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

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.

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 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.

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.

Ida Morgenstern returns from a year of touring the country to face a few home-front surprises: Rhoda is divorced and Brenda is unwilling to discuss the state of her innocence.

After weeks of depressing pavement pounding, Rhoda manages to talk the owner of a rundown costume-rental company into giving her a job.

Ida Morgenstern wreaks havoc at the Doyle Costume Company where she is working part-time so that she can buy her husband a waterbed for their anniversary.

Rhoda arranges a weekend alone with Mike.

Dinner at the Morgensterns goes anything but predictable.

With Ida missing her dearly departed friends, Rhoda and Brenda set out to boost her spirits.

With Ida hinting of a party, everyone leads her to believe there won't be one.

With Gary's parents now living in Florida, Rhoda and Brenda get tired of ""mothering"" him, until he forms a bond with Ida. Then even Ida has her limits!

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.

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.

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

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