As the married couple, Mike and Kay Bennett, live with their four kids in South Jersey, three of whom are super intelligent, but their mother, Kay fears that their social skills deficiency will hinder their lives.
As Mike and Kay try to give their kids, Brian and Nicole "the talk", the discussion falls through, as a result of which Mike and Kay decide to reach out for Rita and Irwin to take their advice. Kay and Mike spot their kids brawling over the matter.
As Mike's parents visit him, his father, Jay, starts to interfere in Mike's upbringing of his kids and criticizes him. Kay is jealous of Mike's mother, Sylvia, who helps Nicole get a full makeover, after which Kay feels left out.
As Nicole and Brian ask their parents to move to live in their own apartment, Mike refuses at first but then approves out of fear that they might say he is a bad guy.
As Nicole starts seeing Tyler, a guy who leaves Kay unsettled because he reminds her of the bad guys she dated as a teenager, Kay decides to spoil their relationship, as a result of which Nicole argues with Kay.
Mike and Kay enroll Marc in a local charter school after he bullies his teacher; However, the school principal refuses to admit Marc because Kay bullied him before. Marc tells his parents that he is willing to apologize to his teacher after he refused at first.
By virtue of Irwin's advice, Mike and Kay decide to carry out a plan to teach Nicole a lesson about failure; However, Nicole in fact passes the test, after which Kay and Mike take advantage of the situation to teach her that failure can actually be good sometimes.
Mike and Kay decide to make new friends after they realize they have lost their old ones. Kay invites her new friends to the house, but Nicole and Brian kick them out. In order to mend fences with their kids, Mike and Kay end their new friendship.
After Mike and Kay are extremely tired of cleaning the basement, Nicole and Brian decide to book a room for their parents at the casino to chill, as well as taking care of Marc and Leila, which turns out to be a lot more exhausting than it seems.
Nicole and Brian force Mike and Kay to hold a make-up birthday party for Leila, after they have been lying to her about her real birthdate. Rita and Irwin learn that will be the kids' guardians if anything happens to Mike or Kay, which upsets Brian, Nicole and Marc.