The Kilroys #20

Edgar Kilroy's wife Emma insists he ditch his shabby blue serge for something with more style, so she calls ahead to Macklin's Men's Store to make sure he picks something snappy—but her interference sets off a comic chain reaction that leaves Edgar stuck with a wildly garish suit he never would have chosen himself. When he arrives to pick it up, the alterations are already done, his old suit is destroyed, and there's no backing out now. Watch as Edgar's fashion crisis spirals from the store to the soda fountain to his own living room, where Emma has to hide her horror at what her meddling has wrought.

When Natch feeds a persistent duck named Gertrude some popcorn at the park, he accidentally starts a chain of misunderstandings that gets him mistaken for a duck-napper. As he tries to prove to his girlfriend Judy that Gertrude is just a duck and not another girl, the park superintendent keeps chasing him down, and Gertrude keeps following him everywhere—turning what should've been a simple rowing date into complete pandemonium.

Katie Kilroy is over the moon when she announces she's going steady with Herman, a brilliant aspiring astronomer—so much so that her parents agree to have him over for dinner to meet the family. As the evening unfolds, Herman's intellectual superiority and cutting remarks put everyone on edge, testing whether Katie's infatuation can survive the chaos of a family dinner gone awry.

Kilroy's well-meaning but perpetually boastful neighbor Jones keeps borrowing his tools and pestering him with tall tales about his athletic glory, turning a simple day of yard work into an endless parade of interruptions—until Kilroy's wife shames him for falling behind while Jones's yard looks pristine, pushing him to finally take action in this good-natured battle of neighborly one-upmanship.