After she and Carmine break up following a fight, Shirley enlists Laverne's help to find her a date for the Pizza Bowl's 10th anniversary party. Laverne's own date manages to find Shirley a former high school homecoming king, but the date doesn't go as planned.

Frank and Laverne are fighting because she refuses to visit the cemetery to honor her dead mother on her birthday. Later it's discovered that her reasons go deeper emotionally than just not liking cemeteries.