Ed
In every couple, there is usually a good cop and bad cop routine going on. Either the husband or the wife is more sympathetic to others or less willing to help. In most movies, usually, the stereotype is that the husband is not willing to help people out until the wife persuades him to do it.
What can we say, it is a tale as old as time and every relationship usually has that going on. Well, Ed is the husband of Irene that wasn’t really interested in swapping tickets with Kate until he finally caved in. You can even see this same couple appear again in Dennis the Menace.