Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no longer the king of his domain, and instead of having a big screen television in his recently renovated basement, he now has a crazy old man.
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- Seasons
- 9
- Episodes aired
- 207
- Latest aired
- S09E12
- Total runtime
- 3d 1h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1998 – May 1999 25 episodes
- Season 2 September 1999 – May 2000 25 episodes
- Season 3 October 2000 – May 2001 25 episodes
- Season 4 September 2001 – May 2002 25 episodes
- Season 5 September 2002 – May 2003 25 episodes
- Season 6 October 2003 – May 2004 24 episodes
- Season 7 October 2004 – May 2005 22 episodes
- Season 8 September 2005 – May 2006 23 episodes
- Season 9 December 2006 – May 2007 13 episodes
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S06E01 Doug Less (1)
October 1 · 21min find the promo
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The sixth season opens with a newly svelte Doug and a surprisingly jealous Carrie, who just can't hide her disdain when people constantly compliment her hubby on his weight loss. Doug decides to suprise her by taking her to an old holiday spot of theirs.
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S06E02 Doug Less (2)
October 1 · 22min find the promo
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Doug surprises Carrie with a romantic weekend away at a resort. Doug and Carrie try to get over an argument they've been having, but only make things worse. Deacon finds Spence and Danny in bed together. Arthur decides he is in an emergency situation.
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S06E03 King Pong
October 8 · 21min find the promo
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When Arthur handily beats Doug in several games of ping-pong, Doug decides to test his skills on Carrie, but is humiliated when he loses once again. In a desperate attempt to keep his ego intact, he asks Arthur to train him so that he can beat his wife.
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S06E04 Dreading Vows
October 15 · 22min find the promo
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Endless complications make Doug and Carrie quickly regret their decision to renew their wedding vows. In the midst of the wedding planning Arthur is praying that his wedding present, aged Port wine, will go unused when he discovers the value of the fine wine on E-bay.
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S06E05 Nocturnal Omission
October 22 · 21min find the promo
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Doug and Carrie don't agree on whether to tell Deacon, who's planning a night with a gorgeous stewardess he just met, that Kelly wants to reconcile.
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S06E06 Affidavit Justice
October 29 · 21min find the promo
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When the partners of Carrie's law firm notice Doug's softball skills, they ask him to pretend that he's a lawyer in order to play on their company team. Carrie worries that Doug won't be able to pull off being a lawyer, but he is so convincing, an opposing firm offers him a job.
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S06E07 Secret Garden
November 12 · 21min find the promo
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Carrie fears that her new gynecologist will drop her as a patient after she recommends Danny do some landscaping for him and Danny overcharges the doctor for the work.
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S06E08 Eggsit Strategy
November 19 · 22min find the promo
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Carrie hears that her law firm is laying off people and worries about her job, though her resigning boss is only worried about getting an omelette bar goodbye party. Meanwhile, Doug is in hot water with Deacon when he loses the koosh ball Deacon received from his son as a gift.
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S06E09 Thanks Man
November 26 · 22min find the promo
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It's Thanksgiving in the Heffernan household and while Carrie cooks dinner for ten people, Doug lets a stranger into the house to use the phone. He is convinced the stranger is a nice guy but Carrie is not so trusting.
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S06E10 American Idle
December 3 · 22min find the promo
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With Doug on her back over her lack of motivation in finding a new job, Carrie enlists the help of Arthur and opens up her own company making decorative cell phone covers, then forces her friends to come to a showing.
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S06E11 Santa Claustrophobia
December 17 · 22min find the promo
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Doug finds it unbearable working with Carrie when she takes a temporary job at his company during the holidays. Arthur tries to get various friends to pose for a Christmas card picture with him.
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S06E12 Dougie Houser
January 7 · 21min find the promo
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In flashbacks, Doug and Carrie recall buying their house almost 10 years earlier and how it was mainly Carrie's decision because Doug preferred a different place.
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S06E13 Frigid Heirs
January 14 · 21min find the promo
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Arthur wins $2,500 at a bingo game, and agrees to share some of his winnings with Doug and Carrie. Unfortunately, Arthur feels that he should decide how they will spend their portion.
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S06E14 Switch Sitters
February 11 · 22min find the promo
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After countless times of babysitting Deacon and Kelly's children, Doug and Carrie feel that Deacon and Kelly should return the favor and babysit Arthur every once in a while.
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S06E15 Cheap Saks
February 11 · 21min find the promo
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Though she quickly realizes why Doug dumped her so long ago, Carrie stays friends with his former girlfriend to take advantage of her employee discount at Saks Fifth Avenue.
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S06E16 Damned Yanky
February 18 · 21min find the promo
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Carrie's infuriated when Doug sleep-talks about women while anesthetized, so she comes up with a proscribed list of women for Doug's daydreams.
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S06E17 Multiple Plots
February 25 · 21min find the promo
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When Arthur tries to sell Spence his adjoining burial plot, he winds up selling it to Spence's mother, Veronica. Doug is assigned a new delivery route and is freaked out by a man at one of his daily stops who always answers the door wearing nothing but a towel around his waist.
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S06E18 Trash Talker
March 3 · 21min find the promo
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Doug and Deacon's relationship hits a speed bump when Deacon unknowingly befriends Doug's grade school archenemy.
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S06E19 Precedent Nixin'
March 17 · 21min find the promo
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Carrie asks Deacon and Kelly to accompany her and Doug to Florida for their visit with the in-laws so that they'll be forced to stay at a hotel instead of with Doug's parents, prompting a guilt-trip from Janet.
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S06E20 Foe: Pa
March 24 · 22min find the promo
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Doug must heal the breach between father and daughter when Arthur ruins Carrie's job interview at a prestigious real-estate development firm by making a nuisance of himself in the company's lobby.
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S06E21 Tank Heaven
April 7 · 21min find the promo
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Doug sabotages Carrie's attempts to start hanging out with her co-workers by scaring them off with several crude techniques. Meanwhile, Spence and Danny realize that women like men who take care of the elderly and start using Arthur as bait.
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S06E22 Alter Ego
May 5 · 22min find the promo
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What starts out as a valiant effort to win back the heart of Spence's ex-girlfriend, Denise, quickly goes south as Danny gets a sudden case of lockjaw and the group spends all the money they took out as cash advances from their credit cards.
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S06E23 Icky Shuffle
May 12 · 22min find the promo
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A bedridden Carrie gets Doug to team with Arthur for a shuffleboard tournament, but his skills aren't to Arthur's liking. Meanwhile, Carrie pretends to continue being sick so that Holly will continue to cook for her.
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S06E24 Awful Bigamy
May 19 · 21min find the promo
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After Holly gets kicked out of her apartment, Arthur insists that she stay with him in the basement until she finds a new place, making Doug realize the benefits of having two women in his life.