The Abbott and Costello Show

With Bud and Lou eight weeks behind on rent and facing eviction, Mr. Fields sends them to work in his brother's drug store. Unfortunately, Lou can’t cut it as a soda jerk and ends up wrecking the place. CLASSIC ROUTINE: “Jonah and the Whale”

Lou has a terrible toothache, so Bud takes him to the dentist where Hillary works as a nurse. When the dentist fails to help, Bud schemes to get Lou arrested in order to receive free treatment in jail. CLASSIC ROUTINE: “You’re Forty, She’s Ten”

Lou shoots a hole in Mrs. Crumbcake’s water pail, and she sues him for 79 cents in damages. While in jail, he comes to blows with a crazed cell mate, who becomes enraged at the mere mention of “Niagara Falls.” CLASSIC ROUTINE: “Niagara Falls (Slowly I Turned)”

Bud and Lou plan to vacation at the Biltmore Hotel near Phoenix, and stock up at Sporty Fields’ sporting goods store. But as Lou packs, Bud worries that Mr. Fields will rent their apartment out from under them while they’re gone. CLASSIC ROUTINES: “Hertz U-Drive,” “Pack-Unpack”

Lou throws himself a birthday party, but mistakes ant paste for antipasto and makes all of his guests ill. After Bud throws him out of their apartment, Lou consoles himself by ordering a giant cake at Mr. Bacciagalupe’s bakery.

Lou receives word that his uncle has struck gold in Alaska, and the boys plan to join him. But they are delayed by a bank robbery, and then literally get stuck when Lou accidentally adds quick-drying cement to Bud’s foot bath. (Bud sports a mustache for the first time in this episode.) CLASSIC ROUTINES: “Invisible Friend,” “Gold Ore”