After enduring year after year of botched Mother's Days, Frankie declares that the family gets to take a pass on doing anything at all for her this year. But after a man offers to buy Frankie's groceries at the market when she discovers that she forgot her wallet - and tells her to pay the kindly gesture forward - she decides to have the family pull each other's names out of a hat and do something nice for that person, which doesn't go as smoothly as planned.

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Guest Stars: Marsha Mason as Pat Spence, Dagney Kerr as Gloria, Robert Pine as Mr. Travers, Vernee Watson as Cashier, Shaugn Buchholz as Rodney

Writers: Rich Dahm

Director: Lee Shallat Chemel

 This episode features in the list Mother's Day Episodes.