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Season 1
May 27, 2009

Season 1

01. Pilot

Bliss takes drastic action and joins an abstinence group after hearing more than her fair share of safe sex talk from her mother. Ubuntu wants to learn to drive now that he's turned sixteen.

30min
May 27, 2009

02. Pleatherheads

Ubuntu becomes a star on his high-school football team, and Helen and Gerald struggle with being a football family. Meanwhile, Bliss tries to improve her college prospects using unorthodox methods.

June 3, 2009

03. Goodes Gone Wild

Helen sees a way to win Charlie's approval when he takes a shine to one of the rescues at her pet adoption. Unfortunately, it's a disgusting animal of unknown origin named Gutterball who has to stay with the Goodes because Charlie's "home" doesn't allow pets. While Helen copes with Gutterball, Che gives Gerald a hand with the college's squirrel problem.

June 3, 2009

04. Helen's Back

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."

June 12, 2009

05. A Tale of Two Lesbians

Gerald and Helen offend a lesbian couple so must seek out new lesbian friends in order to prove they aren't being offensive.

June 19, 2009

06. Freeganomics

Helen gets the support of 'Freegan' Heinrich in order to get more people to come to the Eco Festival. After realising what sort of person he is, they have difficulty getting him to leave their home.

June 26, 2009

07. Graffiti in Greenville

Helen becomes a grafitti artist in order to make Bliss do some actual work, because she has been lying to her about the work she's been 'doing'. When her work begins to get noticed, Helen realises she's going to have to come out of the shadows if she wants to get recognition for what she's done.

July 3, 2009

08. A Goode Game of Chicken

Gerald eats a meal that contains chicken even though it's not supposed to. He decides to take on Cranky (a chef) to protest what happened. Elsewhere, nobody can find Che so they assume he's missing.

July 10, 2009

09. After-School Special

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.

July 17, 2009

10. Public Disturbance

In an effort to bring public radio to the town, Gerald tries to get the other residents to become involved as well.

July 24, 2009

11. Trouble in Store

Helen is banned from One Earth on the day of Gerald's big meal, after 'stealing' something from the store.

July 31, 2009

12. Gerald's Way or the Highway

Gerald adopts a highway.

August 7, 2009

13. A Goode Man Is Hard to Find

Gerald thinks Mo and Trish want him to be the sperm donor for their next child; Charlie decides to teach Ubuntu how to be a man.

August 7, 2009