

In "7th Short of Christmas", Colleen and Matt bring a bottle of fancy wine to Joan's party.In "6th Short of Christmas", Jen's fireplace chimney has a "bee hole".In "5th Short of Christmas", Joan's robotic vacuum cleaner gets depressed and destroys itself.In "4th Short of Christmas", Matt gets his siblings to help in making a new version of a childhood photograph.In "3rd Short of Christmas", John donates more to charity than he initially intended.In "2nd Short of Christmas", during Tyler and Clementine's Christmas party at their tiny house, Joan gets crowd surfed.In "1st Short of Christmas", Greg's enjoyment of some classic music on the radio gets recorded by Matt.When the entire Hughes family moves into John and Joan's home after their kitchen is destroyed, their presence creates chaos for Joan. Afterwards when Colleen and Matt are next to a balcony railing, it breaks, causing her to fall into the hotel pool far below. Later at the layover hotel, they get married in a makeshift setting, officiated by Greg and witnessed by most of Matt's relatives (who had also failed to reach Mexico). In "Story Four: For Better Or For Worse", when Colleen and Matt miss all the flights to Mexico for their wedding, they question if they will ever get married.


In the hotel, their elder daughter Samantha (Holly J. In "Story Three: The College Tour", Tim ( Dan Bakkedahl) and Heather ( Betsy Brandt) tour a college campus for their son Tyler (Niall Cunningham).

In "Story Two: The Delivery", Jen's ( Zoe Lister-Jones) vagina is ripped during childbirth and needs her husband Greg's ( Colin Hanks) help in soothing recovery, via the help of a frozen ice-pack of unusual, albeit inventive origin, recommended by the obstetrician.In "Story One: First Date", Matt ( Thomas Sadoski) and Colleen ( Angelique Cabral) return from their first date, but her ex-fiance Chad ( Jordan Peele) is still living at her house, and Matt is living with his parents Joan ( Dianne Wiest) and John ( James Brolin), so they have sex in the car – and are caught by the police.
