Arnie comes home to find out he’ll be meeting his daughter’s boyfriend. When her suitor shows up, Mr. Barkley quickly comes to realize they’ve already met.
When Arnie lucks out and finds $500 on his way home from work, his conscience gets the best of him and he decides that he should turn it in. However, things don’t seem to go quite as planned in the Barkley home.
Arnie is happy to see his children growing up in the Barkley house, but all is not smooth-sailing when daughter Terry decides to adopt a feminist approach to life.
Chester is the youngest of the Barkley crew and a natural born inventor. When Arnie gets the idea to try to make his non-athletic son into a basketball star, it results in some embarrassment.
Terry is bored with academics and decides to enroll in a mechanics class. When her homework assignment involves taking apart her father’s car, she must scramble to get it back in working order before Arnie is due to pick up a senator from the airport.
When Arnie gets wind of his old classmate becoming a millionaire, he does everything in his power to try to fix up Roger with his daughter. It turns out Arnie is not quite the matchmaker he’d like to believe he is.
Arnie enlists the help of the family to build a yacht after he is driven mad with jealousy by the neighbor’s new swimming pool.
Mr. Barkley tries to split his attention evenly over the family but finds he’s coming up a bit short. When Chester feels left out in the cold, he decides to run away and find a place where he’ll be appreciated.
When Terry asks her parents for permission to spend a weekend away in the woods with friends, they have a hard time resisting the temptation to be overbearing parents.
Mr. Barkley takes to the airwaves trying to shows the kids what “good music” sounds like. It doesn’t take long before he realizes he may be out of touch.
When the Barkleys get stuck with a deserted swampland from a scheming salesman, Arnie must unload the property. However, when Arnie’s boss decides to take the property, things go from bad to worse.
Mr. Barkley must find a way to overcome his fear of tests when the boss implements mandatory testing at the bus company.
When the Barkleys catch the fame bug, Arnie’s bank account catches a beating from a fraudulent talent scout.