Dick fills in on a children's show and when he sees all the commercialism going, he breaks down on camera. Eventually, the show gets canceled, he has to try to explain what happened to the show's star. Eventually, he gets the show back on the air but with a few changes that the star doesn't like. And George plays a prank on Stephanie making her think she's putting on weight. Written by [email protected]

Michael breaks up with Stephanie after Dick tells him not to always let her have her way.

Larry after watching Jeopardy decides to try and get his high school equivalency. So he asks Dick to help him. When he fails the test, Dick goes to the teacher and convinces him to give Larry another try and to test him as if he was on Jeopardy. And Joanna upon seeing the Inn's rating in the Vermont guide go down, sets out to restore it. So she drives George and Stephanie crazy. Written by [email protected]

Stef and Michael plan to go to Morocco when Stef and Joanna become best friends. Stef wants her and Dick to go too. Dick was there in the Army and got sick from the food and doesn't want to go, but Joanna talks him into going.

Larry runs for mayor.

Staphanie's father shows up saying he left his wife after having an argument with her. And it coincides with the town commemorating an anniversary by dressing up as if they were in colonial times. Dick doesn't like it. And Stephanie's dad spend his time doing menial chores with Dick. Stephanie says that's not her father so she asks her mother to come so they can sort it out. When Dick and Stephanie's father chooses not to wear colonial clothes, Officer Shifflet arrests them and places in stocks in the middle of town. Written by [email protected]

Dick was a member of a band in college and he plans a reunion with his other band members at the Inn. Everyone is now older, taking pills for all sorts of ailments due to getting older, but they try to perform anyway.

Joanna and Stephanie start an aerobics studio but self centered Stephanie thinks it is all about her.

Michael is upset when his friends read his personal diary, but his friends are equally upset about the things he wrote in it.

George quits the Beaver lodge when he feels that they did not award him a prize he thinks he deserved. He tries to start a new lodge with the help of Dick and Michael.

George volunteers to be a big brother to a boy named Mitch, but he would rather have writer and TV host Dick for his big brother.

Michael's Mother shows up and thinks he doesn't have any talent, so he takes up dancing, painting, writing a novel and the violin trying to impress her.

Larry changes after a near-death experience.

Everyone gets the measles and Stef ends up taking care of them while Michael can only talk to her through the front door of the Inn or by phone. George runs such a high fever that Stef calls the doctor to come in an emergency.

When the previous owners of the Stratford Inn become jealous of the inns new success, they try to scare everyone into thinking the Inn is haunted in hopes of getting the Loudens to sell the Inn back to them.

Dick and Joanna renew their vows - sort of. Stef is Maid of Honor and George is Best Man.

The town's snow carnival is in danger because there is no snow. In desperation, they turn to the only men who guaranteed snow for the carnival: Larry, Darryl, and Darryl.

Dick is set to star in a home video version of his self-help plumbing book, but the director decides he lacks charisma and replaces him with an actor who knows nothing about plumbing.

George's only living relative, his boorish cousin Eugene, comes to visit.

Dick decides to send his latest book to his publisher under his old pen name Dwight Schmidlapp hoping his publisher would find it amusing. But instead sends the book back. So Dick sets out to find a new publisher and insists on putting his pen name on the book. But when the book is being sent back, he starts to feel like he no longer has what it takes. That is until one of the inn's annoying guests tells of a publisher he knows. So Dick goes to see him but the man refuses to read an unknown's work. Written by [email protected]

A new waitress at the Minuteman Cafe comes between Larry, Darryl, and Darryl. Meanwhile, George protests Michael's decision to cancel the television station's reruns of Barnaby Jones.

An actress with a reputation as a man-eater stays at the Inn and takes a liking to George, much to Dick and Joanna's concern.

When Michael goes to interview for a new job, he puts the television station's receptionist in charge of Dick's show, and she turns out to be a much better producer than Michael.

Michael and Stephanie go to visit her parents. Dick and Joana accompany them. They put Dick in a room filled with all sorts of stuff. He accidentally breaks a music box. Joana is worried that it could be valuable but Dick shrugs it off because they're so rich it's probably just a trinket. But they learn that it has great sentimental value. And Stephanie's father wants Michael to sign a pre-nup even though he and STephanie are not even talking about getting married. Written by [email protected]