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The main plot of this one has to do with one of Herb's clients offering to pay the Hubbards with a new fridge. This sets up s series where the Hubbards give their fridge to the Buels. The Buels give their fridge to the kids. The kids give their fridge to friends.

Everything is going well until the fridge the Buells got from the Hubbards fails. The Buells then break into the Hubbards house to steal their new fridge while they are out. The Hubbards come home early and catch on something is wrong as their new fridge is in the living room. They call the cops who come and discover there are 2 fridges in the living room. The Sargant who comes (Herb Edelman -The Good Guys with Bob Denver) gets confused as then the kids and the kids friends all show up at the Hubbards with their fridges which are broken too.

While the confusion is predictable, there is some fun in the proceedings.

The playful side of Kay and Roger's marriage comes out hysterically in an early amusing scene where Roger gets a job working for a TV western starring fictional star Whip Larsen (Adam Keefe) and invites him over for dinner. They act out his script in the most amusing manner. Planning a dinner party has Kay in a tizzy. But their refrigerator isn't big enough to hold the spumoni hat that Kay has made as a surprise, so when a client of Herb's pays him with a brand new refrigerator, Herb offers to give Roger and Kay their old one. But Roger "has his pride", and refuses to take it for free, so Herb sells it to him for $75.

For some reason, the freezer goes bad, melting Kay's ice cream hat, and this causes Kay and Roger to demand their money back or the new refrigerator as an exchange. While Eve and Herb are on their way to Santa Barbara for a business dinner, Kay and Roger decide to switch the two refrigerators, and Eve and Herb show up unexpectedly. When the cops show up, they all have lots of 'splainin' to do, especially when Suzie and Jerry show up with Kay and Roger's old refrigerator that has gone on the fritz as well. Whip shows up during this confusion, causing a bit more convoluted hilarity.

That's Herb Edelman of "Golden Girls" as one of the cops. This episode makes you wonder how they expected Herb and Eve to remain friends with Kay and Roger after continuously breaking into their home for one reason or another, this time for something illegal. The show suddenly twists to having the ensemble (including the cops) reading Roger's script, with Kay stealing the scene doing a ridiculous Mexican accent. Eve, who usually can make even the dumbest lines sound funny, gets a really bad one in the final moment that even Jack Benny or Lucille Ball could make sound funny. Not one of the more memorable episodes.