The Worst Episodes of The Abbott and Costello Show

Bud and Lou head off to the Biltmore Hotel near Phoenix for a vacation. "Hertz U-Drive" and the "Pack-Unpack" routines are performed.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

Lou throws a birthday party for himself, but nearly poisons his guests when he puts ant paste on his hors d'oeurves instead of anti pasto. Bud throws him out and Lou consoles himself by ordering a giant decorated cake.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Eddie Forman

Mike the Cop helps Bud and Lou enroll in the Police Rookie School, where Lou blows up the gymnasium while playing with a hand grenade.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

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

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 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

Bud and Lou find jobs in Fields' drugstore and nearly wreck the place. This episode opens with the famous "Jonah and the Whale" routine.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

Mike the Cop tells Lou that he must have a license for his pet chimp. But Lou accidentally applies for a marriage license.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

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

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Clyde Bruckman

When Lou gets a toothache he attempts to get arrested so he can receive free treatment while incarcerated.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

When news arrives that Lou's uncle has struck gold in Alaska, Bud and Lou plan to help him spend it.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Eddie Forman

Bud and Lou accept Hillary's invitation to visit her uncle's B-Bar-Bop ranch.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields, Eddie Forman

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

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 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

Hillary will inherit a castle if she spends one night there. Bud and Lou come along with her for protection and Lou is scared out of his mind by frightful encounters.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields, Eddie Forman

Lou sleeps all day but can't sleep at night. Bud takes him to see a psychiatrist. Eventually Bud checks him into a sanitarium for a night's rest. "Crazy House" is performed.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Eddie Forman

Lou and Stinky agree to settle their differences with a wrestling match. When Stinky becomes ill, his little brother Ivan the Terrible takes his place.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

While shopping for Hillary's birthday present, Lou nearly destroys a grocery store. Later, at her party, Mr. Fields becomes upset about the noise.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

Bud and Lou attempt to help an old lady who has been evicted. They raise $300 and she uses the money to bet on a racehorse.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

When Bingo gets sick, the whole gang travels to Africa to find his parents.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

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

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