The Maples

Ed and Evie Maples have four grown children: Janette, 28, who left Ohio the day she graduated and moved to Oregon; Toby, 25, who stayed, married "a terrific gal" named Margie, got a job in a mobile home factory; Darcy, 22, went to community college "to become a fireman", is married and has a 3-year-old; Jonnie, just 19, now The Wild One with the blue-haired girlfriend. All gather one Friday at the Old Home Place for a family funeral only to discover that their father has changed--since Wednesday. To their shock and horror, he has become "nice." Even Evie can't explain it. Over the course of four days, Janette takes us on a hilarious trip down Maples Memory Lane to try and understand just what the hell has gotten into him. Along the way, greater mysteries are unearthed--some, literally--amidst the tragedies of life and a wildly dysfunctional extended family of crazy cousins and grandparents. The Maples is a comic delight told through the eyes of the family's perennial misfit who has some of her own mysteries to solve.