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The women of the Danfield Fire Department are talked into staging Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra for their fundraiser show. Lucy schemes her way into the lead as Cleopatra with Viv as Marc Antony. The two dueling divas try to upstage each other during their death scene to the dismay of their pretentious director Professor Gitterman.
The high cost of their kids' birthday parties inspires Lucy and Viv's latest money-making scheme. They'll make easy money with their own children's party business. What can goes wrong does at their first event.
Lucy and Viv have an after season softball match for the womens volunteer fire department. Lucy is benched until another player gets dilusional and Lucy catches the winning ball in her huge and oversized pants!!
Lucy makes a bad impression on new bank president Theodore Mooney. After he refuses to advance her money, she tests her home hair cutting kit on his son, Arnold. Going to the bank to apologize for the mohawk, she locks Mooney and herself in the vault until the next morning.
Lucy accidentally locks Mr. Mooney in the bank vault and finds a "can opener" turned candy store owner to open the vault. Once he opens the vault, he goes back to his old ways and steals several bags full of money and locks Viv and Lucy in his candy shop.
Enamored with her handsome, wealthy blind date, Lucy agrees to go duck hunting. After frightening all the ducks away, Lucy creates her own duck call, luring swarms of ducks.
When Lucy finds a note in Mr. Mooney's office that reads "ten thousand dollars buried in back yard," she and Viv spend the night digging up Mr. Mooney's backyard.
Lucy tries to wangle money out of Mr. Mooney to redecorate, but can only manage enough to do a few things herself. Things are going good until she decides to use fabric paint on her sofa and the sprayer malfunctions.
When Mr. Mooney and the town finance commitee refuse to fund the incompetent Danfield women's volunteer fire department, Lucy sets off a smoke bomb in the bank so the volunteers can rush in and pretend to save the day.
Lucy tries to sneak into a Military Academy disguised as a cadet to visit her son, Jerry, before visitor's day.
Lucy goes to her college reunion. While she's there, she helps Chris and some of her friends steal the bell tower statue. She and Viv end up having to put it back or suffer the consequences. They get locked on the top of the tower, until the Dean discovers them.
Sherman leaves the water in the bathtub running and it runs over, making the plaster in the ceiling below collapse. Mr. Mooney convinces Lucy that it's Viv's fault and they threaten to throw Viv out if she doesn't pay for the damages. They take out their lease and in it, it says that the rent will be considered down payment for the house, after five years, if the tenant desires. Viv has Mr. Mooney and Lucy thinking that she will and they end up trying to steal it from her, while she's sleeping.
Viv's cousin comes to New York to play percussion in Manhattan. When he arrives at the house, he's a nervous wreck and Lucy tries to relax him by telling jokes, but gets the hicups from laughing. Lucy tries to cure him by hypnotizing him, but she puts him in a heavy sleep and he won't wake up. Lucy ends up playing in the symphony in his place and makes the conductor mad and she takes his place.
Lucy needs Mr. Mooney to give her some money to buy Chris a dress for a dance, but Mr. Mooney is in the hospital with a broken leg. Lucy is a hospital helper and on the next day she has work, she tries to get Mr. Mooney to sign the check. She gets kicked off the floor Mr. Mooney is staying on and dresses as a doctor to get into his room.
When both Lucy and Viv enroll in an art class to win the affections of handsome John Brooks III, Vivian tricks Lucy into posing for the class so she can get a date with Brooks.
Chris decides to go steady with a boy who turns out to be Mr. Mooney's son. Lucy and Mr. Mooney don't like it and team up to show the kids a lesson by teaching them the real responsiblities of a serious relationship. And then the two adults must camp out in a treehouse to make sure the two don't elope.
To be near her golf-nut boyfriend Gary, Lucy decides to learn the sport. After just six lessons, with a handicap of 36, she's bona fide lousy. This doesn't prevent her from playing in a tournament with her boyfriend against two guys she's never heard of, Jimmy Demaret and Bo Wininger.
When Lucy happens upon Ethel Merman at the bank, then Ethel and Mr. Mooney must make up a fake name and tell Lucy that she only looks like Ethel Merman. Soon after, Lucy is in need of money, as usual, and decides to let this Ethel Merman look alike rent a room. Soon after Lucy is giving her lessons how to perform and sing like Ethel Merman.
When Lucy discovers that Ethel Merman and Mr. Mooney made up a story to hid the singer's real identity, she can't help but come up with the nerve to as Ethel to perform at her son's boy scout pageant. Ethel accepts and she does the show, along with Lucy and Mr. Mooney.
Lucy talks Viv into dipping into her "nest egg" and buying a small restaurant that's for sale. Unable to attract even a single customer, they also fail miserably as a gypsy tea room and a Colonial American themed restaurant. Even so, Mr. Mooney becomes interested in being a partner when he learns of a new highway's being built nearby.
Mr. Mooney hires Lucy to give a new toaster to anyone who opens a savings account. Lucy tries to drum up business by getting her friends to close out their savings accounts and then redeposit the money as new accounts, leading to a rumor that the bank is failing!
The gals have a spat and Viv moves out. Penny-pincher Mooney forces Lucy get a new tenant immediately so in moves nightclub singer Roberta Schaeffer and her son. Their non-stop rehearsals of "Up a Lazy River" get old quickly. By now, Viv wants back in and Lucy desperately wants to lose the chronic songbirds.
Lucy and Vivian are kept up all night by Mr. Mooney's new barking sheepdog, Nelson. When she complains, sarcastic Mooney tells her to sue him. She does and acts as her own lawyer. Lucy's melodramatic courtroom skills were all learned from watching Perry Mason on TV.
When Italian millionaire Umberto Fabriani asks Lucy on a date, Lucy spills spaghetti sauce all over Mr. Fabriani's best suit, compelling her and Mr. Mooney to break into the cleaners.
Mr. Mooney's campaign for city comptroller suffers a major setback when Lucy and Viv become volunteers. The ladies put up a Mooney billboard that makes his face looks like a Picasso. Even worse, Lucy forgets to book the Scottish bagpipe band for the big rally.
Mr. Mooney heads up a Cub Scout camping trip in the woods when Lucy and Viv show up to replace an ill father. After losing the canoe, Lucy goes searching for it and gets lost. The rescue team of Mooney and Vivian also fare poorly, unable to find the redhead or their way back to camp.
Lucy takes a temp job as a process server for an attorney service and must serve Mr. Mooney with a subpoena or lose her job. He's leaving on vacation, so she chases him to the train station and serves him the wrong papers. Determined, she goes to his stateroom on board a ship, but stays a little too long.
Lucy's tired of the incessant jokes about her lousy cooking by Vivian and the bridge club ladies. To prove them wrong, she enters the annual pie banking challenge intending to defeat perennial winner Viv. At the competition, Lucy's incompetence in the kitchen in on display for the whole town to view.
