- Flatt and Scruggs and their wives come to visit their old sweetheart, but Pearl thinks they're there to propose. Jed throws a wingding for them and the duo play music for the Clampetts.
- Jethro runs into the house with a letter. His excitement results in Granny accidentally getting repeatedly hit in the face with a door, leading Pearl and Jed to think she's been drinking alcohol to excess. The letter gets wet so Pearl is unable to read all of it, but she sees the word "engagement." Granny and Jed convince her that her former beaus want to ask for her hand in marriage. Meanwhile, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and their wives travel by train to Beverly Hills to revisit the two singers' former mutual love-interest Pearl Bodine. Pearl's only reason for not having married one of them herself was that she could never decide which man she liked better. Jed Clampett and his family prepare them a welcoming dinner. The musicians' genteelly-beautiful and elegantly-attired wives --- feeling somewhat jealous and concerned over their husbands' frequent reminiscing about how sweet and lovely Pearl had always seemed to them --- privately decide to make an incognito visit to the Clampetts ahead of their husbands, to have the opportunity to discreetly meet and size up their perceived competition. They masquerade as cosmetics vendors, and hope at first that Granny is Pearl. Then they mistake Elly May for Pearl, and hasten away to revisit the beauty shop. The husbands then arrive without their wives, and dance with the Clampetts. Because Pearl thinks they are there to ask for her hand in marriage, she struggles to decide between them. Elly May's dogs end up eating most of the party-feast, but everyone shares an enjoyable evening, complete with The Singing Duo's sumptuous banjo-performances. When Flatt and Scruggs return to the party later with their wives, Pearl thinks they have married them on the rebound from her rejection.
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