Harold gets an offer that would enable him to leave the junkyard forever, but his dad has other ideas and does all he can to keep up the family tradition.

Harold has been starting to go out in the evenings, making Albert suspicious, but as it turns out, Harold's seeing a girl, so Albert suggests Harold invite her over for dinner.

The offer of a free piano seems too good to be true, and it is.

Harold tries to teach Albert a valuable lesson in economics, but his plan backfires.

Harold is fed up with scraping a living and with Albert's constant criticism of his ability to do the rounds. He decides to follow a different vocation and takes a correspondence course in TV repair.

An impoverished father and son rag-and-bone team struggle to get along, the old man set in his grimy and grasping ways, while his son holds social aspirations and pretensions.