List of Life with Boys episodes

Tess Foster wants to join the school wrestling team, but her father, who is also the school's gym teacher, declines as she is not a boy and can get hurt a lot easier. Tess is furious and doesn't like being stereotyped, so she tries to join the team even though her dad told her not to.

Note: Tess may be a tomboy, but dresses sort of girly, wears lots of rings and does girly stuff such as joining the cheerleading team and pierce her ears.

Tess has had enough of her brothers leaving the bathroom dirty and hogging the remote control. She is particularly annoyed by their manners at dinner every night. Tess believes to have found the solution to their problem, and invites their grandmother to stay with them. However, their grandma also changes Tess, which leaves Tess no longer sure if she even has the right to change their behavior.

Tess and Allie are very excited when they are invited to a prestigious party. Tess tries her best to convince the host of the party to invite her brother Sam, and the host agrees. What she does not realize, however, is that Sam is to be ridiculed in front of everyone. When Tess tells Sam the truth, he is devastated. Only Sam can give something to cheer, and Tess makes an interesting observation: guys seem to have their own language.

Tess and Allie have little time for themselves and often argue over trifles. They want to save their friendship and make a pact: Tess is willing to try as a cheerleader, and Allie comes along on a camping trip with the Foster family. They discover that true friendship does not necessarily have common hobbies.

Tess breaks her promise to Jack that she wouldn't get her ears pierced until she was fifteen but before she can tell him the truth, he gives her permission... but can she go to a party knowing she lied to get there? Meanwhile, Sam, Gabe, Spencer and Walter (their dog) are all mad at Jack because he can't remember the parental pass code. This whole time he was doing the old one because, Spencer changed the pass code so only he can watch TV.

When Jack finds out that Tess and Sam were included in the math team at school, he is completely over the moon. In order to maintain his pride, Tess reluctantly agrees to join the mathletes. However, it is not easy for her, because she knows that her reputation as a cool girl is at risk. But then she makes a startling discovery: The other math professionals themselves are pretty cool. Later, they film Tess accidentally farting on camera, and they wanted to post it around the school...

Tess is worried that her father might remain single. So she decides to establish an online profile on a dating site, she is actively supported by Allie. In order to advertise more effectively, they secretly create a video of Jack and put it online. The video is all the rage on the website: About seven hundred interested people write Jack, but can he really "find true love?"

Allie and Tess accidentally send an embarrassing photo of Sam to every girl in school. To limit the damage, Allie agrees to go out with Sam in hopes that she can boost his image again. Good plan - but Sam worries it will only make things worse. Meanwhile, there are concerns about the administration's new neighbor and Jack has an eyesore.

Tess and her brothers find their Christmas plans wrecked when Jack announces that he wants them all to surprise Grandma for Christmas.

Jack believes that thanks to Tess's talent she could compete in the school wrestling championships and actually win. However, Tess is scheduled to compete against last year's champion, Bobby Parelli. The two have a pre-match competition, but they let it go too far making it impossible for them to compete in the actual match.

Each morning there is disagreement within the Foster family over the bathroom. In order to end the quarrel once and for all, Jack decides to set up a private bathroom for Tess. However, Jack has to take a second job in order to pay for the construction costs. Tess feels guilty and wonders if another bathroom is really necessary.

Since Tess has joined the wrestling team, she hasn't been on any dates with a boy. Kaylee says that girls who are on the wrestling team aren't attractive to boys. In order to prove Kaylee wrong, Tess decides to go on a date, but cannot find one. Luckily she has brothers.

Allie and Tess make it clear that Tess doesn't want to go out with Bobby. So Bobby and Tess meet secretly until Tess finds the courage to tell Allie the truth. But when a photo of Tess, Bobby and Emily Osment appears in the newspaper, it is increasingly difficult for Tess to keep her secret from Allie. In the end, Allie says that Tess can stay with Bobby.

Special guest star: Emily Osment as herself

Tess is totally blown away when she finds out that Allie starts going out with Bobby Parelli. Tess goes with the two to the movies, but she uses the opportunity to show Bobby all differences between him and Allie. However, it causes Bobby to make a sudden end with Allie and instead show interest in Tess.

Αfter Tess started dating Bobby, she spends a lot of time with him and she always forgets Allie, which makes her angry.

After Tess breaks up with Bobby, Allie wants her to date someone else, but she keeps saying she is not ready. Meanwhile, Gabe has to pass a driving test.

When a fashion guru comes to Westfield, Tess tries to impress him by creating a contest-winning design that will get her all the way to New York.

Jack's heart is heavy when he sees how quickly his children are growing up. This makes it more difficult for Tess, who is trying not to make her 15th birthday feel like a child's birthday.

Jack starts dating Kaylee's mom and tells Tess to get along with Kaylee. After her efforts fail, Tess comes up with a plan to separate her dad and Kaylee's mom.

When acting girly to get a cute boy to ask her to dance fails, a mysterious witch makes Tess’s off-the-cuff wish to become a boy a reality, leading Tess to discover that being a member of the opposite gender isn’t easier most of the time. Meanwhile, Spencer said that he ate all the Halloween candy so now he and Jack have to go trick or treating around the block to get candy.

After Tess is alone on Valentines Day, she and Allie come up with the idea of "Girl-entines day". Then she gets a date with a cute boy named Blake. But she does not want to disappoint Allie so she goes on a date with him and spend the night with the girls simultaneously until that is discovered and she gets to spend the rest of the night with her dad.

Guest star: Brendan Meyer as Blake

Tess is determined to keep Jack on as her wrestling coach, even if it means helping him land the dreaded position of Vice Principal in charge of school discipline. Tess and Allie try to make the school look like a problem school so the school would need a vice principal which could be her dad. Meanwhile, Spencer dresses as a girl to sell more cookies.

Tess tries to get Gabe to date a girl he wouldn't go for. To show him that she isn't superficial, she goes out with a boy named DJ, but it turns out that she doesn't like him.

Tess and Gabe enter the same contest to win $200 but, Gabe freezes on stage when he "chokes". Tess ends up meeting Brooklyn Roebuck unexpectedly.

Victoria Duffield wants Gabe and Tess to open for her concert but when Allie gets sick and needs surgery, Tess wonders if she can still sing and be by her friends side when they do surgery.

Tess sets up their family to audition for a family dance show to pay for a plumbing incident at their house and to have the chance to afford a second bathroom. They have to learn how to dance together with the help of their neighbour Kylee who is the choreographer to be able to win the prize money. The Fosters fail in the audition but they sell the audition video for a funny clip show.

Special guest star: Darren Espanto