- Dharma manages to accommodate everyone in her family for the baby-naming ceremony, when she receives news that the checkout girl wants her baby back.
- The Montgomerys were looking forward to a church baptism for Donna's adopted baby, even Greg who can't find 'his parish church' as he wasn't there since he learned driving, the Finkelsteins to their ludicrous hippie rituals. The compromise is a ceremony with enough 'ministers' from shaman to rabbi for the cast of any joke, where even Larry and Kitty get along in festive mood. However just then Donna sends a legal message...—KGF Vissers
- Experimenting to see if her parents can be trusted to mind the baby, Dharma and Greg take the baby to the movies with them, but the incessant crying annoys the patrons around them, but it is Dharma's crying & not the baby. The first time Larry and Abby will babysit without the baby, and if they pass, the next time they get to mind the baby.
Dharma suggests a naming ceremony for the baby. Greg wants a church ceremony, while Dharma wants a African tribal naming ceremony. Abby approached Kitty to see if they can agree on a compromise between their family traditions for the baby's naming ceremony. Abby wants to avoid bickering in front of the kids. They end up fighting anyways as Abby wants the kid circumcised, and their ceremony involves everyone getting out of a mud pit, naked, to re-enact their own birth.
Meanwhile Greg cannot find the church he used to go to. After driving around in circles for a while, Greg says that the church must have moved.
Abby and Kitty bring their fight to Dharma & Greg to decide. Dharma suggests doing 2 separate ceremonies, but Kitty wants to go first, while Abby says that the ceremony has to be on the full moon night. Dharma says she is the mom, and decrees a single ceremony, where everyone brings the clergy of their choice. This results in a huge gathering with a minister, a rabbi, and a shaman. There was a tasteful Druid ritual as well.
The baby is named Daniel Fergus Sting Thundercloud Monoray Manray Finklestein Montgomery. Jane is the Godmother and Pete is the Godfather.
Edward is bonding very nicely with the baby and plays with it all the time. The Rabbi, the Shaman and the Minister tell jokes to each other. Dharma wants Greg to teach Daniel about "how to please a woman" when he grows up. When Greg refuses (he says when the time is right, he will leave a book on the boy's dresser), Dharma says she will do it. Larry brings his "special" cookies and offers them to Kitty as well. Even Kitty, with the help of Larry's special cookies, gets into the swing of things; and all is happiness until a telegram arrives: Donna has changed her mind and wants the baby back. Donna has sent a legal notice via a lawyer to get her baby back.
Abby and Larry want to give Daniel back, but Edward and Kitty want to throw lawyers at them and litigate in court. Greg says that the birth mothers have a right to change their minds and the courts generally tend to agree with them. Larry, Abby, Kitty and Edward get into a heated argument over the next course of action. Dharma stops them as the yelling is upsetting the baby. But Dharma and Greg visit Donna and try and convince her that leaving Daniel with them is the best outcome for everyone. Dharma shows Donna the naming ceremony video and just how much everybody cared for little Daniel. Daniel has a big place to stay and rich and caring grandparents. Donna can be as involved as she wants with the raising of the child. Donna still wants Daniel back.
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