Marie gets upset when she sees Ray calling Lois, Debra's mother, mom so Ray tells Debra that maybe she should start calling Marie mom. When Debra calls Marie mom in front of Lois. Lois gets upset because she doesn't think that Debra should be calling Marie mom since she isn't her mother.

The feud continues when Ray realizes that he can use the feud to get Debra to do almost anything for him, dragging Frank into doing the same with Marie, but Robert tells both Debra and Marie that Ray and Frank are "exploiting the situation" in order to bring them back together.