Everything's collapsing around Bob: Howard and Ellen announce they're moving to New York, Carol announces she's looking for a new job, and the ceiling literally collapses in his office.

Emily agrees to help operate a children's summer camp and tries to persuade Bob to be one of the counselors.

Bob reluctantly agrees to a therapy session to help Emily's friend with her marriage problems.

Bob avoids Emily as she completely redecorates the apartment and he hates the result. When she gives away Bob's favorite chair it is just too much. A compromise is reached.

Bob suffers a loss of confidence when several patients cancel appointments. He regains his groove by attending group therapy in a friend's office.

Bob and Jerry have a falling out when Jerry demands that Bob lend him money for a new motorcycle.

Emily finds out a secret about the girl Bob was dating before he met her.

Emily gets Bob to run for a spot on the school board.

Howard gets jealous when Ellen's ex comes to town with the intention of winning her back.

The Hartleys have to spend Christmas Eve listening to Carol talk about her depressing family and personal relationships.

Bob wants to win a tennis match but doesn't think his doubles partner, Emily, is good enough to win.

Jerry decides to leave everything behind and move to a South Seas island with his new girlfriend.

Bob forms an all women consciousness raising group. He gets kicked out after Emily joins and inadvertently points out some of the unliberated areas in their own marriage.

Bob and Emily's Thanksgiving plans are threatened when Bob's mother gets into an argument with Emily's father.

Carol announces her engagement to her weird poet boyfriend,

Bob writes a chapter for a book, and is excited the day it is to be published. When Bob gets his copy of the book, he is disappointed to find they only used two of his twenty pages in the book.

Bob vows to be completely honest with everyone, which soon leaves everyone hating him.

When Carol is away again, Jerry hires an incompetent temp.

Bob gives up most of his private practice to become the staff psychologist with a major insurance company. He soon learns that it's possible for a man in the corporate world to do his job too well.

As Howard prepares to introduce Howie to Ellen, he tries to mold Ellen into an image the boy will like.

With Emily busy studying for her masters and Bob busy with therapy groups, things are hectic at home. Emily moves to a hotel so she can study without interruption and be closer to the school. Friends think Bob & Emily have separated.

Jerry suggests that all the doctors in the building form a co-op to treat each other for free. This leads to chaos and hostility that find expression in Bob's special all-doctor therapy group.

Bob takes two of his therapy groups to a rustic retreat for a marathon session that never progresses further than everyone's complaints about the primitive conditions of their accommodations.

Bob disapproves of the idea of his sister Ellen moving in with Howard.