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Agatha Knabenshu arrives in a small town in Missouri to sell player pianos to the locals. She's fired after her disastrous sales attempts nearly destroy the town. The stranded saleslady becomes friendly with an equally bumbling inventor and moves in with his family. The two then try to sell his automatic milking machine, but things turn sour when their demonstration causes a stampede.
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Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".
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Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
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Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
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광고 회사의 말단 직원인 샘 비셸(Sam Bissel: 잭 레몬 분)은 사랑스런 아내와 딸 둘을 거느린 평범한 가장이다. 그러던 어느 날, 그가 별 생각없이 내놓은 의견을 대 고객인 널링거 사장이 흡족해 하는 바람에 그는 하루 아침에 이사로 승진한다. 그러나 아내의 절친한 친구 쟈넷(Janet Lagerlof: 로미 쉬네이더 분)이 옆집에 이사오면서 행복 그 자체였던 샘의 가정이 위협을 받는다. 쟈넷이 할아버지의 유산을 상속받으려면 결혼 생활을 하고 있어야 하는데 그녀는 현재 이혼한 상태였던 것이다. 쟈넷의 아이디어로 졸지에 하워드(Howard Ebbets: 마이크 코너스 분)의 대역을 맡게 된 샘의 이중 생활이 시작되면서 일은 꼬이기만 한다. 급기야는 쟈넷마저 샘의 부인으로 연극을 하게 되는 사태가 벌어진다. 여기에 쟈넷의 전남편인 하워드까지 가세한다. 결국 유산 때문에 본의 아니게 상대가 뒤바뀐 두 쌍의 숨바꼭질 사랑이 시작되는데...
