When the Chief finds this out, he is ready to arrest her, but she agrees to live with Max and help him out at the store.
Samantha, excited that she has gotten into Littlefield College in New Jersey, is let down when she receives a letter in the mail, saying that the school cancelled her scholarship.
Nell is surprised that Addy has a basement apartment, in which the view consists of being able to see tiny dogs and peoples feet who walk by.
Nell gets furious when the construction workers outside make noise and she is not able to hear anyone, so she goes outside and gives them a kick on the leg.
Sam finally shows up in New York to go see a Broadway musical with a new guy friend of hers.
She then decides to rent an apartment in Greenwich Village and gets a 3-year lease on it with an option to buy it without Addy's approval.
Nell is fed up with the new apartment in New York and tells Addy she wants to go back to Glenlawn to get some of that good California air inside of her again.
When Grandpa calls, he tells her that he sold the house to leave Glenlawn behind and move to New York with her.
After Addy is laid off at the University for going on strike, Nell hires her as an assistant at McDillon and Loud's publishing company where she works.
When Joey tells Nell that he is doing a Walk-a-thon fund raiser for his school and wants to sign up sponsors.
Nell finds out that it is Parents' Week at Littlefield College in New Jersey, and she is upset that Samantha didn't invite her to attend it.
When she arrives at the college, Samantha is stunned to see her, and Nell begins to barge in on the students' lives.
She sits in on an English class of Sam's, and Professor Dudley gets upset with her when he mentions the title of his book and she tells him her publishing company turned it down a while back.
Afterwards, she meets a boy named Keith who wants to switch his career from teaching to fashion design, but cannot stand up to his father, who is actually Professor Dudley.
As Sam and Nell are about to go to bed, Sam tells her a secret she has been keeping from her - she is in love with a student named Eric, and they are going to drop out of college and get married and move to South Dakota, where the two will live on a farm and he will work on his novel "The Hayloft", since he doesn't have enough money to stay in school.
Eventually, she changes her mind when she talks to Professor Dudley about it and he tells her to let Sam "Go, go, go", the same advice she gives to his son Keith who wants to go into fashion design.
Nell then realizes she cannot let Samantha throw away her college education and must find a way to stop the wedding.
Nell tries to convince Samantha to stay in college and not marry Eric while helping Keith stand up to his father, Professor Dudley, and Eric get his book published as well as having a college girl, a star player, decide to drop basketball for ROTC.