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Thanksgiving is here, and Cheryl is tired of doing all the work while everyone else gets to sit in the living room and watch football all day. Unfortunately, they don't really seem to hear her when she complains. So she complains some more. Then they start to get the point. But they don't really care. Jim at least is going to try and comfort her, but it probably won't work out just like she wants. He starts to make the holiday feast, and then ropes Andy and Dana into it as well. But will it work out like it should? Probably not.

The first thing that they do is send Cheryl up to take a nice, relaxing bath. The reason they tell her is so that she can enjoy her day off. But really, they need time to formulate a scheme, and the scheme is to act like they are going to make dinner just long enough to make Cheryl think that they are really going to screw it up. At that point, Cheryl will feel like she needs to step in, and she'll take over. The "empty gesture" will have worked its magic.

Since they acted like they wanted to help, but they were incompetent, everyone wins. Jim acts like the lady from the Rice Krispies commercial and spreads flour all over, and they bang pans together and yell loudly, but no Cheryl, so they sneak out to the living room, and then when they hear her in the kitchen, Jim pokes his head in to see what's happening. Thinking that she is making dinner again, everyone takes off for the park.

Unfortunately it seems that Cheryl was just getting some honey from the refrigerator. Once she gets it out, she puts the turkey back in and heads back upstairs - which everyone else figures out when they come back in and there isn't any food ready! With little time, they do the only thing they can do - they go to the homeless mission and try to buy some.

The only takers are the homeless people themselves, but that works. However, Andy doesn't hang onto the plates, and it ends up all over everyone in the car, so it looks like Thanksgiving dinner is going to be a bust this year. That's when Cheryl pulls on her coat and tells them that she knew they would screw it up, so she made reservations for dinner earlier in the day. But it's only for her in the kids. Nice!

Of course, as she and the kids eat dinner, and Jim, Andy and Dana look through the window (and then the waiter shuts the curtains on them), Cheryl comes out to check on them, and everything works out like it should - but it was a funny ending for a moment.