Molly gets accepted into an elite eight-week writer's workshop in Iowa but faces a big decision when Mike asks her not to go.

Mike wants Peggy to see a doctor after her bathtub falls through the ceiling.

Molly catches Carl coming out of Victoria's room late at night, leaving her questioning whether or not she will tell Mike.

Mike and Carl arrest Molly's literary hero, J.C. Small, for a DUI.

Mike learns a lesson after his car breaks down and he's forced to decide whether or not to accept a loan from Carl to fix it.

Carl, Mike and Samuel take a road trip to Memphis to meet Carl's mother for the first time.

Molly looks to win some extra cash when she and the girls head to a riverboat casino for the weekend. Meanwhile, Mike and Vince try to enjoy some college basketball when the guys come over to watch TV.

Molly meets the best buddy of her dreams when Peggy's childhood friend comes to town, but Peggy is not keen on sharing.

Victoria brings home a new boyfriend and the entire family wonders if he's finally "the one".

Confident Molly offers her wisdom to Samuel who now wants to be a standup comic. Meanwhile, Molly's advice to Harry causes him to challenge his protective mother.

Molly grudgingly goes to a therapist at Mike's urging.

Mike asks Carl to replace him as Molly's dance partner at a salsa class, but gets jealous when he realizes they're having way too much fun.

Following a dramatic argument with Joyce over money, Mike and Molly move into Mike's childhood room at Peggy's.

Molly is determined to get Mike out of his routine and tells him to embrace doing anything they want in life.

Molly decides to take a break from writing her novel and accepts a job as a forklift driver at Vince's warehouse, with mixed results.

Mike decides he needs to live everyday like it's his last after being shot during a robbery. As a result, he tells Carl it's time for him to quit the police force.

Molly needs to adjust her spending habits on shoes if she wants to maintain harmony in her marriage.

Molly believes her suspicious next-door neighbor is up to no good and recruits Joyce to help her spy on him. Meanwhile, the guys get together for a poker game and end up sharing their dreams and aspirations.

Molly meets her literary idol, J.C. Small, a cynic who advises her to write about things in her life that she wouldn't want people to know. Meanwhile, Mike invites his mother over for dinner in an effort to cheer her up.

Molly has a "mind-blowing" experience when she goes to Victoria's workplace, a funeral home, to research her novel. Meanwhile, Mike sneaks a peek at Molly's writing when she's out.

Molly decides writing a crime novel will be her new career, so she goes on a ride-along with Mike to research a book she wants to pen.

When Molly finds herself at a crossroads with her career, she makes a huge decision to leave teaching to become a writer.