Dad Jim's 60 birthday is approaching, but the kids nearly forgot about it, and his accountant insists it's time to consider selling out to retire in wealth; the best bid seems to be offered by the modernist, commercial Garribaldi brothers he abhors as 'circus surgery'. While he's rationally convinced, it makes him so grumpy that he actually denies poor Robbie, who was mercilessly and bluntly thrown out of ex-bride Heather's apartment after the Las Vegas disaster -she even scolds his 'squandrous' peace offer of roses- permission to stay in the attic for a while again 'no longer a little kid', so he decides to bail out on the birthday dinner Syd planned and use good ice-hockey seats... Syd's patient Ted Lumley, a gentile TV salesman, asks her help to prep his precious private for a bris (Jewish circumcision) but chickens out, even if that probably cancels his marriage to Jewess Debbie... Joanie tries to make dog-walker Doug postulate for a more stable job, as junior executive in a pet-related company...
—KGF Vissers