Ed fills in for his cousin driving a hansom cab and ends up in a horse race.
Ed mistakenly thinks he is asked to play triangle for the city's philharmonic. On the way to the concert hall, Grimley is arrested and imprisoned for a bank robbery he did not commit.
Ed and Wendall, the annoying brother of his crush -- a ditzy amateur actress named Miss Malone -- go on an amusement park rocket ride, taking them to another planet which is ruled by an alien queen who sounds like Bette Davis.
Looking after the apartment building for the Freebus family while she and her husband are on vacation, Ed tries to fix the water heater and ends up going down the drain, into the ocean, and on an island, where he finds a stranded, Amelia Earhart-esque aviator.
Ed gets trapped in a crate while trying to get a birthday present for Miss Malone. Meanwhile in a spoof of It's a Wonderful Life, Miss Malone is depressed over being passed up for a TV movie and being a struggling actress at 25. She meets a guardian angel named Jim who shows her what life would be like if she was never born.
In the wrong line to return a library book, Ed joins the Army and ends up second banana to a Bob Hope-like USO performer (voiced by Dave Thomas).
Ed's pet goldfish Moby is missing and Ed hires a television-obsessed sea captain to lead the search.
Ed wins a contest but to fulfill the contest rules he needs to take a picture of all of his neighbors. [Note: This is the only musical episode.]
Miss Malone needs to learn how to drive and calls upon Ed to teach her, but an accident turns the two into wandering spirits who haunt Mr. Freebus.
While on his way to his aunt's house for a game of Monopoly, Ed is caught up in the same tornado that sent Dorothy Gale to the Land of Oz, only he ends up on the farm with Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and a recuperating Dorothy where a traveling summer stock show, with a Jerry Lewis-like director, are hoping for a shot at Broadway.
Needing "hot dog franks" for a party, Ed makes a run to the store which resembles the Bates Motel and witnesses Der Bingle robbing the proprietor (voiced by Eugene Levy) for which he testifies and must go into the Witness Protection Program.
Ed goes into the hospital for a tonsillectomy where his roommate is a werewolf (voiced by Christopher Guest).
Irving Cohen pays a visit and helps Ed reveal a couple of hucksters.