Carol tells the neighbors she has a baby in order to get them to turn down the volume on their stereo.

Carol tries everything she can think of to get herself out of jury duty so she can date the handsome district attorney working on the case, and Miriam and Al wreak havoc at the courthouse while protesting a traffic ticket.

The gag gift Carol buys at a sex shop turns out to be shockingly inappropriate as a shower present for Renee's snooty friend.

Carol's romantic prospects with a guy named Robert bottom out after an embarrassing predicament involving toilet paper at a bulk-shopping center.

Carol and Rene are furious when an ophthalmologist opens shop next door and begins luring their customers away by performing corrective laser surgery; Vaughn comes up with an unusual way to attract the attentions of a beautiful model: pretending to be gay.

Carol discovers through a consumer news update that her water is unclean, and her longtime bottled-water delivery person is crushed when she cancels her service. Elsewhere, tensions heat up at a Flamingo Pines mah-jongg match pitting Miriam against Jessica.

Carol wants her picture on her parents' wall.

Carol rents a porno video that becomes the bane of her existence after it gets stuck in the VCR. Meanwhile, Renee thinks the video's male star looks a lot like their overnight-parcel guy.

It's a comedy to Renee when Carol fixes Jessica up with a hip frame designer, but it's a tragedy for the optical shop when Jessica begins influencing his taste and style.

Carol's blind date results in a new relationship—based on deceit. Meanwhile, a driving lesson proves disastrous for Miriam; Jessica's advice sends a friend on a drug buy; and Vaughn dates devout dieter Debbie.

Carol regrets her comforting words to a widow after the woman begins calling on her to perform an endless flow of menial tasks; Jessica seeks a favorable review on her sponge cake from the retirement community.

As a favor to her mom, Carol reluctantly hires her dimwitted cousin Gary at the optical shop. But when she fires him for incompetence, Gary retaliates with a sexual-harassment suit.

Renee and Carol scheme to get even when the wealthy fast-food franchise owner Carol is dating keeps leaving her to pick up the tab.

Thanks to a satellite dish, Carol wows her new brainiac beau with advance answers to Jeopardy. Meanwhile, Renee directs the Lerners' condo musical, and passes over Al for a starring role.

The new man in Carol's life is costing her a wardrobe with his penchant for tearing off her clothes during moments of passion.

Carol proves a good-luck charm for Mario, her hockey-player beau. But she's mortified when he reveals to millions of TV viewers the intimate details of their sex life.

Carol gives her astronaut boyfriend Lowell a head cold.

Carol has difficulty dumping her boyfriend and tries to do it by leaving a message on his answering machine, but is continually thwarted by another communications device: call forwarding.

Carol dates her former boyfriend Mario.

Two of Carol's ex-beaus, astroanut Lowell and hockey player Mario, invite her to the White House.