The Partridge Family · S2, E2
In 25 Words or Less
Reuben comes up with the idea for a contest - the Booper Beat Magazine Contest - in which the winner would spend a week with the Partridge Family. Keith is hoping the winner would be young and beautiful. Reuben comes up with Gloria Neugast, the winner of the contest...a 60-year-old Jewish mother. In no time at all, Mrs. Neugahst is cleaning the house, mowing the lawn, helping the kids with their homework and teaching Laurie how to knit. She even talks Keith into taking her to Muldoon's Point where he takes his girlfriends - and his friends drive up and tease him mercilessly. When Mrs. Neugast brings home a nice single Jewish doctor for Shirley...the family decides to that they can't take any more of it. But they don't want to hurt her feelings. During a recording session, Mrs. Neugast interrupts each time the Partridges are about to begin. She tells Keith his hair is out of place...then stops the session again to tell Shirley the sheet music is blocking her face. They finally finish, but after 73 takes! On the day she is to leave, Mrs. Neugast feigns illness, and Shirley decides to let her stay a few more days. Reuben comes up with the perfect solution - he finds her a job with a child daycare center so that she can worry about many people. She is delighted and leaves immediately. A week later, a letter arrives from Mrs. Neugast...and the Partridge family realizes she is not out of their lives. She tells Tracy to stop biting her nails, Keith to dress nicely...and she tells Shirley she has arranged another date for her with the nice Jewish doctor.
