Benny's brother, Earl, generously offers to lend Jack the $5,000 he needs to get his company out of debt, but only because it means being able to spend a week with Rhoda on her job.

While on vacation in New York, Rhoda meets a man (Joe) and she decides not to return to Minneapolis.

Rhoda has difficulty finding an apartment in New York City and finally moves into the one place she never even considered--her parents' apartment.

Rhoda's smooth romance with Joe gets a little bumpy when he decides it might be best if the two of them begin dating other people as well as each other.

Rhoda and Joe decide to set aside one day to tackle the generation gap, and schedule lunch with his parents and dinner with hers.

Rhoda lands a job with a small publishing firm and ends up delivering the eulogy at the funeral of an author whose specialty was X-rated books.

Joe pops the question, but it's not exactly the one Rhoda wants to hear. Instead of ""Will you marry me?"" it's ""How about living together?""

Unable to think of just the right gift to get Rhoda, Brenda decides to throw a shower for her soon-to-be-wed sister and uses the occasion to stage a small reunion for Rhoda with some of her old high school classmates.

Complications arise when Rhoda and Joe's plans to have a small wedding is complicated by Ida, who invites all of her friends.

Rhoda almost doesn't make it to her own wedding when, at the last minute, Phyllis forgets to pick her up.

Rhoda and Joe's cruise doesn't turn out the way they expected.

Rhoda wants a new apartment, especially after an old beau of Joe's lets herself in with a key.

Rhoda thinks she may be pregnant, but she isn't sure enough to tell her husband Joe, especially when he comes home with the news that his business is facing economic troubles.

Joe goes to his father for marital advise.

Despite Joe and Brenda's insistence that she butt out, Rhoda continues to plunge ahead to prove to her younger sister that her new boyfriend is really a married man.

It's a case of mutual dislike at first sight when Rhoda meets Joe's friend Charlie Burke, a patronizing ""man's man"" who is not exactly thrilled with his best buddies wife.

With his business on the verge of failure, Joe becomes ever increasingly worried, resisting Rhoda's advice to free his emotions, even if it means crying.

At Ida's insistence, Rhoda talks Joe into asking her father for the money he needs to save his business, but then is surprised to learn things about her dad's financial state that are news to even her mother.

Rhoda's shy, retiring high-school chum, Myrna Morgenstern, shows up unexpectedly to demonstrate her new, Rhoda-like, head-on approach to life, and she begins a tumultuous non-romance with Joe's best friend.

Rhoda and Joe work very hard at being the perfect modern couple, free of all jealousies and hang-ups until a man Rhoda once loved asks her out for dinner.

When Rhoda discovers Joe has been visiting a doctor without telling her, she begins to worry, but not as much as when she finds out what kind of doctor he is.

Rhoda and Brenda have to take their mother on her very first trip to the doctor, a visit that mama Ida faces with a combination of fear and embarrassment.

Distracted by visitors who keep interrupting her work at home, Rhoda opens an office and soon learns about the problems faced by a woman launching her own business.

Brenda decides to break out of her ""nice, warm rut"" by moving to San Francisco, a plan that isn't discouraged by Rhoda, but one that Joe thinks is rotten.

Bored with her life, Rhoda's mother Ida decides to become a ""now"" woman and surprises Rhoda and Brenda by announcing she's launched a whole new career.

Mary Richards shows up unexpectedly and throws a monkey wrench into Rhoda's and Joe's plans for a long-awaited weekend alone at Cape Cod.

Rhoda and Brenda are disappointed that Martin isn't feeling well enough to come to his 60th birthday party at Rhoda's apartment, until they learned that Martin moved out over 2 months ago.

Rhoda, Brenda and Benny head to Florida to search for Martin.

Ida and Rhoda quarrel over Ida's dating a younger man.

Benny proposes to Brenda, but Brenda's happiness is marred when Ida refuses to give her blessings.

Brenda insists that Rhoda accompany her when she meets her prospective in-laws for the first time, and Rhoda becomes an unexpected hit with Benny's big brother, leading unfortunately to one of the most harrowing dates of her life.

Ida advertises for a roommate and gets more than she bargained for when she chooses a couple to share her home.

Martin returns from his ""fling"" in Florida ready for a reconciliation, but Ida insists on a second courtship before she's willing to forgive and forget.

Rhoda convinces her boss that he needs some new clothes to go with his new svelte physique, but both learn a valuable lesson that beauty is only skin deep.

When Benny starts to feel down-and-out, Brenda tries to cheer him up by catering to his every whim.

Martin accidentally swallows a heart-shaped gold charm he bought as a gift for Ida.

No, it's not an alien from outer space. It's only Rhoda's date--who's managed to get his head stuck inside a silly-looking mask right before an awards dinner.

Feeling trapped and confused when everybody tries to run her life for her, Brenda runs away.