Walter Denton asks Miss Brooks how to make his mother happy for Mother's Day.
1. Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden, uses Mother's Day to place Madison High School teacher Connie Brooks in a series of domestic complications.
2. Eve Arden plays Miss Brooks, while Mr. Conklin, Walter Denton, Harriet Conklin, and Mr. Boynton drive the episode's school and family exchanges.
3. The episode asks what counts as a meaningful Mother's Day gesture when gifts, family visits, and mistaken identities collide.
4. Mr. Conklin begins an impromptu quiz by asking Miss Brooks to conjugate 'strive' and then 'thrive.'
5. Mr. Conklin turns the number five into a grammar joke before asking Miss Brooks to hide a package for his wife.
6. Walter Denton seeks Miss Brooks's advice because he leaves clothes around the house and fails to get out of bed when his mother wakes him.
7. Miss Brooks suggests that Walter put his clothes in a suitcase and run away, then tells him that changing his behavior would make his mother happiest.
8. Harriet Conklin and Walter organize a committee to choose a Mother's Day gift for Miss Brooks, whom they call their 'mother away from mother.'
9. Mr. Boynton tells Miss Brooks that his parents are arriving because his mother decided to spend Mother's Day with him rather than his married brother.
10. Mr. Boynton's father has described Miss Brooks as a 'great big overgrown kid' in a letter exchange that embarrasses her.
11. Mrs. Davis has sent the sofa and every chair to an upholsterer, leaving Mr. Boynton's visiting parents standing in the living room.
12. Mrs. Boynton arrives before dinner, mistakes Miss Brooks for Mrs. Davis, and repeats that Philip has written extensively about her.
13. Mr. Boynton asks Miss Brooks and Mrs. Davis to accommodate his parents for the weekend because a convention has filled the local hotels.
14. Mrs. Boynton opens the package marked 'for Mother' and finds a black sheer negligee intended for Mr. Conklin's wife.
15. Miss Brooks identifies 'Goody' as a shortened form of Osgood and explains why Mr. Conklin asked her to conceal the gift.
16. Dinner adds another round of family jokes, including Mrs. Boynton's observation that Philip is a 'great, big, overgrown kid.'
17. Walter, Harriet, and Connie arrive as a committee and give Miss Brooks a shawl and knitting needles for the rocking chair associated with her.
18. Walter sings a student-written tribute that spells out 'BROOKS' and compares Miss Brooks's motherliness to Elsie the cow.
19. Listeners who enjoy Eve Arden's scripted school comedy.
20. Listeners uninterested in vintage domestic farce and verbal misunderstandings.
