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The Goode Family Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Pilot

First aired: May/27/2009
Writer: John Altschuler, Mike Judge, Dave Krinsky
Director: Wesley Archer
Guest star: Julia Sweeney (Margo), Dee Bradley Baker (Che), Rini Bell (Unnamed Girl), Mo Collins (Viki), Scott Klace (Various), Gary Anthony Williams (Ray / Ted / Mr. Alvarez / Coach / DMV Employee)

Having tired of her mother's attempts to talk to her about sex, Bliss decides to join an abstinence group. Now that adopted son Ubuntu has turned 16, he wants to learn to drive a car.



2 :01x02 - Pleatherheads

First aired: Jun/03/2009
Writer: Dave Jeser, Matt Silverstein
Director: John Rice
Guest star: Laraine Newman (Mo/Nice Old Lady), Phil LaMarr (Mr. Whitmore/Solosolo), Amy Hill (Jacki/Kiki), Gary Anthony Williams (Ray / Ted / Mr. Alvarez / Coach / DMV Employee), Bob Odenkirk (Brian Kennedy)

Gerald and Helen have a tough time adjusting when Ubantu becomes a high school football star. Meanwhile, Bliss works to improve her chances of getting into her top college choice.



3 :01x03 - Goodes Gone Wild

First aired: Jun/03/2009
Writer: Jordana Arkin
Director: John Rice
Guest star: Julia Sweeney (Margo), Lori Nasso (Penny), Dee Bradley Baker (Animals First Leader/Che/Gutterball), Gary Anthony Williams (Ray/Animals First Leader)

Helen finds a way to win Charlie's approval when he becomes attached to one of the pets at the pet adoption center. However, the animal happens to be Gutterball, a disgusting animal, who Helen is forced to take in because Charlie's home is not pet friendly. Meanwhile, Che helps Gerald with the college's squirrel infestation.



4 :01x04 - Helen's Back

First aired: Jun/12/2009
Writer: Jonathan Collier
Director: Jennifer Coyle
Guest star: Nick Jameson (Esteban/Professor Montoya), Carlos Alazraqui (Miguel), Julia Sweeney (Margo), Susan Chuang (Mahkinkin/Shopper Mom), Laraine Newman (Mo), David Koechner (Cranky), Gary Anthony Williams (Announcer/Ray/Judge #1)

The Goodes' chances of being featured on the all-important organic garden tour is threatened when Helen injures her back. Help in form of a Latino gardening crew comes their way, along with a former Burmese childhood pen pal of Helen's. The Goodes discover they have unknowingly exploited the workers, just as the committee arrives to inspect their garden. Meanwhile, Ubuntu and Bliss try an experiment in the new economy tactic of "trading up."



5 :01x05 - A Tale of Two Lesbians

First aired: Jun/19/2009
Writer: Howard Kremer
Director: John Rice, Brad Chip Pope
Guest star: Howard Kremer (Mr. Heelo), Amy Hill (Kiki), Lori Nasso (Shopper #1/Penny), Gary Anthony Williams (Ray)

Helen invites famed "Freegan" Heinrich to Greenville, as a way to gather support for their Eco festival. Henrich is put in charge for a movement in which the followers live off the waste left behind by others. The Goodes can't get Freegan to leave and quickly realize that he is nothing more than a freeloader.



6 :01x06 - Freeganomics

First aired: Jun/26/2009
Writer: Gene Hong
Director: Jennifer Coyle
Guest star: Lori Nasso (Barista/Penny), David Koechner (Cranky), Laraine Newman (Mo/Nice Old Lady), Julia Sweeney (Margo), Dee Bradley Baker (Che/Dr. Albright/Judge #2), Gary Anthony Williams (Announcer/Ray/Judge #1)

Greenville is hosting an Eco Festival, and Helen has an invited guest to attend who ends up being nothing more than a freeloader.



7 :01x07 - Graffiti in Greenville

First aired: Jul/03/2009
Writer: Leila Strachan
Director: Seth Kearsley
Guest star: Elvis Costello (Professor Mead), Julia Sweeney (Margo/Ms. Rossiter), Alyson Hannigan (Michelle), Phil LaMarr (Hipster/Joaquim/Solosolo), Gary Anthony Williams (Ray/Teacher)

Helen decides to become a secret tagger when she discovers that Bliss' new community service job cleaning up graffitti is really bogus. But after "Huggos" receives media attention and an Oxford professor declares it the work of a new major urban "artist," Helen wants to tell the world that she's the one responsible.



8 :01x08 - A Goode Game of Chicken

First aired: Jul/10/2009
Writer: Gene Hong
Director: Jennifer Coyle
Guest star: Lori Nasso (Barista/Penny), Dee Bradley Baker (Che/Dr. Albright/Judge #2), Julia Sweeney (Margo), Laraine Newman (Mo), David Koechner (Cranky), Gary Anthony Williams (Announcer/Ray/Judge #1)

Gerald takes on Cranky a local celebrity chef when he uses chicken in his "meatless" chili dish. Meanwhile, Che is missing.



9 :01x09 - After-School Special

First aired: Jul/17/2009
Writer: Franklin Hardy, Shane Kosakowski
Director: Anthony Chun
Guest star: Phil LaMarr (Maffew/Principal Whitmore/Thug #2), Diedrich Bader (Jeff/Lane), Tara Strong (Dawn/Mrs. Glavin), Gary Anthony Williams (Ray/Cop)

While Helen and Gerald tutor some at risk kids after school, their own children are left to their own devices. Ubuntu joins an ecoterrorist group unknowingly, and Bliss begins a business of selling fake ID's.



10 :01x10 - Public Disturbance

First aired: Jul/24/2009
Writer: Owen Ellickson
Director: Anthony Chun



11 :01x11 - Trouble in Store

First aired: Jul/31/2009
Writer: Jordana Arkin
Director: Seth Kearsley

Gerald hopes to raise enough money to bring a Public Broadcasting Radio station to Greenville, and things are looking good in doing so, but an old lady's donation of $100,000 may cost her to lose her home.



12 :01x12 - Gerald's Way or the Highway

First aired: Aug/07/2009
Writer: Jace Richdale
Director: Seth Kearsley
Guest star: Lori Nasso (Penny/Student/Angry Driver), Jerry Collins (Aryan), Toby Huss (Clyde), Julia Sweeney (Margo), Johnny Knoxville (Dean), Gary Anthony Williams (Ray/Anchorman/Officer Bowles)

In hopes of raising the social consciousness to his children, Gerald adopts a highway to show how one person can make a difference. Things don't go as planned when the Goodes get involved in a turf war after discovering the road is a drop off area for drugs by Neo-Nazi prisoners.



13 :01x13 - A Goode Man Is Hard to Find

First aired: Aug/07/2009
Writer: Matt Silverstein, Dave Jeser
Director: Jennifer Coyle
Guest star: Gary Anthony Williams (Ray/Franklin), Amy Hill (Kiki), Laraine Newman (Mo), Julia Sweeney (Trish/Margo), Lori Nasso (Penny/Amber)

Gerald is convinced that Trish and Mo want him to be a sperm donor so they can have a child. Meanwhile, Charlie decides it's time to take Ubuntu under his wing and teach him how to be a man, after his grandson sprouts his first facial hair, much to Gerald and Helen's dismay.