The Mothers-In-Law

- Season 2

(1968)

Kaye's Italian grandmother shows up unannounced expecting to attend Jerry and Suzie's marriage ceremony. Not wanting to disappoint her, Kaye insists the kids get married again.

Business is slow at Jerry's employer, a computer dating service and he's worried that he might lose his job, so the parents produce four new customers. But nobody anticipated who would be paired up with whom.

Suzie's pregnancy has developed to the point where she is having cravings and morning sickness. To everyone's surprise so are Kaye and Eve.

Flashbacks show how the Hubbards and Buells met 22 years earlier, when Kaye and Roger moved in next door. With no lights, phone, or water, the Buells also had no worries - they just mooched off the Hubbards' facilities.

The joy of Suzie's pregnancy fades a bit when everyone realizes they'll soon be known as "Gramps" and "Granny." They take up jogging to feel young again. The foursome sings "You Make Me Feel So Young."

The newlyweds try a devious diversion to get free of Eve and Kaye's meddling: They send for their mothers' mothers-in-law, who run the women ragged.

When Raphael Del Gado arrives in town to make a movie, the Hubbards and Buells invite him to a dinner party - which soon becomes a family talent show.

To keep peace, Jerry and Suzie frantically juggle gifts purchased separately by their mothers - a basset hound and a Yorkshire terrier. Caught in the confusion is a bewildered animal inspector.

On the sly, the in-laws slip $40 into Jerry's old jacket for the couple's anniversary celebration. Unaware, Suzie donates the coat to a thrift shop, sending the mothers on a spree to retrieve it.

Eve and Kaye tackle the care and feeding of a motley menagerie when they take over for Suzie, who has become a pet-sitter for extra money. Problems increase rapidly, as most of the critters are expecting.

Suzie and Jerry stun their folks with news of their post-graduation plans: They're moving to Alaska - before the baby is born. In a dream sequence, Eve and Kaye visit them in their igloo.

In hopes of spending a quiet evening, the Hubbards tell the Buells that they'll be away. Instead, they're stuck hiding under the bed when the Buells invite friends over to watch the Hubbards' color TV.

Producer Owen Sinclair - alias bandleader Ozzie Snick - is in town, and the Hubbards arrange a surprise visit between him and Kaye, who's been bragging for years about her singing success with his old orchestra. Eve, Kaye, and Ozzie Nelson sing "North Dakota Moon."

After Kaye and Eve buy so many things for the baby it makes the garage apartment very crowded so they come up with the great idea that their husbands need to build on another room for the baby. The men decide it would save some money if they do the labor themselves...

With the baby due momentarily, a mood of jittery expectancy grips everyone, especially the mothers, who mistake a trial run for the real thing, and then lose Suzie on the way to the hospital when it's really time.

Eve and Kaye torment the hospital staff by crashing the maternity ward in various disguises to see Suzie, and when she has twins, fights erupt over the babies' names.

When meddling mothers-in-law double Suzie's problems in caring for twins, Herb and Roger hire a stern nanny, who bars Eve and Kaye from the nursery, and they try hard to get rid of her.

Suzie and Jerry go away for a weekend of rest, and their mothers gladly abandon their own homes for nursery duty - which isn't as simple as they expected.

To win money for the babies' college fund, Eve and Kaye enter a contest to guess the number of Blimpo cereal bits in a barrel. To eliminate the guesswork, they plan to construct a duplicate barrel and fill it with cereal at their own expense.

Eve and Kaye try to dissuade a black lawyer from renting the kids' apartment after the kids change their minds about moving, prompting faux pas and foot-in-mouth comments that make the adamant man lecture them about fair housing.

Jerry makes everyone laugh with his routine at a dinner party, and someone says he should be on TV. After Kaye reads that comedy writers are paid very well, she and Eve decide that Jerry should be a comedian.

When they aren't able to get four tickets to a hit Broadway show the couples are disappointed but when the Hubbards get two tickets. The Hubbards and the Buells go to war over the seats with hilarious results.

Eve and Kaye resort to domestic spying when they become jealous of the gorgeous new secretary their husbands hired to work at home: Kaye bugs Roger's den and Eve listens to Herb's sleep-talking.

Eve and Kaye cause a string of calamities as they both try to wangle a spot in Don Rickles' act for the lodge benefit show.

When both Kaye and Eve max out their credit cards their husbands tell them they need to get jobs. They get jobs as saleswomen at the very store where they ran up the cards. After getting fired on the first day they have a scheme to make the husbands think everything is fine.

At auditions for the lead role in their club's opera production, would-be divas Eve and Kaye smugly approach their competition, Marni Nixon, who they mistakenly believe is an amateur.