Kiss Our Grits

In Season 3, Episode 16, Alice is beside herself with worry when Tommy runs away from home but with Flo's help, Tommy realizes that his mother really isn't all bad.

In Season 3, Episode 13 , Flo winds up without a date for New Year's Eve so Mel recruits her to work in the diner. When she blurts out over the telephone to a radio show that she's alone, she suddenly has more company than anyone could bargain for.

In Season 3 Episode 12, Alice causes problems for Tommy when she falls for his school principal.

Mel almost loses the diner in a bet, so Alice, Flo, and Vera all give up a bad habit to help Mel kick his.

In Season 3, Episode 4, Vera has a boyfriend and Alice, Flo and Mel can't wait to meet him.

Season 3, Ep 1: Alice's son, Tommy, is becoming a behavior problem at home. Mel thinks he can raise him but finds their lifestyles collide, with a bang.

An earthquake shakes up Mel's Diner, but the girls recover quickly when a surprise savings account is disclosed.

Mel tells Alice, Flo, and Vera he must fire one of them to cut overhead.

Singing star Jerry Reed comes to Mel's Diner with some concert tickets and gets stuck there.

The waitresses spend a holiday weekend locked up with Mel in the diner's storeroom.

Mel is celebrating his fiftieth birthday and is expecting a surprise party. When it seems it is not going to happen, he is disappointed; but alice and the gang finally get him, and the party becomes a roast.

Desi Arnaz guests as a famous philandering fashion photographer whose marriage is in trouble.

Flo gets swept off her feet and almost into a Middle Eastern potentate's harem.

Flo's rodeo-riding brother, Jimmy Joe, has his heart set on marrying Alice, all to the distress of his horse, Beatrice, who becomes emotionally upset at the wedding plans.

Alice and the gang at Mel's Diner are shocked when a young man voices his protest over food additives.

Alice's course in psychology causes a lot of friction at the diner, but with a happy ending.

Alice must delicately rebuff the romantic advances of basketball star Stretch Parker -- a high school senior.

Flo causes chaos at the diner with her failing eyesight, and then causes almost as much of a stir when she gets -- and loses -- her contact lens.

Vera believes that God is visiting Mel's Diner when George Burns drops in. She has seen his movie, "Oh God!", three times and her faith is unshakable; until Flo intervenes as only Flo can.

Mel ruins everyone's holiday -- until he thinks of a unique scheme to provide Alice and the others a white Christmas. The only problem is, their gets stuck in a snowstorm.

Alice finds herself in the middle of a miracle as Flo and Mel find themselves romantically attracted to each other.

At Alice's for a brunch, Mel injures his back and has to stay there for two weeks, so the girls bring his poker game to him -- with hilarious results.

Alice and the gang at the diner discover that one of their regular customers may be a notorious gangster and fugitive for the last 30 years -- who is now wanted by the FBI as a witness.

Alice, Flo, and Vera go to a new singles' bar in hopes of meeting Mr. Wonderful, who turns out to be a rat.

Alice is moonlighting as a singer while Mel is irate at her tardiness caused by lack of sleep.