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.

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

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, or asking to use the closet and community refrigerator.

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

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

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.

Barbara's scheme to get her mother and Mark's newly divorced father together at a dinner party gets faster results than she anticipated.

Julie's announcement that her baby will be born underwater may be more than Ann can bear.

Julie insists on flying to California to have her baby in an underwater birth tank but her labor pains are beginning at her mother's home in Indianapolis.

Barbara's decision to enroll in college forces the Royers to live on a shoestring budget with little time for romance.

Forced out of their rooming house by an explosion, Barbara and Mark impose on Ann for a temporary home until they can find a place of their own.

With Julie, Max and the new baby also needing a place to live, Ann may be forced to leave her own home to preserve her sanity and her relationship with Sam.

Unable to cope with the pandemonium at her house, Ann takes refuge at Sam's place, until he offers her a solution for which she's completely unprepared.

Alex's video game fascination has him skipping school and facing punishment from the principal, and may be symptomatic of hidden emotional problems.

Saving a businessman's life earns Schneider executive status in a job, complete with a secretary, a plush office, a rent-free apartment nearby and very little work to do.

A South Pacific island would be just the ticket for Sam, if only Ann would drop her work, desert the family and join him in paradise.

Determined not to be a burden on anyone, Grandma Romano keeps her escalating financial problems from Ann.

Approaching his 15th birthday, Alex anticipates his first female encounter. But when he strikes out with the school's ""girl most likely to,"" he makes a play for an older woman.

A letter to Ann's mother from her father, mailed the day before he died, is delivered four years later.

Barbara's newly friend Bob reveals he still has feelings for her.

A weekend outing with a girl from school is more attractive to Alex than the father-son night he agreed to attend at Schneider's lodge.

Schneider feels threatened when his lookalike, a top Sicilian designer sweeps Francine off her feet.

Mark and Max rent a house without consulting their wives.

Sam unilaterally sets a wedding date as Ann learns from his newspaper announcement that she's getting married in three days. But it's Sam who starts getting cold feet.

Ann and Sam's ski honeymoon quickly goes downhill when Ann loses her luggage and Sam injures his back on the ski lift.