Mel and Joe are forced to chaperone Ryder's school dance, getting themselves kicked out by the Vice Principal for bad behavior.
Meanwhile, Ryder contemplates breaking up with Stella but does an about-face after helping her nurse a sick Isabel.
Melissa is a grown-up former wild child of a political family who is now a local politician herself. When her sister ends up in prison and brother-in-law flees after a scandal hits, Mel must take responsibility for her teenaged niece Lennox and pre-adolescent nephew Ryder. Spread too thin to manage by herself, help comes in the unlikely form of Joe who, desperate for a job, moves in and becomes the family's manny.