Timmy seizes a rare opportunity to perform his magic act as the family gathers for the televised Vietnam draft show condemning one birth year cohort to war duty. Gentle giant Eddie's year is shockingly drawn, so he mans up to follow WW II veteran father's patriotic example. Lawrence's suggestion to dodge by friends in Canada is dismissed, until he gets a letter stating his own deferment due to seminar studies was squashed, so he too is dragged into the next contingent. While Peggy's doubled objections to risking a dead son for a war she can't understand overtakes Mike's patriot pride, the drafted boys .let off steam playing basketball and decide to serve, hopefully together. Frank is hell-bound on proving Timmy's milk disappearance trick a fake, so pays Joey, who fails to overcome party shop owner Great Pepe's magician's oath of secrecy.
—KGF Vissers