The Mothers-in-Law

Kaye's grandmother comes from Italy for the kids' wedding, and since nobody has the heart to tell her it was a year ago, a formal wedding is staged, with Suzie finding out in mid-ceremony that she's pregnant.

Since business is bad at the computer dating service where Jerry works, Eve and Kaye help out by posing as spinsters in search of love.

To their husbands' chagrin, the grandmothers-to-be take on sympathy symptoms: wild nighttime cravings and morning queasiness.

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 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.

Confusion reigns as the Hubbards and Buells decide to save money by taking on a do-it-yourself project: Adding a nursery to the kids' apartment.

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.

The mothers arrange for the debut of Jerry's nightclub act, which features a Jimmy Durante impersonation, but when he comes down with the flu, the Hubbards and Buells take his place. Jimmy Durante makes a cameo appearance.

The Hubbards and the Buells, battling over two theater tickets they got in the mail, carry their feud to the theater, where their antics provide a livelier show than the one on the stage.

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 the men cancel their wives' charge accounts, the mothers decide to overcome their forced recession by getting jobs as department store saleswomen.

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.