Chester A. Riley and his wife Peg are a normal married couple, so naturally they quarrel once in a while. It usually takes two to make a quarrel but in this case it takes one... Riley! He and his wife are having a little skirmish in the living room of their California bungalow… Peg is feeling unappreciated, and this quarrel couldn't have come at a worse time, when Peg's old boyfriend Sidney, comes to town and becomes a guest of the Rileys'.