List of Rude Awakening episodes

Actress-turned-writer Billie Frank confronts her problems with her addictions. She finds herself in Addictions Anonymous (AA)^[a] after a DWI accident and an embarrassing interview on an Entertainment Tonight type TV show.

Trudy's contemptuous nickname for her pregnant daughter-in-law Tish is revealed. Dave drags Billie along to another AA meeting. Tish offers to help Billie by cleaning her apartment but Billie's tales of her past escapades with a woman alienate Tish.

Jackie and her new ex-con girlfriend move in with Billie.

Billie starts overindulging in coffee, tobacco, and shopping.

Billie tries to get out of coffee duty at Addictions Anonymous.

Billie and Dave work the Addictions Anonymous hotline.

Billie and Dave's relationship stumbles when Billie finds out Dave is sleeping with a stripper.

Billie regrets taking the lead role in a movie when the script turns out to have gratuitous nudity. Trudy has an affair with a younger man.

Billie asks Jackie to go to the birthday party her parents' are throwing her, and Dave plans a surprise party for Billie.

Billie visits her TV mom Colleen Woods.

One of Billie's old flings returns, threatening her sobriety.

Billie comes down from an acid trip days before getting her 60 day chip.

Billie accidentally feeds Tish's Christian friends marijuana brownies at her baby shower.

Billie and Dave almost relapse after meeting Jackie's mom. Trudy breaks her toe.

Dave gives Jackie an ultimatum after she wakes up from her coma.

Billie loses her sponsor.

A surprise bris is planned for Tish's baby, but she doesn't want to get him circumcised.

Trudy sets up Billie with another alcoholic former child star. Dave and Jackie fall for the same woman.

Billie accidentally breaks a famous musician's anonymity after he comes to an Addictions Anonymous meeting.

Dave sponsors a surfer who soon falls for Billie.

Trudy and Dave compete over who gets custody of the Addictions Anonymous meeting.

Billie and Dave decide to start seeing other people.

Trudy goes to Addictions Anonymous because she thinks Billie talks about her too much at the meetings. Dave goes to jail.

Billie tries to prove herself to her new boss. Trudy tries to catch her maid stealing. Dave becomes Nobby's sponsor.

Billie starts a phone sex line for extra money. Trudy gets sued by her maid.

Billie needs to make a toast at Max and Trudy's wedding anniversary, even though she knows Trudy is leaving with Martic. Dave performs at an open mic night.

Billie discovers that her parents' will gives everything to her brother instead of her.

Billie tries to wait four dates before sleeping with the new man she's seeing.

Billie keeps lying to Sydney. Dave starts a suggestion box at the coffee shop. Jackie has bigger problems.

After losing a fellow member, Billie gets lost in her work producing a movie with Sydney. Dave goes to Milt's apartment.

Dave helps Nobby at his first sober concert. Billie and Maureen become each others sponsors.

Billie takes her nephew to Mike's Bar. Nobby wants Dave to help him stay sober while on tour.

Billie has a chance to act in an Emerald Bluff reunion movie but is pressured into having a drink with a co-star. Dave starts seeing Juanita.

Trudy catches Martin cheating on her, and asks Billie for help getting back together with Max. Dave gets too into poker.

After a night of drinking, Billie breaks her arm and lies to her friends about it. Dave discovers the truth. Jerry stages an intervention for Billie.

An unemployed Billie spends all her time drinking and doing cocaine with Maureen while bills pile up. Billie tries to borrow money from friends and family, but no one will agree until she gets help. Marcus's wife kicks him out, and he moves in with Dave. Billie hits rock bottom.

Billie, now recovering, gets a job with Trudy's lawyer boyfriend. Her first task is to serve Marcus divorce papers.

Billie tries to figure out her relationship with Dave. Marcus tries to lose himself in his work after being served divorce papers.

Billie wonders if she should tell Dave that she slept with Marcus.

Billie and Dave's relationship hits a rough patch after Billie's affair with Marcus is revealed.

At jury duty, the other jurors try to get Billie removed. Marcus faces a lawsuit and an assault charge.

Marcus asks Billie out. Dave becomes attracted to Raquel.

Marcus feels excluded from Billie's life, so she invites him to an AA meeting. Billie has a difficult time with her new responsibilities as the AA group secretary.

Billie learns that Marcus has set up an interview with a prominent director and tries to set up a meeting of her own. Clark wants to hold an AA meeting at Dave's restaurant.

Clark and Henry ask Billie to carry their baby, but Marcus doesn't think it's such a good idea. Dave suffers from chronic tiredness since he began dating a female athlete who beats him soundly at every sport they try.

Dave and Marcus attend a party at the "Perfect 10" mansion without telling Billie and Raquel. Invitationless Billie and Raquel hatch a plan to get even with Dave and Marcus. Nobby Clegg makes amends with a playmate.

Trudy enters the hospital for plastic surgery, but the doctor refuses to do the operation because her drink problem has led to a life-threatening heart condition. Martin tells Billie he is leaving Trudy.

Trudy moves in with Billie in an effort to adopt a more sober lifestyle. Dave and Marcus shoot a video to send to Raquel in Australia.

Marcus' demanding father visits, not knowing that his son is getting divorced and that he and Billie are dating. Pregnant Haley asks Dave to act as her husband at a college reunion because she doesn't want anyone to know she's a surrogate mother for a gay couple.

Billie gets a small role in a new film. She is attracted to her co-star, whom she has to kiss. Dave and Haley share an awkward kiss. Marcus spends the night with Nancy, whose mother has just died.

Dave tries to tell Billy that Marcus is involved with Nancy again. Dave first gives the wrong impression when he attempts to warn Billie, but things come to a head when Marcus shows up at his own surprise party with Nancy.

Billie goes on a date with movie star Jake Newman, but he dies during the date, and Billie is asked to speak at his funeral service. Dave accidentally proposes to Raquel when she tells him her visa has expired.

Dave is caught up in a jewelry store robbery with Billie on the day of his bachelor party while shopping for a wedding ring for Raquel. Trudy wakes up in the arms of a handsome man who turns out to be an expensive gigolo.

Billie tries to stop Dave's wedding. She takes extreme measures to prevent Dave from marrying Raquel, including seeking out a medicine woman to place a curse on the ceremony. Marcus reconciles with Nancy.