It's a couple of days before Thanksgiving. Rebecca's Thanksgiving plans are to head back to New York and spend the day with her mother as usual, despite it feeling more like an obligation than a want. But when Rebecca learns from Josh that Valencia generally has Thanksgiving dinner with the extended Chan family and from Greg and Chris that Josh's stereotypically Asian parents don't like Valencia because they don't see her as being smart, Paula not only convinces Rebecca to try and wrangle an invitation to the Chan family Thanksgiving dinner, but sets in motion a plan to get that invitation without telling Rebecca about the plan until it is well under way. Paula figures that Rebecca can wow the Chans as she is everything that they would want in a daughter-in-law, and is everything that Valencia is not, especially in a direct comparison. The plan to get the invitation works. The questions become if Rebecca can dazzle the Chans as is the second part of the plan, if so if Mr. and Mrs. Chan will have any influence on Josh's choice of a girlfriend/wife, and if Valencia's intense dislike of Rebecca as trying to steal Josh will factor into the equation. Meanwhile, Paula is single-minded in her focus for the day as she has her own dysfunctional family Thanksgiving. And Greg has decided to quit his dead end job at the bar to pursue his long held dream of going back to business school, while at the same time finally moving out of his father's house. Greg spending Thanksgiving with his father, retired Italian restaurateur Marco Serrano, who has always supported Greg in whatever he wanted to do, will give Greg a clearer picture if his business school dream and moving out can become a reality at this point in time.
—Huggo