Father knows best – Self Reliance, smooth Household. ep123, 520515

As Jim is being forced by his wife to plan for a trip to Toledo, Drama queen Betty enters to report on how to deal with her boyfriends should they call. If the trip is too inconvenient for Jim to take, Margaret soon makes her own excuses for not being able to go

As Bud plans a trip to France, he helps his dad ignore Kathy. what does she want anyway? She has had trouble in regrowing her hair after chopping it off. But will miracle-gro help?

Assuring Margaret he can take care of the household himself, jim takes control of the kitchen. Applying his office management skills, will the kitchen actually run like clockwork?

Kitchen duties are complicated enough, but things get worse when PTA obllegations spring up, salesman with wallpaper samples arrive… and why is the phone line still tied up when Betty is waiting for boys to call? After being gone for a full 30 minutes, margret arrives home to rescue the family from starvation, and the kitchen from fire.