There are also a couple of bigger events in this season as well. Not only does a hurricane show up and tear up the Barry's house (in the two-part episode "Gone With the Wind"), but Mia (J.C. Wendel) stops working as Kenny's (Shadoe Stevens) assistant and becomes Dave's assistant. Also, Kenny and Beth's sister, Julie (Tammy Lauren), both start dating and break up through the course of the season. Another big event has Shel's (Meshach Taylor) ex-wife getting re-married, and the newlyweds taking Shel's daughter with them to California. Needless to say, while the show typically fits into the tidy one-episode story-arcs, there are still quite a few events that spill over.
But, those tidy one-episode stories are still very prominent. In one episode, Dave and Beth (DeLane Matthews) join a gym for a fairly good price, but when Kenny and Shel go to join, and don't get the family discount, they claim to be life partners and demand to be considered a family. Well, mostly it's Shel doing all the demanding, and the attention is really hurting Kenny's attempts to pick up ladies while working out.
In another episode, the Barrys go to war with a neighbor who Willie (Andrew Ducote), their youngest son, claims took his stuffed bear. In the season finale, Dave and Beth's older son, Tommy (Zane Carney), decides he wants to go see the latest horror movie, but when his parents say he can't go, the kid runs away to Kenny's house.
There are a few semi-regular characters as well. The most prominent one is Mia's boyfriend, Eric (a pre-Seinfeld Patrick Warburton). This not-so-handy-man makes his first appearance this season when the hurricane hits, but comes back several times to "help" the Barrys with their various household issues. Even though he is not the best at his job (by a longshot), they even hire him to install a pool. Needless to say, this isn't the best idea.
I really enjoy Dave's World, it isn't the best show out there, and it's pretty formulaic as far as sitcoms go, but it still puts a smile on my face almost every episode, despite the very dated references. In fact, in the first episode alone, the show makes references to "current" movies like True Lies, When a Man Loves a Woman, The Flintstones , The Mask and Forrest Gump. There are many other references from the mid-90's that might make the show a bit hard to watch for any young-ones out there. But besides that, the show is good, clean, solid family fun.
