Mel is a taskmaster in training Jolene for tryouts with a pro basketball team.

Answering a room-to-rent ad, Vera and Elliot's pushy landlady pushes herself and her kitschy furniture into their home and lives.

Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly downhill from there.

A Native American who claims Mel's diner is built on sacred ground refuses to leave.

Jolene loves her family, but finds it too much of a good thing when her father, five brothers, grandmother and family dog park themselves in her one-bedroom apartment.

An amorous high-school basketball star starts putting the moves on Alice.

A trucker chooses Mel's Diner as the place to tell her amorous driving partner to hit the road.

Both Carrie and Alice are turned down as singers by a supper club owner who thinks they're too old for the job.

After 40 years, Mel learns that his mother lied when she told him his dog was a war hero.

Just one dance lesson and Tommy falls head over heels for his instructor, Vera.

Mel is receptive to an infatuated tour guide, as long as she keeps steering tourists into his diner.

Carrie is slow to come out of a depression after a quickie divorce.

Alice fears that freshman Tommy is abusing his new freedom away from home by majoring in extracurricular activities.

When Alice chips a tooth eating Mel's chili, he sends her to his dentist who takes one look at her X-rays and falls madly in love.

By proving she's a better cook than Mel, Vera's acerbic landlady may have found the elusive way to his heart through his stomach.

Alice thinks she has found her main chance when she lands a gig singing at a big banquet with a 1940's theme and an influential audience of restaurant owners.

Mel suddenly takes a romantic interest in Vera, who doesn't realize it's just a ploy to make his girlfriend, Marie, jealous.

After Alice quits in a huff, Mel replaces her with a very efficient and popular robot named Blanche.

Flo fixes up Alice with her bronco-busting brother (Burton Gilliam).

Acclaimed as ""brilliant"" in her role as Cinderella, Vera is asked to audition for a part in a supermarket commercial.

Mel is delighted that his mother is planning to remarry until he meets his prospective stepfather.

Mel plays host to a buddy whose wife has just left him.

Tommy is cutting classes to pursue a singing career and his first job is singing at a juice saloon.

Vera refuses to give up the baby girl someone left in her pile of wash at the laundromat.

A gift piano comes between Vera and Elliot when she can't pry him away from it.