After Alan falls off the roof, Charlie has to look after the adolescent and increasingly obnoxious Jake for the weekend.
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The satellite dish on Charlie's roof gets damaged in a storm. Alan goes up on the roof to fix it but falls off, spraining his neck, breaking two of his fingers and putting him on pain pills.
Alan asks Charlie to call Judith and tell her not to bring Jake over for the weekend but Charlie pleads that he gets to.
When Jake arrives, he gets into an argument with Charlie and Alan that he wants to go out to dinner, go to the video store and get an ice cream. Eventually, Charlie takes Jake out. Charlie takes Jake to a restaurant in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, making them the only white people in the restaurant. Charlie yells at Jake at one point, causing them to get looked at by everyone in the restaurant.
Meanwhile, Alan has to go to the toilet, when he pulls his pants down Evelyn walks in with his blind-date Mona and soon leaves. When Alan trips he decides to pee on the floor.
Meanwhile, Charlie argues with Jake again which ends up with them going to the video store. Jake cannot find Final Fantasy X (the game he is looking for). A woman named Betsy at the store overhears their conversation, gives them the video game and reveals she is a single mother. When Charlie asks to bring Jake over for a play date, Jake refuses, believing Charlie only wants to have sex with her.
Charlie then attempts to take Jake back to Judith. After another argument, Charlie ends up chasing Jake in anger and just after it was revealed Judith was just hiding.
Back at the house, Charlie attempts to speak with Jake but he refuses, playing a video game. Alan walks in and mixes several pills with alcohol, claiming he is trying to die. The episode ends with Charlie asking Alan for some pills, with a bottle of whisky, (probably in attempt to die out of frustration with Jake).
Jake asks for "the new Final Fantasy". Though the game's boxart is clearly Final Fantasy X, the music played while he plays the game is actually from Final Fantasy II.
Berta does not appear in this episode.
The scene in which Alan falls off the ladder and gets injured. References The Waltons episodes called The Minstrel and The Honeymoon, where John-Boy falls off the ladder apple picking and falls off the cliff and dislocates his shoulder.
The scene in which Charlie tells Alan to move the antennas to the right and says: "That's perfect." And Charlie mocks Alan. Is a reference to A Christmas Story, where The Old Man tells Mrs. Parker to move the lamp to the right and left and says: "That's beautiful." And mocks the mom before they get a tree.
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Charlie, after Alan asks him if his injuries spell "weekend dad".
