Deliveryman Doug Heffernan has a good life: He has a pretty wife (Carrie), a big television, and friends with which to watch it. Then Carrie's goofy, annoying father Arthur moves in with them.

Ned and Stacey marry a week after they meet. He marries her to get a promotion. She marries him because she can't find a place to live and likes his apartment.

Doug pretends to work at Carrie's law firm to play on the company's softball team.

When Doug tells Carrie he sometimes lies because he's afraid of her, they decide to be supportive to one another.

Doug and Carrie take a trip to Florida to visit Doug's parents. Doug finds out quite a few secrets from his childhood. Spence asks Arthur to help with the meeting of his girlfriend Denise and Spence's mom.

Doug takes Carrie out for a romantic holiday to a place they visited ten years ago.

Doug wants to buy a chainsaw, but Carrie tells him she doesn't want him to buy it. When he tells her she can't forbid him, she reminds him she actually can because, ten years ago he gave her permission to make all decisions from then on.

Doug and Carrie want to renew their vows.

Carrie is sad because she has no friends to hang out with her. Doug decides to introduce Carrie to a woman who just moved into the neighborhood. Carrie spends a lot of time with her new friend which makes Doug jealous.

Out of boredom Doug makes a very waggish picture of himself at a wedding, and he lets Danny take the blame.

When Doug delivers a package to his old high school, Doug reminisces about the time when he went there and played football, which makes him act very childish.

After she gets the raise she prayed for, Carrie starts praying for all kinds of things. Doug can't help himself and starts praying for petty things as well.

Doug's ego gets boosted when he gets checked out by a waitress.

Carrie persuades Doug to see a therapist about his eating habits. Meanwhile, Arthur tries to control his addiction to nasal spray.

While Spence isn't happy with Denise's new job waiting tables, Doug can't handle the fact that Arthur and Carrie are better at ping pong than he is.

While Arthur is in hospital, Carrie starts doubting that she still loves him. After looking in his room and finding a letter sent by her university accepting her onto a course, It's revealed that he hid this for his own selfish reasons.

Doug is on course to break the record for the number of days without an "incident" - no complaints and no broken packages. The older members of the IPS depot aren't too happy that Doug is going to break the record held by their friend.

It's almost Christmas and there is a lot of confusion about who's getting who a gift and what the gift may be.

Deacon finds the opportunity to sleep with a very attractive woman; knowing this, Doug finds out that Kelly wishes to get back with Deacon.

Doug and Carrie want to conceive, but receive another negative pregnancy result.

When Danny reveals he is getting married, Doug gets stuck being the best man at the last second, and must throw Danny a bachelor party.

Doug and Carrie pick up some of their photos, but soon they find out, it's not their photos, but photos of another couple.

At the same moment he has Richie over to talk about his divorce trouble, Ray Barone calls Doug to play golf. This is a tough call for Doug.

Doug surprises Carrie with laser eye surgery for her birthday. In an effort to save money, he chooses a cheaper doctor which results in a very worried couple when her sight does not return properly.

In an effort to spend more time with Carrie, Doug hires Holly (Nicole Sullivan) to walk Arthur. The plan backfires, however when Carrie starts spending more on her own endeavors than with Doug.