Jack convinces one of his attractive female friends to flirt with Mr. Roper after an argument with his wife leaves the sour landlord feeling self-conscious.
Janet is excited to invite her high-school crush to dinner at the apartment, but she is dismayed when the former jock begins to exhibit his sleazy true nature.
Peg thinks that she had an Elvis sighting at the mall and when Marcy takes notice of a sweat stain on Al's shirt in the shape of the King, fans come running.
The football record that Al had once set while he was in high school is now being threatened by a new high school football player who stars for the team.
Steve convinces Al that he is also losing his hair, but he is really just upset that he might be losing his own hair and wants to drag Al down with him.
Al frets over losing his masculinity when he is faced with going to a salon to have his hair styled after his long-time, beloved barber Tony suddenly dies.
Kelly plays a practical joke on the school's dance club and is forced to either join them in a tap dancing performance or face being kicked out of school.
As Steve brings Peg home from a trip to the video store, she provokes a driver by offering up a not-so-friendly hand signal that causes them to be followed.
When both of his best friends acquire dates, Bud begins to desperately and frantically search for a girl who would be willing to go on a date with him.
Al gets excited when he sees Peggy preparing for the yearly barbecue, but it turns out worse than he thought when Marcy's dead aunt makes an appearance.
Peggy ends up in a battle of the wills with a Chicago health guru after she wins a free week of training with him, but her way of living seems to win out.
Kelly and Bud scheme to go to a concert by swindling Peg's friends out of money in a poker match; Bud talks his dad into chaperoning an all-kids camping trip.
When Peg overhears a woman at the beauty shop bragging about the benefits of her relationship with a married man, she believes that the man in question is Al.
When a woman who has posed for a men's magazine enters the store, Al goes to check his Playboy collection for her issue only to find that Peg has sold them.
Al's hopes of driving around town in a shiny, new automobile are instantly dashed when he discovers his stash has been depleted by Peg's incessant spending.
C.C. attempts to prove that she is as fun and nurturing as Fran by taking the children out for a day of fun, but the experience results in Grace running away.
Maxwell must miss Christmas with his family; Fran buys the children expensive gifts only to learn that her Christmas bonus is not what she had imagined.
Maxwell's former nanny arrives for a visit and makes changes to the children's behavior, forcing them to all dress alike and putting them on strict schedules.
Fran becomes the director for Grace's school play, but Maxwell soon determines that he would be a better fit for the job and decides to take the reins.
While examining Grace for the flu, a doctor looks at Fran's throat and orders her to have her tonsils out; Maxwell stresses after Fran says that she loves him.
Maxwell's sister arrives at the Sheffield home for a visit and decides to use the occasion to organize a wedding with her fiancé, a wealthy English duke.
C.C. attempts to ensure a positive review for Maxwell's new play by having Fran chaperone a play-date between Grace and the son of a prominent film critic.