Vera refuses to give up the baby girl someone left in her pile of wash at the laundromat.

Mel suddenly takes a romantic interest in Vera, who doesn't realize it's just a ploy to make his girlfriend, Marie, jealous.

Alice thinks she has found her main chance when she lands a gig singing at a big banquet with a 1940's theme and an influential audience of restaurant owners.

A trucker chooses Mel's Diner as the place to tell her amorous driving partner to hit the road.

When, Mel recounts the story of the little old lady who mugged him, the old lady becomes four thugs.

During a visit, Carrie plans to help out at the diner and cook but a fed up Mel kicks her out and she goes to work for a competitor.

Tommy is cutting classes to pursue a singing career and his first job is singing at a juice saloon.

Mel gets into a nose-to-beak yelling match with Vera's new pet parrot.

The waitresses cut up a huge fish they find in the refrigerator, unaware that singer Jerry Reed had left it there until he could have it stuffed.

Vera goes out on a limb to save a century old tree in front of the diner from being cut down for a road-widening project.

As the new manager of her apartment building, Alice has the unenviable task of locking out a delinquent fellow tenant, Belle.

Henry's convinced that his wife of 20 years is suddenly being nice because she's having an affair, so he tells her he's having one too, with Alice.

Mel's mother is singing the blues because her husband of six months has just left her.

The sparsely attended funeral of a buddy persuade Mel to become Mr. Nice Guy and ensure a decent turnout at his own burial.

Against Alce's expressed wishes, Mel secretly teaches Tommy how to take care of a school bully.

Vera's Aunt Agatha, a freewheeling sexagenarian, makes a pit stop in Phoenix while motorcycling to Mexico. This prompts Vera to make a life altering decision, whether or not to ride off into the sunset with her aunt.

Mel may get his diner back if Belle can get Robert Goulet to perform for a Las Vegas casino owner but when it seems she can't get him, Alice steps in and impersonates him.

Robert Goulet makes an appearance when Vera wins a free trip to Las Vegas and Alice, Mel and Belle tag along to try their luck.

After his safe is stolen, Mel rents the services of two very efficient guard dogs.

An automated bank teller accidentally spews out $24,675 to an astonished but delighted Mel.