In the series opening twelve-year-old Ricky arrives at his unsuspecting father s mansion to introduce himself and move in. His mother Evelyn had placed him in military school after she remarried and thought Ricky would be in the way. Edward Stratton III was the epitome of the words overgrown child never having taken responsibility for anything in his lifetime. His lifestyle was that of a ten-year-old going as far as having video games and a scale freight train in the livingroom. Needless to say he was surprised to discover that his seven day marriage to Evelyn Bluedhorn had produced a son.