The episode opens with Horace being woken by Marsha, who flirts with him. Marsha brings Dennis the tire store entrepreneur, into the bar on a date. Horace goes to lunch with his daughter Alice; she is a law student, and has accommodation problems after being ripped off by her roommate. Pete is visited by Tricia, a woman with Tourette syndrome he met while he was in a psychiatric hospital.
The series is set in a run-down family-owned bar called Horace and Pete's in Brooklyn, New York. The bar has been owned by the family since 1916 and has been passed down through several generations, always with a Horace and a Pete in charge. The current owners are the 49-year-old Horace Wittel VIII, who inherited the bar when his father Horace Wittel VII died one year earlier, and his 52-year-old cousin Pete.
Horace and Pete - Season 1, Episode 2 Synopsis and Schedule