Plot summary
A local industrialist ( Martin Mull ) sponsors a contest to build a toast maker with students and a parent. Mikey's father ran out on him 6 months ago and his mother (Sherry Rooney) is juggling two jobs. Also he is helping a delinquent boy ( Chris Demetral ), so is under pressure. A short fantasy sequence involving the Lewis family titled, Honey I'm Home, is a mishmash of 1950s and 1960s nuclear family TV shows with Ken Osmond appearing as Eddie Haskell from Leave It to Beaver, the theme music and iconic dance step around the ottoman of The Dick Van Dyke Show, and the similar family structure of Father Knows Best (from whence the episode title plays off).
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