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Improving Your Life Through Improv

Brendon gets caught making fun of another kid at school and as a result, Mr. Lynch sends everyone to sensitivity training on a Saturday. There they learn the value of really bad improv games and experience the song "No Skin Off My Ass." Also: Paula secretly enters one of Brendon's movies in a contest.

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Season 2

EP 10 History

Mr. Lynch is tutoring Brendon, who is failing History. His lack of historical perspective is evident through his movies, which star the evil George Washington, the evil Picasso and the evil Annie Oakley.

EP 11 Writer's Block

The school writing fair is one week away and Brendon is suffering a bad case of writer's block! Melissa and Jason put pressure on him to no avail, but they end up being a hit anyway. Paula is inspired by the pep talk she gives Brendon and gets back to her writing roots.

EP 12 Pizza Club

Paula tries to get a role in one of Brendon's films about a little girl named Little Malooloo who has two fathers. McGuirk feels left out by the regular pizza club meetings that Brendon has with his dad.

EP 13 The Wedding

The big day is here: Brendon's dad is marrying his girlfriend. A rash is slowly covering Brendon's body, but otherwise he's doing okay. Paula's friend Stephanie is in town for the wedding and takes a liking to Coach McGuirk.

Season 3

EP 1 Shore Leave

Erik is worried that Melissa doesn't have enough friends who are girls so he enrolls her in The Fairy Princesses. Meanwhile, Brendon gets invited to spend the weekend with Fenton, whom he didn't even know he was friends with. Both Brendon and Melissa have what they consider to be the worst weekends of their lives.

EP 2 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

A kitchen fire at the Smalls is nothing compared to the flaring tempers triggered when both of Paula's newly separated parents move in. To make matters worse, Coach McGuirk volunteers to "renovate" the kitchen. Meanwhile, Brendon, Jason and Melissa make a crime drama called "Mulligan and Winooski" about two cops.

EP 3 Bad Influences

The camera does add 10 pounds, but so does binging on junk food. Brendon and Jason are gaining weight at an alarming rate, so in order break the "fat-enabling" cycle, they decide never to see each other again.

EP 4 Improving Your Life Through Improv

EP 5 Renaissance

Brendon, Jason and Melissa are performing the musical "King Arthur Meets Robin Hood"at a medieval fair organized by Mr. Lynch. Tensions soon arise between the fair and the sci-fi convention next door. Can Brendon bring peace to the warring factions? Also, can Coach McGuirk stay in character as a medieval blacksmith?

EP 7 Four's Company

Melissa gets a new French-accented boyfriend, and Brendon and Jason get jealous when her love life starts to interfere with their busy production schedule--and the casting of their Susan B. Anthony biopic. Meanwhile, Coach McGuirk transforms into to a social planner.