Birthday Cards
Mel tries to drum up business by mailing flattering birthday cards to dozens of townspeople. The scheme backfires when he discovers every card also promises a gift under separate cover,…
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Mel tries to drum up business by mailing flattering birthday cards to dozens of townspeople. The scheme backfires when he discovers every card also promises a gift under separate cover,…
Betty persuades Mel to adopt an efficiency expert’s system at the fix-it shop, but the spotless new arrangement makes every needed part impossible to find. With a customer demanding her…
Mel’s attempt to avoid embarrassment over baking a cake turns into a full-scale county-fair contest, complete with putty holding his entry together and Zookie trying to dispose of competing cakes.…
Mel takes on repairs at the Colby house, but garbled telephone instructions send Uncle Rupert and Zookie into a demolition spree involving doors and windows. Mr. Colby is briefly delighted…
Mr. Colby enters Mel in a strength contest against district manager Lionel Owens and secretly orders Mel to lose so Owens will remain confident in his job. Uncle Rupert and…
Mel secretly agrees to repair Mr. Cushing’s fishing rod, Sally, and boat, Mary Lou, but overheard references to the two names convince Betty and Mr. Colby that he is seeing…
Mel wants to take Betty to the Postman’s Ball, but Mr. Colby insists she help entertain a visiting sardine-company executive. Discovering the guest is a fellow Zebra, Mel helps Colby…
Mr. Colby reveals a secret ambition to become a songwriter and asks Mel to use his supposed show-business connections to get a singer to hear his new tune. Mel manages…
Mel organizes a Community Chest benefit at the local auditorium, combining musical entertainment with Zookie’s wildly confused pageant about Columbus. The amateur show nearly gets away from him, but the…
Mel insists on repairing Mr. Colby’s brand-new radio and promptly ruins it. He hides behind the set and impersonates broadcasts to conceal the damage until Colby catches him, but Mel’s…
When Mr. Colby is initiated into Mel’s lodge, Mel dons a dress and wig to play flirtatious Lulu Belle while the other Zebras stage a jealous husband with a shotgun.…
When Mr. Colby prepares to sell his supermarket and move away, Mel discovers the buyer relies on an astrologer before making decisions. Zookie diverts the real mystic while Mel poses…
Mel hosts a Thanksgiving party to improve relations with Mr. Colby, but the guests discover there is no turkey because Mel quietly gave it to an orphanage and serves salami…
Mel wants to elope with Betty but loses his nerve after an earlier attempt sends Zookie into Mr. Colby’s hands. He visits a psychiatrist for courage, adopts an exaggerated tough-guy…
Unable to match Willie Murdoch’s expensive Christmas gift for Betty, Mel disguises himself as an elderly woman to win a $40 bottle of perfume in Mr. Colby’s supermarket contest. The…
Betty’s shifting Christmas wishes send Mel back to the department store again and again to exchange earrings, a compact, a bracelet and other gifts. When the store demands approval from…
Mel’s promise to play Santa for Mrs. Bradley’s young son makes Betty think he is secretly seeing another woman. He keeps the promise anyway, turning up in costume with presents,…
At the Zebra lodge’s New Year’s Eve meeting, Mel stages a comic pageant reviewing the events of 1946 before the members elect their Zebra of the Year. Every member initially…
Mel breaks Mr. Colby’s treasured Caruso and Galli-Curci records and tries to conceal the disaster by hiding with Professor Pachnik behind a curtain and impersonating the singers. The counterfeit concert…
When Mr. Colby needs a bank loan, Mel and Professor Pachnik stage an elaborate parade of invented foreign relatives in hopes of impressing banker Grimes. The deception collapses, but Grimes…
At the lodge masquerade, Mel tests Betty’s devotion by courting her in a succession of disguises, including a French count and a tough gangster. Betty sees through much of the…
Trying to make himself look like Betty’s best marriage prospect, Mel and Zookie parade a succession of ridiculous rival suitors before Mr. Colby. The scheme only reinforces Colby’s hostility, and…
Facing bankruptcy and an auction of his fix-it shop on his birthday, Mel pretends to disappear so he can discover how much his friends really care. He returns in disguise…
When a loaf bought by Zookie is missing one slice, Mel becomes obsessed with finding a bread thief and even suspects Mr. Colby. After a blow to the head he…
Mr. Colby’s chance to head the Zebra lodge entertainment committee depends on proving he can put on a show, but he refuses to perform cheap vaudeville. Mel fills the gap…
Mr. Colby’s hopes for a city-council seat are endangered when Mel accidentally reveals that he shot a pheasant out of season. Mel then discovers Mayor Quimby committed the same offense,…
Mr. Colby leaves Mel two paintings to clean and tells him he may sell the worthless one for extra money. Mel manages to sell the valuable painting to banker Grimes…
An accidental proposal leaves Mel engaged to both Betty and Cousin Dottie. He tries to make Dottie abandon him by portraying himself first as a dangerous criminal and then as…
Jealous after misunderstanding Betty’s dealings with Hartley Benson, Mel urges the Zebra lodge to elect Cousin Dottie in its annual beauty contest. The vote ends in a tie, his South…
Mel’s April Fool prank convinces Mr. Colby he has inherited a fortune, prompting Colby to start giving away the supermarket’s stock. Mel disguises himself as an English lawyer to undo…
To impress Mr. Colby, Mel offers a $100 reward for the person who finds his advertising egg, then panics when the costly egg lands in Colby’s supermarket. He disguises himself…
Determined to prove he belongs at a society party, Mel disguises himself as a flamboyant Italian impresario and crashes the gathering with Professor Pachnik. His critique of Mrs. Grimes’s singing…
Determined to prove he belongs in high society, Mel attends Mrs. Grimes’s literary discussion while Mr. Cushing hides outside with an encyclopedia and feeds him answers through the window. The…
After a James Mason movie fires Mel’s theatrical ambitions, he tries to turn himself into a sophisticated actor and becomes entangled in plans for a play built around the famous…
Mel gets tangled in dubious Sunnyville Oil stock and tries to keep Mr. Colby from losing money with the same promotion. After a series of disguises and a staged report…
Before a Supermarket Journal interview, Mr. Colby assumes the editor will be impressed by foreign education, so Mel poses as an eccentric professor and invents a grand academic past for…
Mel and Betty try a temporary separation so each can date other people, but neither likes the experiment. Mel eventually enters a get-acquainted club in a Spanish disguise and runs…
After Zookie leaves Mr. Colby’s supermarket in a decorating disaster just as a buyer is considering the property, Mel disguises himself as French interior decorator Pierre Eclair and tries to…
When Hartley Benson beats Mel to a summer cottage Mr. Colby wants to rent, Mr. Cushing suggests that Mel exploit the owner’s love of sailors by posing as an old…
Mr. Colby depends on a famous Chinese philosopher to appear at graduation exercises, but Zookie’s bungling at the station sends the real guest back out of town. Mel takes the…
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