In the series finale, Jim must stand trial in heaven after he chokes on a shrimp puff.

Jim wants to buy a necklace for Cheryl's birthday and instead of paying a lot of money for it, he buys one from Andy. The trouble arises when it's revealed that the necklace was taken off a dead womam, whose ghost is now haunting him.

Cheryl pressures Jim into doing charity, but when Jim gets a reward for his work back, she wants him to return the money. Jim decides to spend the money instead and just to make things more complicated, he buys her a gift with it.

Jim is frustrated when Kyle seems to like sci-fi stuff rather than spend time doing sports with his father, so he's forced to attend a convention with Kyle so he could win his son back.

After getting his back injured, Jim is forced to take painkillers, and his family uses the situation to tell a mellow Jim about their mishaps without having to deal with his angry reaction.

Jim wants to be a cool dad and impress Ruby, only to learn that his daughter is using him to get away with things that she usually couldn't do.

Andy ends up injured after playing snow football with Jim, so Jim helps Andy make it seem like he had a freak accident because Andy was previously warned by his girlfriend not to play the game.

Cheryl and her friends make up a group for fathers to spend more times with their sons so they could have some time for themselves, but Jim manages to turn even that situation into a fun time for himself.

Andy asks Jim for advice regarding a perfect gift for Mandy and he goes through a process of rethinking, leaving Mandy worried that he might be cheating on her.

Jim prepares his son to get out on a date with Ruby's piano teacher while Andy is already dating the woman without letting anyone know.

Jim joins Cheryl's yoga class after getting jealous of her male instructor.

While trying a new restaurant with Andy, Jim gets the wrong idea when he thinks the owner (Constance Marie), an old girlfriend, is still carrying a torch for him.

A guys' weekend in the woods for Jim and Andy turns sour when the latter's fiancée calls off their engagement. It then turns shocking when they discover her ex-husband at the same cabin.

When Cheryl learns of Jim's plan to use their twins in a movie starring Steve Guttenberg to get some money for Christmas gifts, she refuses to let him do it, but Andy and Jim decide to go through with the plan anyway, only to have it backfire when the pro

Jim convinces Andy to propose to his girlfriend, Emily, before he loses her. But when Jim catches Emily having dinner with another man, he questions the wisdom of his own advise.

Jim convinces Andy to propose to Emily before it's too late, but when he stumbles upon Emily having dinner with some man, he quickly rethinks his advice.

Jim is overwhelmed by Cheryl's requests and suggestions when her sister and closest friend, Dana, moves away, so he sets out to find his wife a replacement.

In the eighth-season premiere, the older kids give in to Jim's request to do the household chores after he blames them for losing one of the twin's blankets.