Not as funny as I was hoping, although it tends to get more interesting in the last segment. Basically, 2 sets of relatives plus the next door neighbor family eventually move into the childless Bannister's new home for various reasons and lengths of time, causing various types of havoc. The neighbor's house gets accidentally burned down by the Bannisters, and their own house is partly wrecked due to the activities of the guests and the police, who are clued that Mr. Bannister received a shipment of cocaine from Columbia, thanks to a teen nephew presently living in his house.
Several running gags are included: Scruffy: cousin Bernice's mischievous cat, keeps dying, buried, and mysteriously reappearing. It even goes supersonic in circles when it eats some cocaine. Meanwhile, C. L: the half-grown neighbor boy's string of firecrackers cause several explosions. Then, there's the toilet which people keep forgetting to jiggle to stop the flow of water, which irritates Mark. However, Mark Bannister's treatment of it at the end of the film is unwarranted. Then, cousin Bernice's weeks-long stay after breaking her leg, bed-ridden in a traction contraption, occasions periodic attention.
One of my favorite scenes in when Mark's stock brokering boss, Mr. Grindle, unexpectedly arrives at the Bannister's house with some fantastic news and a promotion offer for Mark. But, Mark is so sure that he has come to tell him he's fired, that he doesn't listen to Grindle's talk, instead backtalking belligerently, with name calling. Finally, Mark's wife tells him to shut up and listen.
Several running gags are included: Scruffy: cousin Bernice's mischievous cat, keeps dying, buried, and mysteriously reappearing. It even goes supersonic in circles when it eats some cocaine. Meanwhile, C. L: the half-grown neighbor boy's string of firecrackers cause several explosions. Then, there's the toilet which people keep forgetting to jiggle to stop the flow of water, which irritates Mark. However, Mark Bannister's treatment of it at the end of the film is unwarranted. Then, cousin Bernice's weeks-long stay after breaking her leg, bed-ridden in a traction contraption, occasions periodic attention.
One of my favorite scenes in when Mark's stock brokering boss, Mr. Grindle, unexpectedly arrives at the Bannister's house with some fantastic news and a promotion offer for Mark. But, Mark is so sure that he has come to tell him he's fired, that he doesn't listen to Grindle's talk, instead backtalking belligerently, with name calling. Finally, Mark's wife tells him to shut up and listen.