Despite being polar opposites who irritate each other to no end, Ned and Stacey agree to get married so he can get a promotion at work and she can move out of her meddling parents' house and into his swanky apartment.
Ned and Stacey accidentally kiss when they go to a Halloween party wearing the same costume as each other's love interest, and to their horror, they both like it.
Ned and Stacey's first Thanksgiving with Stacey's family turns into a disaster when Stacey pines for an ex-boyfriend, old family feuds resurface, and Ned can't find cranberry sauce for dinner.
Stacey is thrilled when she buys a new bed, but becomes so guilt-stricken that she can's sleep in it when she discovers it had already been sold to somebody else and Ned had bribed the salesman to let her buy it.
A beautiful and aggressive executive wants Med to sleep with her in order to secure her company's account for his ad agency, but Stacey's moralizing makes him feel guilty about it.