August Gross

After Dre and Bow drop Junior off at college, he returns home, having decided he wants to take a gap year. Elsewhere, Jack and Diane begin to question whether they should still be sharing a room.

When Junior is accepted to Howard and Stanford, Dre tries to convince him to attend his alma mater. Ruby decides she's going to manage Jack's comedy career, forcing Diane to compete for her attention.

Dre and Bow confront gender biases of their own after finding out that Junior and Zoey have become sexually active. Ruby is hurt when she finds out that Jack and Diane have been hanging out with a friend's grandmother after school.

The family is divided over the idea of getting a dog. Meanwhile, Bow's brother Johan is in town and he doesn't get the warm welcome he expects from Ruby.

The twins opt out of the family Halloween costume to protect their social status in school, Dre and Bow try to help by putting together a haunted house and inviting the whole seventh grade, and Junior spends time with a girl from Ruby's choir.

Dre's teenage cousin Kyra needs a place to stay and the Johnsons decide to take her in, but they have different approaches to helping her adjust to suburban life. Meanwhile, Jack and Diane try to get Kyra on social media to get information about her.