Kingfish mistakenly receives a draft notice intended for a younger man with the same name and becomes a hero in the eyes of his wife and lodge brothers. Seeking to preserve his hero status, Kingfish tries to enlist for real but gets turned down.
After Sapphire informs Kingfish that a wealthy widow has moved to town, he schemes to get Andy to marry her in order to collect a commission as a marriage broker. Then the widow's husband suddenly re-appears.
Kingfish has already spent his family vacation money so he sells his car to cover the losses. Then he finds out that Sapphire has bought a trailer to hitch to the car for their trip. Then, in order to buy back his car, Kingfish decides to con Andy once again.
When the lodge brothers hire a secretary because of their displeasure over Kingfish's handling of their affairs, Sapphire gets jealous and takes a job as a secretary to an author. Now it's the turn of Kingfish to be jealous.
Kingfish mistakenly buys a beat up old chair for his lodge at an auction only to have Andy discover that it contains$100,000 in loot from a robbery. The two live high on the hog for a while but then the crooks show up for their money.
Kingfish is fed up with his new neighbors who have borrowed nearly half of the stuff he owns so he decides to use the nocturnal wailings of a baby left in his care to drive them to distraction.
Andy places an ad in the classifieds seeking a wife and receives a response from an attractive woman. Then he learns she needs a large amount of dental work.
Kingfish is in a mess this time. In order to get money to buy Sapphire a new dress for a swank party, he sells her fur coat to Andy who gives it to his girlfriend, Rosemary, to wear to the same party.
Kingfish finds a gun in the handbag he picked out for Sapphire as an anniversary gift. When he tries to pawn the gun, the owner of the pawnshop thinks it's a holdup. Then Sapphire finds the gun and believes that Kingfish is guilty of the robbery
On a trip to the United Nations building with Amos, Andy falls for a cute French girl who flirts with him but ends up proposing marriage to her mother. Lawyer Algonquin J. Calhoun only makes things worse when he tries to extracate Andy from his predicament.
At a lodge convention in Chicago, con man Kingfish gets conned out of the lodge's expense money by an even sharper grifter named Honest Huey Higgins.
Kingfish finds a diary written in shorthand by a teenaged girl talking about her love for her boyfriend. Because he found the diary in Sapphire's closet, Kingfish mistakenly assumes that his wife is the author.
Sapphire threatens to leave Kingfish unless he gets a regular job so he takes one as a handyman at a nearby university. Hating the nine to five routine, he convinces Andy to take the job in his place and turn his wages over to him. In exchange, Kingfish offers Andy a home study college course.
A homely looking woman in her 40's mistakes Kingfish for a matrimonial agent so he decides to collect his fee by pairing her off with Andy.
Because of poor vision, Andy's driver's license is suspended until he gets eyeglasses. Kingfish then takes advantage of this situation to try and bilk Andy out of his car.
Kingfish, Amos, and Calhoun devise a scheme to get rid of Sapphire's former flame by returning him to active duty in the Marine Corps.
Running out of friends because of his conniving ways, Kingfish decides to leave town only to be sorely missed by his lodge brothers who then offer a reward for information leading to his whereabouts.
Andy and Kingfish unknowingly rent out the basement of their lodge hall to a gang of counterfeiters. When the truth is discovered and the gang takes them hostage it's Andy's quick thinking that saves their bacon.
When he sees Sapphire going into an obstetrician's office, Kingfish assumes that he will soon be a father and becomes a reformed man--for a while.
Andy plans to marry a woman much younger than himself but unkown to him she's the daughter of Madame Queen, a woman he jilted years before.
Kingfish takes a job with a real estate agent and sells Andy a house standing on condemned property. Andy has to call in Amos in order to outfox the Kingfish yet again.
Kingfish buys some turkeys from a farmer hoping to net a nice profit by re-selling them to Sapphire's women's club. But then he learns that the turkeys were stolen.
Amos and Sapphire's mother reluctantly lend Andy and Kingfish money with which to purchase a diner.
Kingfish tricks Andy again by selling him a couple of cheap rabbits and telling him they are actually chinchillas that will muliply enough for a fur coat for his girlfriend. Andy gets even by getting Kingfish's mother-in-law to invest money in his "chinchilla" company.
This time Kingfish gets gullible Andy to invest in a uranium mine. Sight unseen, of course.
Kingfish gets Andy to propose marriage to his old flame, Madame Queen, so that they can manage her newly found show biz career.
Andy lends a hand when he learns that his goddaughter is so lovesick over a 12 year old boy that she won't eat.
Kingfish goes to a doctor for a physical so that he can get life insurance but it all leads up to Andy believing that his friend has only three weeks to live.
Kingfish feigns amnesia when he is overwhelmed by creditors seeking payment of his back debts.
Sapphire sees a picture of another woman kissing Kingfish in the afternoon newspaper.
After Andy's galpal dumps him for a guy with a motorboat, Kingfish arranges for his lodge brother to take flying lessons--for a fee. But Andy ends up literally taking to the air when the pilot fails to show.
Kingfish takes a job as a press agent at a posh hotel. Part of his job includes attracting celebrities to the hotel so he gets Andy to pose as a visiting dignitary.
Sapphire walks out on Kingfish and he resolves to win her back with Andy's help. But when they go to her mother's place there's no trace of her.
Kingfish lets Sapphire pick out her own birthday present. She selects an expensive new dining room set. Kingfish then tries another scam in order to offset some of the cost of the set.
Because of a mistake, Kingfish contacts a lonely hearts club but when an attractive girl is sent to the lodge hall, Andy poses as him because he's infatuated with the woman.
Andy and Kingfish become co-owners of a parking lot but when Kingfish's brother-in-law Leroy mistakes it for a used car lot and sells off one of the vehicles, the fun begins.
Kingfish gets a job as a deliveryman for a department store but when Sapphire finds a fur coat inside a box which her husband is supposed to deliver she assumes it's for her.
While taking a picture of Kingfish outside a jewelry store, Andy unknowingly includes a robber in his photo.
When Kingfish discovers that Andy owns a nickel worth $250 he tricks him out of the coin. The fun then begins in earnest when Kingfish accidentally uses the nickel to call a coin dealer.
Kingfish and Sapphire are planning a trip to Niagara Falls to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary but end up getting into vicious argument over how they first met.
Amos steps into help when Sapphire and Kingfish have yet another spat that leads to her walking out on him.
KIngfish tries to marry off his mother-in-law with Andy's help.
Kingfish discovers that his mother-in-law is engaged to a con man.
Kingfish and Sapphire decide to emulate the lives of their favorite early morning radio couple, the Harringtons, in order to put some happiness and joy back into their marriage.
Kingfish and Andy become co-owners of a car and begin using it on alternate weeks. Each man then begins accumulating traffic citations like they're going out of style.
Some of Kingfish's hometown friends arrive in town and, believing that he's been a huge success, decide to throw him a party.
In order to fool his rich uncle who thinks he has a child, Kingfish gets Andy's girlfriend to pose as his wife and a neighbor's child to pose as his son. Things go swimmingly until Sapphire's unexpected early return from an out of town trip.
Kingfish gets a judge in domestic relations court to issue an injunction forcing his mother-in-law and brother-in-law to move out of his apartment. Then Cousin Sidney and his wife move in and Kingfish finds them worse than his in-laws.
Andy gets a telegram from a rich uncle offering him a high paying job in South America. Kingfish, as usual, tries to horn in on things.
The Grand Mystic Knights of the Sea lodge hires a beautiful new secretary but Sapphire is jealous as usual.
Kingfish hits upon another scam by selling phony hospital insurance to healthy people. Andy is the first customer but then he falls ill and checks into the hospital. Hoisted on his own petard once again, Kingfish then convinces Andy to leave the hospital by telling him horror stories about the doctor in charge.
For years, Kingfish has been stealing coins from his wife's piggy bank and replacing them with tokens to keep the bank heavy. Now Sapphire wants to go on a second honeymoon to Niagara Falls using the money in her piggy bank. Needless to say, Kingfish is in the manure pile once again.
Kingfish thinks that Sapphire is in love with another man and that they're trying to do away with him but in reality she's planning a surprise birthday party for her husband.
Andy, Calhoun, and Kingfish are mistaken for the husband, brother, and father of a pregnant woman by a battle axe of a hospital nurse.
Arriving at a factory to get a replacement clock for their lodge, Andy and Kingfish are mistaken for mechanics who are supposed to test a top secret altimeter clock at freezing temperatures.
Kingfish turns to lawyer Calhoun to break a lease with an annoying boarder.
Sapphire convinces Kingfish that they should adopt a baby but he soon sours on the plan after spending an afternoon with her bratty nephew.
In desperate need of money, Kingfish learns that an oil company is offering a $200 bonus to employment agencies that deliver workers for jobs in Saudi Arabia. Kingfish then schemes to get Andy on the trip by using a fake raffle.
Kingfish tricks Andy again when he sells him a useless lot once used by a movie company. When Andy confronts him, Kingfish concocts another scheme to avoid a lawsuit.
Kingfish tricks Andy again by selling him a broken down nag of a racehorse but with Amos's help, Andy gets the last laugh.
Kingfish adopts Andy as part of a plan to receive a $2,000 inheritance from his cousin Effie.
Kingfish, trying to do a good deed, instead gets himself and Andy in trouble with the law when he tries to repay a jeweler.
Kingfish outsmarts himself again when he tries to get his cousin Leo to buy an antique shop so he can receive a commission on the sale.
Andy takes a job as Santa's helper in order to get enough money to buy an expensive doll for his goddaughter.
On his birthday celebration, Sapphire wonders who sent Kingfish a card signed "Sweetheart."
Kingfish finds a wallet with two ballet tickets which he presents to Sapphire as a purchased gift but when she and her mother attend the event they're arrested on suspicion of robbery.
Andy's love life is a mess once again as he finds himself engaged to two women at the same time.
Along with Andy, Kingfish goes to pick up some of his brother-in-law's suits for a lodge rummage sale but mistakenly picks up clothing belonging to a police lieutenant by mistake. The policeman then tracks them down and arrests Kingfish and Andy for theft of the suits.
Thinking that her husband is seeing another woman on the side, Sapphire decides to make Kingfish jealous by having dinner with Andy.
Andy gets engaged to an actress but becomes jealous when she has to do a romantic scene in a play. Andy, with the aid of Kingfish, then schemes to take the leading man's place in the play.
When Sapphire takes a job as a secretary at a brush company she gets her boss to hire Kingfish as a door to door salesman. Not minding an honest days work as long as it's done by someone else, Kingfish cons Andy into selling the brushes for him.
Kingfish finds a valuable ring at a baseball game. Not realizing its true value, he sells it to Andy thinking it's an imitation. Upon finding out the ring's true value, Kingfish then scams Andy again to get it back.
Feeling bored and useless, Kingfish takes an aptitude test that says he has a hidden talent for painting.
When Sapphire's sister, Hortense, moves into the Stevens apartment, Kingfish decides to get rid of her by marrying her off to Andy.
Kingfish sells Andy some worthless glass company stock but then schemes to get it back when he learns that the stock has suddenly become worth $100 per share.
Andy puts in a new doughnut shop which is a success but Kingfish triest to cheat him out of it in order to give it to his mother-in-law's suitor.
Amos has to come to the rescue when Kingfish and Andy's tax return forms are lost in the mail.
Kingfish's car is used in a hold-up. Fearful that he might be blamed he decides to paint the car light blue. Things then go from awful to good grief when Kingfish and Andy are arrested and hauled into court while attempting to paint the car.