The Goode Family

- Season 1

(2009)

We are introduced to the politically correct Goode family. Helen believes it's time to discuss sex with Bliss, and she is upset when Bliss associates with the abstinence crowd.

Ubuntu feels untalented until he is recruited for the football team. His success as left tackle brings out Helen's long-repressed football hysteria. Gerald and Ubuntu clash with the football culture, especially when the boosters want to kill a pig that represents the opposing team. Ubuntu stays on the team only when they agree not to kill the pig. Bliss schemes for a college scholarship to avoid being trapped going to Greenville Community College, but finds the only way she might qualify for a scholarship is to take a college class at GCC. She tries it but then wigs ...

Helen thinks she's finally won her father Charlie's approval when he adopts a bizarre animal named Gutterball from her pet rescue.

Days before the Organic Gardening Club is to review the Goode's garden, Helen hurts her back.

Helen and Gerald befriend two chic lesbians, Jenn and Suki, in order to get on the Greenville Art Council.

The Goodes get the support of world-renowned freegan, Heinrich Mueller for their street festival to show the community ways to conserve.

Bliss' high school requires 30 hours of community service for graduation, so while her friends escape to Costa Rica for "charity work," Bliss, who can't afford the trip, gets stuck cleaning graffiti at a local park.

Gerald's outraged when he discovers Cranky, a local BBQ restaurant owner, is selling "meatless chili with chicken" and soon takes a stand, protesting and trying to convince Cranky to remove the chicken.

Gerald and Helen decide to help at-risk kids by teaching them the "arts".

Gerald wants a PBR (Public Broadcast Radio) affiliate in Greenville so bad that he and Helen host a pledge drive and Gerald surprisingly raises all $100,000 needed, from an old woman named Ruth.

Helen is accused of shoplifting and banned from One Earth, her favorite store.

Gerald pays for the family to adopt a highway, but picking up trash requires them to work with a gang of white supremacist prison inmates.

When Ubuntu first grows facial hair, Charlie and Gerald become rivals in the effort to teach him what it means to be a man.