The BEST episodes of The Abbott and Costello Show season 2

Every episode of The Abbott and Costello Show season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Abbott and Costello Show season 2!

Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.

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$1,000 TV Prize
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8.00
2 votes

#1 - $1,000 TV Prize

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/9/1954

Lou wins a $1,000 dollar prize pretending to be Mr. Fields. He then has to get Mr. Fields out of the way so he can collect it.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
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Killer's Wife
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7.67
3 votes

#2 - Killer's Wife

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/12/1953

When a heavyweight prize fighter named Killer thinks that Lou is having an affair with his wife, Bud attempts to get Lou trained and fit in a gym.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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Well Oiled
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7.67
3 votes

#3 - Well Oiled

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/20/1954

Bud and Lou help Mr. Fields, who is being threatened with a lawsuit. Lou poses as a Texas millionaire to help discredit the complainant.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
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Honeymoon House
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7.67
3 votes

#4 - Honeymoon House

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/3/1954

When Bud and Mr. Fields help Lou put together a prefab house in order to impress his fiancée and her parents, a jealous former boyfriend sabotages their work.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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Beauty Contest Story
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7.67
3 votes

#5 - Beauty Contest Story

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/17/1954

When Bud and Lou judge a beauty contest, pressure is applied to sway their votes.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
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Barber Lou
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7.67
3 votes

#6 - Barber Lou

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/1/1954

Lou tries to give Bud a rubdown following instructions from a radio show, but he's tuned into a program explaining how to paint a car at home.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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South of Dixie
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7.50
2 votes

#7 - South of Dixie

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/26/1953

Lou accidentally lands himself and Bud roles in a Civil War melodrama.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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Pest Exterminators
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7.33
3 votes

#8 - Pest Exterminators

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/5/1953

Bud and Lou are pest exterminators mistaken for psychiatrists when they attend to Mrs. Featherton's "aunts."

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
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From Bed to Worse
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7.33
3 votes

#9 - From Bed to Worse

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/2/1954

Bud and Lou attempt to plant a backyard garden in order to win a cash prize offered by a civic group.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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Bank Holdup
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7.33
3 votes

#10 - Bank Holdup

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/13/1954

Bud and Lou unwittingly take jobs as armed bodyguards for a couple of hoodlums and assist in a bank robbery. They use their share of money to pay their rent, and later try to get it back from Mr. Fields' safe.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
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Fall Guy
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7.25
4 votes

#11 - Fall Guy

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/24/1954

Bud and Lou want to take two sisters on a date but their father convinces the boys to put an antenna on his roof instead.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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Life Insurance
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7.00
3 votes

#12 - Life Insurance

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/28/1953

Mr. Fields takes out an insurance policy on Lou. Later, Bud takes Lou on a hunting trip, and Lou suspects Bud and Mr. Fields have plotted to kill him for the insurance money.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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The Pigeon
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7.00
2 votes

#13 - The Pigeon

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/27/1954

Bud and Lou's beautiful next door neighbor uses Lou as a decoy to help break up with her mobster boyfriend.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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Public Enemies
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7.00
3 votes

#14 - Public Enemies

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/1954

Lou is mistaken for a crook named Dapper Dan and is forced to take part in a robbery.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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The Tax Return
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7.00
4 votes

#15 - The Tax Return

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1954

Lou receives a tax refund check for $1,000,000. He takes the check to a bank and demands cash. He is subsequently followed by home by crooks.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
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Car Trouble
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7.00
3 votes

#16 - Car Trouble

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/1954

When Lou wins a car, Bud sells it to buy a cheaper one, using the profits to try to finance a vacation in Flint, Michigan.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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Efficiency Experts
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7.00
2 votes

#17 - Efficiency Experts

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/23/1954

Bud and Lou land jobs as efficiency experts, and are assigned to restrain their client’s daughters from spending money. The young women, however, get the boys to buy them expensive dresses and take them to a casino, where they end up in a brawl.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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Amnesia
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7.00
2 votes

#18 - Amnesia

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/1954

Lou is in love with a girl he has never met. As a gag, Bud and his friends convince him that he has already married the girl. The woman who poses as his wife then makes his existence miserable.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
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Cheap Skates
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7.00
2 votes

#19 - Cheap Skates

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/19/1953

Bud and Lou accidentally buy a crate of roller-skates, not knowing that they have stolen diamonds hidden inside.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
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In Society
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7.00
2 votes

#20 - In Society

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/1953

A wealthy society matron pays Bud to attend a formal reception and impersonate the Duke of Gluten. Lou comes along pretending to be his cousin, the Earl of Waldo.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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Uncle Bozzo's Visit
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7.00
3 votes

#21 - Uncle Bozzo's Visit

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/1953

Lou's eccentric opera singing uncle comes to stay with the boys for a couple of months.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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Wife Wanted
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6.67
3 votes

#22 - Wife Wanted

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1954

When Lou finds out he will inherit $10,000 provided that he has a wife, he tries to marry a former girlfriend—who is dating a man named Bonebender Brodsky.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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Private Eye
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6.67
3 votes

#23 - Private Eye

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1954

After receiving his private eye diploma from the Watchdo Correspondence School, Lou helps a friend locate some valuable bonds in a haunted house.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
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Fencing Master
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6.67
3 votes

#24 - Fencing Master

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/10/1954

A mad scientist's experiment convinces Lou that he is indestructible.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
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Uncle from New Jersey
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6.33
3 votes

#25 - Uncle from New Jersey

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1954

When Mr. Fields is just about to evict the boys, Bud convinces him that Lou's Uncle Ruppert is a millionaire and Lou is the sole heir. Complications arise, however, when Mike the Cop begins to believe that the visiting uncle (Lou in disguise) has been murdered.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
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