The Goodes are an obsessively green family who live an overt politically correct lifestyle. They have solar panels on their house, harvest rainwater for use in an outdoor shower and plant-watering, garden in their front yard, drive a hybrid car, recycle, reuse shopping bags, etc. They are also vegans. The Goode family struggles with the modern social and environmental responsibilities of being liberals, and the paradoxes that arise for a working-class family when trying to be politically correct all of the time about everything. Situations in the premiere episode included shopping at a natural foods store without having brought reusable bags, how to refer to ethnic groups, analyzing conservative beliefs they typically despise and raising modern teenagers. The pilot satirized both stereotypical "liberal" and "conservative" mindsets, including the ongoing derangement of the family's vegan dog (who has taken to eating neighborhood pets).
Helen adopts an uncategorised animal in an effort to get Charlie to notice her good deeds. With no way of knowing how it acts and what it eats, she's got her work cut out. Elsewhere, Gerald gets a helping hand from Che in order to get rid of the squirrel's plaguing the college.
Unbuntu finds himself as the main man on the football team so Helen and Gerald need to learn what being a football family actually means. Bliss is worried she might not get into college so she goes to great lengths to give herself a better shot at getting in.
Bliss takes drastic action and joins an abstinence group after hearing more than her fair share of safe sex talk from her mother. Ubuntu wants to learn to drive now that he's turned sixteen.