Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Publishing a column about your husband can get you in a whole heap of trouble.

We can't all be troupers.

Retreat to the ivory tower.

A clambake strictly for the birds.

The twins have a field day.

Rumor is, Joan's expecting.

The twins TV hero. the 'Purple Avenger' (played by Dom De Luise) was their Mom's old school boyfriend. He is about to visit, creating a few challenges.

Joan has used a man's pen name for a story in a 'girlie' magazine. Things become complicated when the publishers decide to visit, to interview what they assume is the male writer.

Jim is someone inclined to indoor, scholarly pursuits so he's at a loss when ordered to entertain Roland Cunningham. The guest approaches each endeavor with vigor and enthusiasm sending the family into exhaustion.

The Nash clan is to be profiled on the university's TV show "At Home with the Faculty." The attention creates chaos on the home front as Joan wants to present an artificial look at their life instead of reality.

When the boys learn their mom Joan received a nice paycheck for writing about them they think some so the money belongs to them.

Joan and neighbor, Marge, have a fallout over who won the raffle ticket prize of a pool table. To resolve the dispute, they mutually agree to sell the pool table.