The 3 Stooges are paid professionals in the tourist trade as they take passengers on gondoliers along the Grand Canal in Venice with mishaps occurring at a frequent rate. Their big promotional idea is having Curly Joe mouth the words of a Hawaiian song while a hidden phonograph record is playing.

The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy (Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkle) are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.

There’s a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.