Patricia Heaton

The comical everyday life of sports columnist Ray Barone and his dysfunctional family.

Retired teacher Carol Kenney begins a second career as a doctor.

All Allyson and her friends want is a peaceful, grown-up evening of dinner and fun - a long-needed moms' night out. But in order to enjoy high heels, adult conversation, and food not served in a bag, they need their husbands to watch the kids for a few hours ... what could go wrong?

The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the town of Orson, Indiana.