The Mothers-in-Law

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

The Hubbards get an unexpected visit from a bullfighter Raphael Del Gado and his colorful entourage, whose late-night partying cause a spectacle in the suburbs. Desi sings his composition “I Love Y...

Jerry convinces his folks to put up $500 for a hippie rock group to make a demo recording. They scare off the band with talk of crew cuts, tuxedos, and old songs. The parents wind up recording “Som...

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

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 i...

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.