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The staff of WKRP is tasked with creating a commercial for a lucrative advertising contract with a funeral home, to Mr. Carlson's growing discomfort.

To help make ends meet, Herb is selling insurance on the side, he seeing his first potential customers being the staff at the station. While some are able to avoid Herb upon hearing what he's doing, others, like Les and Mr. Carlson, are relatively easy prey for Herb's heavy handed sales tactics, Les in particular who Herb is able to oversell. Part of Les' issue is that he is in a funk, largely in having to gather and report on the largely depressing news, which is getting into his psyche. Once Andy finds out about Herb's moonlighting job, he wants to put an end to it at the station as he is being paid to do other work while he's at the office, and as he believes, if Herb is involved with them, they must be a fly by night operation. Herb may ultimately regret this new sales job and Les may get out of his funk all related to their encounter with a middle aged British couple who just wanted to have a quiet cuppa tea in peace.

As he covers all the news including sports, Les unilaterally accepts a $200 wager from Clark Callahan, station manager at WPIG, on a co-ed slo-pitch game between the two radio stations. Les, who never played any sports, including softball, when he was growing up, he stuck inside taking violin lessons instead, sees the game and the challenge as a rite of passage he never went through but should have as a child. No one else at the station wants to play, largely because they don't want to lose as, unaware to Les, WPIG plays in a city league and plays well. But a series of statements leads to the staff changing their minds and agreeing to defend WKRP's honor on the mound. As sports director, Les still wants to lead the team, including pitch, but quickly learns he is way out of his depth. And despite having played in college, Mr. Carlson shows that his softball prowess doesn't live up to the hype that surrounded him. Although they do devise ways to keep the game close, both Mr. Carlson and Les will literally and figuratively have to step up to plate if WKRP has any hope of winning. That task is all the more difficult as all Les can hear in his head is himself playing the violin, which, to him, is the antithesis of what he is now trying to achieve.

On the day Carlson and Travis are being interviewed by a newspaper, everything around them goes wrong in the silliest way possible.

It's in the evening at the radio station. Venus is in the control booth finishing up his show. Mr. Carlson and Andy are working late on the financials. And Bailey is wandering around feeling sorry for herself having been stood up by Johnny, the two who were supposed to go on a date - what would have been their first - to see a Humphrey Bogart movie. The quiet at the station changes when Venus receives a frantic telephone call from Johnny, who, at Jennifer's apartment, is trying to figure out what to do about Buffy's vow to sue him for half of everything he has. The four at the station, including Bailey, rush over to Jennifer's apartment to help their friend. While they all do try to figure out how Johnny should deal with the matter, the question then becomes if Johnny will remember that he, in turn, was a heel for standing up Bailey. The situation takes another turn when Buffy returns both with a confession and counter to what she stated she was going to do to Johnny earlier in the evening that may have an even more negative effect on him.

WKRP promotes a concert for the well dressed and spoken, and gleefully violent, rock band, Scum of the Earth.

Christmas is coming up and everyone at the station is anxious to leave and start their holiday plans...everyone, except for Jennifer. Jennifer seems as if she has no holiday plans and is dismayed that the rest of the staff don't want to celebrate Christmas as a family. The gang joins together to give Jennifer a warm Christmas.

In reference to the garbage strike happening in the city, Johnny, on the air, makes a flippant comment that if the city won't pick up people's garbage, the people should bring their garbage to the city by dumping it on the steps of city hall. Much to Johnny's surprise, hundreds of his listeners take the words to heart and dump their garbage at city hall. Their actions have repercussions on the station, Mr. Carlson and Andy who have to deal with the liability of the station by Johnny's words, the situation which is only inflamed by further on-air words by Les. While Mr. Carlson wants to fire Johnny, Andy is able to come up with a workable solution where Johnny needs to apologize on the air. However, getting Johnny to do so is easier said than done, as his realization of the responsibility that he has in this role results in a larger issue for Johnny in his livelihood as an on-air personality: he develops mic fright and freezes in the control booth. While Venus and Andy in particular try to help Johnny, it may be the reminder of words Johnny himself said to shy Bailey that may be the medicine that Johnny needs.

Herb and his wife Lucille are getting a divorce, the first night after the decision Herb resorting to sleeping on the couch in the office. Herb may or may not be aware that Lucille's want for the divorce is because she thinks he takes her for granted as a woman. The divorce has an effect on everyone in the office. Herb needs a temporary place to stay until he gets his own place, with none of the guys, except Les, really wanting Herb, with Les out of the question solely because of the size of his apartment. And now that Herb is a "free" man, Jennifer feels more exposed, he who she could handle when she knew his talk was all bluster. He envisions his life now as a wild and crazy single, going out and partying all the time. While Jennifer works on Lucille, the guys try to show Herb without being obvious that he'd much rather be back at home with his family than all alone as a single.

The station staff finds themselves in danger when Herb unplugs a teleprinter just as it is receiving a local tornado warning.

Venus is forced to confess his real name, and the fact that he is wanted for desertion from the Army.

When the station's ratings fail to improve to Andy's expectations, he wonders if he is accomplishing anything with the screwy staff.

Les finds himself desperately distressed when he is mistaken for a homosexual.