Phillip comes home for a visit
Mama, Eunice and Ed come back home from church.
The family visits Jack in the hospital.
The family plays Sorry!
Mama has a new beau, Willie.
Mama breaks her leg and stays with Eunice and Ed while recuperating.
The family visits Phillip in California.
Eunice and Mama visit Ed at the hardware store.
Ed goes to a massage parlor.
A flashback to when Eunice and Ed were dating.
Mickey has dinner with the family and they play charades.
The family has a conference with Bubba's school teacher.
Ellen comes over to Eunice's for Mama's birthday celebration.
The family goes to Mama's sister Mae's funeral.
The family goes to an expensive restaurant.
Eunice reunites with her high school friend Midge.
Eunice is jealous when Ed and Mickey go to a hardware convention
The family plays Monopoly.
Eunice rehearses a play with her director Mavis Danton.
The family visits Mickey's apartment for dinner.
Eunice, Ed and Ellen help Mama clean the attic.
Eunice appears on The Gong Show.
Dan, an old friend of Ed's, comes to dinner; Ed has left Eunice.
Mama drops in on a newly divorced Eunice unannounced.
Eunice and Mama play Password with Mickey and Dan.
Eunice and Mickey try to coax Mama into a retirement home.
Phillip visits again to receive an honorary degree.
Eunice and Mama visit Ellen before her anniversary party.
Eunice and Mama visit a psychiatrist.
Eunice and Mama visit the late Carl Harper's gravesite.
Phillip is a brilliant writer who goes off to New York and eventually wins a Nobel Prize. Of course, all of this is completely lost on his family. Building like a Tennessee Williams' play, events only alluded to in earlier acts come crashing down around the characters by the fourth act, when the family congregates after Mother Harper's funeral.