Lois is the perfect wife, but she's just discovered that her husband, Paul, is having yet another affair. At the urging of her neighbor, Lois hires a hitman to kill Paul, but the plan goes amok when Lois finds that Paul named his mistress as the benificiary of his insurance policy.

Georgette (Burnett) is a woman attending the 30th reunion at her high school, where before her sex-change operation she had been "George", the quarterback on the football team. Swoosie Kurtz guest stars as "George's" ex-girlfriend from school.

A devoted mother (Burnett) is fed up with her two lazy, ungrateful adult offspring so she sues them for the money she spend on them throughout their adult lives.

Two practical jokers have to cool it when they meet their prospective in-laws, a deadly duo into munitions.

Dr. Elaine Daniels learns that her ex-husband/coworker, Dr. Arthur Daniels (guest star Alex Rocco) has been dating a much younger woman. To make him jealous, Elaine flaunts a younger man under Arthur's nose. Meanwhile, the Daniels' coworkers make a bet on who will have sex first: the Daniels or the lab rats.

Barbara (Burnett), a fading soap opera star who feels threatened by an up-and-coming actress, learns a painful truth from Sam (Robert Guillaume) the security guard.

Myna Bouleray (Burnett), a small town resident, heeds advice from an angel (Howie Mandel) who suggests that she gamble her life's savings in Atlantic City to save her nearly bankrupt church.

Babe and Baby Bicker (Burnett and daughter Carrie Hamilton), a mother/daughter singing duo, feel their act may be threatened when Bobby (Robert Urich) comes between them.

Guest-star Glenda Jackson portrays Dr. Doris Kruber, a talk radio psychiatrist who's taken hostage by Sally Trickleson, a Brooklyn woman who accuses Kruber's book of ruining her life.