
A conservative businessman and his family.

A TV producer's plan to film a documentary on Harry's home life turns the family into ego freaks and Harry into an opportunist who uses the show to plug his pots and pans company.

Irma fills in for Harry's honeymooning secretary and manages to alienate her husband's star client by mistaking him for a deadbeat.

Harry runs the household for two weeks, convinced he is a better home economist than his wife.

The Civil War wages anew when Harry assists his son in constructing a model of the Monitor for a school project; it competes with the model of the Merrimack being built by the boisterous father of another student in the neighborhood.