Steve and Brian's constant bickering causes Steve to separate the two guys and Steve's new roommate becomes Jeff, whose rules make Brian look pretty good.
Jack decides to give up firefighting in order to ensure he's always around for his kids, but the kids see how miserable he is and try to convince him to get his job back.
Jack coaches Brian's basketball team, who is two wins away from the championship, but gets flack from some of the parents and Brian when he jeopardizes winning the championship in order to give the team's weakest player a chance to play.
Steve steals Allison's Buttercup cookie money in order to buy a cassette player. When Allison realized it's missing she thinks she's in trouble and runs away.
A TV reporter, Jill Nichols, does a feature story on Jack. Jill accidentally films Jack stepping out of the shower and they argue over the use of the footage. When the smoke finally clears their animosity turns to romance.
Jack and Jill start dating, but they have trouble when they realize the big gap between Jack's family oriented lifestyle and Jill's career-oriented life.
Jack attempts to use Tiny, a sizable kid from the high school football team, as a ringer to win a fire department competition, but ends up hurting Tiny's feelings instead.
Jack invites his boss to dinner in order to get a promotion and gets roped into dating the Commissioner's crazy daughter, Glenn. Glenn jeopardizes Jack's chance at a raise.