"A Guest in the Yard" opens with Sanford and Son ready to ship an old bathtub to the dumpster, only to find a white occupant snoring inside. Fred would like to be rid of the freeloader, Gus (Liam Dunn), but tenderhearted Lamont allows him two more hours of rest. Instead of sleeping in the tub, his eyes follow Fred and his breakfast from the front door to the back, requesting a glass of water and getting his hands on Fred's prized Danish: "you can have it now!" "what are my chances of having lunch with you, Mr. Sanford?" "slim and none, see now look, you spent the night here, you had your continental breakfast, now it's check out time!" Before long Gus is again sleeping in the tub, and in trying to evict him Fred inadvertently knocks him down, after which he claims to be paralyzed below the waist. Threatened by a possible lawsuit, Fred brings in Dr. Caldwell (Davis Roberts, introduced in "Whiplash," later seen in "Lamont, Is That You?") to see if he can help, still coughing and wheezing: "I've gotta give it up or they gonna kill me" "yeah them cigarettes will do it" "no, I'm taking about drivin' on the freeway!" This time it's Gus who questions his qualifications: "are you a doctor?" "what day is this?" "Friday, what's that got to do with it?" "because on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I'm a doctor, the other days I work in the post office!" Not being a neurologist Dr. Caldwell can do nothing to allay Fred's fears: "is he gonna be all right or is he gonna be crippled?" "I don't know" "are you sure this ain't the day you're supposed to be at the post office?" "do you have any idea how many doctors there are in this country honest enough to say they don't know?" "how many?" "I don't know!" The solution turns out to be so simple that Lamont wonders why he didn't think of it before his father did: "cause you ain't simple minded like me!" Davis Roberts again proves uproarious, while Liam Dunn is perfectly cast to obnoxious type.
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