Synopsis

THE SHOW MUST GO ON, cleverly mixes up sitcoms and real life by presenting us with an ostensibly authentic suburban family in which all the members read their lines from a stilted and hilariously dismal script. Trouble develops when someone shows up who is not in the script. Furthermore, she (the part was supposed to call for a burly telephone repairman) is both fetching and given to improvisation, which throws the others completely. And when the father of the family is lured into trying his hand at "winging it" he ends up being fired and facing divorce from his jealous wife—while the substitute father who is rushed in to replace him arrives with the wrong script!