Allie's advertisement for part-time work ends up in the Personals Column by mistake, and the return mail brings such bizarre responses that she is appalled.

Max sends Emma a mystery for her birthday, and Allie is soon in on it, catching up the family in an exotic world of menacing art dealers and homicidal maniacs.

Kate and Allie invite a crowd for Thanksgiving dinner/disaster.

A protest rally gives Allie a taste of what she missed during the '60s, while for Kate it's a march down memory lane.

Jenny gets more than she bargained for in her new job: a bonus of sexual harassment.

Allie jumps to conclusions when she discovers Kate with a former boyfriend who's now married.

Chip befriends a mentally handicapped man who's homeless and invites him to sleep in the basement.

Brash new transfer student Jason Crawford takes a shine to Emma and won't accept her lack of interest in him, muc h to the amusement of the rest of the family -- particularly when he showers her with gifts of food deliveries. Jennie advises Jason to back off a little, but he shows up again with flowers -- for Jennie.

The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.

While Kate's away on a business trip, an ex-football player makes a play for Allie.

Emma has to decide between going to college at Columbia or UCLA.

Kate tries to explain love to Louis.

The family meet Louis' mentally challenged friend Catherine, who clearly has a crush on him, so Kate tries to persuade Louis that a woman really likes him and he assumes she means herself.

Emma asks Kate to talk about her work as a travel agent for her school's ""Women's Career Day,"" causing Allie to realize how much she hates her job at the movie theatre -- until it burns down. When Kate encourages her to find a job she wants, such as the museum job she has always wanted, Allie finds a position in the gift shop of the ""Museum of Contemporary Art"" -- and her happiness causes Kate to realize how much she hates her job. Kate's talk turns into a rant about needing the courage to quit her job & then Allie arrives home to say the Museum's sprinklers causes a flood and she is unemployed too.

Everyone has date problems: Emma has no date for the college dance and must go with Jennie and Jason & Jennie breaks up with Jason & Chip has a fight with Amy upstairs because she was drooling over Matt Dillon in the movie they rent ed & Kate's chiropractor date was a self-centered bore; and Allie has no date at all. But Emma meets someone at the dance: a self-satisfied, arrogrant business major whom everyone else hates on sight.

After an unexplained absence, Bob Barsky calls to ask Allie out on a date and explains that he is moving back to New York -- and is also seeing someone else.

Kate, Allie and the kids work overtime buying and wrapping gifts for the catering clients, promising themselves a skiing vacation in Vermont & but the apartment is burgled and everything stolen, leaving them to redo it all in just one day.

Jenny is enamored of classmate Howard, auditions for his band, and becomes their lead singer. While the band rehearses in their basement, Kate and Allie give combined French dinners/French lessons and worry that Jenny is not willing to be herself with Howard -- to the point where she won't admit she can't rollerskate when he wants her to sing dressed as a skating '50s carhop.

Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant

Kate and Allie panic when Chip's mouse gets loose.

Shaken by a friend's heart attack, Bob decides he should live life to the fullest---with Allie as his wife. Part 1 of two.

As the nervous bride-to-be, Allie has nightmares about meeting her fiancé's parents.

While honeymooners Allie and Bob fly off to Hawaii, Bob dumps Kate.

As Allie moves into her new high-rise condo, Kate interviews a potential housemate.

Kate is saved from perky Haven and Blair when Allie suggests that Kate move in.

Trying to mend a broken romance, Kate feigns love in front of the woman who dumped her neighbor -- but he thinks Kate's serious.

Allie discovers a condom in Chip's pocket.

While Allie prepares her entry for Cousin Cabot's Country Cookbook contest, Kate cooks up a way to help Lou.

A job offer and a $2000 check from a man named Gabriel prompt Kate and Allie to take account of their lives.