The stooges are stage hands who also have small parts in a big play. They quickly get on the bad side of the producer. First they fail to prevent a famous critic from sneaking into the audience. Then Shemp accidentally adds a pot holder into a cake they bake as a prop. During the play the stooges (as southern gentlemen) and the rest of the cast spit up feathers during what was supposed to be a serious scene. The critic thinks it’s a hilarious satire and the boys are redeemed.

June Buckridge is 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays on a popular daytime serial. The widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is a predatory lesbian who is pursuing Childie, June's flat mate.

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.