With the Jeffersons' old house now ready for the Stivics to move in, Mike and Gloria look forward to some peace and quiet. Then Gloria has some really wonderful news: she's pregnant.

The day has come that Mike and Gloria are moving into their new home and Archie is practically pushing them out the door. Archie is being so obnoxious that Mike finally reaches a boiling point until he declares his independence and calls Archie a fathead. He and Gloria spend the night in their new home without electricity, plumbing or heat. Archie is overjoyed that the meathead is suffering but Edith's motherly instinct force her to intercede, she walks out and intends to suffer right along with the kids. Archie is all to happy to take care of himself but while making a mess in the kitchen, he runs across Gloria's bowl from when she was a baby and it melts his heart. He goes next door with a half-hearted apology and tells Mike and Gloria that they can stay at his house until the heat gets turned on.

Archie will do anything to get a promotion at the loading dock, so he agrees to help Mr. Sanders with his latest charity, unaware that it involves something that goes against his morals: organ donation.

While driving Munson's cab, Archie saves the life of a beautiful woman who becomes unconscious. Uh, was that a woman? Sorry, that was no woman, thanks to female impersonator Beverly LaSalle's convincing act.

Everyone debates whether Mike should be with Gloria in the delivery room when she gives birth--especially Mike.

Archie rips up a chain letter, thinking it to be nothing more than baloney. Then a whole bunch of accidents happen. Coincidence? Or did Archie really set off the string of mishaps?

When Gloria gets her paycheck in the mail, it is good news and bad news: The good news is that the check is more than she expected; the bad news is the enclosed pink slip. Determined to find out why she has been fired, she and Mike pay a visit to the boss, Mr. Crenshaw. Mike becomes angry and demands to know why Gloria was let go. Crenshaw secretly records the parts of their conversation that makes Mike look like he is threatening him, but turns it off to confess that he fired Gloria because she is pregnant, stating that she looks like Alfred Hitchcock in drag. The smug little man assures Mike that he and Gloria can sue him but that they have no evidence. Gloria organizes a protest outside the store that is interrupted by the cops--one of whom is pregnant and joins the protest. The store, with its back to the wall, gives Gloria her job back.

Archie is unhappy with Edith doing volunteer work at The Sunshine Home for Seniors and orders her to quit.

Archie's company physical is fast approaching, and he needs to remain calm for an entire weekend for the blood pressure test. Of course, a variety of situations arise that test Archie's ability to keep an even temper.

Gloria, now in her seventh month, is feeling unattractive just when Mike happens to be tutoring an attractive young woman in Economics, so she suspects that something else might be going on. One night when Mike goes to tutor the woman, they become mutually attracted to each other and kiss. Meanwhile, Archie gets an idea to trap Mike in a confession: Knowing that he can't hold his wine, Archie decides to liquor him up as a truth drug. They both get drunk, and Archie passes out--and misses Mike's confession that he simply got up and left the woman's apartment.

Archie and Mike argue over the religious upbringing of baby Joey during a Thanksgiving Day dinner.

A mugger tries to attack Archie in his cab - but this time, Archie strikes back with some tear gas. So why is Archie the one facing criminal charges?

Worried when her baby is nine days overdue, Gloria snaps at Mike. Mike tries to be nice to his wife, but then he forgets that her baby shower is scheduled on a day when he has plans.

Archie is a nervous wreck because he wants to back out of the annual minstrel show at the lodge, which he has successfully avoided for several years. Lodge brothers Barney Hefner and Ed Bradley blackmail him by asserting that if Archie doesn't go on with the show, he will be kicked out of the lodge and lose all the benefits therein. Meanwhile, Mike and Gloria try to have a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant to take their minds off the fact that she is a week overdue. When Gloria admits that she is having contractions, which she didn't want to admit because she didn't want to spoil the evening, Mike panics and tries to get her to the hospital. Trying to call the lodge to tell her mother and father that she is in labor, she becomes stuck in the phone booth. Meanwhile, Archie and Edith get the message and have to leave the lodge to get to the hospital. Barney and Ed think that it is just one more excuse to get out of going onstage, and they take the cold cream, forcing Archie to have to show up at the hospital in black face.

Archie is forced to show up at the hospital for his grandchild's birth in blackface when his lodge brothers refuse to give him their cold cream because he left. He and Edith are surprised to discover that Mike and Gloria haven't arrived--first Gloria was stuck in a phone booth at the restaurant, then they got stuck in traffic. All is well: they get to the hospital, Gloria gives birth, and Archie manages to borrow cold cream from a terrified elderly woman. The lodge brothers show up to say that they understand and that it would be heartless to throw him out of the lodge at the birth of his first grandson: Joseph Michael Stivic.

In the wake of the birth of little Joey, Gloria and Michael are at odds with one another over communication issues. Gloria is upset because Michael keeps making big and little decisions without consulting her despite the fact that their marriage is suppose to be an equal partnership. The crux of their argument is over plans for their friends who are getting married before the year ends. Problems with the arrangements cause them to lose their original location and so it is suggested that they have it in the Stivic's living room. Mike comes to understand why Gloria is upset when she re-writes the speech he was suppose to make as best man.

Archie babysits little Joey with the help of his friends during their poker game.

Archie has ulterior motives when he befriends a Jewish watchmaker who's created a sure-fire invention that he claims the world has been waiting for.

Mike's support of hiring quotas faces a stern test when he is passed over for a promotion to a less-qualified Black man.

Archie's doctor tells him to go on a diet or else he'll suffer serious health problems. Archie rejects the efforts of Edith, Mike, and Gloria to help him stick with the diet, but Justin Quigley provides the inspiration he needs.

With so many demands on Mike and Gloria's time--both of them are working and Joey needs a lot of care--they wonder when, or if, they'll ever have time for each other.

Archie is determined to baptize Joey, especially over Mike's express wishes against it. When Edith refuses to allow Archie to be with Joey alone (knowing what will happen), Archie gets very sneaky.

Mike finds out that Archie baptized Joey without his consent, prompting another argument between the agnostic and the so-called Christian. The argument keeps heating up--until the Bunkers' furnace breaks down.

Edith takes matters into her own hands when Archie continually refuses to treat his wife to one night out on the town. An evening at Kelsey's Bar shows Archie that Edith is no social wallflower.