* The book's very existence. Toole spent five years trying to get it published but was constantly rejected, eventually falling into a depression and committing suicide in 1969. His mother found the manuscript a few years later and made it her life's goal to get it published, spending another 11 years shopping around until finally someone took a chance and published it. ''Confederacy of Dunces'' would go on to win the Pulitzer that year and is considered one of the funniest novels of all time.
* HenpeckedHusband Mr. Levy finally standing up to his self-styled psychiatrist wife and rescuing his failing clothes factory with a series of sensible business ideas he'd been forced to sit on for years.
* Mancuso earning back his pride and self-respect after he arrests Lana Lee for distributing pornography when dozens of plainclothes cops failed.
* Irene ''finally'' losing it with Ignatius after having to pick him up at the hospital. Even Ignatius is (momentarily) stunned into compliance.