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Mothers-in-Law volume 1
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English
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The bickering Hubbards and Buells are stunned when their kids return from a night out announcing they’re engaged. After arguments about the wedding plans are finally settled (amid the kids’ breaking up over a fight about whose mother is right), the kids wind up eloping with another couple, while their parents are trying to rescue Kaye’s beloved grand piano, set up in the Hubbards’ back yard for the next morning’s nuptials, from a midnight...
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Mothers-in-Law volume 9
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English
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When the kids in a financial bind, Eve and Kaye decide to help pay off Suzie’s ring by selling Kaye’s famous spaghetti and meatballs on the college campus.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 16
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English
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Eve and Kaye team up to write a TV script, and wind up begging Roger for ideas, snapping at each other, and trying to retrieve their script, which they plagiarized, after Roger submits to it for them.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 10
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English
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A fugitive bank robber holds everyone at gunpoint at the Hubbards’ home, whiling away the time reciting poetry and playing gin rummy, and everyone hopes that Kaye’s newly acquired karate skills will help them escape.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 14
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English
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The Hubbards sell their old refrigerator to the Buells. When it breaks down, the Buells retaliate by launching a raid to steal the Hubbards’ new one.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 6
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English
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To cut down on their wives’ meddling, Herb and Roger suggest that they get jobs. Realizing that all their “suggesting, recommending, and advising” might just be too much, they decide to try it. With Kaye’s past signing career as “Angelina Davina, The Little Girl with the Big Voice” and Eve’s youthful experience in local radio, they go to audition for a revue at the hip Club Cabaret and work up a novelty act, calling themselves The Marvys....
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Mothers-in-Law volume 4
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English
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Going to a store to return a duplicate wedding gift for the kids, the mothers, who have been banned from their own phones for continually calling the honeymooning couple, spend $15.70 talking to them on a payphone, unknowingly getting locked in the store when it closes. With only one dime left, they accidentally reach a sleeping bullfighter in Barcelona, whom they beg to relay their SOS to their husbands. Madness ensues when a security guards finds...
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Mothers-in-Law volume 12
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English
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Roger, wearing a Martian costume to test a scene from a new script, is arrested. Everyone comes to the rescue: The mothers and kids in animal costumes for a kiddie show, and Herb in his lodge outfit, resulting in a mad masquerade.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 2
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English
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The Hubbards and the Buells show up at the same resort, and when their honeymooning kids unexpectedly arrive, having been rained out at their original destination, the in-laws spend a sleepless night together in a cramped room, giving the only other available room to the kids. Desi Arnaz, Jr. can be seen in a golf cart in the opening scene.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 15
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English
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A heated argument leads to Roger challenging Herb to a duel at dawn. While they practice with fencing foils, their wives conspire to stop the showdown.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 13
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English
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A surprise visit from Suzie’s wealthy ex-boyfriend causes an uproar, with the mothers talking up a divorce for the newlyweds, and the kids faking a divorce to teach them a lesson.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 5
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English
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Checking out the place that the kids have rented, the mothers return their deposit and fix up the Hubbards’ garage apartment for them. After their snooping gets them caught hiding in the kids’ shower, they promise not to interfere, but their curiosity gets to them when they see friends arriving for a dinner party. Peeking in the electric garage door windows, they wind up spending the evening lying atop the horizontal door after Jerry opens it...
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Mothers-in-Law volume 3
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English
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Eve and Kaye break their legs skiing and are bedridden in the same room.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 8
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English
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Jerry decides to major in dramatic arts, giving everyone the showbiz bug. Suzie and all four parents tune up to help him audition for the school musical.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 11
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English
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A physical-fitness kick has the Hubbards and Buells joining a cycling club, and they wind up lose in the desert.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 7
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English
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When Roger and Herb admit that they would date Liz Taylor if given the chance, their wives console each other at the Buell house, leaving their befuddled husbands to go it alone next door.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 20
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English
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The Hubbards and the Buells battle as they both want, and then don’t want, the boat they won on a telephone quiz show.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 30
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English
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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 “Some Enchanted Evening” w/the help of a Salvation Army band.
The Seeds play The Warts, and sing their hit song, “Pushing Too Hard.”
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Mothers-in-Law volume 22
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English
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Eve and Kaye turn Herb’s office into a model of inefficiency when they take over for his sick secretary.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 27
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English
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The men side with Jerry’s decision to play poker with the guys, so the women plan an all-girl night out for Suzie.
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