Jerry decides to build a boat and he enlists his family's help, but the bulk of the labor falls on Rick's shoulders. Meanwhile, Molly bonds with the family of a guy she wants to date.

Harriet asks her family to stage a funeral for her and requests that her niece Tillie be allowed to attend, despite a rift that exists between Tillie and Mary. While Molly arranges the gathering, Rick struggles with the eulogy his grandmother asked him to write.

Molly decides to run for student-body president and casts Grant in a music video to announce her candidacy. But the voters who see the tape think that Grant is the candidate, and his new popularity leads him to toss his own hat into the ring.