The Trouble with Father

Stu’s plans to spend the Admission Day holiday in bed are interrupted by younger members of the family

A bogus talent agent fills June's and Joyce's heads with visions of stardom, and Stu is determined to shut the guy down.

Thanks to Willie, Stuart Erwin's listing in the new phone book is wrong. Now he's getting calls for a shady gangster named Erwin Stuart from his floozy girlfriend and "business" associates. A parade of unsavory types parade through Stu's home as he's trying to impress the membership director of the country club.

Thinking Joyce and Drexel are going to run away to get married, Stu gets assistance from Willie to prevent them from running off.

When the neighbors get an automatic dishwasher June becomes envious. Stu with Willie's help decides to build one for her. Disaster strikes when Jackie uses a how to page for gum and an entire box of laundry soap gets dumped in the machine.

Stu confuses peroxide for hair oil and becomes a blonde and Joyce confuses herself with a glamorous beauty queen and buys a too brief bathing suit.

June agrees to debate the anonymous author of a men's rights manifesto published in the local newspaper, not realizing it was submitted by Stu.

Concerned about a string of burglaries in the neighborhood, Stu decides to install a burglar-alarm system in the house. He gets Willie to help him, but together the two don't quite get things right.

Stu and Harry are looking forward to a vacation camping in the wilderness, while their wives insist on a trip to glamorous New York.

Joyce and Nancy’s parents interfere in order to help their daughters in their feud over Drexel. The Erwins give a barbecue in order to lure the boy to their house.

After catching Jackie in a fib, Stu makes her swear to always tell the truth. Keeping her promise, she proceeds to cause a fight between Drexel and Joyce, insult a tacky-dressing neighbor, and tell rude Uncle George what everyone really thinks of him.

Stu is convinced by his friend Fred Billings to go on a hunting trip, against the better judgment of Stu's wife June. When the men get to the campsite deep in the mountains, Stu learns that Fred's idea of roughing it is quite different from most outdoorsmen's.

Stu secretly takes over the school newspaper's gossip column. He immediately causes a ruckus by printing some info that causes problems with their friends the Hodges and interferes with Joyce's dating life.