Oswald's estranged father gets out of prison after a ten-year sentence, but Oswald doesn't want to see him.  Drew looks for a part-time job to pay off his credit card debts.  Oswald tells him that his father was hired by a real estate company, and asks his dad to help Drew get a job.  Mr. Harvey also buys Oswald a bike, and they seem to be making a connection.  Drew fails to make a sale for several days.  The boss threatens to fire him unless he sells something by the end of the day.  Lewis agrees to buy one of the cheaper properties, which a divorcing couple is supposedly trying to unload.  He pays cash, so there can be no trace if there is a problem.  Drew learns that his boss is a scam artist; he has sold the same property dozens of times, and it is unlivable because of high levels of radioactivity.  Drew tells Lewis, but they do not call the police because they do not want to send Oswald's dad back to prison.  Lewis and Kate fail in an attempt to get his money back.  Drew confirms

Oswald's Dad Returns

Drew Carey

Ryan Stiles

Diedrich Bader

Christa Miller

Craig Ferguson

Kathy Kinney

Sam Simon

Brian Scully

All Work and No Play (1)

The Warsaw Closes

Drew decides to ask Kate to marry him, and buys a $6000 engagement ring.  Mr. Wick screws up the budget and tells Drew that he must fire one employee before the board meeting, which starts in five minutes.  Wick cannot do it himself because he is under investigation for several harassment claims.  Drew is poised to fulfill his dream of firing Mimi when she feels the baby kicking.  He suffers pangs of guilt and cannot bring himself to let her go.  He searches desperately for someone to fire, but everyone has suddenly developed impeccable work habits.  When Drew cannot make up his mind, Wick forces all of the employees except Drew to do push-ups.  They become testy and demand Drew's firing.  He sees his dismissal as opportunity for advancement, and encourages Kate to go after her dream job at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Mimi prevents Drew from getting another job by telling lies whenever a potential employer calls the store.  He is afraid to propose to Kate because he doesn't think

Drew Pops Something on Kate

Drew is embarrassed after several people who knew him from the Future Leaders of America in high school come to school for Career Day and see him working in the cafeteria.  He wonders when his life got off-track.  He recalls being ignored by Kate and pantsed by jocks on his first day of high school.  Kate blames herself for his misfortune.  She reveals that during their sophomore year, she answered a question when she wasn't really listening and inadvertently advised Drew to get black glasses instead of contacts.  Drew was then seen as a nerd and received regular beatings.  Lewis argues that he is at fault because he introduced Drew to beer during their junior year.  Oswald confesses to spilling chocolate milk all over Drew's application to MIT, then replacing the essay with moronic babbling.  He didn't tell Drew, who sent in the application.  Drew insists that he could have made better decisions, but liked getting attention from the attractive school nurse after each crisis.  He comes

Be Drew to Your School

Lewis and Oswald get Drew in trouble at the cafeteria by bringing him a beer.  Drew grows tired of all the abuse and elects to quit instead of getting fired.  He tries to get Mr. Wick to re-hire him, only to find that his cubicle has been replaced by a frozen yogurt machine.  Steve tells Drew that their uncle, Cecil, has died.  Cecil has left most of his fortune to Bill Gates, but offers smaller amounts to his friends and relatives, provided that they pass certain tests.  Steve gets $10,000, but Oswald and Lewis lose out on $5000 each when they are unable to remain silent for 24 hours (they last about five seconds).  Cecil had always worried that Drew would end up alone, so he will give him $10,000 if he marries within 72 hours.  Drew and Kate try to throw together a ceremony, but realize that it would be making a travesty out of the event.  They hire a drunken Santa Claus from the store to pose as a minister and pretend to marry them.  They ask Lewis and Oswald to keep quiet about the

Drew's Inheritance

The gang plays poker with Mr. Wick in the hopes of winning back Drew's job, but their plan fails.  Mimi shows up with Steve and gets herself into the game by showing off a wad of cash.  She ends up squaring off with Kate in a high-stakes match-up.  Kate has a great hand, so she wagers her share of Buzz Beer against Mimi's $5000.  Unfortunately, she loses.  Mimi quickly manipulates Oswald and Lewis into naming her the new president of Buzz Beer.  Her ideas soon help the company increase its profits considerably.  Lewis discovers that the cashbox is $2000 short.  Everyone blames Drew--because he is out of work and struggling to pay his bills--but he insists that Mimi is setting him up.  Oswald suggests that they just let the culprit return the money secretly.  Drew's power and telephone are turned off.  He admits to Kate that he was borrowing from Buzz Beer in an attempt to pay off his debts.  He doesn't want to take money from her because he is used to being the one who helps everyone w

Mimi's a Partner

Mr. Wick refuses to let Drew collect unemployment, and keeps saying that he quit even though he was actually fired.  An employee objects to Wick's treatment of Drew and gets fired.  Drew promises to help him land a new job, and the man offers to give him ten percent of his first month's salary.  Drew decides to run an employment agency out of his house, and it proves very successful.  Oswald and Lewis express dissatisfaction with their jobs and ask Drew to help them.  He believes that he can get both of them work at a new restaurant, only to discover that there is only one opening.  Oswald and Lewis are furious, as they have already quit their jobs.  They keep pushing Drew to choose between them.  Kate suggests that they just go to the restaurant for a tryout.  They both fail miserably.  Fortunately, Oswald realizes that he never really quit at Global (he went into the wrong office and mooned a blind lady instead of his boss).  Lewis returns to DrugCo to beg for his job back.

Drew Live II

Kate has reason to believe that she is pregnant.  She's not.  She suddenly decides that she doesn't ever want to have children.  Drew suddenly determines that being a father is the thing he wants most in the world.  End of relationship.  Meanwhile, Mr. Wick faces deportation unless he can find someone to marry.  When he can't find an interested woman, he settles on marrying a man in Vermont, where same-sex civil unions have recently been legalized.

The Pregnancy Scare

Drew agrees to marry Wick and help him get his green card if Wick lets him have his old job.  They head for Vermont to get married, and Oswald and Lewis come along to cheer the depressed Drew.  During the ceremony, Drew nearly backs out because he realizes that the whole thing is really, really stupid and that he should still be with Kate.  He finally agrees to go through with it.  While moping in a nearby park, he encounters a scout troop.  They prompt him to recall his old scouting days, and encourage him to volunteer to help with a troop.  Drew is soon named a scoutmaster, and learns that his predecessor was forced out because the scouts do not allow gays.  Drew tries to hide the truth about his marriage to Wick.  An INS agent shows up to investigate Drew and Wick while the scout troop is at Drew's house.  Drew must either tell the agent the truth and get Wick deported, or give up his scoutmaster duties.  He protects Wick, who responds by promoting him to head of personnel.

Drew and the Trail Scouts

Drew is still devastated by his break-up with Kate.  Steve encourages him to move on with his life, and Oswald and Lewis suggest that sleeping with another woman would allow him to get over Kate and go back to just thinking of her as a friend.  Mr. Wick moves in with Drew temporarily to keep up appearances for the INS.  Oswald and Lewis run into a heartbroken Kate at the Warsaw and tell her about their advice to Drew.  She cannot stand the thought of Drew with another woman, especially so soon after the completely implausible demise of their relationship.  She races to the house to stop him, only to learn from Wick that Steve has taken Drew out to meet someone.  Drew is less than pleased to find that his beautiful date, Jenny, is Mimi's cousin.  Mimi forbids Jenny from dating Drew, but she ignores him.  Jenny wants to sleep with Drew right away, so they head back to the house.  Meanwhile, Kate gets plastered and decides to sleep with Wick.  She eventually realizes that this is wrong an

Drew and Kate Become Friends

Drew endeavors to get to into his new boss, Mr. Nichols' good books by attending his church. However, when he volunteers to sing at a church benefit event, things do not go smooth.

Drew Can't Carey a Tune

Buzz Beer decides to get a booth at an alcohol expo in the hopes of being chosen for a Beer-of-the-Month club.  Oswald forgets to send in the application, so they end up at the lone remaining table--next to an anti-alcohol group that displays giant photographs of diseased livers.  Drew and Mimi lecture Lewis and Oswald about their constant screw-ups.  Kate suggests that they get some business by giving away free peanuts to customers.  Drew and Mimi go with her to borrow a peanut cart, leaving Oswald and Lewis behind to think about their mistakes.  They decide to prove themselves by signing out a former circus bear now at DrugCo, who knows how to drink beer.  They believe that the novelty will attract customers.  Oswald hides the bear in the beer truck when Drew returns home.  Lewis and Oswald are distracted for a moment, and the bear steals the truck and starts driving around the neighborhood.  Drew and Mimi run out of beer (thereby losing a lot of business) and head out to search for

Buzzie Wuzzie Liked His Beer

A pregnant co-worker attempts to make Drew the father of her soon to be born child. Oswald and Lewis kidnap the Santa whom they work for as elves, when he treats them badly.

Fetal Attraction

Mimi and Steve buy the house next door to the Warsaw, and she taunts Drew about the fact that she will always be nearby when he is trying to unwind.  Drew, Lewis and Oswald get drunk and urinate on her front lawn.  She catches them in the act and files a complaint.  Because a number of neighbors have complained about the boorish behavior of the bar patrons, the Warsaw is stripped of its liquor license.  Drew apologizes to Mimi, but admits that he doesn't mean it.  He convinces the Warsaw's owner to slip alcohol into all of the food (soup, lemonade, etc.) but Mimi reports the owner and has him arrested.  Drew does not understand why Mimi is so upset about this particular prank.  Steve explains that she has never lived in a house before, so it is very special to her.  Drew apologizes and creates a little gnome town for her front yard.  Mimi drops the complaint.  Meanwhile, Lewis and Oswald prove that their stupidity knows no limits as they try to ""milk"" snakes and sell their venom.

Mr. Wick begins spending more time around Drew's house.  He claims that he needs to keep up appearances in case the INS makes a surprise visit.  Wick has to sleep over after he injures his ankle while exercising.  He borrows a pair of underwear from Drew, and suddenly becomes a really nice guy.  He treats employees with kindness and takes Lewis, Kate and Oswald to lunch.  Drew is hurt when his friends accept Wick's lunch invitation instead of staying with him.  They later join Wick at a British pub, ignoring plans to meet Drew at the Warsaw.  Drew accuses Wick of stealing his friends.  He throws him out of the house and says that he will end their fake gay marriage.  Wick becomes a bigger tyrant than ever at the office, and says that he will not change his ways unless Drew lets him hang out at the house.  Wick comes over to pick up his belongings, and pleads for a chance to be friends.  Drew is put off by his overbearing personality and wants nothing to do with him.  Wick hires a woman

Drew is left comatose after a car accident.  He enjoys a fantasy world where he is surrounded by scantily clad models, dines from pizza trees, and has a makeup-free Mimi as his slave.  Meanwhile, his friends hold a bedside vigil.  Mimi even kisses him in the hopes that the shock to his system would wake him.  The doctor gives him an injection to help him come around, but it doesn't work.  Drew insists that he would rather stay in the coma, as it seems much better than his real life.  As a last resort, the doctor suggests that they remove him from the respirator.  The shock will cause him to either come out of the coma or die.  Steve (who has power of attorney) hopes to avoid this option.  The gang tries surrounding Drew with familiar things, but there is no change in his condition.  After Drew is removed from the respirator, he takes a test to see if he can get into heaven.  He learns that he has been accepted.  Mimi goes into labor in Drew's room.

Drew's in a Coma (2)

En route to heaven, Drew encounters his nephew, who is on his way to Earth to be born.  The baby takes note of Drew's sarcastic comments about Mimi and fears that his mother is a terrible person.  He no longer wants to be born.  Drew tries to prove that Mimi will be a good mother by having his soul inhabit the newborn while the baby observes from heaven.  The gang takes the comatose Drew's body home and tries to make his nurse serve them.  The baby nearly chokes after Oswald tries to feed him a pretzel.  Mimi comforts the child and says that she would not be able to go on if something happened to him.  The baby is convinced of her love and decides that he is ready to switch with Drew.  Drew becomes very sad at the prospect of not being able to spend any more time with his friends.  He decides that he wants to return to Earth.  He awakens from his coma, but no one believes his story.

Drew and the Baby (3)

Mimi and Steve cannot get their son to stop crying.  He becomes quiet instantly when Drew comes for a visit and interacts with him.  Steve becomes ill, and Mimi orders him to leave so that he doesn't infect the baby.  He stays at Drew's house, where Oswald and Kate look after him.  He convinces the reluctant Drew to stay at his house and help Mimi with the baby until he recovers.  The baby will only stop crying when Drew is holding him, and refuses to eat.  Much to his horror, Drew must hold the baby while he breast-feeds.  He then learns that Steve has strep throat and cannot return for two weeks.  Drew finally becomes fed up and says that Mimi and Steve will have to learn to take care of their child on their own.  Mimi, disheartened by her inability to bond with the baby, tries to leave him with Drew.  When a still-ailing Steve comes over to visit, the baby stops crying after Mimi yells at Steve to get out.  Drew concludes that the baby had grown used to Mimi's irascible behavior whi

Hush Little Baby

Drew finds Mimi has fabricated his 'death' using a death certificate from the doctor when he was in a coma. Lewis and Oswald encash his life insurance policy and use the money to splash out on electric wheelchairs and men to carry them around. After volunteering at a crisis center, a depressed Drew decides to be a risk-taker and returns with a motorcycle.

Drew's Life After Death

Kate warns the guys to return the life insurance money, but they insist they are only spending the profit and cannot get in trouble.  Lewis and Oswald begin to panic when an insurance agent shows up at Drew's house, but she just asks them to sign some forms.  She sees Drew on his motorcycle and finds him attractive.  He claims to be Kyle, Drew's estranged brother.  Drew and Julie begin dating, and he pretends to be a bad boy to impress her.  They go to a biker bar, where Drew exchanges insults with the owner, Smelly Mary.  She offers her approval, thus winning him the respect of everyone in the bar.  Drew receives notice that his death certificate has been revoked, but decides that he wants to leave Drew dead and continue living as Kyle.  Lewis and Oswald cut into the original insurance settlement to record an album.  They turn to Drew for help, and he must sell his motorcycle.  He returns to the biker bar and encounters Mimi.  She explains that she heard about Drew's exploits from Sme

Drew and the Motorcycle

Steve orders Drew and Mimi to call a truce as their hostility could be a bad influence on the baby. Kate's new boyfriend Eric stirs Drew's jealousy.

Kate and Her New Boyfriend

Drew begins to worry about Lewis's increasingly mean-spirited actions, especially because his guide (during the coma) told him that Lewis will go to hell.  Drew and Oswald secretly videotape Lewis and confront him about his terrible behavior.  Lewis realizes that he must change his ways.  However, he soon becomes convinced that his friends are all going to hell.  He tries to shake them of their ""sinful"" ways, and breaks up Kate's date by standing outside with a bullhorn and calling her a whore.  He also denies Oswald his cable fix and throws all of Drew's porn onto the lawn.  Lewis insists that he is simply doing God's will, but has a change of heart after he is repeatedly struck by lightning.  Steve fills in for Mimi at Winfred-Louder while she is on maternity leave.  He does such a good job that everyone wants him to stay on permanently.  Mimi announces that she is going to become a stay-at-home mom, but is very depressed.  Steve tries to find a way to get himself fired.

What's Wrong with This Episode IV

Drew employs Oswald to deliver chocolate baskets on Easter morning. All goes well until he gets greedy and spoils all the chocolate. Meanwhile, Lewis meets the girl of his dreams but accidentally erases her number.

The Easter Show

Mimi's cousin Vanessa comes for a visit.  Mimi has always hated Vanessa, but now sucks up to her because she is rich.  Vanessa and Drew are named the baby's godparents.  However, Mimi declares that Vanessa will be the one to actually raise Gus if anything happens to Mimi and Steve.  Steve objects, noting Drew's close bond with his nephew.  Lewis and Oswald decide to use the store's new portrait studio to get pictures of themselves as astronauts in the hopes of impressing women.  They are angry to find that families get a cheaper rate, as they can't afford the individual prices.  Steve asks Drew to babysit Gus while he and Mimi are at the church preparing for the christening.  Oswald spills tacos on Gus, so Kate and Drew have to take the outfit to the dry cleaners.  Lewis and Oswald borrow the baby so that they can get family portrait prices.  Drew and Kate go to the church and try to stall.  Drew's parents wrap Oswald's rabbit, Commander Bun-Bun, in a blanket and try to pass him off as

Christening

A woman approaches Drew at the Warsaw and asks him for a date.  Lewis comes downstairs and has words with her.  He reveals that she is an activist protesting a secret DrugCo project for which he is serving as foreman.  He assumes that she is using Drew to get information, then describes the project in detail for no apparent reason.  Drew plans to call off the date, but Rachel insists that she didn't know that he was Lewis's friend.  Rachel infuriates Mimi by throwing out some of her make-up because it is tested on animals.  After sleeping with Drew, Rachel pleads with him for information on Lewis's project.  He agrees after she tells him that Lewis may be in danger because DrugCo allows employees to work with toxic waste without informing them of the risk.  The EPA shuts down the project, and Lewis gets bumped back down to janitor.  Mimi discovers that Rachel works for one of DrugCo's competitors.  Drew goes to DrugCo to apologize.  The gang turns off the bathroom lights to talk withou

Drew and the Activist

Drew and Rachel decide to see each other exclusively.  Mimi suggests holding a barbecue for bar and restaurant owners as a promotion for Buzz Beer.  Rachel tries to convince Drew to change his lifestyle to be more conscious of the environment.  She is horrified to hear about the barbecue, and he agrees to serve veggie burgers.  Lewis, Oswald and Mimi are angry at Drew for making decisions for the business without consulting them, and point out that they already had the meat.  They secretly serve the meat without telling Drew.  Mimi doesn't tell Rachel until she has had three burgers.  She becomes addicted to meat-eating, and begins to lose all passion for her causes because she feels like a hypocrite.  Drew helps her find her way by renting a live cow from a slaughterhouse and telling her that they are going to kill it and make it dinner.  He realizes that they are too different to be together, and tells her to continue her activism.  She liberates the cow, costing Drew his thousand-do

Drew and the Activist II

Drew suggests that Winfred-Louder open a women's store.  The board agrees, and Mr. Wick appoints Drew as manager of the new store.  Mimi objects, but Wick appeases her by giving her Drew's old job and letting her abuse her power for personal gain.  Drew is overwhelmed by the work required to get the store ready for opening, and cannot find any time to sleep.  His behavior becomes increasingly erratic.  He runs out of the new store site in a panic after the mannequins stage a revolt.  Kate suggests that Mimi might be responsible for Drew's problems, but Drew points out that Mimi always brags about her pranks.  Drew hears some parrots taunting him from the trees outside his house and throws firecrackers at them.  He is apprehended by the police and placed in a sanitarium.  The doctor agrees that Drew is not crazy, and that his behavior was the result of stress and sleep deprivation.  However, he must be observed for 72 hours and will miss the opening.  Mimi visits Drew and admits that sh

Bananas (1)

Kate, Lewis and Oswald search for Drew.  Mimi fails to share his whereabouts with Mr. Wick, and gets him to appoint her the new manager of the women's store.  Lewis and Oswald learn that Drew is in the institution.  Only family is allowed to visit, so they check themselves in as patients so that they can talk to him.  Drew plots to escape and reclaim his job.  He leaves a message on his machine telling Kate what has happened to the guys and asking her to show up with a van the next day.  Although they have stolen the master keys, Oswald and Lewis insist on breaking out by building a bomb and blowing a hole in the wall.  Most of the other patients escape with them, but a large patient restrains Drew and keeps him from leaving.  Kate doesn't think that he has made it to the van, but Oswald insists otherwise.  Drew finally makes it to the store opening in his hospital gown.  When he learns that Mimi has taken his job, he loses it and starts seeing everyone as Mimi.  He attacks Wick and ha

Bananas (2)

Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. To make a few extra bucks he has a micro-brewery going in his garage with his buddies.

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