
Ralph Kramden is a perpetually flustered but eternally optimistic New York City bus driver living with his wife, Alice, in a small Brooklyn apartment. Ralph's best friend is sanitation worker Ed Norton, who lives in the same building with wife Trixie.

Ralph tries to remold his character, only to have Alice ask him to return to his old self.

Ralph boasts about being head of the household and bets he can make Alice cook a particular dinner.

The Kramdens watch for a prowler; Alice becomes a "Glow Worm Girl" for a commercial.

The Kramdens and the Nortons go on vacation together; the girls want to go to Atlantic City, but the boys decide on Fred's Landing.