Katie has forgotten Greg's birthday, and to cover her tracks she lies that she has planned a long-awaited birthday salon for him. Of course the only guests she can invite on short notice are Doris and Angela and their partners, who fail to provide the stimulating conversation he craves. Meanwhile, the three kids are forced to remain upstairs for the evening, with Katie refusing to allow them to interrupt them unless there is visible blood. They get to work cleaning Taylor's room but things quickly take a turn when they accidentally start a fire.
Tropes:
- Ageless Birthday Episode: It's Greg's birthday but his age is never revealed.
- A Day in the Limelight: Doris and Angela appear throughout in this one, not just in the obligatory Second Breakfast scene.
- Extremely Short Timespan: Most of the episode takes place over the course of one evening.
- Flash Forward: The episode ends with a flash forward to ten years later, when the kids' perfidy is finally discovered by Katie and Greg.
- Two Lines, No Waiting: A rare episode with exactly two running plotlines: Katie and Greg downstairs, and all the kids upstairs.
