Ned's been working from the office in the muffin shop, though without a lot of success. His old employer for stealing an account in the last episode is also suing him, a lot. Stacey's found a rent-controlled studio and is moving out.
Kirkland's son, Skip, is derailing Ned's brilliant advertising pitches. Stacey is being forced to write yet more fluff. And Amanda still isn't pregnant. All of which leads to copious (attempted) muffin squashing.
When the ad agency gets a new board of directors, Ned is worried. As expected they ask Ned to prove his worth by creating a campaign to sell a client's sponges.
Ned and Stacey accidentally kiss when they go to a Halloween party wearing the same costume as each other's love interest, and to their horror, they both like it.
Christopher Hewett from the long-running sitcom Mr. Belvedere reprises his role as the crusty butler with a heart of gold when his number-one fan Ned enlists the faded star to appear in a commercial he's producing.
Despite being polar opposites who irritate each other to no end, Ned and Stacey agree to get married so he can get a promotion at work and she can move out of her meddling parents' house and into his swanky apartment.