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 and puns.
The best episode of "The Abbott and Costello Show" season 2 is "The Paper Hangers", rated 7.8/10 from 55 user votes. It was directed by Jean Yarbrough and written by Sid Fields, Clyde Bruckman. "The Paper Hangers" aired on 11/7/1953 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Uncle Bozzo's Visit".
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
Lou's eccentric opera singing uncle comes to stay with the boys for a couple of months.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
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
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
Bud and Lou are pest exterminators mistaken for psychiatrists when they attend to Mrs. Featherton's "aunts."
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
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
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
Lou accidentally lands himself and Bud roles in a Civil War melodrama.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lou is mistaken for a crook named Dapper Dan and is forced to take part in a robbery.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
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
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
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
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
A mad scientist's experiment convinces Lou that he is indestructible.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
When Bud and Lou judge a beauty contest, pressure is applied to sway their votes.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
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