Larry is distressed to learn that a gentleman from Vancouver has proposed to his mother, and wants Gladys to leave the store and her family to live with him.
Larry takes Cathy to Louis' pool hall for an evening of fun. Piqued about losing, Cathy secretly takes lessons from the local pool shark and challenges Larry to a re-match.
Larry and his friends buy a racehorse that Duke talks him into keeping in the back room of the variety store in order to save on stable fees. Trouble begins when the Kensington health inspector arrives.
Cathy, who cannot stand Duke's male chauvinism provokes an argument between Duke and his wife, Rosa. The Kings' home turns into a circus when Rosa and her three rambunctious bambinos leave Duke and move in with them.
Gladys asks Larry to buy her a ticket for a lucky draw. When the ticket wins, Cathy insists that since Gladys didn't pay for it, she and Larry are entitled to the prize - a trip for two to Las Vegas.
The woman Larry almost married, now a successful novelist, member of the jet-set and thrice-divorced, returns to Kensington to research a new novel but is that all she wants?
Larry needs some extra money. When his cousin Barney, whom he never liked and never will like, returns to Kensington, King finds it hard to resist his lucrative business proposition.
Larry tries to help Guido get a second chance to write the history exam he cheated on. Larry discovers that he too had failed his exam and didn't deserve his high-school diploma.
Impressed with a poem that Guido has written, Larry takes it to pair of songwriters for a professional opinion. When the song becomes a big hit, Larry blames himself for letting the songwriters steal Guido's Poem.
Carol invites Larry to go away for a ski weekend. Larry becomes jealous when he thinks that Tina has accepted a similar offer from Phil, and finds himself caught in a double standard.
Larry agrees to check out the father of a boy to whom Larry is a Big Brother. The father, an alcoholic who deserted the family, has joined Alcoholics Anonymous and wants to get back with his wife and son.
Larry and Gladys' house guest Jack Soble is such a health nut that it is driving Gladys crazy. Larry speaks to Jack about his eccentricities and Jack breaks off his friendship with Gladys.