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Lucille Ball and Richard Denning star as Liz and George Cooper in a domestic situation comedy about marriage, neighbors, misunderstandings, and everyday life.
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Liz's plan to sit for a portrait by an attractive artist leaves George struggling with jealousy and turns a simple painting session into marital comedy.
Liz's efforts to contribute baked goods to a charity bazaar go badly enough that she and George wind up involved in the event's kissing booth instead.
Liz is stunned when her mother announces plans to marry a wealthy Texan, and meeting his colorful friends and customs makes the proposed match even more chaotic.
Trying to revive a romance for General Timberlake, Liz launches a well-meaning scheme that spirals into comic confusion and elaborate historical playacting.
Baby booties, money worries and overheard conversations convince George that Liz is expecting a child, even though nearly everything he thinks he knows is wrong.
Liz's desire to act with the Young Matrons League convinces George she has developed a theatrical obsession he must somehow cure.
Liz secretly joins a play, but her efforts to conceal it collapse when George unexpectedly becomes part of the production and the performance descends into confusion.
Trying to cover up an overdrawn bank account, Liz turns to selling dresses at a department store and creates a larger mess than the one she hoped to hide.
When household appliances fail, Liz decides a radio quiz show is the answer to replacing them, despite George's strong doubts about her plan.
Katy exaggerates her social standing to impress a wealthy pen pal, forcing everyone around her into an increasingly complicated masquerade when he comes to visit.
Newly licensed Liz gets into an automobile accident and soon finds the mishap tangled with a misunderstanding involving a missing society woman.
Liz tries to arrange a date for a teenage girl, but her matchmaking maneuver instead places George in an awkward and highly comic situation.
An unexpected babysitting assignment forces Liz and George to pretend a baby is their own, creating a day of escalating confusion for the childless couple.
Determined to become George's best pal, Liz adopts his interests and joins him on a camping trip that proves far less harmonious than she imagined.
Liz wants a new party dress but tries to save money by making it herself, setting up a battle between her ambitions, her sewing ability and George's thriftiness.
Liz's fascination with numerology becomes part of an elaborate attempt to stop a rent increase involving the landlord and supposed messages from his late wife.
After Liz's spending puts the household over budget, George imposes a diet of beans and sparks a comic struggle over money that ends in an elaborate prank.
A domestic argument over music grows into a competitive battle when Liz and George both decide to pursue the same radio contest prize.
A mistake on Liz and George's marriage license makes them wonder whether they were ever legally married and throws their domestic life into comic uncertainty.
An expensive hat prompts Liz and George to swear complete honesty with each other, but the truth proves far more embarrassing than either expected.
Embarrassed by a poor intelligence-test score, Liz sets out to become more cultured and accidentally talks herself into giving a speech before a prestigious civic forum.
Liz attempts to arrange a Valentine's romance for a shy neighbor, but misplaced affection and misunderstandings carry the scheme all the way into court.
To prove she can be independent, Liz takes a secretarial position with George and creates chaos at exactly the wrong moment during an important bank examination.
Liz's absentminded habits create one mix-up after another, eventually involving a police-station identity mistake and a car that appears to have been stolen.
Liz and George learn that both of their mothers are coming to visit, prompting competing attempts to derail the visits and producing romantic complications no one expected.
Liz pressures George into appearing at a Red Cross benefit, and her well-meaning campaign ends with a string of complications and a disastrous turn onstage.
April Fool's jokes between Liz and George get out of hand when several lipstick-marked handkerchiefs turn harmless pranks into a marital misunderstanding.
Feeling ignored, Liz decides to become more assertive, but defending her rights keeps escalating until a dispute over a vending machine brings the law into the argument.
Jealous of the woman who rides with George, Liz secretly takes horseback lessons and discovers that learning to ride is considerably harder than hiding why she started.
George tries to cure Liz's constant lateness with a rigid time budget, but the new schedule creates more confusion than punctuality and produces an unexpected career benefit.
Liz imagines a luxurious vacation while George prefers a rugged trailer trip, and their competing ideas of relaxation turn planning the holiday into its own adventure.
A wager over which wife can lose more weight turns dieting into a competition and eventually inspires a decidedly dishonest final weigh-in at the neighborhood market.
Liz thinks George has given her an extravagant mink coat for their anniversary, but a delivery mistake turns the dream gift into a costly comic misunderstanding.
When Liz becomes convinced she is growing old, George launches increasingly desperate attempts to prove otherwise and only makes her worries harder to control.
George's exaggerated concern over illness takes an ironic turn when Liz is the one who actually needs surgery, sending the couple into a chaotic hospital visit.
Liz sets out to demonstrate how ridiculous gossip can be, but a mishap at the beauty parlor gives the rumor mill far more material than she intended.
Trying to behave like considerate neighbors, Liz and George become responsible for a damaged television, a lawsuit and a courtroom battle that goes spectacularly wrong.
Liz's inability to make up her mind disrupts dinner plans and then sparks a larger misunderstanding when she uses an old unfinished letter to test George's devotion.
An unfinished scrapbook sends Liz wandering through memories and old stories, repeatedly delaying the movie night George is trying to get started.
Returning from vacation, Liz and George are pulled into an odd situation involving a child, imaginary elves and a business deal important enough to make everyone play along.
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