While Wilma is on vacation, Mary's parents visit and begin to think through a series of misunderstandings that Peter and Mary are struggling financially so that Mary's father begins an unprompted sale of the house to bail them out.
When Peter and Barry come home with a classic car instead of the boat they went to buy, it causes marital strife so as an apology they plan a Lake Placid trip which is complicated by an out of the way classic car race they enter.
Peter turns downtown a world tour proposed by his agent because he wants to become involved in his community but when he is not taken seriously by the town's active citizens, he reconsiders the tour much to the chagrin of Mary.
When the Lindsey, Watkins and Rogers wives are nominated for president of garden club, a job none of them wants, the wives are embarrassed by the absurdly competitive lengths the husbands go to win the job for their respective wife.
Thinking show business is an uncertain career, Mary's father persuades Peter to become his business partner but a day in the office together convinces both Mr. Gibney and Peter that Peter is not a good fit for the business world.