George angles for a fishing buddy after a woman bequeaths her late husband's ice-fishing boat to him. What has George reeling, however, is the young man who shows up at the Moylan claiming to be his son.

George plots to sell off a package of purloined pot and gets increasingly paranoid in the process, for a good reason: a pot-sniffing pooch is on his trail.

George advises Sydney against dating the urbane Dr. Beck; but later, even the ragtag George is taken in by the Beck family's unaffected ways on a visit to their palatial estate.

A comatose bar patron on life support has left George with power of attorney over his gambling winnings, and now George discovers it's up to him to pull the plug.

George is in hot water with Harry's wife, who suspects her husband is having an affair and using George's apartment as his love nest. The truth is that Harry is just intimidated by her surgically altered good looks.

A mysterious virus overruns the city and it's originating in George's apartment, where his housecleaning has created a primordial soup of deadly organisms.

George tries to set up his ex-wives with Jack and Frank.

George figures he's doing an adolescent a favor by buying him his first Playboy magazine, but the boy's parents insist George has scarred their son for life.

George runs into an old buddy, a priest with a crisis of conscience whom George offers a guided tour of the secular world.

George is confronted with evidence suggesting his father was on the Japanese side of World War II.