Heute Ruhetag !

Marcel Schlurfke is not exactly the heartthrob that friends Elke and Gitte are looking for. So they think about how to get rid of this annoying admirer. The best way is to put him in a position where he makes a fool of himself. This is what happens to the aforementioned Marcel, who suffers a total shipwreck with his "cooking skills". And after this failure, Marcel can only place himself in the care of his father Wollermann.Elke's father is a very desirable man in certain respects: in his spare time, he likes to wallpaper and transform worn-out rooms into pretty rooms. For Elke herself, however, this is a problem, because her father repeatedly takes possession of her (desired) admirers and promotes her to "honorary helper" in wallpapering matters. Only Marcel Schlurfke proves his touchingly helpless clumsiness in these assignments too.

The doctor has prescribed Herbert plenty of exercise in the fresh air. Hunting is his new hobby. The pride of his wife Margot has a sudden end when it comes out that leisure activity is anything but hunting passion.

Robert Zenker would rather spend his next vacation at home, which annoys his wife Ilse. Ilse finally decides to go away to a quiet place on her own, leaving her Robert to prove himself as a househusband. After all, he didn't want to go away. So Robert waters the flowers, empties the neighbors' mailboxes, looks after the pets and stacks the coal in the cellar for the winter. When brother-in-law Gerd visits Robert, he finds a strange naked young woman in the bedroom and neighbor Doris hiding in the laundry box. But Robert and the two women are able to explain the situation when his wife returns from her short vacation. She sees that her husband is also made for housework and wants them to share it more in future.