It's Joe's 21th birthday , he spends the night in a bar thinking about his dad. The rest are planning a party for him, when Joe gets home he is drunk.

Claire prepares for her first real date since her husbands death and she is really nervous but so are the boys who fear that a new man will take over their dads place.

Joe and Lou agree to be "just friends" and date others, but Joe fumes when Lou's "other person" is someone he doesn't know -- and then he unwittingly asks out Lou's best friend.