The Goode Family
The Goode Family
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First Aired: May 27th, 2009
Status: Ended
Network: ABC
Summary: The Goode Family is an American animated comedy series, which originally aired on ABC from May 27, 2009 to August 7, 2009. The series was created by Mike Judge, and follows the life of an environmentally responsible, albeit obsessive, family. The series takes a comic look at contemporary society. Judge created the show along with former King of the Hill writers John Altschuler and David Krinsky. The show was cancelled after its first season due to low ratings. The series was released on DVD format on January 8, 2013 by Shout! Factory.
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Season 1
Episode 1: Pilot
Air Date: May 27th, 2009
Summary: 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.
Episode 2: Pleatherheads
Air Date: June 3rd, 2009
Summary: 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.
Episode 3: Goodes Gone Wild
Air Date: June 3rd, 2009
Summary: 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.
Episode 4: Helen's Back
Air Date: June 12nd, 2009
Summary: 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."
Episode 5: A Tale of Two Lesbians
Air Date: June 19th, 2009
Summary: Gerald and Helen offend a lesbian couple so must seek out new lesbian friends in order to prove they aren't being offensive.
Episode 6: Freeganomics
Air Date: June 26th, 2009
Summary: 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.
Episode 7: Graffiti in Greenville
Air Date: July 3rd, 2009
Summary: 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.
Episode 8: A Goode Game of Chicken
Air Date: July 10th, 2009
Summary: 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.
Episode 9: After-School Special
Air Date: July 17th, 2009
Summary: 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.
Episode 10: Public Disturbance
Air Date: July 24th, 2009
Summary: In an effort to bring public radio to the town, Gerald tries to get the other residents to become involved as well.
Episode 11: Trouble in Store
Air Date: July 31st, 2009
Summary: Helen is banned from One Earth on the day of Gerald's big meal, after 'stealing' something from the store.
Episode 12: Gerald's Way or the Highway
Air Date: August 7th, 2009
Summary: Gerald adopts a highway.
Episode 13: A Goode Man Is Hard to Find
Air Date: August 7th, 2009
Summary: 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.
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