Grace Fitchell is ""the bitch goddess of darkness."" While checking the dryer for a missing sock, she accidentally falls into the Land of Lost Stuff. In order to return home, she must find the last thing that she lost, but during her quest she encounters ghosts of her past that change her future (via Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol).
Christine Heyward, a respected journalist, arrives to discover that she's the only member of her news team retaining her job. The new head of the show, a game show creator, changes the format and the news becomes a game show with a ""MTV mentality."" Despite intial hesitation, Christine sells out but soon discovers she's been suckered.
This episode consists of two sketches about teachers. In the first, Carol plays Mrs. Cornfeld, a teacher who's pulled over by a former student during his first day on the job as a policeman. In the next skit, the whole company plays students (using their real first names) in a classroom on their teacher's final day.
This is two seperate episodes centering on Evelyn Sweets and her ""Chapel of Romance."" In ""Dummy Dearest,"" Evelyn is approached by a woman with a ventriloquist's dummy who pleads with Evelyn to marry them. Evelyn agrees, hoping to get the insane woman out of her chapel, but she soon comes to the realization that the dummy may be alive. In ""Being Out There,"" Evelyn is approached by Chester Neff, who assume's that her ad's tag, ""I'll marry anyone,"" means that she will become his wife.
It's a day in the life of an average American housewife, but for Dorothy Tibbit, it's ""one of those days."" When her garbage disposal conks out, Dorothy attempts to return home in time to meet the plumber but everything goes wrong. There are problems at the dry cleaners, the bank, the grocery store, the bus stop -- it's all enough to drive a housewife really, really mad...