The girls reminisce about past birthday experiences while preparing a birthday party for a friend.

The girls' neighbor, Renee Corliss, is feeling depressed about all of her children having moved out of the house and her doctor husband George's workaholic tendencies in this backdoor pilot for what would become the sitcom Empty Nest.

Sophia makes friends with an old man at the Boardwalk, but she soon starts to question his increasingly odd behavior. Meanwhile, Blanche accidentally gives Rose's teddy bear to a member of her Sunshine Cadet troop, who refuses to give it back.