
"Tyler Perry's House of Payne" is a comedy series about a multi-generational, working-class family who experience all of life's struggles with faith, love and humor. Atlanta firefighter Curtis "Pops" Payne thinks his home is his castle, but he needs a bigger moat around it. His nephew CJ and the kids invade his space for an extended stay, and his penniless son Calvin still visits regularly, mostly for mealtimes and laundry days. Luckily, Curtis has a loving wife who never gives up and keeps him from breaking down.

When Ella learns Curtis went behind her back and put Miranda on a $500 budget to plan their wedding renewal, she debates whether she should marry Curtis all over again.

It looks like someone is occupying the old Caskey house; Curtis enlists C.J. to help him investigate it; when Curtis alerts C.J., Lisa overhears and adds fuel to the fire, stating she saw some suspicious activity happen outside that house.

When Ella discovers the Help Center has fallen into disrepair, she talks Curtis into lending the church money from their savings to fix it up; the couple soon butt heads over the fastest way to get their money back.

Someone breaks into Curtis' food truck, and a much-loved family heirloom, an old Hokie pot used to make his father's special sauce, is stolen.