Johnny Whitaker

Buffy and Jody's pet hamsters seem to always escape their cage and then get out of the apartment building. The twins realize the hamsters want to be free.

When Bill is in Hong Kong for business, he works with Ng Ho. Bill is impressed with Ng Ho, and invites him to visit in New York. When Ng Ho stays with the Davis' he starts to help around the apartment, too efficiently, and upsets Mr French.

Buffy & Jody notice that while they know a lot of the tenants in the building, most of them do not know each other. They ask Mr. French to help them throw a party for everyone. Some tenants get stuck in the elevator when going to the party.

Jody and Buff's school teacher is out for a few days, and there is a substitute teacher. Jody develops a crush on her.

Jody and a classmate taunt each other with claims of "my father can beat your father," but the parents refuse to fight each other.

Emily Turner plays matchmaker to Mr French and Miss Faversham, while being the match-breaker for her son Jim Turner and Cissy's relationship.

Restless, Bill takes a job in the Yutacan, but then starts to miss the family. It gets worse when he is led to believe, through miscommunication by phone, that Mr. French has the flu and Buffy and Jody are left to take care of him.

Buffy and Jody accidentally break a small statue originally from Columbia and try to fix it before Uncle Bill finds out about it.

Cissy is taking an art class and has been drawing caricature images of the family members, but does not mention one for Mr. French. He is hurt at being left out, however, Cissy has his picture and wants to surprise him with it.

When the twins find out that Mr French's birthday is approaching, they ask Cissy to help them set up a birthday party for Mr French.