. Then Mike cuts another driver off and the man begins to stalk Mike who is oblivious to this fact, but Billie realizes it and tries to keep it from Mike on the rest of the drive-in, fearing an ugly confrontation.
1.19 - "Science Fair"
Connor wins his school's science fair and gets to go to the district event. Mike's friends (Fletcher, Epstein, and Paul) try to sabotage other kids projects to make sure Connor wins. They manage to make a little girl cry, and to make a volcano explode causing the gymnasium to be evactuated and the sprinklers to turn on and ruin the projects.
1.20 - "John Daley"
guest star; John Daley
Former PGA golf superstar John Daley guest stars as himself. The down and out former bad boy is hired by Connor to teach him golf (he wants to be the next Tiger Woods). At first Mike & Billie are against it, but Daley manages to win them over despite his constant smoking of cigars, over eating, and disparging remarks regarding Tiger Woods. Connor falls for his golf lessons, and Mike too is impressed by John's ability to improve his golf game so much that he breaks 100 and beats his friends for the first time in his life. Billie also falls for his off-beat charm because of his constant flattery of her cooking and gardening skills. Only little Jennifer see's through his ploys and tries to out him as a parasite to the rest of the star struck family.
1.21 - "Flippin' Off the Neighbors"
Mike breaks from tradition, at Billie's urgings, and actually makes a point of welcoming his new neighbors, bringing them a gift and having them over for a barbeque. But soon after they put the house back up for sale after doing some improvements. Mike overhears them bad talking the shape of his house to the real estate agent, and that they were just flipping the house and would never live on this street. This gets Mike going who tries to sabotage their attempts to sell the house, along with the usual help from Epstein, Fletcher, and Paul. Only when Connor joins in and gets caught by the Police egging the neighbors house does Mike realize he went too far.
1.22 - "America's Worst Handyman"
Mike is insulted when Billie sends in a nomintion videotape to the reality show "America's Worst Handyman". His pride brings them to the brink of divorce. Mike seeks revenge but admits defeat when he can't think of anything that Billie can't do well.
~episode guide~
1.01 - "Pilot: I said Posse" When Jennifer's daycare suffers a series of break-ins, Mike springs into action with his childhood friends. Spend a night with these big overgrown children as they do a stakeout. With or without robbers the friends are bound to find trouble.
*********************
Mike comes home early from his company to have dinner with his family. His fiery Brazillian wife Billie is mad because Jennifer's daycare has been broken into for the 4th time. The security company is too slow to catch the thieves, and they keep vandalzing the rooms. The more Mike thinks about it the more upset he beomces. That evening he calls his childhood friends and brother in-law over for drinks in the basement. He locks Billie out saying they are conducting secret business. That night he tries to sneak out of the house but Billie catches him. He tells her of his plans and she's pleased giving him a big kiss goodbye and promising him more when he gets home.
Mike is picked up by the rest of the guys in Doug's big white diesel truck, along with Paul, Fletcher, and Epstein. They do a 7-11 run and the truck is filled with Nacho bags, M&M's and Big Gulps. The guys are on a sugar high, and begin to swap embellished high school stories.
Next we see them at 1:00am on a sugar low. Trying to hang on, to stay awake they start playing old 80's heavy metal songs and doing a bit of air guitar. They are parked in an empty lot across the street, kitty corner from the daycare. They see a car pull into the daycare lot but its only a police car.
They set up watches, with Doug taking the first watch, and the other guys begin to nod off.
They all awake with a start, Doug had fallen asleep, as the lights and siren of a police car beside them, wailing to come out of the car with their hands-up. They open the door and their improvised weapons they had packed for defense, a baesball bat, golf club, tire iron, etc come spilling out. The cops are going to take them in for questioning until Mike convinces them of their ill conceived notion of vigilantism. The cops let them go with a warning and tell them to go home and leave this to the pros.
The guys watch as the cops pull away. Instead of going home though they decide to turn around and go for breakfast. As they pass by they see a green van parked beside the daycare and the window busted.
The guys spring into action to catch the crooks entering the daycare and chasing them outside. Doug can't keep up, he's overweight and huffing and puffing. Fletcher wrenches his back trying to boost Epstein over a fence so he's out. And Paul trips over a crack in the concrete and smashes his head into a signpost. Epstein and Mike catch up the crooks as they try and get away in their van. There are 3 crooks and the boys don't have any of their weapons, so now they're backing up, making excuses for not fighting. We're old, you dont want to hurt senior citizens, the boys in the pen won't like that. They stall long enough for the same cops from earlier to show up. Not fully understanding what is going on the cops haul in Mike and Epstein as well as the crooks who then try and blame the boys.
Back at home the next morning Mike's family give him a hero's welcome, which makes it all worth it. Then Mike promptly passes out on the couch from exhaustion.
1.02 "The Big Game"
When "Football Nation" comes to their old high school Mike and his pals relive the glory days as their alma mater takes on the cross town rivals. It also happens to be a great opportunity for Mike to get some revenge on a business rival from the other side of the tracks.
In the end however Mike's team is blown away by their rivals. But Mike gets the last laugh when his business rival is falsely depicted by Football Nation as a drunk lunatic fan.
1.03 - "Get yer tickets here"
Mike gets an offer he can't refuse to trade his 2nd row tickets to Jennifer's dance recital for back row tickets, and then receive 2 tickets with backstage passes to a big country concert as compensation.
Paul & Fletcher spend the night camped out for tickets to that country concert only to fall asleep in the last hour and have everyone walk past them to get tickets.
Billie tries to convince Connor to let her take out his loose tooth. He refuses and goes on an eating binge instead of hard foods in an attempt to get it out.
Billie explodes on Mike when she finds out about his ticket exchange. He receives the silent treatment and Paul and Fletcher receive the tickets and backstage passes from Mike to the country concert to see the "hottest woman in country music".
1.04 - "Pilgrimage"
The men (Mike, Doug, Fletcher, Epstein, & Paul) decide a late night walk to their old slurpee providing 7-Eleven is in order. On their journey they meet a local rock and roll star who Epstein swears died years ago; a clerk who was the high school jock who made fun of them; and get into a fist fight in the parking lot with a group of guys half their age.
Billie and her kids Connor and Jennifer have fun with a new Karaokee machine she wins at work.
Upon their return the men, somewhat battered and bruised find the Karaokee machine and do an embarrasingly awful rendetion of Born To Be Wild air band, until they are discovered by Billie.
1.05 - "VietGnome"
Mike's neighbor Han gets out of control with his use of garden gnomes forcing Mike into covert action. Epstein loses his job and takes up unofficial residence in Mike's household, driving Billie crazy. Jennifer amazes her parents with some new four letter words she has picked up.
1.06 - "The Last Supper"
Mike's father (a talk-aholic) is in town for a visit and the family gives Mike the gears about having to meet him for dinner. Mike hurts Connor's feelings when he doesn't take the 9 year old's break-up with his girlfriend serious. 5 year old Jennifer suffers from stage fright the night before her music recital.
1.07 - "In and Out of Love"
After a fight Mike & Billie divide up the duties on a Saturday clean-up day with Mike doing the outside work and Billie the inside. Each reminces about the day they met and the resulting courtship. Of course the two memories are not even close to each other, and it takes Doug to remind them both of the middle ground.
1.08 - "That New Car Smell"
Mike and family spend the evening shopping for a new vehicle. Mom wants the mini-van, Jennifer develops a thing for trucks, Connor has a fit when they won't get an expensive sportscar, and Mike tries to justify his needs for a convertible.
1.09 - "Daddy's Girl"
When Jennifer begins to spend a lot of time with her imaginary Daddy, Mike gets jealous and begins to pamper and spoil her. Jennifer though knows a good thing when she finds it and milks it for all its worth, until Billie puts an end to it.
When a portion of their fence blows down Mike receives no actual help from his volunteer buddies, instead he works with Han to fix it while his buddies drink beer and crack jokes.
1.10 - "Gym Class"
Mike & Billie are brought into Connor's school when an over imaginative teacher has concerns over Connor's unwillingness to change in the dressing room. Mike revels the teacher and his wife with gym class stories from that same school when Mike was a student. The stories of course involve Mike, Fletcher, Epstein, and Paul.
1.11 - "Birds and the Bees"
guest star; Vida Guerra
When Billie's younger and sexually overt sister (Vida Guerra)comes for a visit from Brazil it awakes new feelings in Connor, and Billie insists that Mike sit him down for "the talk". Billie's sister brings Mike's buddies out of the woodwork and the house fills up quickly driving Billie crazy.
1.12 - "Radio Wars"
As the temperature outside rises so do the neighborhood tempers. When Mike's neighbor insists on leaving his backyard radio on all day, Mike retaliates by doing the same with a country station. Han falls asleep leaving his sprinkler on all night, making his and Mike's front yards a mess, and the street swamped. Billie explodes with her Latin temper when no one else in the family wants to get a professional family portrait done.
1.13 - "Big Brother"
guest star; Neil MacDonald
Mike's famous brother Mark visits from Washington where he is a well known on-air political correspondent. Mark's success brings out the worst in Mike's behaviour, and causes his friends to go to elaborate set-ups to make Mike appear larger then life.
guest- Neil MacDonald (Norm's real life brother and CBC Canada correspondent in Washington)
1.14 - "The Girl Who Cried Bear"
The family gets away from it all with a nice weekend tenting at a State Park. When Jennifer starts to see a bear cub in the woods behind the tent the others are quick to discredit; to their later dismay. Mike & Doug are sent by Billie to quiet down some teenage partiers at night, but instead the two end up in a drinking contest with the youths and get kicked out of the park.
1.15 - "Neighborhood Idol"
When a new family moves in across the street, the young son takes to Mike like an idol. At first Mike finds it cute, then it becomes an irritant and makes Connor jealous. Attempts to prove he is not worthy just causes the boy to duplicate Mike's bad behaviour, getting both of them in hot water. The answer may lie in diverting the boy's attention to someone else; Paul.
1.16 - "Weekend Away"
When the kids go away for the weekend with their grandparents Mike and Billie have opposite reactions. Mike tries to cram in every fun outing with his friends he can, while Billie becomes depressed missing the kids. This leads to Billie fawning attention over the neighbor's kids, a pair of brats that Mike can't stand.
1.17 - "Mixed Messages"
When one of the kids in Connor's class floods the bathrooms the teacher makes all the boys clean up the mess (including the toilet overflow) when no one will tell the teacher the identity of the culprit. Connor gets mixed messages from his parents, with Mike telling him it's a bad idea to rat on a friend, and Mom Billie telling him to do the right thing and tell the teacher. Mike takes his anger to the teacher over the incident, only to accidently admit to having spraypainted the outside of the school with his friends when they were students there (earning him and his angry friends a little work detail of their own).
1.18 - "I Don't Like Mondays"
It's a typical flurry of morning activity as Mike & Billie try and get the kids ready for school Monday morning, making themsevles late for their jobs. Then Mike cuts another driver off and the man begins to stalk Mike who is oblivious to this fact, but Billie realizes it and tries to keep it from Mike on the rest of the drive-in, fearing an ugly confrontation.
1.19 - "Science Fair"
Connor wins his school's science fair and gets to go to the district event. Mike's friends (Fletcher, Epstein, and Paul) try to sabotage other kids projects to make sure Connor wins. They manage to make a little girl cry, and to make a volcano explode causing the gymnasium to be evactuated and the sprinklers to turn on and ruin the projects.
1.20 - "John Daley"
guest star; John Daley
Former PGA golf superstar John Daley guest stars as himself. The down and out former bad boy is hired by Connor to teach him golf (he wants to be the next Tiger Woods). At first Mike & Billie are against it, but Daley manages to win them over despite his constant smoking of cigars, over eating, and disparging remarks regarding Tiger Woods. Connor falls for his golf lessons, and Mike too is impressed by John's ability to improve his golf game so much that he breaks 100 and beats his friends for the first time in his life. Billie also falls for his off-beat charm because of his constant flattery of her cooking and gardening skills. Only little Jennifer see's through his ploys and tries to out him as a parasite to the rest of the star struck family.
1.21 - "Flippin' Off the Neighbors"
Mike breaks from tradition, at Billie's urgings, and actually makes a point of welcoming his new neighbors, bringing them a gift and having them over for a barbeque. But soon after they put the house back up for sale after doing some improvements. Mike overhears them bad talking the shape of his house to the real estate agent, and that they were just flipping the house and would never live on this street. This gets Mike going who tries to sabotage their attempts to sell the house, along with the usual help from Epstein, Fletcher, and Paul. Only when Connor joins in and gets caught by the Police egging the neighbors house does Mike realize he went too far.
1.22 - "America's Worst Handyman"
Mike is insulted when Billie sends in a nomintion videotape to the reality show "America's Worst Handyman". His pride brings them to the brink of divorce. Mike seeks revenge but admits defeat when he can't think of anything that Billie can't do well.