Anger Management

The first episode in which Charlie - a baseball player with anger issues turned anger management therapist - decides to return to therapy after a bad run-in with his ex wife's new boyfriend.

The new "evolved" Charlie has to deal with a ghost from his old carousing, baseball-playing days when a unattractive woman he slept with just to break a batting slump shows up as a new patient in group therapy.

Charlie challenges his group to do thirty-six hours of sleep deprivation therapy so that their "inhibitions come down and the truth comes out" - except the result turns out to be the exact opposite.

A long-standing rivalry over who's a better therapist leads to war when Kate steals Patrick, one of Charlie's group patients.

Charlie falls for Jen's hot new business partner - only to find she thinks therapy is a scam.  In the therapy group, Patrick asks Charlie to counsel the angry ghost of his mother, who he believes is haunting his apartment.

Inflamed by Kate's comment that he's only "nouveau smart", Charlie starts covertly dating a brilliant coffee-shop barista.  The only problem is that the woman is turned on by sex where there's a chance of getting caught -- and she's Kate's patient.

Charlie has to evaluate the depth of his involvement in his patient's lives when he accidentally helps his patient who vicariously enjoys other people's anger hook up with a crazy woman.

Charlie gets an unexpected visit from his hypercritical, bullying father – played by Charlie’s real-life dad, Martin Sheen. In the therapy group, Charlie attempts to help Lacey with road rage.

After Charlie and Kate have sex, he innocently asks her if she wants to go to a movie. Kate interprets this as a romantic gesture, rushes to fix him up on a date the next day with someone else and the two are forced to examine the nature of their odd relationship.  At home, Sam kisses a girl at school and a picture of it ends up on Facebook.