Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown and competing with his siblings for his mother's approval and affection.
Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown and competing with his siblings for his mother's approval and affection.
8.1
Avg Rating
40
Rated Episodes
9.3
Best: S2E8
7.0
Worst: S3E3
Funeral
S2 E8
Easter in Bakersfield
S1 E4
Ronald Reagan Library
S2 E4
Crash
S3 E3
Freaks
S2 E1
Sweat Equity
S3 E5
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A strong command of French is needed to really excel in French Clown School, which Chip Baskets finds out the hard way.
Chip takes a new clown under his wing at the rodeo. Mad clown love ensues.
One of Martha's best friends is murdered and Chip comes to her aid.
Family drama brews over Easter brunch in Bakersfield.
As Dale attempts to make a good deal on some furniture he leaves his daughters in Chip's care.
All the free bottled water in the world can't soften the sting of rejection during an evening with the family.
Eddie drags Chip and Martha on a road trip to deliver some cowboy justice.
Chip takes a sugar pie to his book club meeting.
Chip follows a turtle around Paris and meets Penelope.
Mom adjusts to her new life as a diabetic, Dale learns cacti only need to be watered once a year and Chip hits rock bottom. On the plus side, there are curly fries down there.
The Baskets family is at its most fragile. After losing his wife and rodeo job, Chip jumps on a train to get out of Bakersfield, but a gang of gutter punks, the police and an unexpected tragedy drag him back into the drama he tried to escape.
Chip has to decide between a tarp and snacks.
Chips uses the cowboy toilet.
Chip gets arrested, which interrupts Christine's water aerobics schedule.
Chip laments Ronald Reagan for giving up his acting career.
Dale's dog days are over when Chip and Christine finally return to Bakersfield.
Martha books Chip a gig at a car crash.
Christine tries a Denver omelette in Denver, Colorado.
Someone trying to punch Logan in the face accidentally punches Cody. Chip attempts to sort it out.
Martha learns to haggle.
Christine turns to Arby's when Chip joins the Russians.
Nothing brings a family together like a family business—or at least that was the plan. Welcome to the Baskets Family Rodeo, where Christine is the President and CEO despite never having seen a rodeo before. Chip has his first full-time gig since Arby’s, but can barely transfer a phone call, let alone recruit much-needed clowns. And even though Dale is the only one in the family who has run a business, he can’t get anyone to listen to him—his family, the employees, or the horses.
Chip learns how to transfer a call.
Christine eats a carrot.
Christine brings the celery
Chip incorporates a San Joaquin Valley earthiness into his clown routine.
Bakersfield gets a frozen yogurt machine.
Martha serves tilapia for Thanksgiving.
Christine and Martha listen to harp music at brunch.
Chip sees a homeless person in a library.
Chip laments becoming a fake Christmas tree person.
A family game of Hungry Hungry Hippos ends in tragedy.
After 49 years, Chip decides it’s finally time to move out of his mom’s place. But even with the help of Martha and a life coach, he learns that leaving the nest is hard, to say the least. Christine and Ken move into a new place they can call their own, but carpet emergencies and missing kitchen magnets make the transition rockier than expected. And Dale has found kindred spirits with his fellow inhabitants at the RV park.
Susan nearly kills Ronald Reagan.
Chip picks up Pedialyte.
Martha drinks too much sherry and ruins the pot roast.
Dale orders a cheeseburger at a Chinese restaurant.
Flammable carpets become a headache for Ken and Christine.
Martha's dad falls off the roof while fixing the TV antenna.
A carpet emergency interrupts Christine's wedding plans.
Chip wants a life plan.
Christine's apple pie is not allowed through security.
Martha removes her cast; others move on in different ways.
