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A lower middle-class Latino family dealing with every day life's problems such as how to pay for four kids’ education on an educator’s salary. Strong family relationships with lots of underlying heart amidst the comedy of constantly driving each other crazy. SINGLE CAM.
SYNOPSIS:
In the Pilot, we meet the Jimenezes, a lower middle-class Latino family in the LA suburbs. Dan is a high school history teacher, his wife Jenny a homemaker to their four kids. As the school year begins, Halen (the eldest daughter) announces she’ll be dropping out of college to instead manage rock bands, much to her parents’ concern. Jake, entering his high school sophomore year, works to avoid getting his father as his History teacher. Meanwhile, Gibson, a year younger but towering in size, has anxiety of beginning his freshman year and being the new kid lost in a sea of the unknown.
Halen, unable to convince her parents that she can “make it on her own” finds Jenny tagging along to one of her nightclubs to see just how realistic Halen’s dream of managing bands can be. Meanwhile, Jake feeds Gibson’s fears with the Jimenez tradition of creating an endless fake list of humiliating and frightening requirements for incoming freshmen. And Dan, having had his popular but non-traditional style of teaching questioned, considers changing up his style – practicing on their youngest daughter Scarlett.
At the nightclub, Jenny is caught up in the fun of the evening, impressed with Halen’s band protégé’s and wonders if she is being too quick to judgment. Halen then reveals the real reason she wants to drop out of school—to ease her parents of the burden of paying for it. With three kids behind her and Jake being the brain of the family, it doesn’t seem fair on the struggling finances. Jenny convinces Halen that this is HER time and they will find a way to pay for everyone’s college, the way they’ve made things work out up until now. At home, Jake finally lets Gibson in on the gag, seeing that he nearly has pushed him over the edge. And Dan, disappointed, allows Jake to change teachers. That night, when Halen bonds with Jake about how great their parents are and how they will miss these moments someday, it causes Jake to change his mind and join his Dad’s class after all. And Dan decides he must be himself and stick to his quirky style of teaching that has worked for him all these years.