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Lucy and her son Jerry arrive in LA (her daughter has gone to bording school, and Vivian has gotten married, it is explained), where, coincidentally, Mr. Mooney has also relocated to. Lucy coerces Mr. Mooney into taking her and Jerry to Marine Land, where Lucy ultimately ends up in the pool with the dolphins.
Neighbor Mary Jane Lewis introduces herself and invites Lucy on a double date with her and her boyfriend. Lucy's blind date is a shy, short, nerd with little discernible personality. But during their dinner at a Greek restaurant, the music transforms him into a grabby Lothario who can't stop dancing.
Lucy takes a temp job at a record label to make some extra cash. Her neighbor, songwriter Mel Tinker, has his tune rejected by Lucy's boss because it's not a tear-jerking rock 'n roll song. Mel and Lucy write a new one about a surfer who's eaten by a shark oh his wedding day and (as the Tear Ducts) perform it on the teen music TV show Wing Ding.
Lucy's neighbor Joan, an actress, gives her a pair of tickets to a celebrity charity ball. Since Lucy doesn't have a date to escort her to the event, Joan helps her woo handsome Brad Collins who also lives in the complex. The gals stake out the laundry room so Lucy can work her charms on him. She even bakes a cake for his birthday, though it doesn't survive the tumble dry cycle.
Lucy tries to fool Mr. Mooney into advancing her money for a new refrigerator by sabotaging the one she has. Her scheme backfires when he finds her real need for the money: a leopard coat she's lusting over. Conveniently, Lucy's friend Joan is dating a Hollywood stuntman with a bad back. Seeing a chance at a quick $100, Lucy reports to the set in a cowboy costume and mustache as stuntman Iron Man Carmichael.
Old friend the Countess Framboise, aka Rosie Hannigan, shows up flat broke except for the racehorse her husband left her. Unable to pay the stable bill, Lucy volunteers to keep Oil Well on her patio. Mooney is livid about the scheme until learning that the horse is pregnant. Then he's as excited and proud as a real father, declaring, "I'm going to be a Daddy!"
Mr. Mooney instructs Lucy to deliver some documents to Danny Thomas, and through a series of misunderstandings, she ends up performing in his musical act.
The Countess Framboise now has her real estate license and Mooney's looking for a new place. She doesn't want him to know she's broke and working, so Lucy pulls a scam to get Mooney up to a highrise apartment the countess is selling. It's equipped with ultra-modern devises like a security system that locks the three of them in the apartment for the whole weekend.
Lucy and Mooney visit a construction site where the redhead falls head-over-heels for Frank, owner of a construction company. When he comes over for a date, he's completely exhausted, having worked 48 hours straight. Lucy suggests a nap, which is a bad idea. Because he learned karate in the military, he's in the attack mode when awakened. Lucy becomes trapped on the couch when Frank dozes off on top of her.
Dining with Mr. Mooney after attending a James Bond movie, Lucy and the Countess are convinced the suspicious character at a nearby table is an enemy spy. They set a trap for the operative, unaware he's an Army Intelligence agent who thinks they're spies. Their scheme to meet "Him", the enemy leader, involves Lucy pretending to be Carol Channing.
Mr. Mooney runs into Lucy and Mary Jane at the racetrack. He asks them to hold onto his tickets while he chats with a friend. In a photo finish, the wrong horse is reported as the winner, leading Lucy to tear up Mooney's tickets. To pay Mooney his winnings, Lucy again becomes stuntman "Iron Man Carmichael" to drum up some cash.
Uncle Miltie is masquerading as a drunken bum while researching a movie role. He comes into the soup kitchen where Lucy is volunteering and is literally dragged to her house for rehabilitation. Once recognized, he makes up a story about being Berle's down-and-out brother, Arthur. Outraged that Milton would neglect his twin so badly, she infiltrates his next press event and gets revenge.
Lucy Carmichael's 1st Christmas in California has Lucy expressing determination not to spend too much on presents & Christmas tree in a typical tete a tete with a dubious Mr. Mooney. She succeeds in mixing up all of Mr. Mooney's gift tags for his wrapped Christmas presents. Lucy shops for a Christmas tree with the scene ending with Lucy knocking lots of the inventory over with her new large tree. Lucy recruits Mr. Mooney to sing bass with the children's choir at a charity event at the bank.
Farm boy Wayne Newton finds Mr. Mooney's dog, Nelson, after it gets away from dog-sitter Lucy. When she goes to claim the critter, Lucy's impressed by his voice and hooks him up with a record company owner. The problem arises in the recording studio; Wayne can't sing unless he's surrounded by his cows and other assorted livestock.
Mr. Mooney forgets to sign an important paper, so Lucy follows him to the dude ranch where he's vacationing. While searching the grounds for him, she encounters a group of Indians who declare her the rain goddess. They also think "Hopalong" Mooney, dressed in black, is an evil spirit. If she doesn't dance up a storm, they're both in trouble.
As a contestant on Linkletter's television show, Lucy is offered $200 if she can shut up for 24 hours. Art sends along another audience member, Ruth, to see how she does. Ruth's a plant from the show who tries her best to make Lucy scream, as are the one-armed "fugitive" and cop who shoot it out in her apartment, and the guy in the gorilla suit that attacks her.
Lucy moonlights at a department store to pay for a dinette set she's buying. Throughout the day she has run-ins with a haughty, hefty society matron who keeps getting her bounced from one department to another. Lucy ends her sales career in sporting goods where she has trouble with stilts, handballs, and a motorized skateboard.
Mickey's getting a loan from the bank to buy an acting school. To his eventual regret, he also gets Mr. Mooney and Lucy as his students. The three of them star in a take-off on silent movie comedies with Lucy impersonating Charlie Chaplin, Mickey as a "kid", Mooney as a store proprietor, and lots of crazy cops.
Lucy's not going to stand idly by while an actor friend is written out of her favorite soap opera, Camden Cove. Disguised as a Japanese gardener and also as a little old lady, Lucy harasses the show's writer into finding the friend's character not guilty in the big trial. When that fails, she disrupts the taping of the episode to make one final appeal to the jury.
Lucy, the world's biggest movie fan, manages to get into a big Hollywood movie premiere by filling-in as a theater usher. As the stars arrive, she disrupts proceedings on the red carpet by fawning over the celebrities and getting into a fight with a gorilla. Look for cameos from Kirk Douglas, Jimmy Durante, Edward G. Robinson, Vince Edwards, and the "Mayor of Hollywood" Johnny Grant.
Lucy is set up on a date with Dean Martin's stunt double. When the double can't make it, Dean himself substitutes on the date. During the date Lucy keeps telling him how bad it is that Dean Martin is stealing all of his glory.
Actor Bob Crane comes into the bank to open an account and leaves with a dinner date with "shy and demur" little Lucy. Since the bank has invested in Bob's new WWI picture, Mr. Mooney knows the director. Just for the joy of irritating Lucy, Mooney guarantees that Iron Man Carmichael will do stunts for the flick.
Lucy helps an inventor friend get some badly needed funding. She figures Mr. Mooney will approve some cash if they help him with the miscreant 13-year-old nephew he's stuck with. Her genius pal builds a life-sized robot soldier to entertain the brat, but its doesn't survive a Lucy-induced fall down the stairs. Lucy passes herself off as the robot and gives the delinquent some much-needed discipline.
Lucy takes her boyfriend Frank's measurements on the sly and stays up all night knitting him a red sweater. Come morning, she realizes it's big enough to cover a car and that he hates the color red. At the company picnic, she tries her best to ditch the gift rather than giving it to him, but it keeps finding its way back to her.
Federal agent Stack discovers that Lucy is a dead ringer for gangster Gordon's moll and gets her to go undercover in order to recover missing bank robbery loot. This episode was a spoof of the classic crime drama "The Untouchables," which was produced and filmed at Desilu Studios.
When a heavy computer falls on Mooney's foot, Lucy's adrenaline kicks in, allowing her to lift the huge machine by herself. Strangely, her adrenal gland stays "on," giving her superhuman strength. This new power causes Lucy to destroy everything she touches, ripping doors from their frames and leaving wrecked furniture in her wake. While the doctors gawk in amazement, the product endorsements pour in.
