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This episode has a strange setting that sets up the story. Kaye & Eve are working in the Hubbard Living room on their costumes as the episode opens. Both of them and the kids are doing a costume play at the Children's Hospital. Herb is working on a TV script for the Masked Martian. Herb is working on his acceptance speech for being named the Treasurer at his Lodge.

The three events merge into one night. Roger tries to solve his writers block by taking walks to clear his head. The walks are innocent enough until Eve suggest to Kaye that she should follow Roger around and find out where he is walking.

About midway through the show, everyone gets into their costumes. Roger dresses up as the Masked Martian to see how people in the are react to the costume. The reaction is the cops pick him up and throw him in the slammer with a drunk. Then everyone else comes to the jail to get Roger out all dressed in their costume. The Desk Sargent goes nuts.

There are 3 or 4 good physical comedy bits in this one, but while it is overall pleasant, it could be better.

Everybody gets dressed up in this very funny episode where the women and the kids perform in a show to entertain kids in the hospital, Roger dresses up as his Martian masked hero to get ideas for his newest script, and Herb is in uniform for his lodge meeting. Roger looks like one of those creepy old uncles at a kid's party so it is obvious as to why he ends up being arrested (apparently jumping out of bushes in the park to get other people's reactions), and Kay and Eve show up dressed up as grasshoppers to bail him out, along with Jerry (as a Kangaroo) and Suzie (as an owl). Roger ends up in a cell with a drunk (Jay Novelllo) who actually gets the best lines. "I don't have any candy, but why don't you go ahead and say it anyway?" he asks, later using Roger's big tummy as a pillow. "Usually after I wake up, you disappear!" he later says.

Alan Reed, as the cop, gets the perfect Edgar Kennedy like slow burn as he deals with this parade of nut cases. The audience guffaws in knowing laughter when it is announced that Herb is on his way, and in he marches, looking like the Sultan of Araby, adding to the hilarity. "Wow! I finally made it to the Mardi Gras!" Novello declares when the last of the six enter in their costumes, making this an adorable episode that once again gives Kay and Eve something musical to do. Jerry Fogel is very funny as he crankily hops in his kangaroo episode for Eve and Kay, and of course, Debbie Watson looks adorable in her owl costume. This episode was evidently very popular because individual shots of the cast members were utilized in the opening credits for the remainder of the series, although Roger Carmel's replacement in the second season eliminated him.