- In order to get away for a romantic anniversary, dharma and Greg tell their parents they're having marital problems and need time alone. Each takes to heart the excuses the other gives the folks, and they start bickering.
- Greg and Dharma planned to bail out on conventional paper anniversary celebrations with their parents, but just because she overhears him call her flaky to Kitty she gets furious for hours and taunts Greg as utter fuddy-duddy all the way to Nappa Valley, till he furiously wrecks the car. The place Greg had reserved is closed for a funeral, but he throws a rock trough the window of Maud's diner; when officer Burke drops by, they can't leave and must wait as 'Ike and Tina', for whom she invents crazy details gossiping to customers... Back in Frisco, the oldies dog-sit, and get along ever better as they drink, until the male decorations committee...—KGF Vissers
- It's traditional to fight on your first anniversary, even if Hallmark doesn't have a card for it. Dharma and Greg stage an argument to escape their parents' planned celebration. Larry and Abby had invited them to plant trees together. Kitty and Edward had planned a dinner for them at a snobbish, upscale restaurant.
Greg calls Kitty and says that they cannot attend dinner as he and Dharma are having a big fight. In concocting the excuse Greg says Dharma was being "flaky," and the gloves come off. Greg realizes that he went over the line and tells Dharma that he had to pick something that his mother would believe. Greg convinces Dharma to go someplace outside the city to celebrate their first anniversary. Dharma is still mad at Greg.
While they drive out of the city, Dharma retaliates by calling Greg a "stick in the mud". Dharma says that Greg plans everything way in advance, and he has already circled all the rest stops between their home and their destination. He has even made dinner reservations for them for the New Year's Eve of 2000. Soon their car is stuck in the mud when he tries to demonstrate how impetuous he can be by driving off road.
Meanwhile the parents get together to blame each other for the upbringing that is leading to these "marital" issues in their marriage now. Abby says that Greg never had a warm and fuzzy relationship to model his marriage after. Kitty retorts that Dharma's parents are not even married. Abby blames Kitty and Vice-Versa. Edward figures out that the kids were just trying to get away from their parents, as they didn't tell anybody where they were going. Soon, the parents start to get along very well. Abby says that when she first met Larry's mother, she put a curse on Abby. Edward says that his parents looked down upon Kitty's parents as they owned a gas station.
They decide to plan a surprise party for the kids. But they are soon back to bickering when Edward leaves Abby and Larry out of the banner, when they refuse to go half and half on the costs. Larry says that the banner was $50, but he did not expect Edward to leave their names out. Edward says that the liberals are always looking for a free ride.
Greg has no cell phone as he left it at home, so their parents cannot contact them. Dharma & Greg hike to a diner, but find it closed because of a death in the owner's family; just as Greg breaks a pane in the door in order to use the phone, a highway patrolman happens by, and the young couple get caught in a charade of being the replacement cook and waitress.
There's a nice unspoken continuity from back when Greg really did become a short order cook, and sharing Dharma's role-playing game, even if unwillingly. Soon, the diner is full of customers.
But Dharma looks tense and unhappy even before Greg accidentally insults her. Dharma helps the cop with his broken marriage and in the process makes it up with Greg. They both go back home.
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