Alice is fired from her cashier job when her boss learns that she secretly interviewed for a position as a legal secretary and Danny brings home from school her first boyfriend.
Ever-bickering couple Lenny and Phyllis attempt to save their marriage by tagging along with Burt and Alice when they celebrate their wedding anniversary.
The Claytons are divided over whether their 12-year-old daughter can go to the movies alone with a boy. Meanwhile everyone's plans are put on hold when the family car is stolen.
Burt tries to resist the amorous advances of Vicky without raising his wife's suspicions. Meanwhile Alice secretly starts smoking again after catching Danny with a pack of cigarettes.
Burt and Alice are proud of their son Danny's A in English until they find out it's with a school project corresponding with a prisoner who's a mass murderer.