Eve agrees to be a temp at Herb's, office which naturally means Kaye has to help out also. Before long Roger, Jerry, and Suzie have all stopped by and turned the office into utter chaos, potentially ruining Herb's impending business deal.
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.
Suzie and Jerry, desperate to get away from their meddling parents, lease an apartment sight unseen and soon regret their hasty move. While they consider their options the parents can't help but snoop, a decision that quickly backfires.
When Suzie and Jerry have their first big fight the in-laws take sides in completely unexpected ways. The animosity becomes so bad they seek the help of Jerry's professor who soon finds out what a dysfunctional family is really like.
Roger thinks he may have sold a soap opera series to a network but forbids Kaye to tell anyone as it may jinx the deal. Kaye desperately wants to tell Eve but won't - unless she happens to guess it while playing charades.
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.
When both Kaye and Eve max out their credit cards their husbands tell them they need to get jobs. They get jobs as saleswomen at the very store where they ran up the cards. After getting fired on the first day they have a scheme to make the husbands think everything is fine.