Felix and Oscar maneuvered to conclude their poker game, eager to join the Pigeon sisters for an evening elsewhere.

The team’s most formidable defenseman, a man built like granite, issued a challenge to Felix: a boxing match.

A promising evening for Oscar, planned around a date with a stewardess, was abruptly derailed when Felix fell ill.

The scene shifts, drawing us back to the moment Oscar and Felix first encountered one another—a recollection unfolding with the deliberate pacing and focused intensity of “Twelve Angry Men.”

After Oscar ejected him from the apartment, Felix found temporary refuge first with Murray, then with Vinnie, and subsequently with the Pigeon sisters.

A familiar discomfort returned for Oscar; his ulcer was beginning to worsen once more.

Consumed by guilt after believing himself to have inadvertently caused a young couple’s parting on their wedding day, Felix resolved to reunite them, despite their evident reluctance.

The creation of a monster began when Felix pressured Oscar into appearing in a commercial for cologne.

Oscar and Felix found themselves unexpectedly taking on the roles of older brothers to a young boy who had lost his father.

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When Felix disappeared, Oscar felt certain his friend was gone.

Following a familiar pattern, reminiscent of *A Christmas Carol*, Oscar found himself adrift in a dream where he was visited by the spectral presence of Felix.

Among Oscar’s circle of poker players, a suspicion lingers: that perpetually shortchanged Oscar pilfered fifty dollars from the pot during a recent building-wide power outage. Now, Oscar is determined to clear his name and demonstrate his i…

Felix’s unwavering ambition to triumph in the upcoming cooking competition was enough to drive Oscar completely around the bend.

Felix bristles with indignation whenever he sees an Inuit quarterback subjected to unfair treatment.

Oscar finds himself captivated by Dr. Nancy Cunningham, the physician attending to Felix’s allergies.

A man of rough character assisted Felix in recovering a watch that had been taken from him.

The mountain cabin offered a weekend far from pleasant.

Having a baby can certainly disrupt an evening quite spectacularly.

There’s a distinct possibility their neighbor is a bank robber.

Discharged from his position at the newspaper, Oscar began looking for work at a men's magazine.

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Oscar and his friends attended a theatrical performance showcasing Felix’s “librarian” girlfriend, a production promising to reveal “the naked truth.”

This time, we discover the reasons behind the arrests of Oscar, Felix, and Nancy.