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1 :01x01 - Pilot
Writer: Steven Levitan
Director: James Burrows
Guest star: Harriet Sansom Harris (Audrey Radford), Stanley DeSantis (Jonathan Dalton)
Phobic book editor Henry McNeely is paired with eccentric horror author Ian Stark. After enduring a series of Ian's practical jokes, Henry feels that it's a match made in Hell, but once he becomes captivated by Ian's new manuscript, he decides to stay on.
2 :01x02 - The Man Who Knew Too Much
Writer: Alan Kirschenbaum
Director: Ted Wass
Guest star: Dorie Barton (Tess Farraday), Kellie Waymire (Tess), Jay Harik (Clerk), R. Martin Klein (Bar Customer)
When Ian learns that Henry has a girlfriend, he goes out of his way to use her to pull a prank... but it results in Ian learning more than he wanted to know about Henry's sex life.
3 :01x03 - Sometimes a Fritter Is Just a Fritter
Writer: David A. Goodman
Director: Ted Wass
Guest star: Craig Cady (Waiter), Sabrina Boudot (Renska), Victor Raider-Wexler (Nicholas (Renska's Father)), John Vickery (Professor Forrest St. James), Dorie Barton (Tess Farraday), Marilyn Child (Anna (Renska's Mother))
After Ian changes a character's name in his latest novel to Renska, Henry learns that this is the name of a waitress in the diner that Ian frequents. Under the misapprehension that Ian's in love with her, Henry decides to meddle. Meanwhile, Jake takes Maddie's place at school and fills out a teacher evaluation that leads her professor to think that Maddie's hot for him.
4 :01x04 - Four Colds and a Funeral
Writer: Eric Zicklin
Director: Gail Mancuso
Guest star: Paul Parducci (Construction Worker), Madison Eginton (Ellen), Lorna Raver (Phyllis Bleck), Jeremiah Morris (Professor Huggles (Thomas Bleck)), Harriet Sansom Harris (Audrey Radford)
When children's author Professor Huggles dies from complications brought on by the common cold, Henry thinks he's a murderer, so his guilt manifests itself in nightmares where he's being attacked by Huggles's famous character, Kyle the Kite.
5 :01x05 - The Lyin' King
Writer: Brian Buckner, Sebastian Jones
Director: Gail Mancuso
Guest star: Edward Luhn (Guy at Bar), Christopher Riccio (Young Henry), Anastasia Emmons (Young Lori), Rob Moore (Bob (Igor)), Margaret Welsh (Lori)
On Halloween, Ian orchestrates a prank to help Henry even the score with a cousin who taunted him as a child. Meanwhile Jake convinces Maddie that the Quasimodo she's been flirting with in the bar may be an actual hunchback.
6 :01x06 - Fish out of Water
Writer: Jeffrey Richman
Director: Ted Wass
Guest star: Harriet Sansom Harris (Audrey Radford), Chris Sarandon (Caesar Radford), Tim Conlon (Danny Lukor), Millicent Martin (Katie Randall), Anthony Montgomery (Waiter)
To ensure that Ian arrives at her dinner party, Audrey invites Henry and Tess. Complications arise when Tess takes ill, so Maddie fills in for her... but the situation worsens when Ian slips Audrey's husband's prized fish into Henry's water glass.
7 :01x07 - Engaged to Be Engaged
Henry and Tess are mocked by their friends when they become "engaged to be engaged." But their engagement is jeopardized when Ian's latest practical joke goes awry and Tess finds a hungover Henry in bed with Maddie. Meanwhile Jake uses Edgar, Ian's dog, to pick up women.
8 :01x08 - The Stalker
Writer: Steven Levitan
Director: Ken Levine
Guest star: Paul Greenberg (Yuppie at book signing), Steven Weber ("Rattlesnake" Rod Dubelco), Larry Joe Campbell (Man in Elevator)
When obsessed fan "Rattlesnake Rod" shows up at one of Ian's book signings, Ian takes a liking to his new found stalker. Henry, however, quickly comes to find that Rod is out to get him. Meanwhile, Maddie admits that she never read Ian's novel and Jake earns cash by selling off Ian's possessions.
9 :01x09 - The Dance
Henry's spending late nights working with Ian, leaving Tess feeling ignored, so when Ian reveals that he has to learn to dance for his niece's wedding, Tess encourages Maddie to give him lessons... and she also convinces Maddie and Ian that they're in love with one another.
10 :01x10 - Coffin to Go
Writer: Lynnie Greene, Richard Levine
Director: Ted Wass
Guest star: Valerie Curtin (Ms. Helen Underhill), Johnny O'Neil (Jack, the Corpse)
Ian buys a coffin to use as a "conversation piece" in his apartment. Complications arise when the coffin's delivered... with a corpse inside. Meanwhile, Henry tries to ensure that Ian makes it to the TV studio in time to tape an interview with Charlie Rose.
11 :01x11 - Christmas Cheerleader
Writer: David A. Goodman
Director: Michael Lembeck
Guest star: Tony Cox (Goldie), Michael Auteri (Phyllis), Gretchen Wyler (Miss Lois Bickford), George DelHoyo (Vince)
Tess crashes Ian's Christmas party but soon wishes that she hadn't. Meanwhile Jake plans to look up the father who abandoned him; and Maddie prepares for a blind date that her father set her up on.
12 :01x12 - The Crush
Writer: Eric Zicklin
Director: Michael Lembeck
Guest star: Dina Waters (Katherine "Kitt" Yates)
When Henry catches Ian gawking at pretty bar patron Katherine Yates, he encourages Ian to write her a love letter. But a case of mistaken identity lands Kitt in bed with Jake.
13 :01x13 - My Bodyguard (a.k.a. Guarding Tess)
Writer: Gayle Abrams
Director: Steven Levitan
Guest star: Dan Gerrity (Mugger), Jack Brewer (Kevin), Loren Lazerine (Rory), J. P. Manoux (Lewis), Jamie Kennedy (Doobs)
Tess becomes enamored with Ian after he attacks a mugger. To deflect her adoration away from himself, Ian hires a friend of Jake's to pose as a mugger in hopes that Henry will punch him in front of Tess. Meanwhile Maddie enlists Jake to pose as her boyfriend to scare off men who hit on her in the bar; and Henry becomes increasingly annoyed by an obnoxious coworker.
14 :01x14 - The Hypnotist
Writer: Alan Kirschenbaum
Director: Michael Lembeck
Guest star: Freddie Roman (Himself), Jack Carter (Himself), John DiResta (Tess's Neighbor), Jackie Gayle (Himself)
Ian hypnotizes Maddie to like seafood, but finds that Jake and Tess were so open to the power of hypnosis that they fall under his spell as well. For fun, as well as to prove to Henry that hypnosis really does work, Ian makes Jake and Tess believe that they are Romeo and Juliet... but the joke's on him when the newly christened Romeo and Juliet wind up on the loose in New York City.
15 :01x15 - Therapy
Writer: Eric Zicklin
Director: Sheldon Epps
Guest star: Delisa Sexton (Wife), Craig Zimmerman (Scott), John Putch (Husband), Daphne Zuniga (Dr. Anne Russo)
As research for his latest novel, Ian books a session at couples therapy with Henry. But when the therapist asks for a moment alone with Ian, Henry becomes obsessed about the details of the private conversation -- so Ian lies and says that the therapist diagnosed Henry with paranoia. Meanwhile, Maddie lets the new guy at the bar do all of her work.
16 :01x16 - Secrets and Lies
Writer: Jeffrey Richman
Director: David Lee
Guest star: Nick Cornish (Pryce Whitman)
When Pryce, a Yale student, arrives to write an article about Henry for the alumni journal, it quickly becomes clear that the focus of the article isn't Henry but Ian, who's been harboring an embarrassing secret about his past. Meanwhile Maddie lusts after Pryce; and Jake receives a box full of his childhood possessions.
17 :01x17 - The Grade
Writer: Sebastian Jones, Brian Buckner
Director: Steven Levitan
Guest star: Dina Waters (Katherine "Kitt" Yates), Kelsey Grammer (Professor Tuttle)
Maddie enlists her friends help while writing an analysis of Ian's novel, Below Ground, for her college class. But when she receives a "B" on the paper, Ian confronts the professor in hopes of getting her a better grade. Meanwhile Jake is embarrassed to be seen wearing the necklace that his girlfriend bought him; and Henry develops a "lateral lisp" while lying to Tess about an encounter with an ex-girlfriend.
18 :01x18 - The Pigeon
Writer: Craig A. Williams, Joe Piscatella
Director: Sheldon Epps
Guest star: Lynn Tufeld (Maid), Frances Conroy (Beverly Rose), Wes Craven (Terrance Sterling), Kim Rhodes (Brooke (Sterling))
Tess wrangles an invitation for Ian to meet his idol, reclusive author Terrance Sterling, but Ian's big day is jeopardized by a pigeon that began stalking him after he accidentally knocked its nest full of eggs off of the balcony. Meanwhile Henry becomes fixated when he discovers that Mr. Sterling's daughter has a crush on Tess; and Maddie decides to keep an expensive sweater that was delivered to her by mistake.
19 :01x19 - He's Gotta Have It
Writer: Lynnie Greene, Richard Levine
Director: Joyce Gittlin
Guest star: Andrea Bendewald (Brittany Farraday), Molly Weber (Claire), Andrea Savage (Missy)
Henry throws Tess a birthday party and invites her sister, Brittany -- not knowing that Tess hates her. But the party is further ruined when Brittany begins having an affair with Ian.
20 :01x20 - Dog Gone
Writer: Sebastian Jones, Brian Buckner
Director: Gail Mancuso
Guest star: Stephanie Faracy (Elizabeth Daryl)
While dogsitting, Henry loses Edgar. But when Edgar is found in the clutches of a TV chef, Ian's ownership of the mutt is questioned.
21 :01x21 - The Psychic
Writer: Dana Gould
Director: Jeff Melman
Guest star: Marcelo Tubert (Mr. Singh)
A psychic building doorman has wonderful predictions for everyone -- except Henry.
22 :01x22 - The Big Finish
Writer: Lynnie Greene, Richard Levine
Director: Robert H. Egan
Guest star: Harriet Sansom Harris (Audrey Radford), Chris Sarandon (Caesar Radford), David Noroña (Bruno)
Ian finally finishes his second novel but, thinking that it sucks, he decides not to submit it to Audrey for publication. Henry submits it behind Ian's back, and soon everyone is trying to retrieve the manuscript from Audrey's clutches.