The Bill Engvall Show follows Bill Pearson, a family counselor who's just struggling to understand his own children. There's his wife, Susan Pearson, who is a stay-at-home mom determined to keep her family in line, his teenage son, Trent Pearson who's attempting to live a teenage boy's life while trying to live up to his father's hopes, their teenage daughter, Lauren Pearson, who is struggling between the choices of going with her parents wishes or being rebellious and defying them, and then Bill's young son, Bryan Pearson, who is just being a the little kid he is and constantly getting into trouble for such things as his pet snake getting loose.