A quartet of WAVES takes over the motorpool on the South Pacific island of Ranakai, with animosity developing immediately.

Marion Botnik playfully snaps pictures of the girls violating Navy regulations, but Commander Adrian locks the pictures in a safe so the admiral can see them.

Adrian offers the WAVES delicious, high-calorie foods so that they will be unable to pass the upcoming fitness test.

Dissension among the WAVES breaks out after each of them has dated a muscular sailor.

Adrian's visiting nephew ends up causing more trouble for him than the WAVES.

Adrian cuts off the WAVES' makeup supply in the hopes that they will leave, but Morgan quickly sets up a lipstick still.

Adrian and the crew pose as the enemy to frighten the WAVES into leaving the island.

Molly falls in love, so Adrian schedules a psychological test for her in the hopes that the entire motorpool will be shipped stateside.

Someone is making off with gourmet food from Adrian's private supply.

Adrian sabotages the motorpool to get them flagged for inefficiency. Anne fights back by planting a tape recorder in the commander's headquarters in the hope that he will make a damaging admission.

The WAVES are tricked by Adrian into thinking that they are victim of a rare tropical disease known as 'galloping baldness'.

Adrian gets the mistaken idea that one of the WAVES is pregnant.

Rough-and-ready Selma is too forthright to snare a boyfriend, so the WAVES coach her to be more demure. When Selma goes AWOL, Anne has to cover for her.

The WAVES compete against three trained Marines in running a jungle obstacle course, and end up using their ingenuity to come out ahead.

After undergoing involuntary hypnosis, Adrian's attitude toward the WAVES swings wildly between love and hate.

The WAVES stow away on a cargo ship and are shocked to see that Adrian is aboard.

A war correspondent uses the power of the press to wangle a date with Anne.

After Roberta destroys Adrian's croquet court while trying to warn him about ominous astrological signs, the other WAVES have to make Adrian believe in astrology to avoid having Roberta court-martialed.

While Anne is on leave, Adrian uses sleep-teaching records to try to get the WAVES to leave. After Anne returns, she tries the same thing on him and plants the idea that he should volunteer for dangerous duty.

World-famous chef Stanley Stubbs comes to Ranakai after Adrian begs to have him assigned there.

After spotting coded messages being sent by carrier pigeon, Adrian becomes convinced that the WAVES are guilty of espionage.

Adrian acquires a monkey's paw, unaware of the caveat.

After calling a Navy hearing to charge the WAVES with inefficiency, Adrian then has them arrested by Brisbane police so they will not be present to defend themselves.

Stanley and Selma allow Adrian's Rolls-Royce staff car to roll off a cliff and into a tree. They have to scramble to limit the consequences.

Adrian orders the WAVES to undergo boot-camp training while continuing with their motorpool duties. The WAVES fight back, faking an order for Adrian to take basic training as well.

Adrian smuggles a steer onto the island. After discovering that Morgan is allergic to animal hair, he assigns her to fatten up the steer.

When the WAVES convince Adrian that he's headed for a nervous breakdown, Ens. Beasley eagerly takes command of the base.

Adrian has movies of the WAVES taken during an unguarded moment so he can use them as evidence that they are neglecting their duties.

Roberta develops extrasensory perception, which causes Adrian to use him to contact his wife, an 18th-century Hawaiian king, Napoleon's cook, and a Chinese emperor who reigned in 6 AD.

During the flight to Brisbane for the WAVES' court-martial, the hatch inadvertently opens, which causes Adrian, the WAVES, Beasley, and Trotter to sail out over the South Pacific.

Adrian stages a beauty contest to create discourse among the WAVES.

When Molly needs money for her nephew's operation, Adrian suggests a fund-raising party. He then arranges to raid the party in the company of Admiral Bradford.