Neil Simon's comedy pairs two mismatched, recently single roommates: Felix Unger, a neurotically fastidious neat freak whose marriage just collapsed, and Oscar Madison, a slovenly, easygoing sportswriter still reeling from his own divorce. When Felix moves into Oscar's messy apartment for their regular poker-night friend group, his obsessive tidiness, hypochondria, and emotional fussiness clash comically with Oscar's slob habits, eventually souring even their poker buddies' patience with both of them. Their disastrous double date with two English sisters brings the men's incompatible living styles to a hilarious breaking point. One of the most iconic comedies of mismatched roommates in American theater, it later inspired both a film and long-running television series.

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