- Mr. and Mrs. Kirby prepare to head out for dinner with the Sycamores. They figure they'll humor Tony and he'll get over Alice.
- The Kirbys aren't very nice. In case you didn't notice.
- In the Sycamore house, Grandpa's playing the harmonica.
- Ed is worried because he sees a person out the window. He thinks that this person has been following him (this is foreshadowing, Shmoopers.)
- Alice slides down the banister and is all in a bustle to get dinner ready for the following night.
- Cut back to a car where the Kirby's are coming. They are cranky. Crankiness is the Kirby way.
- Meanwhile, the Sycamores are painting and dancing and generally going on in their chaotic way, when the doorbell rings.
- It's the Kirbys. They've come on the wrong night. Whoops.
- There is much awkwardness.
- Really, they should just come back tomorrow… but then there wouldn't be zaniness, and it wouldn't be a comedy would it?
- And it turns out Tony screwed up the days on purpose, because he wanted his family to meet the Sycamores as they are.
- Let this be a warning to you Shmoopers; avoid honesty. Put on a false front whenever you can, or you'll end up alienating your sweetheart and making your parents uncomfortable.
- The low point is probably when Kolenkhov decides to demonstrate wrestling by picking up Mr. Kirby and throwing him to the ground, breaking his glasses.
- The Kirbys leave after that.
- Or… they try to!
- But then FBI agents show up.
- Ed was printing notices about the "revolution" to advertise the fireworks show, and the police think he's really a radical Communist (folks were scared of Communists at the time.)
- Whoops, and the police find the fireworks in the cellar. They bring up Mr. DiPenna before he can collect his pipe… and the pipe ignites the gunpowder.
- KABOOM!