Upper Middle Bogan

When Bess Denyar, a successful doctor with an architect husband, an overbearing mother and twin thirteen year olds at a private school, finds out that she is adopted, she is stunned. Even more so when she is reunited with her birth parents. Wayne and Julie Wheeler, parents also to Amber, Kayne and Brianna, head up a drag racing team in the outer suburbs and are shocked and thrilled to discover the daughter they thought they had lost is now found.

Still struggling with the news that she's adopted, Bess is angry with Margaret for lying to her all these years and refuses to speak to her. Instead, she concentrates on getting to know Wayne and Julie, her real parents, who, eager to make up for lost time, are keen to reciprocate. Everyone tries hard to get on, in the hope that the two families will quickly feel like one big family.

When Wayne and Julie give Bess a 'Hot Lap' - a ride in a V8 Supercar, to make up for all the birthdays they've missed, Bess is shocked to discover that she is a natural behind the wheel of a very fast car. Convinced now that she is actually a "Wheeler", Bess sets about making herself as much like the rest of the Wheeler family as she can.

Bess arranges a lunch for her two mothers, Margaret and Julie, which ends in disaster when Julie, unaware of Bess' allergies, puts peanuts in the meal and Bess goes into anaphylactic shock.

While Bess is thrilled that her two families are coming together, when Danny finds out that Shawn and Edwina have skipped school and gone dirt bike riding, he freaks out, jumping to all sorts of wrong conclusions.

After backing into another car, Wayne is forced to take a driving test because of his glass eye. When he fails the reverse park component of his test, Wayne is crushed. So when Bess asks him to help her with a bullying surgeon at work, he jumps at the chance.

Bess is cross that Margaret is not taking her diabetes seriously and refusing to exercise, so when Brianna becomes a qualified fitness instructor, she sees an opportunity to help both her adoptive mother and her older sister. Margaret reluctantly agrees to train with Brianna but, truthfully, only because she thinks it will make Bess jealous.

Bess, Danny, Margaret and the kids arrive at a dingy motel for the Drag Racing Championships. Danny is cross because Bess has cancelled their anniversary weekend away to be here but Bess really wants to support Team Wheeler.

Bess continues to struggle with the adoption discovery, developing some erratic and misplaced trust and abandonment issues, thinking Danny is either lying to her or going to leave her. Danny is not, he is just concentrating on his new passive cooling system to avoid using the planet-destroying air conditioner. At the other end of the freeway, where the air conditioner is on full-bore, Troy is desperate to get back with Amber, but he'll need to convince her first that her trust and abandonment issues with him are not well founded.

After Oscar and Edwina's sex education night, Bess and Danny argue about their own sex life, which Danny feels has been interrupted ever since the Wheelers came along. When Oscar passes this onto the Wheelers, Wayne and Julie think it's important to offer some sex advice, which they do, freely and often. Meanwhile, Brianna, excited about signing on as a direct-sales lingerie franchisee, talks Margaret into hosting a party for her.

Bess worries the Brights don't have any family bonding hobbies like the Wheelers do and, much to the horror of Danny and the children, sets about finding some. Meanwhile, on familypedigree.com, Julie has discovered that Wayne is a descendant of rich relatives and the family immediately sets out to find them. Bess, still anxious to bond with her own family, declines the invitation to join them, but when she finds that Amber has left her out of a possible inheritance, she wonders if she's been trying to bond with the wrong family.

The Wheelers, still without a second engine, can't afford to run the dragster, much to the delight of their arch rival dragster team, the Amentas. When Shawn rescues his Pop from this embarrassment by offering to race in the Junior drags, everyone jumps at the opportunity. Bess, delighted to get involved with another Wheeler family activity, pushes Oscar and Edwina into helping Team Wheeler, but when Edwina develops a super crush on the junior Amenta boy, Bess may have pushed too far.

Tired of the Wheelers thinking Bess is amazing because she is a doctor, Amber goes for a big promotion at the bank, but is devastated when she misses out because of a snooty interviewer on the panel. When Julie discovers that Margaret knows the snooty interviewer, she pleads with her to put in a good word, which eventuates in an unlikely collaboration between Amber and Margaret. Meanwhile, Bess is also tired of the Wheelers thinking she's amazing because she's a doctor - and tired of their very, very frequent medical related visits.

Wayne and Julie's 30th wedding anniversary is nearing and Wayne wants to buy Julie an expensive necklace, which means when he suddenly gets a terrible toothache, he can't afford the dentist. Trying to hide his aching mouth, he avoids Julie, who becomes increasingly suspicious. Bess is troubled about buying Wayne and Julie's present, keen to get the right thing, but when she asks for her mother's advice, Margaret becomes very slippery on the anniversary subject, as if she herself has a secret.

After Edwina talks her father into letting Shawn do work experience with him, Danny feels embarrassed by the constant interruptions of the cleaners, gardeners and wine deliveries. He wishes he was not so middle class and more like the Wheelers, who, on the other side of town, are hatching a complicated plan to use a bunch of two-for-one coupons at a buffet restaurant. Meanwhile, Margaret is ordered by her doctor to get a dog to walk every day. Although she's thinking of a Shitzu, Julie brings her an abandoned greyhound that she has rescued. After Margaret gets attached to him, the dog is kidnapped. Margaret is devastated, but it is Julie that comes to the rescue once more.

After a TV news story about the Wheelers paints Julie as an old woman who is past her use by date, Julie decides she won't race anymore and, reasoning that she's the only driver, sells the dragster to help the family get out of debt. The Wheelers are furious with Julie for being so selfish. Julie, furious at them for not understanding, goes to stay with Bess to teach them a lesson. When Margaret discovers Julie swanning around at the Brights, she realises the only way to get her out of there is to make the rest of the Wheelers bring Julie home.

Margaret and the Wheelers help the Brights move into a brand new family home, architecturally designed by Danny. The uber modern-verging-on-brutalist house leaves them all a bit bemused but Bess feels particularly uncomfortable in the cavernous concrete rooms, doubly when Danny won't let her set up any of her furniture. Meanwhile Brianna has found love and is eager to cement her relationship with her new fiancé, Younis, as a contestant on The Block, and Amber discovers that her ex-partner, Troy, is keen to cement his own new relationship.

When a spots shopowner spots Kayne's artwork on the side of the Wheeler truck, she commissions him to paint his designs on her expensive homewares store but, as Margaret is outraged to discover, has no plans to pay him. While Margaret finds a way to stop Kayne being exploited, Bess grapples with a gift from Julie, a fake Fendi bag, and Danny struggles to accept that his local coffee supplier has copied his favourite designer shirt to make its uniform – for a fraction of the price.

Bess is alarmed to discover that Julie has a sister, despite Julie telling all the children that her sister was dead. Julie forbids the family from contacting her but Bess, desperate not to have any more secret relatives, enlists Brianna, Amber and Margaret to help her investigate. Danny takes Oscar away to an architects' conference where his special role as guest speaker is compromised and, when a council officer Wayne is determined to fight.

Amber is appalled when Shawn arrives home with his new and highly alternative girlfriend, Ashley, in tow. Squeezed tight in the bungalow, Amber struggles to find space...not just with Shawn, but with the rest of the family too. Brianna is busy with Younis; Wayne and Julie are binge-watching TV in their newly installed private cinema. Meanwhile Bess is distressed when Edwina announces she wants to study medicine after meeting an inspirational female surgeon, having never been inspired before by Bess' own medical career.

Amber and Shawn settle into their new home but when Shawn announces he is dropping out of school, Amber despairs. She turns to Shawn's school Principal, Evan, for help, who, despite being world-weary and cynical, delivers salvation in an unexpected manner. A knee operation forces Julie out of the Top Fuel comp, so Kayne steps up to drive for Team Wheeler. Wayne has misgivings but Julie recruits an aggressive driving instructor, to help Kayne along. Meanwhile, Bess and Danny, concerned that Oscar is becoming entitled, prepare him for a gruelling wilderness expedition.

Bess vies for a position on the Board of the International Women of Medicine by attending a charity Mothers' Day Luncheon. Eager to celebrate the day with Bess, both Margaret and Julie join her, but the concept of Bess having 'two mothers' is to Margaret's horror, misconstrued. Amber manages to keep her blossoming romance with Evan private until Wayne and the family find her with Evan at the Mitre 10 school sausage sizzle and offer to help. Danny, upset that his kids won't hang out with him, signs them all up for a charity bike ride.

When Edwina's rowing scull is woefully underprepared for the interschool regatta, she begs Brianna to step in as coach, who accepts the challenge with much more gusto than Edwina expected. To cheer them on, the Wheelers join Bess up at the Murray River replete with jet skis and giant tyres. Evan takes the opportunity to give Amber his Dad's vintage speed boat, but he is taken aback when she seems unhappy with his gift. After minor surgery, Danny has to stay home to convalesce while Margaret reluctantly looks after him.

Exhausted by Margaret and Julie fighting over her, Bess decides to spend Christmas in New York with Danny and the kids. As expected, telling Margaret is challenging but it's telling Julie that proves impossible. Julie faces her first Christmas without Amber and Brianna, both travelling to their partners' families. Julie is heartbroken and not even consoled by Wayne and Kayne's promise to make their Christmas lights display the best in the street this year. While Bess summons the nerve to tell Julie the truth, Danny helps Oscar choose an appropriate Kris Kringle for his crush.

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