When Tony's temper takes its toll on Angela, she escapes with Mona and Samantha to a posh resort only to run into a guest who is a dead ringer for Tony.
Tony, Angela and Hank's parents rush to Vermont to try to forestall the wedding of Samantha and Hank, who have eloped to a chapel there. But Tony has a heart-to-heart talk with Samantha, and finally consents to her marriage.
Already infuriated with Samantha's beau Hank, because the guy can't seem to do anything right, Tony is decidedly not prepared for the arrival of Hank's parents, nor for their mission: to celebrate Hank and Sam's engagement.
Angela is concerned that Tony is having doubts about their relationship when he develops a mysterious marriage-related allergy.
Tony is envious of his friend Mike's glamorous life as a professional baseball player, until a household accident causes him to lose consciousness and experience what his life as a major league player could have been like.
When Tony's friends accuse him of letting Angela control his social calendar, Tony feigns illness to avoid attending the ballet with her, with disastrous results.
Samantha poses as her boyfriend Al's wife to help him win over a wary landlord, but Tony decides to expose the marital masquerade.
Angela, depressed because she's losing business, wants to go shopping to feel better. But she runs into tough opposition from Tony, who has imposed a new austerity plan upon the family and taken away all of her credit cards.
When Angela is faced with an offer to sell her home, she and Tony must decide whether to hold on to memories of their past together or make new ones in their future dream house.
When Samantha asks Tony to help her land a job at the campus travel agency, Tony recalls the time he got Jonathan a job as ball boy for the New York Mets baseball team -- with disastrous results.
When Mona's domineering mother crosses the Atlantic to pay the family a visit, Mona is forced to stand up to her for the first time in order to save Tony and Angela's engagement.
After promising Angela not to pressure her about getting married, Tony sets up an elaborate stratagem to propose to her at a football game.
Reeling from the recent death of a childhood friend, Tony drags his family on a series of death- defying adventures until it dawns on him that what's missing in his life might just be marriage to Angela.
When Tony and Angela learn that they are married -- in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service -- they begin to act like a married couple, thus changing the entire household's attitude toward them.
Angela encourages Tony and Billy to take part in an after-school activity, but Tony gets cold feet when Billy opts for swimming lessons.
When Tony begins a two-week teaching internship and Angela, eager to spend more time with Billy, volunteers to keep house, they both find their changed roles overwhelming.
When term papers, car trouble and boyfriend problems give Samantha a case of Freshman Blues, she returns home for some tender loving care.
Jonathan "borrows" Tony's prized jeep to impress a trendy girl from school, but returns it with a deep scratch he then pulls Samantha and Billy into the fray when he enlists their help in covering his tracks before Tony gets home.
Tony thinks he's a cinch to become the TV sports announcer for Ridgemont College, but meets his match when daughter Samantha decides to audition.
Tony and Angela have some explaining to do when a social worker makes a surprise visit and Billy is nowhere to be found.