7.9/1056 votes#1 - The Paper Hangers
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/1953
To pay back rent, Bud and Lou attempt to wallpaper an apartment. Later, as waiters in a restaurant, they brawl with hoodlums.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Sid Fields, Clyde Bruckman
7.9/1051 votes#2 - Uncle Bozzo's Visit
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/1953
Lou's eccentric opera singing uncle comes to stay with the boys for a couple of months.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
8.0/1049 votes#3 - In Society
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/1953
A wealthy society matron pays Bud to attend a formal reception and impersonate the Duke of Gluten. Lou comes along pretending to be his cousin, the Earl of Waldo.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
7.6/1048 votes#4 - Life Insurance
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/28/1953
Mr. Fields takes out an insurance policy on Lou. Later, Bud takes Lou on a hunting trip, and Lou suspects Bud and Mr. Fields have plotted to kill him for the insurance money.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Sid Fields, Clyde Bruckman
8.0/1048 votes#5 - Pest Exterminators
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/5/1953
Bud and Lou are pest exterminators mistaken for psychiatrists when they attend to Mrs. Featherton's "aunts."
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
8.1/1051 votes#6 - Killer's Wife
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/12/1953
When a heavyweight prize fighter named Killer thinks that Lou is having an affair with his wife, Bud attempts to get Lou trained and fit in a gym.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
8.0/1046 votes#7 - Cheap Skates
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/19/1953
Bud and Lou accidentally buy a crate of roller-skates, not knowing that they have stolen diamonds hidden inside.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
7.6/1051 votes#8 - South of Dixie
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/26/1953
Lou accidentally lands himself and Bud roles in a Civil War melodrama.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
7.7/1043 votes#9 - From Bed to Worse
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/2/1954
Bud and Lou attempt to plant a backyard garden in order to win a cash prize offered by a civic group.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
8.3/1044 votes#10 - $1,000 TV Prize
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/9/1954
Lou wins a $1,000 dollar prize pretending to be Mr. Fields. He then has to get Mr. Fields out of the way so he can collect it.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
8.2/1046 votes#11 - Amnesia
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/1954
Lou is in love with a girl he has never met. As a gag, Bud and his friends convince him that he has already married the girl. The woman who poses as his wife then makes his existence miserable.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
7.7/1042 votes#12 - Efficiency Experts
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/23/1954
Bud and Lou land jobs as efficiency experts, and are 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.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
7.6/1041 votes#13 - Car Trouble
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/1954
When Lou wins a car, Bud sells it to buy a cheaper one, using the profits to try to finance a vacation in Flint, Michigan.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
7.8/1044 votes#14 - Wife Wanted
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1954
When Lou finds out he will inherit $10,000 provided that he has a wife, he tries to marry a former girlfriend—who is dating a man named Bonebender Brodsky.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
7.9/1043 votes#15 - Uncle from New Jersey
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1954
When Mr. Fields is just about to evict the boys, Bud convinces him that Lou's Uncle Ruppert is a millionaire and Lou is the sole heir. Complications arise, however, when Mike the Cop begins to believe that the visiting uncle (Lou in disguise) has been murdered.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
8.3/1050 votes#16 - Private Eye
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1954
After receiving his private eye diploma from the Watchdog Correspondence School, Lou helps a friend locate some valuable bonds in a haunted house.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
8.0/1048 votes#17 - The Tax Return
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1954
Lou receives a tax refund check for $1,000,000. He takes the check to a bank and demands cash. He is subsequently followed by home by crooks.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
7.7/1047 votes#18 - Public Enemies
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/1954
Lou is mistaken for a crook named Dapper Dan and is forced to take part in a robbery.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
8.1/1040 votes#19 - Bank Holdup
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/13/1954
Bud and Lou unwittingly take jobs as armed bodyguards for a couple of hoodlums and assist in a bank robbery. They use their share of money to pay their rent, and later try to get it back from Mr. Fields' safe.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
8.0/1040 votes#20 - Well Oiled
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/20/1954
Bud and Lou help Mr. Fields, who is being threatened with a lawsuit. Lou poses as a Texas millionaire to help discredit the complainant.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
8.1/1044 votes#21 - The Pigeon
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/27/1954
Bud and Lou's beautiful next door neighbor uses Lou as a decoy to help break up with her mobster boyfriend.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
7.6/1046 votes#22 - Honeymoon House
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/3/1954
When Bud and Mr. Fields help Lou put together a prefab house in order to impress his fiancée and her parents, a jealous former boyfriend sabotages their work.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
8.1/1039 votes#23 - Fencing Master
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 4/10/1954
A mad scientist's experiment convinces Lou that he is indestructible.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
8.0/1048 votes#24 - Beauty Contest Story
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 4/17/1954
When Bud and Lou judge a beauty contest, pressure is applied to sway their votes.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
7.8/1050 votes#25 - Fall Guy
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 4/24/1954
Bud and Lou want to take two sisters on a date but their father convinces the boys to put an antenna on his roof instead.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
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Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick...
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Paper Hangers" is the best rated episode of "The Abbott and Costello Show" season 2. It scored 7.9/10 based on 56 votes. Directed by Jean Yarbrough and written by Sid Fields, Clyde Bruckman, it aired on 11/7/1953. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Uncle Bozzo's Visit".