Believing he needs to get back in touch with the simple life and common everyday folk, Stan Hooper and his wife move to a small town where Stan can continue his minute-long national news segment. But Stan's newly planned simply life quickly becomes a complicated mess.
Once Stan discovers it's election time and that the same man has been mayor for over twenty years with no challenger, he decides to run for mayor as well. He soon discovers how corrupt things really are.
Stan decides to join the guys on the annual turkey hunt for Thanksgiving and in the process creates havoc. Chelsea must keep Molly from cooking any of her horrible meals, including turkey stuffing with chunky peanut butter.
Stan's obsession over an apple pie at the diner made by a frail old lady who is sickly and out, brings him to new lows in the quest for more pie. Molly and Chelsea join a men-only singing club after a group vote, ticking Fred off.
Norm inadvertently enrages Aggie Parmenter, who essentially has the run of the town during the winter being that she's the only person with snow plowers.
Stan is told the boat house out back is haunted by the Anderson family, who died in a fire a year earlier, but Stan tries to convince everybody the Andersons are not ghosts, but freeloaders.
Since Molly thinks every year Stan will forget their wedding anniversary, Stan decides this year to pretend like he actually forgot, to surprise her. A friendly small-town doctor catches Stan's attention and he soon discovers that Dr. Goldman may in fact not be a real doctor at all.
