Mom (season 7)

During her honeymoon at a cabin by the lake with Adam, Bonnie finds herself sabotaging her own happiness without the support that AA meetings provide, but finds stability and then purpose when she begins helping a very troubled young alcoholic mom named Patty. Meanwhile, Adam leaves Christy in charge of the bar, much to Tammy's chagrin. However, when an optimistic Christy tries to implement cost-saving and efficiency measures, the employees refuse to come to work and Christy needs help from her friends to save the day.

An under-staffed Adam asks Christy to help tend the bar. However, when Christy reacts to a customer who insulted her, Adam asks her to apologize, causing a rift between the two and leaving Bonnie to choose sides. Meanwhile, Andy feels insecure when Jill is seemingly better than him at the gym and during a paintball game.

Succumbing to her loud and hostile new boss Veronica's demands, Christy and the girls go to a marijuana dispensary for the tightly-wound woman. However, when Christy finds her boss high in the office, it is up to Christy to help her get sober for an impending meeting. Meanwhile, Bonnie has second thoughts about taking Adam's last name.

When Chef Rudy is court-mandated to attend 10 AA meetings as compensation for a DUI, he tags along with Christy whose patience wears thin due to his condescending attitude. Meanwhile, after eating chocolate from Adam's night stand, Bonnie learns that her husband doesn't feel at home, prompting her to let him bring some of his personal belongings out of storage and into the apartment.

Special guest star: French Stewart as Chef Rudy

When group eccentric Mary (Mary Pat Gleason) passes away unexpectedly during a meeting, the rest of the group is left to cope in various different ways: Jill throws an over-the-top memorial, Christy uses her legal skills to try and get Mary's grandson out of jail, Tammy fears that Marjorie will die next, Bonnie is distraught because the last thing she said to Mary was something mean and resolves to be a better person, and Wendy becomes a shut-in after feeling that her "friends" don't know or care about her any more than they did about Mary.

Absent: William Fichtner as Adam

After seeing an old videotape of Adam on a movie set before his spinal injury, Bonnie tries to figure out why she is obsessed over it. Trevor helps her realize she's thinking that "walking Adam" would have never chosen to be with a woman like herself. Adam convinces Bonnie that the old version of himself was not nice to women, and that they found each other at just the right time. Meanwhile, Christy starts behaving erratically as the numerous stresses of placating her boss Veronica start piling up.

After Bonnie relays a bad experience while she and Adam were on a couples date with two other people, Jill suggests that she and Andy become their couple friends. However, when Adam and Andy drink heavily during a cookout, Jill expresses concern that being around "that kind of drinking" could cause her to relapse. Meanwhile, Tammy secretly tells Christy that she can no longer tolerate living with Marjorie and wants to move out, but Christy gets Tammy to reconsider after Marjorie discloses that she's having money problems.

Bonnie is angry that Adam has stopped listening to her, and turns to her "friend" therapist Trevor for help; she later finds out something about Trevor's own unhappy life, and is sympathetic when Adam reveals why he's so preoccupied. Christy has a meet-cute with a guy whose parents own a car she backed into, after she does the right thing and notifies them. Later, the women gather at Jill's to watch Footloose.

After Tammy's parole officer grants her an early release from probation, Tammy struggles with how to live "rules-free" for the first time in many years and clashes with Adam and anyone else she sees as an authority figure. Meanwhile, Bonnie is giddy over giving Adam a leather jacket for his birthday that he saw on TV and liked, but she quickly turns angry when Adam doesn't seem interested in wearing it. Also, Jill is worried over her recent bouts of sleeplessness, knowing she can't take any medications that would help.

Bonnie invites her troubled AA sponsee Patty to spend Christmas with her and Christy. While the combination of Patty's sad family status and Christy's stories of Bonnie's holiday mayhem and neglect drive Bonnie into a horrified, tearful reflection on her past self, she is able to pull herself out of it and do good work in the present. Elsewhere, Jill annoyingly obsesses over a picture Andy sent from his visit to Minnesota. Later, the group decides to join Wendy for some therapeutic caroling.

Tammy gets a call from her long lost Aunt Cookie (Kathleen Turner), who claims she just recently found out Tammy existed since she had cut ties with the family before Tammy was born. The two get along great, but Cookie quickly admits she only went looking for Tammy because she needs a kidney. Tammy decides to go ahead and get tested to find out if she is a match for Cookie. While Tammy is getting tested, Cookie accidentally lets it slip to Bonnie that she's known about Tammy ever since her mother got pregnant with her. Tammy gets angry and doesn't think she'll ever be able to forgive Cookie for leaving her in the foster-care system. Bonnie assures her that one day she will, the same way Bonnie was able to forgive her mother for dumping her at a fire station. Later, Tammy meets Cookie for lunch and tells her she has no desire for a relationship, but will still donate her kidney if she's a match.

Absent: William Fichtner as Adam

Marjorie is surprised to get a call from her estranged son, Jerry, inviting her to meet her newborn granddaughter (Isla Rose Burton). However, she makes a comment that dredges up old memories, and Jerry throws her out. Despite Marjorie telling them not to meddle, Christy and Bonnie use their own experiences to try and convince Jerry that people can change. Elsewhere, while installing a shelf for Jill, Tammy sees firsthand how her friend treats the help--and she makes it very clear to Jill she won't stand for it.

Absent: William Fichtner as Adam

Bonnie resists her friends' efforts to help her deal with negative thoughts, and also rejects Trevor's guidelines upon seeing that Trevor's marriage has fallen apart. Bonnie ultimately fires Trevor, but conversations with Christy and Adam reveal that her sessions were working and get her to return to therapy. Elsewhere, Tammy makes repairs on the walk-in freezer at Christy's restaurant, leading to an ill-advised hook-up with Chef Rudy.

Special guest star: French Stewart as Chef Rudy

Bonnie grows suspicious of Tammy's Aunt Cookie, believing that the woman is not taking the kidney donation and her second chance at life seriously. Meanwhile, Christy tries to track down a handsome man who smiled at her in the hospital.

Absent: William Fichtner as Adam

While preparing for a charity event to be held at her house, Jill notices that several pieces of silverware are missing. She wrongfully assumes that one of her housekeepers stole from her, only for Bonnie to admit to having taken and sold the pieces five years ago, which causes a huge rift between them. Meanwhile, Christy helps Marjorie prepare for her first date since Victor's death.

After Jill confirms she is starting perimenopause, she decides to tell Andy she wants to have a baby and his response is uncomfortable; they later resolve this and Jill plans to freeze her eggs, only to get devastating news from her doctor. Meanwhile, Christy's dismay over being denied a spot on the law school's mock trial team leads her to strongly consider Jill's offer to pay for Christy to freeze her eggs as well. Wendy gets a promotion at work, but the group's plans to celebrate it don't entirely work out.

Bonnie becomes irritated when she learns Adam never told her that his Al-Anon sponsor Sam is a woman (Courtney Thorne-Smith). Adam tries to prove it's no big deal, but in doing so, only confirms Bonnie's fears. Meanwhile, Tammy reveals that she's still interested in Chef Rudy, but is "playing the game" to make him want her more. Christy tries to use Tammy's techniques on a hot guy in their meeting, but fails badly.

Special guest star: French Stewart as Chef Rudy

Marjorie is overjoyed to finally be trusted (reluctantly) by her son to watch her granddaughter Sofia (Isla Rose Burton). But a medical emergency for one of her cats leads Marjorie to enlist Christy to help, and a chain of comedic errors brings Bonnie, Jill, and Tammy (and avowedly NOT anti-babies Wendy) into the circle of successfully taking care of the little girl.

With Bonnie's therapist, Trevor, in a stupor over his divorce and new living quarters, it is up to Bonnie and Tammy to bring him back to reality. Meanwhile, Marjorie is hired to deliver Chinese food, but she quickly finds re-entering the workforce overwhelming and calls on Christy, Jill, and Wendy for assistance. Seeing that he can use his skills to ease Marjorie's fears helps Trevor get over his own self-loathing.

At Marjorie's request, all of the women from AA decide to attend a sober retreat together. Initially, Marjorie plans every detail of the weekend, including the pairings of roommates: Christy and Bonnie, Tammy and Marjorie, and Jill and Wendy. When the women stop for gas, Marjorie and Wendy go inside, and Tammy, Christy, Bonnie, and Jill decide to change the roommate situation. At the retreat, Tammy tries to convince Jill to loan her money for a van that she needs for her construction business, Bonnie attempts to write a book, Jill is concerned about the cleanliness of the inn, Christy meets a woman in recovery who has been to the retreat before, Marjorie grows tired of being the group's leader, and Wendy gets food poisoning from a gas-station hot dog she ate en route to the retreat. Over the course of the weekend, different women try to avoid one another, but ultimately everyone ends up in the original pairings that Marjorie had planned.

Absent: William Fichtner as Adam