Fred's birthday present from Lamont, a pool table, started with good intentions; to keep Fred occupied when he goes out. However, soon his poolroom buddies start coming over every day and treating the place like a pool hall. Leroy is hogging the phone and even accepting collect calls from Detroit, Bubba himself hogging the bathroom with a magazine (forcing Lamont to shave in the kitchen), and Fred is neglecting both his chores and even Donna. Lamont now knows he has to find a way to make Fred himself want to get rid of the pool table, so he engineers a way; by allowing Fred's friends to eat them both out of house and home. Fred is forced to sell the pool table in the middle of the night to Otis Littlejohn, and had intended to keep the money for himself, but Lamont "finds" the money and keeps it for himself. However, Fred does manage to get the money from him, but when Donna comes over, Lamont lets the cat out of the bag about the money on him, forcing Fred to take Donna out.
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