- Richard discovers that he has a fungus infection while Hyacinth is in the midst of creating her new dream kitchen. Horrified at Richard's condition, Hyacinth insists that their friends and family must be told it is gout, one of the more aristocratic ailments.—Nadia Nassar
- Hyacinth has decided she wants her kitchen redecorated with "exclusive" Angel Gabriel Blue worktops, which are no longer sold in stores but which she manages to obtain a leftover amount of from the warehouse that once created them. However, her excitement at this potential status upgrade is short-lived when Richard contracts a bad case of athlete's foot. As fungus infections are a lower-class ailment in her mind, she insists he wear swathes of bandages about the infected foot and act as if he has gout whenever they are in public. Then Daddy vanishes and a Mr. Mawsby takes his place, and when a distraught Daisy calls to tell her, Hyacinth is off to the rescue. Predictably, these three events collide, and chaos reigns once again.—E. E. Buchanan
- Hyacinth invites the Vicar to her house to help her decide what color she should remodel her kitchen, as the two colors she had in mind were called Lucifer Gray and Angel Gabriel Blue. Having decided on the blue, she calls the newspaper to have an announcement put in about her refitting her kitchen, but is upset to discover that the paper doesn't provide for that sort of thing, or think it's as important as she does that all her friends hear about it.
Richard comes in from a walk about town and complains that he has itchy toes. Hyacinth admonishes him that he can't take dancing lessons at his age and he explains that he means his feet literally are irritated and inflamed and he's going to go to the doctor about it. This distresses Hyacinth as it isn't a nice thing to go to the doctor about, in her mind. However, Richard goes and she sallies off to the kitchen store to place her order.
At the kitchen store, Hyacinth asks the salesman to put in the order for her kitchen, only to be informed that her brochure is out of date and that Angel Gabriel Blue is no longer an option. Hyacinth demands to know why it was taken out of the current brochure and is informed that very few if any customers purchased it. Excited that her kitchen will be "exclusive", she asks the salesman to call his warehouse and ask if there's any Angel Gabriel Blue left over that hasn't been scrapped. The salesman does so, and while he is phoning she starts testing the countertops on display for how they cope with spillages, much to his shock and horror when he comes back. However, it transpires that as her kitchen is small they do have enough Angel Gabriel Blue left over to fulfill the requirements and he can place the order.
Meanwhile, at Daisy and Onslow's house, Rose informs her sister and brother-in-law that she thinks she saw a man in her father's bed. Fearing the worst, they troop upstairs to investigate only to discover that there is not a man in bed with their father, but that Daddy is gone and a Mr. Mawsby has rented the room from him and refuses to leave, stating he's paid and has a receipt. He then proceeds to lock them out. As it's been several days since they last saw Daddy to speak to - he's been holed up in his room - they wonder just how long Mr. Mawsby's been there and when they realize Daddy may well have been gone for weeks they decide finally that they have to ask Hyacinth for help, even though they know she'll be furious.
Richard returns from the doctor and when he tells Hyacinth the diagnosis is Athlete's Foot, a minor fungus infection, she is aghast and disgusted. She refuses at first to believe Richard has the condition and when she's forced to accept it she insists they have to pretend it's something more socially acceptable, as people have already noticed Richard limping. She decides on gout as a more upper-class substitute and swathes his foot in bandages, instructing him that he has to pretend he has gout until the fungus infection goes away.
Hyacinth invites Elizabeth and Emmet for their daily coffee and Richard - rather unconvincingly - plays the part of a man with gout. Hyacinth starts stepping on his foot and other similar things to make his pain more realistic. She gives Elizabeth a coffee cup with a lid, hoping to keep spillages down, but when Liz tries to open the lid to take a sip the lid is stuck and eventually goes flying off, taking the coffee cup with it. Hyacinth offers Liz a sippy cup instead as a last resort but then it transpires that one can't put sugar or cream in it. Then the phone rings, startling Elizabeth into spilling Emmet's coffee all over him though her own stays in the sippy cup.
Hyacinth answers the phone only to find that instead of her son, who she was expecting a call from, it's Daisy. Daisy explains about Mr. Mawsby but Hyacinth does not believe her, and she and Richard go to investigate what really is going on. She makes Richard wear the bandages in the car and when he takes them off to drive he finds she tidied up the car earlier and took out the spare shoe he had in there for driving, meaning he has to drive with a bare foot. He finds this so difficult that they nearly wreck the car several times.
On arriving at Daisy and Onslow's house, Hyacinth finds the kitchen salesman is Rose's latest beau. She also finds that he has given Daisy and Onslow some of the leftover Angel Gabriel Blue worktop, therefore causing her to cancel her own order. Hyacinth tries to get Mr. Mawsby out of Daddy's room but he won't answer. She demands Onslow fetch a ladder and go in through the window but Onslow refuses to climb the ladder. Eventually Richard is forced, bandages and all, to climb the ladder, even though of the lot of them he has the worst fear of heights.
Richard is shakily trying to climb the ladder when Daddy, who has been skateboarding around town, shows up and demands to know what is going on. Everyone on the ground flocks to Daddy and Richard is startled and falls off the ladder, but his thick bandage-swathed foot gets stuck and he finds himself hanging upside down by one foot halfway up the ladder, and being totally ignored by everyone. Mr. Mawsby leaves, disgusted with the "mad" inhabitants of his rented accommodation, and Daddy is so distraught by his insulting manner that he starts to cry and the family ushers him inside, still leaving Richard stranded on the ladder calling for help.
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