The girls try to reconcile a pregnant teenage girl and her father. Meanwhile, Blanche starts to regret having written sympathetic "love" letters to a man in jail.
Miles' daughter tells Rose to stop seeing him, Sophia has received over $100,000 in Social Security checks, and Blanche rents a car and pretends to sell it so that she can meet men.
A young man shocks Blanche when he shows up unannounced from Dallas, Texas and tells her that her late husband George was his father. Meanwhile, Sophia convinces Dorothy to participate with her in the Shady Pines Mother/Daughter pageant.
Blanche thinks the risqué novel her sister Charmaigne has written is about her. Meanwhile, Dorothy argues with Stan's Czechoslovakian cousin Magda over Communism.
Dorothy attracts severe criticism for refusing to pass a star football player in the high school English Literature course which she is teaching. Meanwhile, Rose is concerned her dentist may have behaved improperly while she was under sedation.
Blanche's late husband George suddenly turns up, claiming to have faked his own death, while Dorothy finds herself caught in a love triangle with two celebrities.