On this airing, the unbearable Charlie Bratton lets slip to nervous pal Clem Finch that he had seen Clem's wife Mildred in Harry's Tavern the night before and she was feeling no pain. Then Charlie tries to get Clem a raise at the Mortimer Co. but it winds up with Clem being fired. The jinxed Poor Soul visits the public library where he runs into all sorts of difficulties with an uncooperative coat rack, an immovable slide ladder, and an unaccommodating water cooler. Jackie tells some diet jokes about himself.