Calvin and Colonel gets a job picking up television sets and delivering them to the repairman. Things go wrong when they pick up a wrong television set and break it.
The Colonel suspects that his sister-in-law is a jewel thief.
The Colonel has to find Thanksgiving food for his relatives he carelessly invited one year ago.
Maggie Belle kicks Colonel out and winds up at Calvin's place. He gets invited to a costume ball, unaware that Maggie Belle is also there.
The mountain cabin that the Colonel has rented turns out to be flooded. Unable to get a refund, the Colonel rents the cabin to Calvin.
Needing to replace all the money that the Colonel spent, he convinces Calvin that he's a movie star material.
Calvin visits a psychiatrist so he can have a better understanding of why his girlfriend, Georgianna, dropped him.
After breaking his nephew's car, the Colonel tries to get insurance on it.
The Colonel takes a job as a construction worker. He then learns of a way to make even more money...by injuring himself on the job site and collecting insurance payments.
Several years ago, the Colonel promised his then-sweetheart, Boo Boo Winters, that he'd marry her. But instead of Boo Boo, he married Maggie Belle. Now Boo Boo unexpectedly returns, demanding that The Colonel live up to his promise.
At her place of work, Maggie Bell is given the task of having the typewriters sent out to be cleaned. But when she becomes ill, her husband The Colonel takes over the project.
Calvin and the Colonel starts a cloakroom business at the night club. Things go wrong when they lose one of the coats.
The Colonel finds out that his visiting nephew Newton owns a stock worth thousands of dollars.