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Original Air Date: June 19, 2008
Sadly to say, the second episode of The Bill Engvall Show this season was on the boring, unfunny side. Better luck next time.
The episode revolves around Bill’s sudden realization that his children always ask their mother Susan when they want to go somewhere or do something, although they don’t hesitate to come to him when they need money. Clearly, by not being at home all of the time, Bill is missing out on the details of his family’s life, which doesn’t sit well with him.
Bill sets out to correct the situation, only realizing much too late that his necessary absences as breadwinner — after all, someone has to make the money to pay for the Pearson’s nice, suburban lifestyle — have resulted in a lack of knowledge about who his children hang out with and what they do on a regular basis.
As a result, Bill can’t make smart decisions when they ask him for permission to do things. Worse, the Pearson kids begin to take advantage of their dad’s knowledge deficit, such as when oldest daughter Lauren easily gets permission to hang out with a girl her mother knows is a shoplifter, simply by lying to her dad that she always hangs out with her.
While Bill is coping with his family predicament, his best college buddy Paul DuFrayne (Tim Meadows) is suffering through a crisis of his own, namely women repeatedly blowing him off. They have a good reason, though, because Paul is downright weird and stalker-ish in his approach to asking women out.
It takes a couple of rebuffs and a couple of trips to the Pearson household for him to finally realize his “rap” needs major work and he needs to lay off of the desperate phone calls when women back out of dates with him.
Bill also realizes he can become more familiar with his children’s lives eventually, as long as he puts more effort into it and stops obsessing over them instinctively leaning on their mother, who’s the natural go-to parent since she’s at home most of the time.
