Plot summary
When Victoria's sister Bess ( Jean Smart ) announces that their mother, Penny ( Carol Burnett ), is acting strangely and has started forgetting things, the girls all take a trip to Canoga Falls to visit. Victoria finds her mother has become a hoarder and talks only through her sock puppets. Her worries are compounded when Bess announces she has begun dating a childhood friend and the two plan to travel the county together in a motor home. Victoria decides the best thing for her mother is an assisted living facility back in Cleveland, but Penny has already revealed to Elka that she only pretended to be crazy so that Victoria would visit. Penny ultimately moves to Cleveland, where she is almost immediately hit on by Nick ( Tim Conway ), one of Elka's former boyfriends.
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Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Hot in Cleveland season 4. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.