To give him more time, Maxwell gives Fran the job to redecorate the kitchen.

When Maxwell's old partner Bobbi Flekman starts moving in on him, Fran's friends suggest that Maxwell only likes her because she looks like Fran, and she even tells Fran not to talk so much because her voice is so annoying.

After Chester is kidnapped while under Fran's care, she and Val try to find him and end up kidnapped themselves.

C.C. and Fran visit Dr. Joyce Brothers to decide who is the better woman for Maxwell.

Maxwell is jealous of Chevy Chase's attention to Fran, but he finds that she brings him luck for his poker game.

When a Cambodian woman that Fran and Val sponsored as a child visits New York and comes between the two friends, Fran fears she'll come between her and Maxwell too. To stay in the family Frans comes up with a plan to get engaged to Brighton.

With Yetta's wedding approaching Fran looks for a new job and gets an audition for a job on television.

Fran visits Maggie's school and gets into a relationship with her Jewish philosophy teacher.

Fran takes Mr. Sheffield to the Fine Family Reunion at Niagara Falls to give both her and Niles the weekend off. Maxwell proposes and then hits his head.

Fran has a romantic date with Maxwell just as she breaks out and swells up due to an allergic reaction to her mother's squash pasta.

Fran has a run-in with actress Margo Lange, who is starring in one of Maxwell's plays, when she discovers that her famous mole is a fake.

Fran's father will not use the basketball tickets that come from Mr. Sheffield. Fran questions her relationships with men and Maxwell agrees to call her Fran.

Maxwell is ready to propose to Fran and thanks to Niles everyone already knows it. At the big announcement dinner everyone is there except Maxwell.

Maxwell and Fran go shopping for engagement rings while Fran starts to feel that she isn't good enough for Maxwell's friends and lifestyle.

When Fran hires a gift wrapper instead of a singer rapper, she has to turn him into a singing sensation.

Fran goes to her high school reunion and finds all of her friends getting divorced while she is engaged.

Maxwell's father dies, leaving his entire estate to a secret love-child, Concepcion.

Maxwell asks stunned Fran to sign a prenuptial agreement.

Maxwell's brother and best man Nigel arrives to throw him a bachelor party. Fran is worried that he will tell Maxwell that they almost got married themselves.

Even though Maxwell's family tells Fran that their marriage won't work, Maxwell tells her how much he loves her and that their lives together will never be dull. That night they both fall off their honeymoon yacht.