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Car Trouble - The Abbott and Costello Show season 2

Car Trouble

Car TroubleThe Abbott and Costello Show season 2, originally aired January 30, 1954

In Car Trouble, Lou wins an Edam automobile in a mail-in contest, but Bud sells it so they can go to Flint, Michigan and buy a new car. On their trip they encounter Mike the Cop’s twin brother, hobos and an irate sheriff.

Car Trouble
Lou Costello trying to eat the 'ladyfingers surprise cake' in "Efficiency Experts"

Efficiency Experts

Bud and Lou land jobs as efficiency experts. They’re assigned to restrain their client’s daughters from spending money. The young women, however, get the boys to buy them expensive dresses and take them to a casino, where they end up in a brawl. And burn down the casino!

Efficiency Experts
Amnesia - The Abbott and Costello Show season 2

Amnesia

In Amnesia, Lou Costello plans to marry Edna, his lonely-hearts penpal. But his pal Bud Abbott wants to break up the romance. He convinces Lou that he has amnesia and has a friend pose as Edna to make his life miserable.

Amnesia
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in $1000 TV Prize

$1000 TV Prize

$1000 TV PrizeThe Abbott and Costello Show season 2, originally aired January 9, 1954

$1000 TV Prize – While trying to repair Mr. Fields’ television set, Lou answers a phone call from the “Money to Burn” quiz show and provides the correct response to the $1000 question. The prize money will be delivered that night, so Bud and Lou scramble to keep Mr. Fields and Mike the Cop out of the way.

$1000 TV Prize
Lou Costello in From Bed to Worse

From Bed to Worse

From Bed to Worse – While working in a garden supply store, Bud and Lou learn that a civic group is offering a cash prize for the best backyard garden. The boys decide to enter the competition, but provoke a feud with their next door neighbor in the process.

From Bed to Worse
South of Dixie - The Abbott and Costello Show season 2, originally aired December 26, 1953

South of Dixie

Lou is smitten by a cute girl. Thinking she’s in distress, he bursts into her apartment & her rehearsal for a Civil War play – South of Dixie

South of Dixie
The three smugglers in Cheapskates - The Abbott and Costello Show season 2

Cheapskates

In Cheapskates, Bud and Lou accidentally purchase a crate of roller skates at an auction. Unbeknownst to them, the skates have diamonds hidden inside of them, and the smugglers behind the scam have moved into the rooming house.

Cheapskates
Killer's Wife - The Abbott and Costello Show season 2

Killer’s Wife

Killer’s Wife – Prizefighter Killer King (Max Baer) moves into the rooming house and becomes convinced that Lou is fooling around with his wife, Dixie. When Costello accidentally knocks Killer’s sparring partner unconscious, Bud volunteers Lou to take his place.

Killer’s Wife