When Stacey's finances take a dive into the worst, Ned offers to help her.

Stacey skips Ned's New Year's Eve party to have a date with a friend, which eventually bothers Ned.

When Ned's agency hires Clay, a young and smart executive, to work with him, Ned finds himself worried that he might be trying to take his place.

Despite pain from a temperamental gall bladder, Ned refuses to be hospitalised. That is until his pain leads him to ruin Howard's birthday party.