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.
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.
Charlie and his ex, Jennifer, are having an issue with how Charlie still tries to manage her life when Cleo - one of Charlie’s patients from his prison anger therapy group – shows up on his doorstep, fresh out on parole. Jennifer decides to get back at Charlie by dating the ex-con.
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 and his ex, Jennifer, are having an issue with how Charlie still tries to manage her life when Cleo - one of Charlie’s patients from his prison anger therapy group – shows up on his doorstep, fresh out on parole. Jennifer decides to get back at Charlie by dating the ex-con.
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.