Life In Peices "Settlement Pacifier Attic Unsyncing" Season Premiere

The Short family is back and bringing the laughs once again.

"Settlement"

In the first story, after the season finale, when Matt and Colleen got married and had an accident at their honeymoon hotel, they met with the hotel lawyer to settle a settlement. When the lawyer showed them their offer of 2 Million dollars, it was by far the quickest decision they've made, even though Jen was not.

After settling the money, they get the family together and pay them back the best way possible, with a cash grab machine. Next, they announced to the family that after grabbing their money from the cash grab, they'd take that money and head to Las Vegas. There it was, Party City in the rental van, but Jen got the news to Matt and Colleen about their settlement that the hotel filed for bankruptcy.

It was soon after Matt and Colleen told the entry family about the news and asked that they wouldn't open any more champagne and to give them back the money that they grabbed as well. But Tim opened a bottle just after they were done talking.

"Pacifier" 

It's one of the hardest for a parent to do when they try to get their child off the pacifier, but for Jen and Greg, it was memorable.

When Jen and Greg's daughter needs her pacifier to sleep, they conclude that they need to get rid of it with a straightforward idea: send the pacifier to the pacifier fairy. The next day, they told their daughter about how they needed to send her pacifier away or the pacifier monster would come. So they get the family together and throw a pacifier goodbye party, and as soon as the pacifier is flying on balloons, it gets stopped by the power lines, and it's stuck.

That night, the daughter still sees her pacifier hanging from the power line and screams for her parents. Just as you would think that Jen and Greg handled the situation fine, they didn't and are sleeping with their daughter in her crib.

"Attic" 

This third story of the episode seemed to be shorter than the rest as it dives into more of Sophia and her grandpa John.

As Heather and her family lost their home due to a fire, they're living with John and Joan, and Sophia isn't too happy about it. She gets caught by the cops after riding the lawn mower and throwing eggs in the neighborhood. John thinks that she needs to be disciplined and does so by having her go into the attic and see what is making the noises. Just as he checks back with her, she's gone, and he tries to get Tank looking for her.

After freaking out a woman and her child, Joan tells John where Sophia might be where she feels safe, and that means she's at her house (that got burned). Sophia tells him that she doesn't know how to live in any other place besides her own house, and John replies that his home is her home, not to mention that she is her favorite grandchild. The two hugged and left right after the shelves collapsed.

"Unsyncing"  

After announcing their marriage last season, Tyler makes another announcement to his family about how he and Clementine are getting a divorce. Heather and Tim try to find out why and learn that Tyler and Clementine feel that having to talk about boring stuff and having sex five times a week isn't enough.

So Tyler and Clementine have settled. They arranged that they'd still be together as best friends and still have that relationship but only to date other people, which was easy for her and not for Tyler.

As Tyler drives Clementine to her date, he freaks to his parents about how bad the idea is and how good-looking the new guy is.

This episode was excellent. That had some fantastic stories and some that didn't. The one story that stood out was the Pacifier one, as not only Colin Hanks and Zoe Lister-Jones once again are hilarious. Ana Sophia Heger, who plays Lark Short (Greg and Jen's daughter), really stole the story and probably the episode. The other was The Attic, with Giselle Eisenberg as Sophia and James Borlin's Grandpa John having a good, short moment. The Settlement and Unsynicing was okay, but it wasn't as good as the others. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Life In Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.