Episode
Grounded for Life: Catch Us If You Can
Overview
Sean catches a fly ball that's still in play and loses a game for the Yankees. Claudia's upset when the bachelorette party she's throwing for her girlfriend gets disrupted by Sean, Eddie and the boys, who have been chased home by irate fans.
Details
- Series
- Grounded for Life
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2001-04-18
Episode context
Catch Us If You Can is Episode 10 in Season 1 of Grounded for Life. It aired on 2001-04-18.
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Episode 9: Eddie's Dead
Sean (Donal Logue) tries to keep Eddie (Kevin Corrigan) from hitting on a woman (guest star Julie Claire) Claudia (Megyn Price) is consoling after a break-up.
Episode 11: Jimmy's Got a Gun
Walt gives Jimmy a BB gun for his birthday, prompting an all-out war between him and Sean, which ends up with Walt in the hospital, shot in the rump.
More episodes from this season
Episode 8: Devil's Haircut
Sean (Donal Logue) tries to disguise the fact that he cut Henry's (Jake Burbage) hair himself instead of taking him to a barber shop.
Episode 12: Jimmy Was Kung-Fu Fighting
To save for a dream vacation to Mexico, Sean and Claudia start working extra shifts at work. This leads to chaos at home, with Eddie raising the kids, Lily getting her tongue pierced, Jimmy becoming a bully, and Henry panhandling and eating out of the garbage.
Episode 7: Like a Virgin
Claudia is looking forward to a trip to New Jersey to try to bond with Lily. However, things go from bad to worse when Claudia tells popular cheerleaders from Lily's school that her daughter is still a virgin. Lily takes off, leaving Claudia stuck - with no daughter, no luggage, and no clothes.
Episode 13: Loser
Sean volunteers to referee Henry's soccer team and ends up making an unethical decision in the team's favor. Which in hindsight wasn't a great idea, when Henry gets an inflated ego. So Sean tries to make things right the following week by making an unethical decision in the opposing team's favor. . . Meanwhile, Lily flirts with the cute guy at the concession stand and the conversation leaves her walking on air. But when she starts to obsess over the introduction, she replays the scene over and over in her head, each time thinking that she made a bigger and bigger fool of herself.
Episode 6: You Can't Always Get What You Want
Lily freaks out when Sean says they can't afford to send her on a ski trip with her classmates. But things get worse when she learns that Sean inherited some money and spent it on a guitar for himself.
Episode 14: Mrs. Finnerty, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
When Lily is miserable because she and her girlfriends have been booed off the stage at the school's talent show, Sean and Claudia have some explaining to do. Meanwhile, the Finnerty's get roped into buying cases of candy bars that the boys are selling for school.
Episode 5: Action Mountain High
Lily's trip to an amusement park with a group of her friends backfires when she calls Sean to pick her up. He doesn't like what he sees, and when he realizes HE was the one called because everyone thought he would go easy on them, he proceeds to get them all in trouble by telling their parents.
Episode 15: Love Child
Sean has some explaining to do when Lily’s devastated to discover that she was born out of wedlock.
Episode 4: Devil with a Plaid Skirt
Jimmy's claim of demonic possession and Lily's skirt length prompt Sean's perceived battle with school head Sister Helen
Episode 3: I Wanna Be Suspended
Jimmy’s science project is late, because his parents made him go with them to a Ramones’ concert. When Sean pleads Jimmy’s case with the principal, he only succeeds in getting Jimmy thrown out of school.