One Big Happy Episode 1.01 Pilot

Childhood best friends Lizzy and Luke decided long ago that if they were both single at 30, they'd start a family together - just not the old fashioned way. Lizzy is a lesbian and Luke is straight. "We may not be everyone's idea of a traditional family," Lizzy says to the pharmacist providing her pre-prenatal pills, "but my point is we're still good people with solid values."

With parenthood a positive pregnancy test away, Lizzy asks Luke if he's ready for such a commitment, especially since he never even lets his dates spend the night. Luke proves he's ready to be a dad when he pulls out a onesie and a pair of baby socks. More importantly, Luke's been taking care of Lizzy for most of her life, including knowing she was gay before she did. Alas, Lizzy's pregnancy test turns out to be negative.

To remedy their disappointment, Lizzy and Luke head to a bar where Luke meets a beautiful British brunette named Prudence. Luke attempts to impress her by suavely jumping over the bar but instead falls flat on his face. Despite the misstep (and a possible concussion), there's no denying the chemistry between Luke and Prudence. When she asks him to dance - something Luke normally never does - he allows himself to be dragged to the dance floor. Lizzy, her sister Leisha and Leisha's husband Roy watch the whole thing unfold, including Luke's unsightly flailing, but Lizzy remains confident Prudence is no different than any of Luke's other conquests.

You can imagine Lizzy's surprise then when the next morning she finds a completely naked Prudence in her kitchen. Two things happen at once for Lizzy in that moment. On the one hand, seeing a beautiful woman nude is a pleasant change of pace for the longtime single. But Lizzy's inner control freak wins out when she sees Prudence sit on a stool with no bottoms on, and she loses her cool. Even more perturbing, Lizzy learns that Luke actually asked Prudence to spend the night.

But Luke's not done there: he invites Prudence to his place of work, the bowling alley he inherited from his grandfather where he works alongside pal Marcus. There, Luke and Prudence learn they both love sci-fi and reveal they love each other, too. To keep Prudence from leaving, Luke offers to pay to extend her trip, but Prudence reveals it's not that simple: she's being deported. Meanwhile, an irritated Lizzy waits for Luke at the paint store so the two can pick out a color for their living room accent wall. Unfortunately, Luke, completely smitten with Prudence, has forgotten their plans.

Or at least he's forgotten Lizzy's part in the plan because when Lizzy wakes up the next morning, she finds the wall painted red, instead of her preferred gray, at Prudence's behest. Having hit her limit, Lizzy and Luke go into the kitchen and have it out over Luke's bewildering love affair, as Lizzy calls it. Luke reminds Lizzy she's no expert in love and advises her to open up to people instead of immediately passing judgment. He promises there's more to Prudence that Lizzy hasn't seen, but Prudence's ill-timed walk past the kitchen, devoid of clothes, only undermines his point.

Over dinner with Leisha and Roy that night, Lizzy can't stop complaining about Prudence, prompting Leisha to point out Lizzy's jealousy. As Lizzy starts to defend herself, Luke and Prudence burst in with exciting news: they're married! Lizzy spirals with anger at the revelation, causing Leisha and Roy to try to calm her by repeatedly offering her wine. Lizzy rejects more and more forcefully until finally proclaiming, "I'm pregnant!" Luke is overjoyed that he's become a husband and a father all at once, but the news is too much for Prudence to handle. Not having been aware of Luke and Lizzy's plan nor wanting to be the third wheel in their burgeoning family, Prudence leaves, sending Luke chasing after her.

The next day, Luke tells Lizzy he and Prudence broke up. He declares that he made a commitment to Lizzy - their baby comes first. Seeing how much Luke is hurting, Lizzy realizes her best friend deserves to be happy and that she needs to learn to share him. To prove it, she takes a page out of a romantic comedy and heads to the airport to win back the girl... err, Luke's girl. Finding Prudence at security, Lizzy explains that Luke loves her and that she loves him, plus a family tree has many branches. Getting down on one knee, Lizzy asks, "Prudence, come be a branch and make the father of my unborn branch the happiest branch alive?" You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who could say no to a proposal like that.

Lizzy's grand gesture turns Luke's idea of the "one big happy" into a reality. She and Luke thought a baby would be their new addition; it turned out to be Prudence.