On the final day at the diner, Mel closes the blinds and gives away the cow creamers as the gang reminisces about the last nine years.

After getting shot accidentally with his own gun, Elliot quits the force and looks for a career more suited to his meager talents.

Mel is a taskmaster in training Jolene for tryouts with a pro basketball team.

Answering a room-to-rent ad, Vera and Elliot's pushy landlady pushes herself and her kitschy furniture into their home and lives.

Whether Alice likes it or not, and she's not sure, country singer Travis Marsh gives her a chance to reach for the stars in a performance with him.

A country singer takes a personel as well as professional interest in Alice and begs her to join his band on the road.

Vera's secretly moonlighting as a sultry deejay called Nightbird and she's turning on all the males in Phoenix in the process.

Jolene's appearance on the ""Working Women"" talk show does nothing to boost business at Mel's Diner.

Vera yearns for a romantic first wedding anniversary, but it gets off to anything but a romantic start and goes rapidly downhill from there.

Mel 86es a group of ""hoodlums,"" unaware that they're the break dancers expected to perform at the diner as part of an arts festival.

At Elliot's suggestion and lured by a $5000 reward, Mel goes undercover to smoke out rustlers selling stolen beef.

Alice is worried that Tommy's partying is leading to a serious drinking problem.

Jolene loves her family, but finds it too much of a good thing when her father, five brothers, grandmother and family dog park themselves in her one-bedroom apartment.

Mel gets an F for buying a day school to raze for a parking lot.

Mel gets a little spaced out after he thwarts a bank robbery while he's dressed up as Captain Galaxy for Halloween.

Jolene and Vera play Cupid for a dateless Alice by putting an ad in a magazine's personals column.