- Dr. Fleischman is troubled when he doesn't receive an invitation to a big party for Maurice that the whole town is attending. Shelly accidentally breaks a bottle of wine worth several thousand dollars.
- It's the 25th anniversary of Minnifield Communications and Maurice is throwing a party (in honor of himself) with no expenses spared. All the invitations come with fancy calligraphy done in gold ink. The elegant cake cost $10,000 and there are mountains of beluga caviar. Everyone in town is talking about the extravaganzas that Maurice has thrown in the past, figuring that this one may even eclipse those. The only person in town who isn't salivating at the party's prospects is Joel. That's because he never got an invitation. He thinks the snub is due to his inadvertent leak to the authorities that Maurice didn't use a snowplow as he claimed. When Maurice drops by his office to borrow some first aid supplies for the affair, Joel is petulant about his offerings. Maurice queries him about the bad attitude. Joel blurts out that he wasn't invited. Maurice begs to differ, indicating that an invitation was sent to him. Now Joel figures that Maggie probably "lost" in retaliation for his snide comments about her relationship with Mike. Shelly is super excited about the big party until she accidentally breaks a bottle of 1929 Château Latour wine. Hoping that she can replace it, she asks Joel how much it is worth. He tells her $5-6000. Now she's heartsick. A glimmer of hope arrives when Adam, Eve and baby Aldrich show up for the party. When Shelly confesses to Eve her dilemma, Eve reveals that she has doctored some inferior vintages in the past that even fooled Adam's palate. They take some jug wine, add food coloring, a bit of potting soil and a few other ingredients. Then they super-glue the bottom of the bottle back on. Adam has taken over duties as executive chef, supervising the preparation of a demi-glace sauce reduced to a rich cup of product from 40 cows. Marilyn gets sick from a little bit of bad fish. In the end things work out. Chris delivers a flattering toast and Joel is among the seated guests.—Garon Smith
- To celebrate twenty-five years of Minnifield Communications, Maurice throws a huge party for everyone in the town...except Joel. As he bears up under the thought of the kind of party a celebratory Maurice might throw, the whole town is bustling. But as the party approaches, there's a disaster in the kitchen as the chef walks out and it takes an old friend, his hypochondriac wife and their little boy, Aldrich, to save the day.
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