Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.Paula's mother, Doris, comes to the Small house to stay for a visit. She informs the family that she and Paula's father are getting a divorce. Brendon goes to his grandfather's house, curious about this development, and learns that he is perfectly fine with this and comfortably sits around his house drinking sherri wine. Paula accidentally burns down the kitchen and McGuirk is hired to fix it. McGuirk does a mediocre job and decides to just lazily hang around the house all day, until he finally tells Brendon that he cannot do the job and quits. Meanwhile, Jason, feeling left out as his parents are perfectly happy and not divorced like Brendon and Melissa's, decides to pretend that they are arguing and divorcing while he talks to his friends on the phone. They do not believe him and convince him to confess that he is lying.