Everyone in the Hennessy family fears the ringing of the phone when they all find themselves keeping secrets from one-another. Rory refuses to divulge the identity of the student responsible for bullying and beating him up at school, which leads Principal Gibb (Adam Arkin) on a mission to find the culprit and tell Cate; Bridget and Kerry use fake IDs to get into a club, where Bridget meets a cute guy and gives him her phone number -- before discovering that he's a cop (Colby Donaldson, ''Survivor''); Cate doesn't want the family to know that Bridget's tennis coach, Scott (Dan Cortese), is in hot pursuit to get her to go out on a date with him; and C.J. is distracted and forgets to pick up Rory's pain medication, which leads the pharmacist to call the house to find out if Rory's OK
s03e01 - First Day of School
s03e02 - Changes
s03e03 - School Nurse
s03e04 - Out of the Box
s03e05 - Car Trouble
s03e06 - Halloween
s03e07 - Coach (a.k.a. Tennis Coach)
s03e08 - Secrets
s03e09 - Thanksgiving Guest (a.k.a. Thanksgiving)
s03e10 - Vanity Unfair
s03e11 - Princetown Girl
s03e12 - A Very C.J. Christmas (a.k.a. A Very Cool Christmas)
s03e13 - The Sub
s03e14 - C.J.'s Temptation
s03e15 - Old Flame
s03e16 - Closure
s03e17 - Volleybrawl
s03e18 - Freaky Friday
s03e19 - Torn Between Two Lovers
s03e20 - C.J.'s Real Dad
s03e21 - The After Party
s03e22 - The Teachers Lounge
s03e23 - The Sleepover
s03e24 - Ditch Day
Paul Hennessy has grown accustomed to his stay-at-home wife Cate taking care of their son and two daughters. His job as a sports writer kept him on the road a lot during the kids' formative years. But when Cate decides to return to work as a hospital nurse, Paul takes a job as a columnist and agrees to make the duties of raising the kids a shared experience.
Paul fondly remembers the days when his daughters would sit on his lap singing silly songs, and he was their hero for scaring away monsters from under the bed. But those days are long gone.