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The family's dude ranch vacation turns into disaster when Dylan proposes to Haley, Alex gets an unexpected first kiss, their cowboy guide keeps hitting on Gloria, and Phil goes out of his way to impress Jay.

Homer accidentally lands in a mental hospital and ends up sharing a room with a white man who thinks he is Michael Jackson.

To cap off Wednesday's upcoming birthday, Gomez "Tennessee" Addams has written a play - Claude & Mable (which comes out quite exactly like Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet). To make sure his play is a big success, Gomez hires acclaimed Broadway director Eric Von Bissell to direct it. Von Bissel's career has been on the skids of late, so Gomez' money is quite appealing even though the rest of the project isn't; still, Von Bissell's pride and artistic reputation are threatened when he learns that Cousin Itt, with his gibber talk, will play the lead. Morticia takes Itt aside to work on lowering and slowing his voice for the average ear, but when she succeeds she finds Itt's personality has changed along with his voice. Now he's a theatrical snob of the worst sort - too good for the lead in Wednesday's birthday play.

Mrs. Krabappel, fed up with Bart's lackadaisical approach to his studies, gives him an ultimatum: shape up or repeat the fourth grade.

Homer is forced to become a department store Santa when Marge spends the family's Christmas savings on removing Bart's tattoo.

In Jonah Ray's first experiment, he, and his robot friends Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot are subjected by Kinga Forrester and Max, TV's son of TV's Frank, to a terrible Danish made monster movie.

The Dunphys get nostalgic when Phil has to get rid of their station wagon. Cameron begs Jay to intervene when Mitchell wants to build Lily a castle, and Manny invites a girl over to study.

Dwight and Jim are intimidated by the office's newest additions, who are considered younger versions of themselves. Meanwhile, Andy tries to make Nellie's life miserable, and Angela tries to get rid of one of her cats.

New Dunder Mifflin CEO Robert California leaves a piece of paper with a line down the middle that has names of the Scranton staff on either side of it, leading everyone to try and figure out what it means.

Why the Satellite of Love is malfunctioning, who the hooded figure is that wants Bobo's soul and what the purpose of the mystery ship following the SOL is, the crew finds out in the final season opener featuring "Soultaker (1990)."

Everybody demands that Michael fire the new office assistant, but he won't because he's his nephew. Meanwhile, Pam tries to play a prank on Dwight, who has bought the office building, to make up for ruining Jim's prank.

Jay must adapt to his young new wife, Gloria and her son. Meanwhile, Claire deals with her own family. Mitchell and Cam decide to adopt a baby.

Michael regrets revealing that Stanley is having an affair, so he spreads a bunch of lies about everyone else to cover his tracks--except that one of the lies that he spread actually turns out to be true.

Michael tries to motivate the Scranton branch to lose weight as part of an interoffice competition. Jim is lost after Pam leaves for art school in New York, and Angela continues to see Dwight even though she is now engaged to Andy.

Michael accidentally runs over Meredith in the parking lot, and his guilt causes him to organize a 5K run for her. Dwight and Angela have a falling-out after he kills her cat, and Jim and Pam's relationship is discovered.

Michael apologizes to Oscar, after he finds out he's gay, for calling him a homosexual slur--but his apology outs Oscar to the entire office. And Jim decides to take a promotion at the Stamford office.

In "The Projected Man (1966)," a scientist's experiment gone wrong gives him the touch of death while the SOL crew find themselves back in their old time period.

Michael hosts the annual Dundie Awards at a local restaurant, but the night takes an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Jim and Pam share a moment that could change everything.

Branch manager Michael Scott nervously showcases Dunder Mifflin Scranton to a documentary crew while looming layoffs unsettle the staff; Jim pranks Dwight and Pam quietly fears her job may be cut.

The local truant officer forces Wednesday and Pugsley to attend public school to their parents' consternation.

Bud has discovered that Ariel gets turned on by life-threatening situations and has decided to stage a fake tornado in order to get some from Ariel while they seek shelter in the Bundys' basement. Peg confirms that danger does in deed turn women on. However, a real twister appears in Chicago and the rest of the Bundys and the Jeffersons also have to seek shelter in the Bundys' basement. Which also means that Peg and Marcy get turned on...

In the wake of the Beck Brothers, John reshuffles the political decks; Beth finds a trespasser on the ranch and learns that he may have big ambitions for the surrounding land; John helps Tate deal with his nightmares.

Kayce settles into his new role at the ranch; A damaging article threatens to expose John; Rainwater pitches his new plan to the tribal council.

Mama Wanker moves in with the Bundys after fighting with her husband.

John Dutton tries to protect his ranch from land developers, an Indian reservation and America's first national park.