Michael has dropped out of the advertising business to become a poorly-paid spokesman for Greenpeace. Hope, freed from the tyranny of motherhood, got her law degree and now serves as a high-powered staff attorney for Goldman Sachs. They sleep in separate bedrooms at their home in New York City. Their daughter Janey converted to Buddhism while still in college and resides in the basement of a temple while working the drive-thru window at a Burger King. 

Elliot's infidelities proved too much and Nancy filed for divorce in 1992. It spurred in Elliot a need to sow his wild oats with a series of twentysomething women. He found solace in Sex Addicts Anonymous, where he met his current wife, Holly, who is 23. He now works as a life coach. Nancy overcame her cancer issues and has written and illustrated 16 children's books, the latest of which is, "Your Mommy Matters More Than Your Daddy." She remains single.

Against all odds, onetime career woman Ellyn became a baby machine and is now the stay-at-home mother of six, the eldest being 16. Her husband Billy now supports the family on a meager freelance graphic designer's income. They fight often about money. She has maintained a longtime affair on the side with a traveling pharmaceutical salesman. The family lives in Buffalo, NY.

In the mid 1990s, Melissa decided she'd had it with men and came out as a lesbian. She now has her own erotic photography business, specializing in photo montages of couples in love. She has been with her longtime companion, a drug rehab counselor, for 11 years. They are the parents of 7-year-old twin daughters, born through Melissa's partner.

Gary, having died in a chain-reaction car crash during the show's final season, remains dead, though he pays regular ghostly visits to mortal wife Susannah. He tends to show up at inopportune times. Susannah makes her living as a gourmet chef and likes to "talk" to Gary while preparing certain soufflés.

With the ad business having proven far too ethically challenging, Miles started his own New Age cult, the Center For Drentellian Understanding. He calls it, "Like Scientology, except way more about me." He has attracted some 20,000 adherents of Drentellianism, which is described as, "The study of how you win by helping Miles Drentell win." He maintains a home with seven wives under the age of 30 in Moab, Utah.