The Egg and I was a tremendous success and Universal gave Ma and Pa Kettle their own series. There is something very winning about the rumbustious Ma and her enormous brood (everyone knows or at least has seen poor white trash like them(, married to lazy, shiftless Pa Kettle (everyone’s got a relative like him).
This is set a few years after the Egg and I as Richard Long has just graduated from college. Several characters from that first film return, including the Indians, the local gossip and her mother, the woman who thinks her husband is dead, the medicine man salesman.
Not much of a plot – Pa wins a slogan contest and they move into a new fangled house. Pa may not have actually won the slogan and Richard Long romances a journalist. It’s a bit weak and doesn’t result in much fun, although the two stars are in fine form. The best gag is when Ma carries Pa over the threshold. It gets perhaps a bit too serious and dark when they think Pa is dead - this really isn't that funny.
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