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Wanting to spend more time with her daughter, Lucy & Chris go roller skating. But when Lucy gets home, she can't get the skates off because her feet had swollen, and she has to wear them to a dance that night.
Mr. Mooney approves of Lucy hiring a plumber to fix her kitchen, and the one who shows up looks exactly like Jack Benny (and his assistant bears resemblance to Bob Hope).
To impress her athletic boyfriend, Lucy exaggerates her ability to play any sport. In reality, she stinks at all of them. When he invites her on a ski trip, she talks Mr Mooney into giving her lessons at the house. Mooney suffers at the hands of the redhead who's armed with sharp poles and long skis suitable for whacking him on his rear.
Lucy's needs a $110 advance, but Mooney refuses it as he leaves for a convention. She immediately goes to work on his fill-in, an old childhood sweetheart of hers. Unable to recall the pet name she had for him, she schemes with Viv to fake amnesia, hoping he'll say it while trying to jar her memory. Lucy takes a conk on the head and really blanks out, ruining her own plan.
To earn extra money, Lucy decides to rent Vivian's room to two men who want to go to the World's Fair, Vivian having to stay in Lucy's room. After discovering $8,500 stashed in Viv's mattress, Lucy thinks her friend robbed a bank. They quickly realize the cash was heisted from Mooney's bank the night before by the two gentlemen. When the robbers return unexpectedly, Lumpy Lucy stashes the money in her sweatpants while Viv calls the cops.
Lucy and Viv don't have enough money for their boys to stay at camp the additional two weeks. On the trip to pick them up, the car runs out of gas. The ladies have no luck at flagging down a passing motorist, but Mooney does. He catches the eye of a flirtatious little old lady who calls him "Big Boy." Learning the camp cooks have quit, Lucy volunteers herself and Viv to take over as chefs despite knowing nothing about feeding 200 people. In short order, the kitchen and most of the food is destroyed.
When Lucy's new job as a meter maid goes to her head, she accuses Viv of many violations and takes her to traffic court.
Meter maid Carmichael and handsome Detective Baker masquerade as a Lovers Lane couple to catch a crook. After scaring off the criminal on their first night by turning on the siren, Lucy talks Viv into masquerading as Green Scarf Louie the next evening, not expecting the real one to show up again.
Lucy goes with Jerry on a father-son camping trip. The other fathers don't like having a woman "dad" around, so they conspire to make things so tough she'll go running home. Their plans start fall apart when Lucy cleans them out at poker and isn't afraid of a wild bear.
One of Lucy's new contact lenses pops out when she's icing a chocolate fudge cake for a bake sale. After buying and searching through fifteen gooey cakes, she learns Mooney bought hers. She can't tell him she lost an expensive contact, so she and Viv sneak into his house in the middle of the night to pull a dessert switch.
Lucy and Viv are envious of the snooty women of the Danfield Art Society, all of whom have their own maids. Lucy decides they must have one, too, so to afford a maid, Lucy goes to work as a maid. She's hired by a society matron who's throwing a dinner party--for the members of the Art Society.
Lucy and Viv are "birdsitting" Mr. Mooney's pet cockatiel when it escapes its cage and perches on a telephone line outside. To reach the creature, Lucy climbs up on the roof in a grass skirt (her pants split) and rubber swim flippers (for insulation from the power lines). When this fails, the gals resort to buying another cockatiel and try and pass it off as Mooney's beloved bird.
When Jerry finds a penny worth fifty cents, Lucy & Viv withdraw 2,000 pennies from the bank, and search through them until they find one worth $16.50. When Lucy drops the penny down a storm drain, they disguise themselves as workmen, and climb their way through the sewer system searching for it.
While trying to sell Mr. Mooney a vacuum cleaner, Lucy accidentally vacuums up a stamp Mr. Mooney had just bought for $3,000. When the stamp winds up on an envelope sent through the mail, Lucy breaks into the post office to get it back.
Lucy is determined to get tickets to The Danny Kaye Show since she's already promised the kids she could. She goes directly to Danny, posing as a model, and destroys his lunch meeting by making him wear all the courses. He agrees to slip her in as an extra in a crowd scene; all she has to do is blend into the background. This is something Lucy is incapable of doing.
When Lucy and Viv break the ceramic cat Mr. Mooney plans to give his wife as a surprise birthday present, Lucy winds up pretending to be a mechanical man in a department store window to steal another ceramic cat.
Lucy wins a free trip to Vegas, but she and Viv have only $5 spending money. The gals get dressed up and pose as big-money gamblers Pamela Pettibone and Penelope Poopendorf to score some free "comps" from the casino. The trick works so well that an oil tycoon asks Lucy to win back the $10,000 he's lost and he'll give her whatever she wins over that amount.
The boys are unfazed by the horror flicks they see at movies, but Lucy is scared stupid. In her nightmare, she and Viv break down at Dracula's castle and are tormented by his werewolf butler Ringo and gorilla maid Loretta. Tired of his lousy hired help, Dracula turns the gals into ghastly witches to act as his new housekeeper and cook.
Status-conscious Mr. Mooney is impressed by Lucy's childhood friend Rosie Harrigan, now known as the Countess Framboise. Despite her title, she's just a widow who's flat broke. Mooney invites the ladies to attend a meeting of his high society wine-tasting club. The two guzzle wine on empty stomachs and proceed to get rip-roaring plastered.
To get the financing to open a charm school, the Countess seeks to impress the snobbish Mrs. Dunbar and her henpecked husband. Lucy masquerades as a ratty scrub woman whom she molds into a sparkling debutante. Things turn sour at Liza's coming out party when Lucy's allergy to caviar kicks in. On the up side, the mousy husband finally speaks up.
Mr. Mooney's made a bad investment in a "fat farm". Lucy and the Countess volunteer to attend to generate some needed publicity. In no time, the brutal regime has the two plotting an escape.
The Countess doesn't want her foreign visitors to know she's broke. Lucy's solution is to borrow a dilapidated mansion and get Viv to help her do a quick fix-up on the place. As the Countess hosts a party for her guests, the ladies' temporary improvements begin to fall apart.
Lucy & Viv are able to talk Arthur Godfrey to appear in a local musical they and their community actors are putting on. Lucy plays Lucy Bell, Mr. Mooney plays the millionaire, and Vivian plays Steamboat Bessie.
In another attempt to squeeze cash out of Mooney, Lucy claims its for medical reasons. Actually, its for a visit to a beauty shop. She has to concoct an even bigger lie when she's caught there by a hidden camera TV show.
When Lucy and Vivian try to get the town's wealthiest doctor to become a depositor in Mr. Mooney's bank, the doctor, mistaking the girls for volunteers for an experiment in hypnosis, regressing them to the age of five.
Lucy wins a contest to be disc jockey for a day, and proceeds to wreak typical, Lucy-style havoc in the radio studio.
