Jerry is a slick adman who uses women anbd booze to woo his clients. An executive at a rival agency reports him to the Ad Council.

Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can’t let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.

The guys perform one experiment after another to create a flying bicycle, and race to be the first ones to make a flying machine.