Stu’s plans to spend the Admission Day holiday in bed are interrupted by younger members of the family
A bogus talent agent fills June's and Joyce's heads with visions of stardom, and Stu is determined to shut the guy down.
Thanks to Willie, Stuart Erwin's listing in the new phone book is wrong. Now he's getting calls for a shady gangster named Erwin Stuart from his floozy girlfriend and "business" associates. A parade of unsavory types parade through Stu's home as he's trying to impress the membership director of the country club.
Thinking Joyce and Drexel are going to run away to get married, Stu gets assistance from Willie to prevent them from running off.
When the neighbors get an automatic dishwasher June becomes envious. Stu with Willie's help decides to build one for her. Disaster strikes when Jackie uses a how to page for gum and an entire box of laundry soap gets dumped in the machine.
Stu confuses peroxide for hair oil and becomes a blonde and Joyce confuses herself with a glamorous beauty queen and buys a too brief bathing suit.
June agrees to debate the anonymous author of a men's rights manifesto published in the local newspaper, not realizing it was submitted by Stu.
Concerned about a string of burglaries in the neighborhood, Stu decides to install a burglar-alarm system in the house. He gets Willie to help him, but together the two don't quite get things right.
Stu and Harry are looking forward to a vacation camping in the wilderness, while their wives insist on a trip to glamorous New York.
Joyce and Nancy’s parents interfere in order to help their daughters in their feud over Drexel. The Erwins give a barbecue in order to lure the boy to their house.
After catching Jackie in a fib, Stu makes her swear to always tell the truth. Keeping her promise, she proceeds to cause a fight between Drexel and Joyce, insult a tacky-dressing neighbor, and tell rude Uncle George what everyone really thinks of him.
Stu is convinced by his friend Fred Billings to go on a hunting trip, against the better judgment of Stu's wife June. When the men get to the campsite deep in the mountains, Stu learns that Fred's idea of roughing it is quite different from most outdoorsmen's.
Stu secretly takes over the school newspaper's gossip column. He immediately causes a ruckus by printing some info that causes problems with their friends the Hodges and interferes with Joyce's dating life.
Stu jumps to conclusions and thinks June has spent their extra money on an second-hand love seat. Not knowing she simply accepted its delivery for a neighbor, he calls a junk-man to haul it away. It's off to the auction to buy it back.
June and Adele decide to pit their pickle making skills by entering the county fair. Stu and Harry leave both jars on Stu's office desk and while the principal is distracted, Selkirk consumes both batches not realizing they were intended for the competition. Not willing to admit their blunder, the men decide to make their own pickles and enter the results under their wives' names.
Stu unexpectedly receives a $1,000 bonus check then reluctantly lets friend Harry invest it in buying a building. The building comes with a failing dress shop that Stu and Harry try to save. Their wives believe they are cheating in them.
Disappointed in the poorly constructed literature she is given to read, Jackie writes a children's book with animal characters based on the people around her but the Erwin social circle are mortified because they think it is an exposé.
Every day events are aggravating Stu so June suggests the two of them check into a hotel for a weekend rest. Unfortunately the place they choose is full of tipsy conventioneers and a grumpy repairman keeps dropping in to bother them.
Alarmed at the rising price of groceries, Stu buys chickens and a cow to save on eggs and milk, with predictable, disastrous results.
Joyce and Jackie find a love letter Stu wrote for a girl ages ago and assume that he has a girlfriend as well.
Townspeople make a big deal over the fact that Stu may be related to a Revolutionary War figure, and he's loving all the attention. A genealogist uncovers the embarrassing truth: Stu's ancestor was a traitor.
Stu is to receive an award from a Latin American group for a paper he wrote about being a good neighbor. Mr. Reynoldo, the presenter, is coming to dinner just as a disagreement erupts with their friends the Johnsons, who live next door.
Stu receives an offer from a high school in Chicago and his daughters assume he has accepted the offer. Soon, the whole town is gossipping with talk of his leave.
Jackie does chores so her friend Marsha, who's in a wheelchair, can attend the circus. But when it doesn't work out Stu dresses as a clown and Don as a gorilla to entertain the kids. But then a real ape makes a surprise appearance.
For Stu's birthday, Willie pretends to be his butler. He's also receives a gift, a TV set, that is broken.
Stu imagines all sorts of dire situations when Jackie goes to the theater for the first time. Stu is mistaken for a “peeping Tom” when he looks for her at Moonlight Point.
Stu remembers the anniversary of his engagement for a change and buys his wife an string of imitation pearls. June mistakenly opens her neighbor's present to his wife, an expensive pearl necklace that's the real thing, and thinks that Stu bought them for her.