When Eve is chosen to be her high school's first female kicker, Mike becomes over-excited at the news, while Vanessa doesn't share his enthusiasm as she worries about Eve.
Ryan clashes with Mike over the way he lets Boyd watch violent movies and video games, after Boyd runs into trouble at a friend's birthday party for starting a violent game.
When Wendi incites Ed against Mike, the two friends clash with each other, as Ed starts to sabotage Mike's plans. Eve is having a hard time balancing various tasks.
After Mike and Boyd run into a problem on the road, the incident leaves Boyd scared to even get out of the house. Mike, along with Ryan, tries to help Boyd get through the situation.
When a local election ballot proposal to close a failing school is raised, Mike and Chuck refuse the proposal, while Eve supports it. Vanessa and Carol make a decision about their careers.
When Mike finds out that Mandy is having trouble paying taxes on her business, he gives her advice to fix the situation, but she decides to take a different approach. Mike is worried after Bud leaves Kristin in charge of the pot store while he's away.
Mike finds himself in a pickle after Boyd gets chickenpox, and it turns out that he wasn't vaccinated. Eve is outraged when she finds out that Kyle lets her win in a shooting-gallery game.
Mandy is worried about Kyle after he has a minor motorbike accident, while Ed grows concerned about the employee healthcare insurance at the store. Eve gets into trouble with her football coach.
After Mike's precious incandescent light bulb burns out, he sets out on a quest with Chuck to find more of them. Mandy decides to have her own place, but she hides the fact that Kyle will be moving in with her.
Mike asks Kristin to be his partner in a new business venture he came up with, but she feels reluctant to accept his offer. Mandy goes with Eve on a pheasant hunt to get feathers for her new best-seller hats.
As Mike and Vanessa decide to offer money to Kristin and Ryan to help them with their upcoming wedding, the couple has other plans for their wedding ceremony. Kyle asks Ed to teach him to play poker in order to join Ed's weekly poker game.
Mike is annoyed by his neighbor Helen Potts who causes a lot of noise with her power tools. To make matters worse, Vanessa ends up being friends with Helen, much to Mike's discomfort. Eve discovers new things about Ed as a veteran in the Vietnam War.
Mike enlists the services of Chuck's security company after an Outdoor Man billboard is vandalized, but Vanessa is against the idea. When Mandy secretly does some house chores, Eve takes the credit for it, but she soon regrets her action.
After Eve breaks up with Justin, the family thinks that she needs to deal with her emotions, while she tells them that she's doing fine. Ed tricks the gang into helping him set up his new flat-screen TV.
Vanessa is blamed for causing the neighborhood cat to go missing after a neighbor's security camera footage reveals that she sprayed it with a hose. Mike finds out surprising news about Mandy when he goes through some of the security footage.
Mike supports Ryan to stand up for his beliefs after he runs into a problem at work for expressing his opinions about organized religion. Mike learns about a previous incident that sheds light on Ed's tough attitude.
Mike helps Kyle find a homeless man that he has befriended after he goes missing through his vlog. Mandy changes her attitude after she goes to the homeless shelter and lends a hand to a young mother there.
When Mike and Vanessa leave Mandy in charge to celebrate their anniversary, they find out that there was a party in the house while they were away; they point fingers at Mandy. Kristin becomes tense as her wedding looms closer.
When Mandy is offered a summer internship with a top fashion designer in New York City, she becomes very excited to go, but she later changes her mind, as her parents try to find out the reason behind her change of heart.
After the opening of the Outdoor Man Grill, Ed and Kristin clash over the way they run the restaurant. Eve is having trouble dealing with her best friend Cammy.
As Vanessa tries to help Eve meet a new guy, she sets her up with a science prodigy named Logan, only for her plan to backfire when she finds out that Eve may be seeing another guy.
As Ryan's father, Victor, comes for a visit before the wedding, Mike finds out that Victor wasn't honest about his reason behind coming to see Ryan. Vanessa is having a problem with the guests who are invited to the wedding.