The Meldrews have a tarot reading that prophesies disaster for Victor. Patrick and Pippa sell their home, but a house clearance crew are mistaken for their removal men. Patrick and Victor get snowed in at an old house with a jealous boyfriend and a huge spider.

Victor has a new job as an odd-job man. But the "odd-job" is being a walking scarecrow, being told that he needed to sift through a farmer's field to look for a long-lost engagement ring. Pippa is jealous of Patrick's personal secretary, who has told her boyfriend that she's been having an affair with him to make him jealous; the boyfriend wants revenge upon Patrick.

Meanwhile, Cousin Ursula has died: the Meldrews need to clear out her house, but the Trenchs are happily packing to move into their new house. Victor accidentally sends the house clearance people next door, so the furniture is destroyed. In a bizarre mix-up, the jealous boyfriend locks Patrick up in Victor's boot, so Patrick is left alone in the house to be cleared with Victor and a poisonous spider which Victor tries to tempt out of the toilet with a banana.

After Victor breaks the news about their furniture, Patrick and Pippa then stay in a hotel where they check into the peep show room, so return stay the night with the Meldrews instead. The jealous boyfriend fights with Patrick and Victor whilst Pippa is frozen with fear in the car with the spider!