 New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden and his feisty wife Alice, struggle to make ends meet. Despite Ralph s many get-rich-quick schemes/motivational speaker tape series, they ve managed to save some money and, along with their best friends Ed and Trixie Norton, they seem to have almost enough money for a down payment on a Brooklyn duplex. However, when Ralph decides to try to impress Alice by making up what he s lost and augmenting their savings with another of his crazy schemes, he winds up losing all their money and his marriage to boot--and it takes all his determination and love for Alice to get things on track again.