While preparing for his cousin's wedding Dick accidentally sits on a sewing needle. Extracted in a vehicle on the way to the marriage site the result leads to Dick subbing for the matron of honor.

Bernie and Carol Davis are looking to buy a new home and learn the house next to the Prestons is for sale. Dick and Jenny like their friends but don't necessarily want them as neighbors so they try to secretly sabotage the sale.

Bernie thinks he has come up with an exciting new game show. But when the film a test episode a number of problems surface.

Mike does so well as a guest chef on the local cooking show that she's given permanent hosting duty. However, her cooking abilities are much more limited than she's led the show runner to believe.

Dick's mother brings her father's ashes over to the house so they can scatter them according to his wishes. But somehow during the night, the ashes disappear

Dick and Jenny start to feel old when they think of their child growing up. The Prestons worry increases when they realize many couples in their age group are divorcing.

Dick is making a breakfast cereal commercial and they are having trouble casting someone to play his child. But when his own daughter Annie auditions her dad doesn't want to be accused of favoritism.

On his way home on Christmas Day, Dick gets caught speeding and doesn't have enough money to get out of jail. When he calls Bernie to bail him out, he too gets a speeding ticket.

Dick is left in charge of the baby while Jenny and Annie are out of town, but then forgets Chrissy at the grocery store.

Dick's mother mistakes marijuana cigarettes for her legal ones.

Every time Dick and Jenny try to take a second honeymoon, Dick suffers some kind of injury and they can't go. So when he pulls a muscle right before they are leaving for a week in paradise, he decides not to tell Jenny.

Bernie and Carol are excited when an adoption agency calls about an interview. But Carol takes some pills to help her with anxiety before the meeting.

Dick, upset about censorship on his show, goes on a over the top on air tirade.

When Dick's brother arrives with a new lady, Bernie recognizes her as a nude dancer.