Joyce Harrison is a happily-married woman with a seemingly-perfect upper-middle-class family. When she and her husband Hal send their kids off to college, she faces something of an identity crisis. Needing excitement in her life, she decides to visit her favorite daytime talk-show host Martin Mull and ask him to visit their nice small Ohio town and shoot and episode there, since he's very popular with the townsfolk. The subject of Mull's latest episode is a lesbian couple who has recently broken up, and his crude approach makes him come off as a cross between Oprah and Jerry Springer, so he welcomes the idea of doing something simple and light that could boost both his morale and his ratings. His producer on the show Al Silvers also likes the idea. They hire Joyce to be the show's guest producer while they're in Ohio and organize the whole event for them. She takes the job very seriously and Mull falls hard for her. Meanwhile, her husband is trying to organize the town's annual Founder's Day parade with the town's elders. They agree to ask Mull to lead the event. Hal then realizes how devoted his wife has become to their celebrity guest's show and becomes jealous, suspecting that she might even be cheating on him with Mull. Things get even more complicated when the friendly sexually self-confident wife of the town's reverend seduces Hal. In one scene, Robin Williams has an uncredited cameo as a traveling salesman who stays in the same motel as Mull and compliments him on his taste in women.
