The King Of Queens

At Doug's encouragement, Carrie reluctantly agrees to start taking pole dancing lessons, but quickly starts to enjoy the classes and begins feeling better about herself. However when Doug installs a pole in their bedroom and Carrie puts on a show for him, Doug is shocked to discover how bad Carrie is at dancing, but doesn't know how to let her down gently.

In an effort to save money, Doug and Carrie ask their neighbor Glenn for counseling since he happens to be a marriage counselor. Glenn agrees to help out only to have his problem-solving techniques backfire, causing their arguments to get worse.

When Doug's company throws him a 10th year anniversary party, Carrie realizes that the dates don't match up. Through a series of flashbacks, we see that when Doug and Carrie first started dating 10 years ago, he lied to her, claiming that he got a job at IPS just so she would sleep with him.

Doug becomes fixated on trying to figure out why he didn't receive an invitation to the new guy's BBQ. Doug's desperation gets out of control when he convinces O'Boyle to send Doug and Jared on an upstate delivery so that Doug can have some alone time with Jared.

As Doug desperately tries to get some type of food named after him in response to "The Deacon," he attempts to sabotage Deacon's glory by claiming that he found a mysterious object in his "Deacon" while eating it. Meanwhile, when Holly tells Carrie that she's moving to Manhattan with her new boyfriend, Carrie becomes jealous of Holly's exciting new life and tries to convince Holly t...

When Carrie bans Doug from going to his hair salon, her friend points out that she's just as guilty as Doug, since she flirts with her attractive personal trainer. Meanwhile, after convincing Lou Ferrigno to accompany him to the annual Sci-Fi convention, Spence spots Adam West in the subway and figures Batman would be a bigger coup than the Incredible Hulk.

When Ed and Betty, the owners of the B&B, become too overbearing for Doug and Carrie, Carrie forces Doug to tell them they are going to stay at the new Hyatt across town. Upon receiving the news, Betty becomes outraged and tells Doug that she would have shut down the business if they hadn't have shown up on their doorstep.

When the couple next door decides to sell their home, the Heffernan's try to persuade Deacon and Kelly to buy it. Doug and Carrie realize something is wrong when the two are completely disinterested in the home.

When the emails applauding Doug's singing suddenly stop, Doug goes back to the karaoke club in an attempt to get his fans back. But when Carrie discovers an email from a rabid fan, she jealously puts a block on all of Doug's incoming emails.

After a quick shopping spree for some snazzy new clothes, the boys decide to check out the new nightclub in town. Confident to prove they still have the moves, they make a small wager to see which one can convince a girl to dance with them first.

When Doug and Carrie run into Father McDaniel at the movies, they feel guilty that they haven't been to church in sometime and sign up to help out during the busy holiday season. While Doug is watching over the church's manger, he discovers that Carrie hasn't baked the cake she signed up for yet.

In order to help convince Carrie it's time for a child, Doug borrows the baby from Danny so they can give parenting a test run. Doug quickly adjusts to being a dad, but the transition isn't as smooth for Carrie.

After convincing his mom they could make a fortune, Doug and his mom set off on a series of smaller poker games in order to come up with the $1,000 buy-in to play in the high stakes game. Meanwhile, when a job promotion becomes available, Carrie's boss tells her that she would have a better chance of landing the job if she could lose her accent.

Doug and his gang rent an apartment upstairs from their favorite restaurant, but when the excitement of having their own secret sanctuary wears off, the guys stop hanging out, leaving Doug all alone. Desperate not to lose their hideout, Doug takes a job as a busboy in the restaurant downstairs until Carrie discovers his secret life.

Doug convinces Carrie that he can get rid of their bug problem and doesn't need to hire the creepy and expensive exterminator, Pete (Elliott). But when his bug bomb fails to work, Doug and Carrie are forced to sleep in the car while Pete does his exterminating.

When Arthur discovers that Doug is fully recovered, he blackmails him in order to get things that Carrie won't let him have. Meanwhile, when the slam ball court becomes available at Doug's gym, he tells Carrie he's at his physical therapist's office in order to buy him some playing time.

Doug and Carrie can't bear to hang the disproportioned painting, which shows Doug with tremendous teeth and Carrie with a hideously oversized arm, but Deacon stops by and hangs the picture for them. Unable to get the image out of their heads, Doug and Carrie convince Danny and Spence to break in to their home and steal the painting.

After convincing Carrie to sell her hair to a wigmaker so they can afford to join Deacon and Kelly on a cruise, Doug realizes he doesn't find Carrie's new shorter hairdo attractive. When Carrie catches Doug making fun on her hair to the cruise ship's entertainer, Robert Goulet, Carrie locks herself in their cabin.

Doug lies to Carrie and tells her that he regrets not accomplishing more in life and that he's going to sign up for the IPS management program. As part of his new outlook on life, he tells Carrie that he also he needs to conquer a local rollercoaster called "Goliath."

One night at the movie theatre, Doug and Carrie can't decide on which film they want to see. They run into Deacon and Kelly and it turns out Kelly wants to see what Doug wants to see and Deacon likes the movie that Carrie likes.

Carrie convinces her female co-workers to blow off work and take advantage of the hotel's spa. However, her plans are put in jeopardy when Doug surprises her and wants to spend the weekend watching the original "Planet of the Apes" series.

When Doug befriends Joe, a driver from Priority Plus (one of IPS' competitors) his fellow IPS drivers lose all respect for him. When Joe invites Doug to a Neil Diamond concert, he discovers that it's just a ploy so that Joe's friends from Priority Plus can play a trick on him.

Arthur accidentally starts a fire while cooking bacon and Carrie and Doug decide it is time to move Arthur into a retirement home. While Doug is cleaning up the scorched basement in preparations for his new media room, he finds some playbills that reveal that Arthur was once a well-respected actor.