The Evans Family

The Evans Family is the final episode of Season 7 of the US Supernanny show and the final episode of Supernanny’s original ABC Run.

Episode summary
In the Season 7 finale, Jo visits the Evans Family in Houston, Texas. After his wife Jennifer died from breast cancer, Gary (37) is left alone to raise his three rambunctious boys: 6-year-old Michael, 4-year-old Sean and 3-year-old Dylan. Jo Frost empathizes with the family, seeing as how her own mother died of breast cancer.

Jennifer was a stay at home mom and the anchor of this family. After her death at 33, Gary had to leave his job and retire earlier because it was just too much for him to handle.

Gary can't bring himself to discipline his sons or enforce the rules. Sean rules the roost as he screams, cries, fights and throws tantrums. Micheal and Dylan also fight and throw tantrums. When Jennifer was alive she had successfully taught the two older boys how to be potty trained in her before Dylan isn't even potty trained yet and the boys are picky eaters and only eat snacks throughout the day.

When Jo first arrives at the Evans home, eldest boy Michael becomes upset about the death of his mother. Jo also tries to keep Jennifer's memory and spirit together alive by putting lots of photos of her onto a DVD slideshow to show the whole family. Jo also tries to make the kids eat healthy food again.

When middle boy Sean acts up over not getting any sugar and Jo puts him in the Naughty Spot for 4 minutes for the first time, a standoff takes place. Can Jo help this grieving and mourning family out?

Transcript
The Evans Family/Transcript

Submission Reel
Jo arrives in Texas ready to help The Evans Family and the father, Gary (37), with his three boys, Michael (6), Sean (4) and Dylan (3). Gary unfortunately lost his wife, Jennifer to breast cancer. Which deeply upset him, with the boys not exactly understanding what was going on, since they were so young at the time, mainly Dylan, as he's the youngest of the three.

Since Jennifer died, Gary’s become very stressed with dealing with the boys. Jennifer primarily ran the House, with Gary working full time and not seeing the Standard Routine with the boys. Combing that with the stress of work, Gary ended up having to quit his job, due to the stress.

Since Jennifer's death, fighting became a lot more common in the house, with Gary trying everything he could think of to discipline the boys, with them all backfiring. The boys also eat lots of junk food, seemingly always preferring it over a more natural balanced meal. Dylan's also not been potty trained. As when Jennifer was still living, she successfully trained Michael and Sean. However Gary's having major difficulties with Dylan.

Observation
When Jo arrives the family greet Jo nicely. When she began to look around the House, she noticed a note pinned to one of the doors. We learn these were the house rules that Jennifer had made, before she had passed. Gary explains to Jo that when she died, the Boys forgot about the rules (aside from rule six as they do still somewhat follow that rule) and now they break them.

Jo got to see what he was talking about as the Boys fight with one another, throw their Toys and yell. Gary does his best to stop them but it's to much for him to handle.

At lunch, Michael becomes sad because he can't decide what he wants to eat, and begins to throw what Gary describes as being the worst meltdown, Michael has ever had. When Jo asks if this is what Michael usually does, Gary says that its beyond anything he's seen from him as he's almost never acted like that.

Jo decides to talk with Michael about it whilst he hides under his bed, sulking, and during their conversation he says that this feels like the end of the world, Michael eventually comes back up from his bed after a while, Jo asks if he can tell her things about Jennifer, however Michael claims to have lost all his memories about her. Jo decides to talk with Gary about the situation, where we learn that the boys were confused about what was happening, since they were only told about Jennifer's breast cancer, days prior to her death. Gary eventually breaks down into tears as he admits they didn't deserve what happened to them, leading to Jo hugging him, and us learning how Jo lost her mother to breast cancer as well.

Jo points out how Dylan should be potty trained but she finds it funny as shown in the interview segment, as she starts to laugh a bit when talking about Dylan when he gets The Diaper and Wipes, though she’s not really sure if Gary’s tried, Gary explains that he’s tried a few times as Dylan’s actually expressed interest, however for some odd reason, when he puts him on The Potty he doesn’t do anything. Jo believes that Gary could be stalling with Dylan, She points out that if Jennifer had still be around it’s likely Dylan would be trained by now, but due to her death Gary’s gonna have to do it.

At dinner Jo learned how much the boys love junk food. As they eat stuff like corndogs, fish sticks and burgers. Eventually, Dylan asked Gary for Jelly Beans but then changed his mind to wanting Candy from an old Halloween Basket and began to have a Tantrum. He begins screaming, which led to him slapping Gary. Jo explains that since Dylan hasn't been thought about right and wrong, Gary will have to teach him that how he was acting isn't acceptable, and how there will be consequences. Dylan eventually calmed down, and Jo decided to leave so that she could have her meeting with Gary tomorrow

Parents Meeting
At the meeting, Jo sympathizes with Gary, due to her losing her mother to breast cancer as well.

Teaching
During the teaching, Jo talked to Gary about discipline, which was convenient, as when she was trying to show the new house rules, Sean was refusing to listen. Eventually being sent to the Naughty Spot. Despite Sean's extremely loud screaming, he surprisingly never got off the spot. And when it was time to apologize, Sean turned to the wall and said sorry. However, this only made him stay longer, at one point saying he won't say sorry until he gets a snack. Sean finally gave in and apologizes to Gary and Jo.

Next on the list, Jo decided to get the boys eating healthier. Bringing in a food chart with all the food groups. They went out to the store to get healthy food like Coconuts and Zucchinis, and at home Gary began preparing their meal. At first, the boys were complaining. However they eventually began to like it... except Dylan, who was still refusing. He ended up getting sent to timeout, and soon apologized and decided to eat his food

After successfully getting the boys eating healthier, Jo finally decided to tackle Dylan's potty training issues. Starting off by having him wear "big boy pants", as described by Jo. At first, Dylan was really excited, but began resisting as soon as he began getting them on. Once the pants were finally on Dylan, the only thing Jo and Gary had to do was occasionally check in on Dylan incase he needed to go to the potty. He eventually stated he did, however suddenly changed his mind. This led to a pretty intense sequence, with Dylan being trapped on the potty, not being able to leave until he said where his pee goes. He eventually said where it had to go, and was finally able to leave.

With Dylan nearly potty trained, Jo decided to have Gary put together a slideshow for the boys, in order to help bring back memories of Jennifer, mainly Michael. Dylan soon announced he had to go to the potty, but once again began resisting. Jo had Gary leave, and for the first time ever, Dylan actually went to the potty. Afterwards, Gary completes the slideshow, and Jo gets the family together to watch it. Once it was done, Jo decided to leave Gary on his own, to focus on the techniques by himself.

Parents Evaluation
Jo returns to see how Gary did with the Techniques while she was gone.

Clip 1: Gary cooks the boys another healthy meal, however Sean complained about the peppers. Gary successfully manages to get Sean to eat them.

Clip 2: Dylan and Sean get into a fight which started when Dylan hit Sean, escalating to Sean hitting him. Gary decided to discipline them both separately, as Sean was eating raspberries. Whilst Dylan was screaming, Sean waited patiently, and both apologised.

Clip 3: Dylan goes to the Potty to Pee but can’t bring himself to do so. He later ends up peeing himself, with Gary calmly telling Dylan he's not happy. A while later, Dylan eventually goes to the potty successfully.

Clip 4: Gary and the boys begin making Banana Bread, all helping cook it, and eventually eating it. When Jo asks Gary what exactly brought him to make the Banana Bread, we learn Jennifer used to make it all the time, letting the boys make it as well. Which gives us some more info on her we previously didn't know before.

Reinforcement
As Gary's been doing a fantastic job. Jo decides to put together a game, which involves the boys as astronauts, having to collect ten energy rocks which will help refuel their spaceship. They all search around the house and eventually collect all the rocks needed to escape

Before Jo leaves she gives the boys memory books, which contain memories the boys have had over the years. With all that done, Jo finally leaves Gary, successfully helping her last family for the time being.

Family members
Gary Evans, 37

Michael, 6

Sean, 4

Dylan, 3


 * Jennifer M. Evans (Died 2009 from breast cancer)

Events Pre-Episode

 * Jennifer Marie Evans passed away on September 15, 2009 as a result of breast cancer.

Events Post-Episode

 * Gary remarried to Cyndi Jefferson, who was also a widow/widower like him.
 * In 2022, Michael is 18, Sean is 16 and Dylan is 15

Behind the Scenes
This was Filmed in January 2011.

Pop Culture

 * One scene in the Submission Reel shows the boys playing on different handheld consoles, Dylan is playing his GameBoy Advance and Sean and Michael are playing on their Nintendo DSs. Albeit Sean was playing on The DSi, which Gary mentions him losing if he doesn't eat his peppers in the 1st Test Run clip. However the games they were playing were unknown as they had to be out of view in order to avoid copyright with Nintendo.
 * When Jo was showing the Food Chart, Dylan could be seen playing with what appears to be Duplo blocks.
 * The Sam Houston monument is shown occasionally in the episode.


 * A plush of Cub Simba from The Lion King is briefly seen when Michael goes under his bed.

Trivia/Errors

 * In The Summary, It states Jo put Sean on the Naughty Spot because he flipped out over not getting any sugary stuff. However in the actual Episode, he flips out because he didn't want to listen to Jo.
 * Another instance happens again where it says Michael gets sad over Jennifer’s Death, when he actually got sad because he didn’t know what to have for Lunch.
 * This was originally the final episode of Supernanny before Season 8 was announced.
 * In one scene of the submission reel, Sean is flipping out at Gary and screaming at him. It’s completely impossible to understand what he was saying, due to how loud he was screaming.
 * It is unknown why Sean never left The Naughty Spot, as he had plenty of opportunities to do so. This has brought up speculation and many Theories as to why. The most likely theory, is that Sean didn’t know what to do in the situation, hence why he never left.


 * As Sean had never left timeout. This also makes him one of the few children to have never left timeout, the other children are Billy and Jayden from The Bailey Family (Season 1) (Whilst he did stay in timeout in the teaching, Billy did escape during the test run, yet since he stayed during teaching, it still counts as him not leaving timeout) Leo from The Wilson-Knutson Family (However he may’ve left off-screen due to there being a transition to when his timeout was over) and Alexus from The Daniels Family
 * It’s unknown how Michael could’ve lost all of his memories of Jennifer, As Sean could’ve possibly remembered some stuff with Jennifer despite being the middle child and not having a lot of Memories of her.
 * Seeing as how Jennifer died in 2009, Gary would’ve been 36, Michael would've been 4-5, Sean would be between 3-2 and Dylan would've still been in Infancy.
 * A Clip of The Beginning of The Teaching called "4-Year Old Punches Wall during Timeout" was Changed, Instead of featuring The Scene where Jo enters The House with The Routine, it is Replaced with a Previously Shown Scene, that being of a seemingly Younger Michael playing with a Younger Gary. No explanation is given to this though it could’ve been an Error
 * In The Submission Reel there is a Scene where Dylan is shown looking at an Infant version of himself, asking “And who is That?” However The Face is blurred out for Unknown Reasons.
 * Its unknown if Michael was aware he was being recorded under His Bed, some have said this is somewhat stalkerish, It’s possible Michael was aware but didn’t want to react, or he just didn’t know.
 * Seeing as how The Cameraman was to late to see Dylan and Sean’s Feud in The DVD Meeting, it’s unknown how Sean retaliated though he could’ve hit Dylan. Some have said he kicked him but this is unlikely, as Dylan would’ve been crying on The Floor.
 * When Sean was first sent to Timeout, he screamed so loud it was impossible to hear what Jo was saying to Him.
 * This is the second episode where Jo opens up about losing her mother. The first was The Mihalik Family
 * Gary is considered to be one the most popular and one of the best parents in the series. With many praising him for how he kept on going and never gave up, despite losing Jennifer.