Benny's brother, Earl, generously offers to lend Jack the $5,000 he needs to get his company out of debt, but only because it means being able to spend a week with Rhoda on her job.

After weeks of depressing pavement pounding, Rhoda manages to talk the owner of a rundown costume-rental company into giving her a job.

Rhoda comes face-to-face with an old problem again when she has two great theater tickets and can't find anyone to go with her.

Ida Morgenstern wreaks havoc at the Doyle Costume Company where she is working part-time so that she can buy her husband a waterbed for their anniversary.

At Rhoda's urging, Brenda tries therapy to overcome her shyness.

Rhoda's job at the costume company begins to take up all her time. She forgets her obligations to her friends and family.

With an evening out ruined by Jack's troubled back, Rhoda plays nurse.

Rhoda convinces her boss that he needs some new clothes to go with his new svelte physique, but both learn a valuable lesson that beauty is only skin deep.

When Benny starts to feel down-and-out, Brenda tries to cheer him up by catering to his every whim.

Feeling trapped and confused when everybody tries to run her life for her, Brenda runs away.