To help Fred impress his world-traveling ex-vaudeville partner, Barney Kurtz, Ethel talks Lucy into posing as their maid. It turns out that Barney is not as successful as he had been letting on.

Lucy attempts to help her friend Dorothy get married by inviting Dorothy and her beau Sam to a romantic dinner at the Ricardos' apartment, hoping to present Sam with a positive example of married and parenting life. However, Ricky is not amused at Lucy's matchmaking attempts, and the evening does not go as planned.