When Vera's landlady evicts her animals from the apartment, Vera wishes a curse on her. But then feels remorseful when the landlady's apartment burns down.
The girls buy the diner away from Mel after he decides to accept an offer to become an executive at a catering business. But all find out what it's like when the shoe is on the other foot after the diner proves to be a money pit and Mel's ideas are being rejected.
Tommy quits his college basketball team after discovering he is no longer top dog as in high school. Alice hopes that a talk with Meadowlark Lemon may just change his mind.
Mel wants his cousin Wendell to dress as a woman and become a waitress at Barney's Burger Barn in order to get the secret recipe of their barbecue sauce.