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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one can corral Vera after she discovers that a miniature horse is being mistreated by its trainer.

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

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.

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

Jolene has second thoughts about marrying a TV game show host especially after a dab of permanent glue bonds her firmly to Mel.

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

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.

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

Alice's spirit inspires a biker to recruit her as his ""old lady.""

Alice's meddlesome mother knocks the stuffing out of her daughter's Thanksgiving dinner.

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

To steal a competitor's secret sauce recipe, Mel persuades his cousin to pose as a woman and apply for a job as a Burger Baby.

Jolene's hair is standing on end with a cat burglar prowling her neighborhood.

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