- Dharma's ticketed while feeding parking meters in a 'random act of kindness,' and her fight with city hall leads her to run for a seat with the Board of Supervisors. Jane and Pete marry for Valentine's Day.
- When Dharma persists putting money in other peoples parking meters, even after a warden's warning that's illegal, she gets eight tickets but ignores Greg's advice not to fight the city, only to find red tape in city hall runs long enough to wear down anyone dumb enough to try. After Jane suspects her boy-friend in jail has another and Pete admits his girl Eileen is invented, they decide to celebrate Valentine's day by- getting married... Greg tells Dharma complaints on principles should go before the board of supervisors anyhow- which turns out to be a parade of hopeless nut-cases, the chairman even gets a fatal cardiac arrest from them. Alas Dharama takes hat as a karmic sign she should run for his succession...—KGF Vissers
- Dharma has a dehumanizing experience with bureaucratic red tape. She was told it is against the law to put money into meter maids, when it's not your car, which she does as her random acts of kindness. Dharma is issued 8 tickets by the parking enforcement officer. Greg tells Dharma to pay the fine as he says that she cannot fight city hall. She wants to fight city hall but is given the run-around by uncaring government employees. Dharma is sent from one desk to another and made to wait in long queues before she is sent to another desk without her issues being addressed. She is eventually issued a building permit, and she does not even have a house. She gets a fishing license, and she can also open up a bakery. If she gets a paper notarized, she will be legally blind. Eventually, Dharma ends up at the same desks where she had started her day at.
She returns home agitated and angry and with one more parking ticket, as she spent way too much time at city hall. Dharma wanted to get a gun permit to go on a shooting spree, but the line for that was too long and she can understand why. Greg tells her to pay the tickets, but Dharma says that the law is wrong. Greg encourages her to attend the city hall council weekly meeting where they take suggestions from the public.
The supervisor of the board has a heart attack in the middle of the meeting, from all the stupid suggestions. One of the suggestions was to remove all books from the public library with words like Tushy and victim. One was to rename the city's official dish from Rice-A-Rooni to something that his mother used to make but he can't remember the name of. One person claims he is an alien and brings a message to humans from his civilization. That's when Dharma decides to run for office.
Edward says Dharma will need a lot of campaign contributions to run for office. Dharma gets the indication that even Greg does not believe that she can win. Dharma decides to reach out to the people and get them to vote for her. She threatens City Hall employee into accepting her application (She says that the first thing she would do if she won, would be to fire this employee for not accepting her application), but her door-to-door campaign goes badly, and the city doesn't care. Everybody slams their door on Dharma's face.
Thanks to a pair of wacky opponents. One of them is the mistress of the dead supervisor & Ditzy, and the other is an alien wacky wannabe, and a hefty campaign contribution from Edward ($78,400), she may have a real shot.
Pete is feeling lonely and lethargic. He made up a fake girlfriend, just to pretend to his colleagues that he has a social life. Pete gets depressed that his life is empty and has no meaning. Jane is feeling lonely as well. Her boyfriend was up for parole, and he deliberately blew the hearing, which tells Jane that he found someone else. Meanwhile, Pete and Jane find a shocking way to fight the alone-on-Valentine's-Day blues. They get married at city hall.
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