Did you ever ask yourself how the Weissmans are so well off? Rose doesn't work; Abe was a professor at Columbia, a job that isn't known for raking in the big bucks; and his Bell Labs was short lived. Turns out Rose's trust fund was footing the bill all these years. Well, not anymore. When Rose goes back home to Providence, RI, to ask for more money in her trust, she is so offended by her family's gender-based bias toward her that she gives up her trust entirely in an impassioned moment of liberation. Unfortunately, now they find themselves in a very precarious situation, especially since Columbia is taking back their gorgeous apartment now that Abe no longer works there.
A desperate and downtrodden Rose and Abe are forced to say goodbye to their fabulous, never-ending Upper West Side palace of an apartment. What's worse is they have no other choice but to go and move in with Shirley and Moishe in Forest Hills, Queens. As intolerable as they are, it's nice of the Maisels to open up their home. Unable to part, they bring Zelda with them, but later in the season they must let her go due to their poor financial status.
Rose and Abe are lost this season; they're displaced from their home and both searching for purpose. An unemployed Abe finds himself hanging around a group of beatniks, starting a communist newspaper, and getting arrested with . . . Lenny Bruce. When Rose learns she has quite the knack for matchmaking, it seems like a business path she may be heading down by the season's end.
