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The Best Episodes of The Abbott and Costello Show Season 2

Every episode of The Abbott and Costello Show Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Abbott and Costello Show Season 2!

The Best Episodes of The Abbott and Costello Show Season 2

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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  1. Background image for The Paper Hangers
    7.9/10(61 votes)

    #1 - The Paper Hangers

    S2:E1

    To pay back rent, Bud and Lou attempt to wallpaper an apartment. Later, as waiters in a restaurant, they brawl with hoodlums.

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  2. Background image for Uncle Bozzo's Visit
    7.8/10(56 votes)

    #2 - Uncle Bozzo's Visit

    S2:E2

    Lou's eccentric opera singing uncle comes to stay with the boys for a couple of months.

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  3. Background image for In Society
    7.9/10(54 votes)

    #3 - In Society

    S2:E3

    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.

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  4. Background image for Life Insurance
    7.6/10(53 votes)

    #4 - Life Insurance

    S2:E4

    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.

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  5. Background image for Pest Exterminators
    8.0/10(53 votes)

    #5 - Pest Exterminators

    S2:E5

    Bud and Lou are pest exterminators mistaken for psychiatrists when they attend to Mrs. Featherton's "aunts."

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  6. Background image for Killer's Wife
    8.1/10(56 votes)

    #6 - Killer's Wife

    S2:E6

    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.

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  8. Background image for Cheap Skates
    8.0/10(51 votes)

    #7 - Cheap Skates

    S2:E7

    Bud and Lou accidentally buy a crate of roller-skates, not knowing that they have stolen diamonds hidden inside.

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  9. Background image for South of Dixie
    7.6/10(56 votes)

    #8 - South of Dixie

    S2:E8

    Lou accidentally lands himself and Bud roles in a Civil War melodrama.

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  10. Background image for From Bed to Worse
    7.6/10(48 votes)

    #9 - From Bed to Worse

    S2:E9

    Bud and Lou attempt to plant a backyard garden in order to win a cash prize offered by a civic group.

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  11. Background image for $1,000 TV Prize
    8.3/10(48 votes)

    #10 - $1,000 TV Prize

    S2:E10

    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.

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  12. Background image for Amnesia
    8.2/10(52 votes)

    #11 - Amnesia

    S2:E11

    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.

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  13. Background image for Efficiency Experts
    7.7/10(46 votes)

    #12 - Efficiency Experts

    S2:E12

    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.

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  14. Background image for Car Trouble
    7.6/10(46 votes)

    #13 - Car Trouble

    S2:E13

    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.

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    7.8/10(49 votes)

    #14 - Wife Wanted

    S2:E14

    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.

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  16. Background image for Uncle from New Jersey
    7.9/10(48 votes)

    #15 - Uncle from New Jersey

    S2:E15

    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.

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  17. Background image for Private Eye
    8.3/10(54 votes)

    #16 - Private Eye

    S2:E16

    After receiving his private eye diploma from the Watchdog Correspondence School, Lou helps a friend locate some valuable bonds in a haunted house.

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  18. Background image for The Tax Return
    7.9/10(53 votes)

    #17 - The Tax Return

    S2:E17

    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.

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  19. Background image for Public Enemies
    7.7/10(51 votes)

    #18 - Public Enemies

    S2:E18

    Lou is mistaken for a crook named Dapper Dan and is forced to take part in a robbery.

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  20. Background image for Bank Holdup
    8.1/10(44 votes)

    #19 - Bank Holdup

    S2:E19

    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.

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  21. Background image for Well Oiled
    8.0/10(44 votes)

    #20 - Well Oiled

    S2:E20

    Bud and Lou help Mr. Fields, who is being threatened with a lawsuit. Lou poses as a Texas millionaire to help discredit the complainant.

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  22. Background image for The Pigeon
    8.1/10(48 votes)

    #21 - The Pigeon

    S2:E21

    Bud and Lou's beautiful next door neighbor uses Lou as a decoy to help break up with her mobster boyfriend.

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  23. Background image for Honeymoon House
    7.6/10(50 votes)

    #22 - Honeymoon House

    S2:E22

    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.

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  24. Background image for Fencing Master
    8.1/10(43 votes)

    #23 - Fencing Master

    S2:E23

    A mad scientist's experiment convinces Lou that he is indestructible.

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  25. Background image for Beauty Contest Story
    8.0/10(52 votes)

    #24 - Beauty Contest Story

    S2:E24

    When Bud and Lou judge a beauty contest, pressure is applied to sway their votes.

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  26. Background image for Fall Guy
    7.7/10(54 votes)

    #25 - Fall Guy

    S2:E25

    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.

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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 61 votes. Directed by Jean Yarbrough and written by Clyde Bruckman, Sid Fields, it aired on 11/7/1953. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Uncle Bozzo's Visit".