Second Noah

Ricky is ignoring his chores to spend time with his girlfriend. Meanwhile, Ranny has started looking for his biological mom, and Bethany feels rejected at school because of her race.

When Noah tries to get Ricky on the high school basketball team, he is asked to coach it instead. Meanwhile, Jesse faces her own mortality, as she deals with the death of one of the zoo's beloved chimps; and she reaches out to Ricky's girlfriend, Darby, who has run away from her grandparents and is staying with the Becketts.

Ranny hurts Jesse's feelings by trying to locate his ""real"" mom; Darby's big break, an offer to join a band, threatens to break up her relationship with Ricky; Luis learns a lesson in honesty when Noah bends the rules and builds him a soap-box racer.

A hurricane strikes while their parents are away, leaving Ricky and Roxanna scrambling to protect the younger kids as the storm pounds the house and the alligators escape from their damaged pen. Meanwhile, Noah and Jesse race to get home, out of their minds with fear.

Jesse's trust in human nature is shaken when she saves a woman's life and is rewarded with a malpractice suit; Roxanna's doubts are confirmed when her prom date can't seem to forget his ex-girlfriend and threatens to turn the evening into a humiliating experience.

At school, peer pressure leads fatherless Luis to boast that Julio Iglesias is his dad, and Hannah risks ridicule when she makes friends with a lonely, over-weight classmate. Meanwhile, Ricky reacts to Darby's neglect by moving closer to Roxanna.

Ricky pulls away from Darby when she pushes for marriage until a crisis draws them closer together. Meanwhile, shy Danny has a hopeless crush on the most popular girl in school, and struggles to find the courage to approach her.

Jesse and Noah are over-joyed to learn that she's finally pregnant at age 41, but not all of their eight adopted children share their enthusiasm.

When Shirley's black-sheep son pays an unwelcome visit, the Becketts take a liking to the handsome young man-while Shirley waits for the time bomb to go off.

JoJo locks horns with Ricky in a subtle competition for a too young Roxanna, enraging JoJo's sornful mom; Hannah triggers a panic in the neighborhood by freeing a sad-looking, caged bear that, it turns out, is also hungry.

Basking in the glow of their first date, Roxanna feels herself falling in love with JoJo, who seems to have other plans; the kids try to play cupid to a couple of aging rhinos whose attempts at mating have been unsuccessful, but their misguided efforts land them in trouble.

JoJo is compelled to come to terms with his past when his relationship with Roxanne deepens; a sibling rivalry on the baseball diamond pits Bethany against Danny and Ranny; Hannah doggedly trains her pig.