Country musicians Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs visit the Clampetts and decide that Jed needs a wife. With the help of Jane and Drysdale, they decide to get him a wife the way they did - by holding auditions for girl singers. Meanwhile, Gladys and Louise travel to San Francisco to get away from Granny and her country cooking lessons, saying that is the way they can make Elly May ladylike. They find out about Lester and Earl holding auditions and realize that's how they got their husbands. They come home right away and Lester and Earl cancel the audition scheme, which Jed is still unaware of.