Ann may be a little envious of Francine’s freewheeling lifestyle, especially after Francine takes Alex for the weekend and shows him the time of his life.

To land a new French account, Francine talks Ann into a weekend trip to Paris to learn about the French market.

Believing Alex needs a father figure and more male influence, Schneider and his beer-guzzling buddies take him to a female mud-wrestling show.

Barbara tries to adapt to life at Mark’s rooming house, where her new husband’s friends, including a scantily clad woman, breeze in and out without knocking to use the bathroom,…

Mark refuses to cancel his golf game and Barbara’s worried he won’t get to the church on time.

Barbara’s nerves are on edge as her wedding day approaches and husband-to-be Mark is no help, he’s more interested in his golf game than helping with the preparations.

Grandma Romano tries her hand at a new career, fortunetelling.

It’s coming through loud and clear, Schneider’s going deaf.

The annual variety show for the Park Utopia senior-citizens hotel takes place.

The family rushes off to Las Vegas to talk Barbara out of a quickie marriage ceremony.

At a dentistry convention in Las Vegas, Barbara and Mark consider avoiding the hassle of wedding arrangements with a quickie Vegas marriage ceremony.

Alex talks Max into coaching his baseball team and Max’s first action as coach is to bench Alex.

Ann and Francine battle over the same man.

A Russian women’s basketball team visits Ann’s home and one of the stars decides to defect and marry Schneider.

The men go fishing and the women await their return, but all have one thing in common, they’re talking about marriage.

Alex doesn’t feel like the hero he’s hailed after saving lives in an apartment blaze because he caused the fire in the first place.

Barbara fears that her marriage plans will dissolve after she learns that she can’t conceive a child.

Francine’s father and Grandma Romano are a hot item until she learns his line of work.

Ann is sorely troubled by intimations of her own mortality that are triggered by Barbara’s engagement.

Unwelcome guests arrive just in time for Barbara’s surprise birthday party at the store.

While Ann is away, Barbara’s grandmothers wage a war of presents for her affection.

Schneider becomes the not-so-silent business partner of Ann and Francine after the bank turns down their loan.

Alex’s first date rekindles the protectionist approach Ann took with her daughters.

Schneider contemplates taking Ann’s cousin to a dance.

Barbara hatches a plan to repay Mark for their disastrous first date.

Barbara schedules back to back dates with two guys but the first won’t take her home.

Julie and Max seem headed for divorce unless someone like Ann can persuade them to talk it out.

Julie shows up unexpectedly, toting all her posessions and spouting unlikely tales of Max’s infidelity.

Ann’s old nemesis Francine insists that she would make a perfect partner, a prospect Ann finds revolting.

Awaiting Ann’s overdue flight, everyone passes time in fleeting encounters with the opposite sex.

After the recent death of Nick, Alex is left feeling lonely and unwanted by his recently married mother. So, he hops a bus from Chicago and head straight to Ann…

Nick and Ann manage to get the apartment to themselves, only to have Ann’s old boyfriend David arrive at their door.

Alex begins to resent Ann’s relationship with his father and accuses her of keeping his father and mother apart.

A child who once tutored Barbara has graduated from college, but can’t find a job, at age 14.

A new account is going well for Ann and Nick until they realize the merchant is involved in a bait-and-switch scheme.

Nick won’t let Alex get away with turning in a shoddy science project.

Ann has the flu and the last thing she wants is for her mother to play nursemaid.

Beerbelly’s wife, dissatisfied with her marriage, makes a play for Schneider.

Ann is convinced that her constant bickering with business partner Nick is related to sexual tension.

Barbara joins a committee to assist a young man about to lose his immigration status, which could condemn him to prison in his native land.