This Is Life

This show centers around three long-time best friends sharing a Chicago studio loft apartment together. Besides being friends, they have their share of complications: they are one straight man, one gay man, and one straight girl living all under one roof. The three friends are none other than Greg Allen (Josh Cooke), Scott McBride (Todd Grinnell), and Kristy Raynier (Molly Stanton). Greg Allen, the straight one, is a 28-year-old easygoing, level-headed radio DJ who hosts his own on-air talk show. Scott McBride, the gay one, is a 28-year-old high-maintenance successful magazine columnist for "Chicago Men's Magazine". Kristy Raynier, the resident female, is a 28-year-old gorgeous yet ditzy beautician and aspiring model/actress. Greg, Scott, and Kristy have remained friends since elementary school, and have a lot of similarities yet at the same time a lot of differences. The trio hangout with and are often joined by Kristy's flaky yet equally ditzy younger sister, Melanie Raynier (Anna Faris), and Greg's outspoken and loud party-girl girlfriend, Tara Greene (Busy Philipps). Also, to add frustrations and drama into the guys's lives, Greg's all-around-nice-guy, long-widowered dad, Bill Allen (Treat Williams) has recently began dating Scott's locally-famous romance novelist and four-time divorcee mom, Patsy McBride (Wendie Malick), which leaves the best friends with mixed emotions about the union of his dad and his mom. Watch how the trio of BFFs and their friends handle the trials and tribulations of life in general, work, finances, relationships, dating, friends, family, sex, and many other aspects of everyday life.


Cast:
Josh Cooke as Greg Allen
Todd Grinnell as Scott McBride
Molly Stanton as Kristy Raynier
with Anna Faris as Melanie Raynier
and Busy Philipps as Tara Greene


Recurring Guest Stars:
Treat Williams as Bill Allen (Greg's widowered dad)
Wendie Malick as Patsy McBride (Scott's divorced mom)
Kathie Lee Gifford as Darlene Raynier (Kristy and Melanie's mom)
Matthew Lillard as Steve Baumbeck (Greg's co-radio show host)
Chris Lowell as Michael Dawson (Scott's assistant/boyfriend)
Mark Harmon as Dave Raynier (Kristy and Melanie's dad)
Tara Reid as Mindy Reynolds (Tara's unstable cousin)

Episodes

Ep1: Pilot Episode:
This episode takes the audience into each of the three friends's lives. Showing their lives at work, home, and their love lives (or lack thereof). Meanwhile, Scott and Greg get invited out to dinner with Greg's dad, Bill, who surprises the guys with Bill's new girlfriend---Scott's mom, Patsy. Greg and Scott are left speechless about Bill and Patsy's dating. Elsewhere, Melanie's latest dating drama causes her to have a major meltdown at the salon where Kristy works (while visiting her sister), thus ending up getting all the ladies involved.

Ep2: Dating Disasters:
Greg and Tara go out to celebrate their 2 year anniversary, but only to get the world's worst service at the ritziest restaurant in town. Meanwhile, Melanie and Kristy decide to double date a pair of twin brothers, who end up creeping the girls out when they both take a liking towards Kristy and wanting nothing to do with Melanie. But worst, they both want Kristy and willing to have a three-way relationship with her, hence the aforementioned creepy part. Scott gets a promotion at work and gets his own weekly column in the magazine (which was his dream from the get-go).

Ep3: Can't Buy Me Love:
Scott and Kristy realize Melanie's "too-good-to-be-true" latest guy is hiding something. They try to make Melanie realize this and that him buying her this and that can't make a good relationship over time. Greg feels Tara is withholding sex because he isn't ready to settle down and get married, but when Tara learns this, she is baffled and immediately tells Greg that's far from being the truth. Greg and Tara makeup.

Ep4: Scotty Not So Hotty:
Greg and Kristy find some old pictures and come across an unflattering picture of teenage Scott from back in the day. Tara and Melanie learn they have a common ex-boyfriend together, which brings the two closer together while they bond over cocktails at the bar while sharing stories about him.

Ep5: Work Drama And Momma Drama:
Scott struggles to come up with an idea for his latest column for the magazine and becomes to experience the pressure of a deadline. Meanwhile, Melanie and Kristy's meddlesome mom, Darlene (Kathie Lee Gifford) shows up and wants to be involved in her daughter's lives as well as breaking the news of her leaving the girls' father after 30 years of marriage--which leaves the girls stunned but definitely not speechless. Elsewhere, Greg is faced with a battle of egos when his lazy, unmotivated former co-radio anchor, Steve (Matthew Lillard) shows up and is given his old job back which just infuriates Greg.

Ep6: Elevator Love:
Tara surprises Greg at work by stopping the elevator and having spontaneous sex with him in his elevator at the station. Though the couple ends up having the time of their lives, little does the couple know that they were caught on security camera and viewed by Steve and a few other co-workers. Steve begins to use that as leverage to gain his own form of equality when it comes to Greg and Steve's talk show---much to Greg's dismay. Meanwhile, Kristy learns Scott is dating his executive assistant, Michael (Chris Lowell).

Ep7: Risky Business Relationships:
Scott constructs an article about metrosexual men, which leads to becoming a hit topic on Greg and Steve's radio show with boasting with callers who want to discuss the topic. Meanwhile, Kristy informs Melanie and Tara about Scott and Michael, which infuriates Scott due to the fact that he wants to keep it a secret because if it got out about them being together, they both could be fired. Kristy becomes hurt when Scott tells her he doesn't know he can trust her anymore.

Ep8: Crazy Cousins:
Tara gets a surprise visit from her crazy, basketcase cousin, Mindy (Tara Reid) who ends up needing a place to crash for a few nights, so Tara lets her sleep on her couch. Mindy ends up overstaying her welcome when she comes home drunk one night and starts hitting on also-drunk Greg, who mistakes the blonde cousin as his blondie girlfriend.....then Tara walks in and catchs Greg and Mindy making out on the couch in the dark. Tara becomes hysterical and leaves in a huff, causing Greg to realize what happened and goes after her, leaving Mindy satisfied with a mischevious grin on her face. Elsewhere, Kristy comes to terms with living with Scott again even after he more-or-less told her off.