SEASON 1 – CBS
Created by Dana Klein and Mark Feuerstein
Opening theme: “Won’t You Take Me Home Rock” by Gabriel Mann
- 001. Pilot – 10/2/2017
- After his wife takes his home in a divorce settlement and he loses his TV series Blind Cop, actor Josh Roberts (Mark Feuerstein) moves from his home in Los Angeles to an apartment in New York, his new adjacent to his parents Harry (Elliot Gould) and Judy (Linda Lavin) on one side in 9J and on the other side to his surgeon brother Andrew (David Walton), his pediatrician wife Eve (Liza Lapira), and their baby son Wyatt. Both parents are overbearing and demand much of his time. No matter how hard Josh tries to sneak into his apartment, his mother always catches him in the hall and brings him in to chat. He also becomes reacquainted with the Nick the doorman, who frequently stops him to talk about his exploits. Resident kid Ian (Albert Tsai) often hangs out in the lobby and is a film buff who looks down on Josh’s work on TV. Judy immediately tries to fix him up on dates, and Harry asks Josh to participate in a ‘viral video’ for his office to promote estate planning. While out running in the park is recognized not only a Blind Cop fan (Fernando Martinez), but also by an old college classmate named Christina Jones (Sally Pressman), on whom he had a major crush. He asks her on a date, and she accepts. When Ian tells him about director Paul Feig’s next movie Groomies, Josh tries to get an audition through his agent. When that fails, Harry thinks he can help since his classmate once represented Paul Feig’s cousin. Josh remembers that the video for his father is that night, which could interfere with his date with Christina. He thinks he can rush through the video shoot, but with his father’s lack of acting skills, they have to do nearly fifty takes until they come up with the most mediocre of scenes. Before he can get to his date, Andrew and Eve’s babysitter Molly (Hana Hayes) calls Josh with a supposed relationship crisis and demands that he come get the baby since no one else is available. He is then forced to take the baby to meet Christina at the restaurant and then wait for Andrew and Eve to show up from their escape room to pick him up. After fending them off when they try to join them for dinner, Josh and Christina have a great date and decide to go back to Josh’s apartment since Christina is staying on the couch of a friend. When they arrive, he figures out that it is Nick who is calling up to his mother to tell her that when he gets home. Josh says that he needs to check on his elderly neighbor, so he stops by to greet his mother and has Christina wait for him in the apartment. Once he gets through is brief visit with her, he returns to Christina, only to be interrupted by his mother at the door, and then his father on the terrace. Andrew also gets into the act and comes out onto his terrace, where he continues the conversation with their parents even after Josh goes back inside. As he lambasts them for interrupting his date, Christina decides to leave due to all of the interruptions. Harry then gets a phone call that Paul Feig (himself) will meet with Josh if he can get there in twenty minutes. Harry, Judy, and Andrew all come along, but the meeting is incredibly brief, and Feig tells Josh that he already gave the part he was going for to Steve Carrell. However, he does offer Josh a smaller part as a bandleader. His family all congratulates him, and he thanks them for always being there for him. Josh later bribes Nick with Knicks tickets to never again call his mother to tell him that he is home. He is able to walk into his apartment uninterrupted… only to find that his parents are inside. They are joined by Andrew and Eve, and Josh says that they need to establish some ground rules. Judy refuses. 6/14/25
- 002. Relationship Guy – 10/9/2017
- When Nick delivers a package to Josh and sees how his bachelor pad is coming along, the two of them start swapping stories about one-night stands. Nick is disappointed when Josh really doesn’t have any, which causes Josh to realize that he has always been in longer relationships and never had a one-night stand. Andrew and Eve concur with this and decide to help him find a woman for a night of casual sex. Meanwhile, Harry buys bananas immediately after Judy has stocked up on them. Unable to throw them away, Harry promises to take care of them. However, when he picks out a fruit to eat, he chooses an apple. Out a nightclub, Eve and Andrew accompany him and send him to talk to a woman who is looking at him named Katie (Sofia Gonzalez), who recognizes him from his work on Blind Cop. Before long, Josh is FaceTiming Katie’s mother, so Harry and Eve pull him away. gives Josh advice on how to make a one-stand work, including such things as giving her breakfast burrito to go, making sure she doesn’t leave anything in his apartment, not hugging, and not exchanging phone numbers. Andrew takes offense when he hears Eve’s rules and realizes that he was meant to be a one-night stand himself. Josh approaches another girl named Lily (Mouzam Makkar) and hits it off with her as well. They wind up going back to his apartment, and the next morning, Josh maintains the rules by sending her on her way, not exchanging names or numbers, and trying not to hug, although he ends up giving her one just as his mother steps out of her apartment. He even declines to go at it again thinking that it would disqualify him from having a one-night stand. However, he later brags about his conquest to Eve, and she says it still would have counted. When he returns home that evening, he finally has something to brag to Nick about. When he stops by his parents’ apartment on the way to his, he finds that they are feeding bananas to Lily. Judy claims that she ran into her downstairs and the two of them wound up sharing a cab and spending the day together shopping. Although Josh tries to be clear to his mother that she was supposed to be a one-night stand only, the more he hears about her, the more he comes to like her. As Lily leaves, Josh says goodbye to her, but it ultimately leads to them kissing in the hallway and then having another one-night stand. The next morning, almost everyone, including Andrew, who has recognized how one-night stands can be hurtful, is happy about Josh admitting that he’s not really a one-night stand guy and truly likes Lily. Eve, however, considers him to be a wimp. Eve shows all of the items that she saved from her first date with Andrew, finally satisfying him that although she had originally thought he’d be a one-night stand, she obviously knew they had a future. Josh invites Lily over and confesses that he’s really more of a relationship guy, and she tells him that she is the same. She also tells him that she is ready to get married and already thinks that she loves him, scaring him off immediately. Harry continues to try and shove down all of the bananas. 6/14/25
- 003. Cool Friend Luke – 10/16/2017
- Josh finds out that Andrew and Eve hang out in his apartment when he is out, which is all too infrequent since most of his friends are now married with kids. He hopes to find a new friend, and when he meets a guy named Luke (Tone Bell) in the apartment lobby, they agree to go on an all-day bike ride together. Meanwhile, Eve asks Nick to put a new playpen together, but Andrew takes issue with the fact that she doesn’t think he can put together the Flergen model. When Josh gets home, and he tells his parents about Josh, his mother reveals that Luke is on her enemy list because Luke had overflowed water upstairs and damaged their ceiling in their bathtub. Judy insists that Josh stop seeing Luke, but Josh refuses. As Walter struggles with the playpen, Luke comes over to ride bikes with Josh, who admits that the crazy women next door is his mother. When he goes to get his bike, he finds that his mother has stolen it. His father won’t help him because Judy has agreed to let him return to Hunan Palace, another place she holds a grudge against. Walter calls Nick to come put the playpen together but wants to keep it a secret. When Judy runs into Josh and Luke in the elevator, and they share an awkward ride. Judy threatens to become friends with Richie Muscarella (Matthew Del Negro), who once peed in Josh’s sleeping bag at a sleeping bag. Eve comes home and catches Walter and Nick getting the Flergen stuck in the hallway. He tries to claim that he built it, and Eve shows him how to collapse it to get it in the bedroom. Judy calls Josh and Luke to her apartment supposedly to apologize, and there they find Richie visiting with her. She takes Luke in to show him the damage in the bathroom, but Luke still claims he had nothing to do with it. As they argue, Harry finally admits that he did it with a handheld shower head while trying to spray a spider day after day, even though he finally figured out that the spider was a design in the wallpaper. Judy apologizes to Luke for all of the antagonism of him over the years. Josh forces her to apologize to him as well. As Eve tells Walter that she doesn’t mind that he isn’t handy since he is great at everything else, Judy stops Luke as he’s going to Josh’s to watch basketball to come into her apartment to watch Cupcake Wars with her. Isaac Cheung is the Hunan Palace delivery guy. Thomas L. Christensen is the voice of the Danish man in the Flergen instructional video. 10/3/25
- 004. High Steaks – 10/23/2017
- Walter and Harry are planning a racquetball night, but Josh wants to come along rather than watching Survivor with his mother. When he insists, Harry confesses that they actually go out for steaks and scotch, which is against Harry’s doctor’s orders. Josh convinces his mother that he his father really wanted him to spend time with him, so she agrees to let him go. Harry suggests that Judy and Eve watch Survivor together, even though they are always uncomfortable when they are together. When the guys show up at Massimo’s, Josh talks them into sitting at a table for chit chat rather than sitting at the bar to watch the game. Josh also changes up their tradition of getting the Porterhouse steak in favor of the Dover sole. When Judy and Eve start laughing about how much they don’t want to spend time together, they actually connect and start drinking wine together. As they start to enjoy their time together, Judy gets annoyed when Eve doesn’t think she should go running every time the baby cries. Walter starts to resent Josh butting into the bonding between him and his father. He gets more annoyed when the restaurant owner Massimo (Robert Costanzo) recognizes Josh from Blind Cop and wants a picture with him. Eve gets angry at Judy when she goes across the hall to get Wyatt and sneak him under a blanket in her arms. When Eve mentions that she should have begged to go with Harry and Walter like Josh did, Judy is waiting for them and demands to speak to Josh when they get home. The three men come up with a story they can stick to about racquetball night. She gives him the third degree about their game, and Josh is surprised that the only thing she is angry about is that Josh wanted to be with his father instead of her. Walter is so worried about Josh giving them away that he barges in and admits that they went out for steaks. Judy is furious and makes Harry spend time on the recumbent bike to work off the calories. Andrew tells Josh that he resents the fact that Josh is already their mother’s favorite and now he is butting into his relationship with his father. Josh then tells his mother that it was he who talked them into skipping their normal racquetball night and that from now on he will butt out of their racquetball night. Josh and Judy continue their normal Survivor ‘date night’ while Harry and Walter resume with ‘racquetball night.’ Matt Jayson aka Matthew Jayson Cwern is Jerry the maître’ ‘d. 10/4/25
- 005. The Key to Life – 10/30/2017
- When Judy keeps letting herself into Josh’s apartment unannounced, Josh has the locks changed in his apartment. Meanwhile, Eve looks through some of their old holiday cards to see what she was wearing, she noticed that Josh’s ex-wife Kim has been cut out of all of the family photos. Eve vows to make sure she is not on the end of their photos so that she remains uncroppable. Judy tries to bribe Nick to get a copy of Josh’s new key, and although he won’t give it to Nick, he promises to give a spare key to someone in case of emergencies. Neither Walter nor Eve will take the key, and he has to plead with his father to take it. When the family gets together for the holiday photo, they are positioned by the plant where Harry hid the spare key. He is so distracted by it that he is forced to admit its location. When Judy finds out that Josh had offered the key to everyone but her, she tells Josh that he is no longer welcome in her apartment. When the photographer Terrance (Kadeem Hardison) snaps the photo, Eve, who has been jostled to the end several times, jumps in the middle of the photo. Eve is thrilled when she sees the photo, but Judy says she’s not sending out a card this year because Josh has taken away her will to spread cheer. As Josh gets ready for a date with actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, he locks himself out on his balcony while checking the weather. Judy won’t let him come through their apartment to get to his date, and Harry tells him how upset she is by the whole thing and that she hid his Mallomars. Harry agrees to mediate a deal between them, which includes Josh giving Judy the key and agreeing to numerous visits and Broadway shows throughout every month. When Walter and Eve return to their apartment, Josh tells his mother to shove the deal, thinking that he can go through their apartment. However, Eve phones Judy and agrees not to let Josh in if she will agree to send out the holiday cards. Judy then ups the ante and insists that Josh has to give in to the original agreement and to go on an Alaskan cruise with them. Harry is forced to say that he wants Josh to go so that he can get his Mallomars back. Josh finally gives in to all demands, but his date with Jennifer Love Hewitt is a bust because she is married. She only wanted to meet him for tips on acting blind, as she got an acting job playing Helen Keller. Josh gives the key back to his mother and apologizes for hurting her feelings. She admits that she has just been making up for lost time since he was in Los Angeles and understands that by overdoing it, she is making it less special. She starts to give the key back to him but then can’t do it. When the holiday card comes out, Eve is disappointed to find that she lost against Judy again, as her face is now in the crease of the card. 4/21/26
- 006. TV MD – 11/6/2017
- As usual, Josh’s parents are in his apartment too often, and although he didn’t accept an opportunity to audition to voice an animated Italian loafer in a new film that will emulate Cars, his folks insist that he talk to their friends Marsha (Audrey Feuerstein) and Fred Bernstein (Harvey Feuerstein) and do the voice of the character. When Andrew and Eve stop by to tell them that Andrew is going to be interviewed on the talk show Wake Up New York, it hardly registers a response from the folk. Josh helps coach Andrew on how to use his hands while he is being interviewed because when he practices, he flops them around like a T-Rex. When the interview goes well, Andrew is given a time slot on the show twice a week, and Judy and Harry’s friends start asking for medical advice, suddenly Andrew becomes a big shot with the folks, and they are always at his apartment. Even Nick suddenly wants to be best friends with Andrew. When the newfound fame starts going to Andrew’s head, and he refuses to give Josh any credit for coaching him, Josh decides that he will accept the audition for the animated film about shoes after all. He auditions for a casting director (Suzy Nakamura), but she can’t give him a feel for whether he got the job or not. Nevertheless, because Judy and Harry are now always at Andrew’s place, Eve tells them that Josh did get the job. Because Josh sees Andrew bringing home a life-size cutout of himself, he goes along with it, and suddenly the attention is back on him. When they all go out to celebrate for dinner, Josh gets a call and learns that the job went to James Franco. He is then forced to confess to everyone that he didn’t get the job after all, leading to an argument between him and Andrew about how Josh can’t stand Andrew’s success and always has to steal his thunder. The two boys later talk about how they always are in competition with each other and ultimately blame their mother for this. When they point this out to her, she reminds them that it always drove them to be better until ultimately, they both became hugely successful. Later, Josh announces that James Franco passed on the role, and he now has the job. Andrew, however, has lost his TV job, which makes Josh smile. The brothers assure each other that they are rooting for each other’s success, as long as the other doesn’t become more successful than themselves. 4/21/26
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