Mike begrudgingly invites his brother Rusty (guest star NORM MACDONALD), who is temporarily living in a tent, and his father Big Mike (guest star JOHN CULLUM), who has recently broken his hip, to join him for the annual Heck family Thanksgiving. But when Frankie observes the macho Heck men's non-communicative nature, she encourages a not-so-receptive Mike to engage them in a real conversation and express their feelings. Meanwhile, Brick is ecstatic when he discovers that Bob is bringing his girlfriend Lisa -- the local librarian who loves books as much as Brick does -- to Thanksgiving; and Sue wants to start a mother-daughter tradition of baking a pie for the holiday but ends up getting more sliced up than the crust.