The audience gets to see how Kay and Roger impacted the lives of Eve and Herb when they moved in next door before Jerry and Susie were born. As usual, Kay and Eve are interfering with the lives of the mother and father to be, and when Roger and Herb interfere in their attempts to do what mothers have been doing for centuries, we get a tall tale of what it was like in the 1940s when Eve, then looking like Doris Day, and an agile Herb, making an entrance like Dick Van Dyke, were introduced to Kay in her Andrew Sisters hairstyle and Roger (with a full head of hair), already intruding before fully moved in.
It's surprising that a new crime called neighborside wasn't committed by the intrusive Buells who needed electricity, water and other items of importance, turning the Hubbard's house upside down to get them. Kay uses guilt to try to manipulate Eve on to her side, but the hot tempered husbands have their own conflicts. This is funny but a rather sad commentary, as it's obvious that these two couples had absolutely nothing in common. Still, the ensemble is very funny, and even Kay and Roger's deliberate actions get laughs even if it's rather a sad situation that no sane person would want to go through.
It's surprising that a new crime called neighborside wasn't committed by the intrusive Buells who needed electricity, water and other items of importance, turning the Hubbard's house upside down to get them. Kay uses guilt to try to manipulate Eve on to her side, but the hot tempered husbands have their own conflicts. This is funny but a rather sad commentary, as it's obvious that these two couples had absolutely nothing in common. Still, the ensemble is very funny, and even Kay and Roger's deliberate actions get laughs even if it's rather a sad situation that no sane person would want to go through.
