Mad About You

While suffering through a heat wave and the death of their air conditioner, Paul and Jamie take to the streets, only to find the situation there is even worse. While scanning her college catalog in search of a major, Jamie convinces Paul to leave town for the weekend to dine at a seaside restaurant where they once ate some wonderful clams. However, while borrowing her car, Jamie is upset to learn that Fran has been hired to fill her old job. After a surprise car phone call from his mother, Paul and Jamie reluctantly agree to help move an old couch to Lisa's apartment. Arriving at Sylvia's to help, they not only discover that Ira is now wearing a new toupee, but Paul learns of a former assistant who is directing a high profile film while his own career languishes. Then, as they all struggle move the couch, Fran's car, containing Murray, is towed away. Although Murray is happy to see Jamie, he gives Paul a less than enthusiastic reception at the car impound lot as they resume their trip to the beach. However, when Jamie insists on stopping to buy the weary dog a hamburger to make up for the inconvenience, Paul accidentally locks himself inside the car in the sweltering heat. When a locksmith finally frees Paul, the Buchmans are back on the road, although lost and unable to remember the name of their destination. Convincing Jamie that they shouldn't stop in order to start trying to get pregnant just so she won't have to deliver a baby in next summer's heat, Paul finally remembers the restaurant's name, only to find it has moved. Finally, after Paul and Jamie dejectedly return home, a take out menu stuck to their door reveals that the restaurant's new location is just around the corner from their apartment.

After two more in a series of disagreements with neighbors Hal and Maggie, Paul tells Jamie of a rumor about their building going co-op. When Hal and Maggie unexpectedly drop in to apologize, Paul suspects something is behind their sudden friendliness, while Jamie suggests joining them to walk their dogs and take in a movie. However, only after calling to charge the movie tickets to a credit card do the Buchmans discover that Maggie and Hal want to buy their apartment. Meanwhile, in spite of their owners, Murray falls for Hal and Maggie's purebred show dog, Sophie. Refusing their neighbor's generous offer for their apartment, Paul and Jamie head for the movie after inviting Ira and a date to meet them. However, when his mother arrives with Ira and learns of the coop rumor, she suggests that Paul and Jamie consider moving to her building. After pondering the idea of leaving the city for a quieter life in the suburbs, Paul learns that Murray is going to be a father. But, even though the apartment is bigger, nicer and cooler then their own, Paul and Jamie agree to ignore Sylvia's hints about moving while doing their best to keep Murray and Sophie apart. After another uncomfortable encounter in the hallway, Jamie suggests paying half of Sophie's veterinarian bill and Hal curtly accepts, but refuses to warm up to the Buchmans. However, when Sophie decides to have her puppies atop Paul's favorite sweater, the warring neighbors join together and call the building's super to assist in the delivery. Finally, after the puppies arrive, Paul and Jamie decide to stay and settle back into their conflict with Maggie and Hal.

Upon the death of a favorite relative, Paul joins Jamie and Lisa at their Uncle Van's funeral. However, when Jamie encourages him to say something at the service, Paul ends up insulting her entire family with his remarks. Yet, Paul soon finds he is the one who is upset when Jamie insists on taking Van's cremated remains home so she can find the best place to dispose of them. After dismissing his suggestion to scatter them in the Hudson River, Jamie is inspired when Paul recalls her late uncle's love of horse racing and decides to place Van's ashes in the winner's circle at the track. Tracking him down at a Gambler's Anonymous meeting, Paul persuades Ira to set them up with a race horse owner who could get them into the winner's circle. However, while trying to keep Ira from making any bets, Paul is mistaken for a racing insider by their host and horse owner, Maurice. Despite every indication that About To Be Glue is a sure loser, Jamie bets on him hoping for a trip to the winner's circle for Van -- even as a fractured conversation with Paul convinces Maurice to call off his own heavy bet on the horse. As Lisa loses Van's ashes at the concession stand, Ira struggles with the temptation to gamble again. So, while Paul and Jamie watch About To Be Glue get off to a dubious start, Lisa hurries to find where she left Uncle Van. When Maurice's horse makes a miraculous recovery and ends up taking the race, Jamie is the big winner. Certain she heard her Uncle's voice, Jamie heads to the winner's circle with Maurice as Van's urn mysteriously finds its way into the track's trophy case.

Arriving home with a new armoire, Jamie is surprised to find it doesn't fit through their apartment doorway. Calling on their super, Mr. Wicker, for help, Paul begins to suspect that his wife's poor eyesight caused her to misread the measurements. Then, after her failed attempt to program their VCR, he suggests that Jamie get glasses. Meanwhile, Paul and Jamie discover Wicker has a crush on one of the building's tenants. After Paul catches him with a pair of wire cutters, Wicker admits to vandalizing Mrs. Stern's doorbell just for the chance to come and fix it. And when he says he has been having suggestive dreams about her, Jamie and Paul encourage Wicker to speak with his wife about the infatuation. As a result, the Buchmans are forced to take him in when he follows their advice and Mrs. Wicker throws him out. Meanwhile, a trip to the eyeglass store gets Paul in trouble when Jamie catches him staring at a beautiful salesgirl. As she and Paul do their best to adjust to having Wicker around, Jamie avoids wearing her new glasses. When another visit to get new contact lenses revives the issue of the salesgirl, Paul and Jamie are forced into a debate about harmless flirting. Mrs. Wicker then comes looking for her husband. And despite their claim that he misses her, Paul and Jamie cannot persuade her to take him back in. However, when she comes back later and Wicker is finally allowed to go home, he reminds the Buchmans that making up after fighting has helped to keep his marriage together.

Expecting his parents to arrive for dinner at any moment, Paul finally learns he has a new job. But instead of the independent feature film or television soap opera he was hoping for, it is to direct a film about airline seat belts. While waiting to see a TV commercial promoting his dad's big sale, Paul promises Burt that he and Jamie will be at the store to help out as always. Yet after seeing the commercial, Jamie decides to revive her public relations career and help her father-in-law. As Paul reluctantly proceeds with his film, Jamie throws herself into the project, getting a sandwich named after Burt, preparing press releases and hiring a celebrity guest, all to promote the sale. In fact, Jamie is so excited by the work that she decides to start her own P.R. business while still going to school. Yet, despite anything she says, Paul thinks she is simply doing it because he doesn't make enough money. Then, as everyone else arrives on time, Jamie worries when her celebrity, former New York Yankee Sloopy Dunbar, is late for the sale. When Burt mentions he is retiring, Paul excuses himself in order to avoid any discussion of his taking over the store. But Paul learns that he is giving it to Ira instead. And even though he didn't want the store in the first place, Paul is offended by not having it offered. Meanwhile, Sloopy finally arrives and demands his money up front before setting out to convince Fran to join him for a date. Sensing Paul is upset, Jamie convinces him to talk with his dad about it. Only then does Paul realize that Burt thinks he is too successful to ever want the store. Finally, as the sale and Burt's career both draw to a close, Fran joins Sloopy for dinner.

As Jamie struggles to get her new business going with her one and only client, Ira, Paul discovers he is being considered for a grant to produce a documentary on the history of television. But when he needs to do research, Jamie complains about the noise and suggests he try watching TV in the bedroom. When Paul notes that their bedroom doesn't have cable and refuses to pay to have it installed, Fran helps Jamie do what she and everyone else does -- steal it. Though surprised with a television in their bedroom, Paul makes it clear that he is totally against cable theft, forcing Jamie to lie about how it got there. But when the reception isn't what he thinks it should be, Jamie's secret is jeopardized when Paul calls the cable company to fix it. With Jamie forced to come clean about the illegal cable, Paul insists they disconnect it before the repairman arrives. But when they are caught in the act, Paul points out all the others who are hooked up illegally and the repairman disconnects virtually everyone in the building. The Buchmans are then forced to endure the complaints of their irate neighbors. Even when they are out for dinner with Ira, they cannot escape their wrath. Unable to take anymore, Jamie and Paul announce to the restaurant's TV-deprived patrons that they are going to restore their cable service. However, when he tries to reconnect them, Ira ends up causing a city-wide blackout and sparks another round of complaints from their building's increasingly angry tenants.