Cate decides the family isn't active enough and takes them to join the YMCA where Bridget works. Jim is overprotective of her at the YMCA and doesn't think she should be working there. Meanwhile Rory deals with a coming-of-age issue that keeps ''popping up'' at the worst of times.

8 Simple Rules Season 2 Episodes...

• s02e01 - Premiere
• s02e02 - Sex Ed
• s02e03 - Donny Goes AWOL
• s02e04 - Goodbye (1)
• s02e05 - Goodbye (2)
• s02e06 - No Right Way
• s02e07 - What Dad Would Want
• s02e08 - The First Thanksgiving
• s02e09 - The Story of Anne Frank and Skeevy
• s02e10 - YMCA
• s02e11 - Get Real
• s02e12 - Consequences
• s02e13 - Opposites Attract (1)
• s02e14 - Opposites Attract (2)
• s02e15 - Opposites Attract: Night of the Locust (3)
• s02e16 - Daddy's Girl
• s02e17 - Mall in the Family
• s02e18 - Let's Keep Going (1)
• s02e19 - Let's Keep Going (2)
• s02e20 - C.J.'s Party
• s02e21 - Mother's Day
• s02e22 - The Principal
• s02e23 - Finale Part Un (1)
• s02e24 - Finale Part Deux (2)

8 Simple Rules Show Summary

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.