Spring cleaning makes the Tragers reflect about their lives, in dad's case whether top be content with a good provider job or seek greater satisfaction by accepting an academic teaching offer. Josh feels he should replace Foss when it comes to providing Kyle extraordinary challenges, for starters making electric links flicker. This comes in handy when the kids learn Amanda has left her New York conservatory and her ma meanly locks her up till she promises to resume the scholarship, blaming Kyle without allowing either to explain. A brilliant plan to organize a dinner works, but jealous Jessi betrays them. The Trager parents actually sympathize, but still impose two weeks total grounding for braving parental authority and disobeying.
—KGF Vissers