Two zany, struggling LA songwriters join a tipsy Englishman, his vivacious daughter, and a goofy helicopter pilot, rob con men, run into trouble, and survive gut-busting adventures, including a wild horse-drawn wagon chase climax.

SYNOPSIS:

A music publisher and circus booking agent tosses two struggling songwriters out his office: wise-cracking Sullivan and his wacky partner, Dog, who acts like a dog when he confronts people.

A “wild man” growls at him, Dog barks back. Scares the wild man, who yelps, runs outside. Off-screen, there's the sounds of vehicles crashing.

When the landlady seizes their piano for back rent, Sullivan and Dog hop on and go for a wild ride into a lake.

They're fired as office supply phone salesmen and wander into a bar. Meet the Colonel, a British boozer, who gets them involved in a Three Stooges-type bar fight, complete with Curly Howard-style belly bounces. They're arrested.

In jail, the Colonel tells them a hard-luck story. About two con men who stole all his money. A bum accompanies him with “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”.

An angry cellmate smashes the harmonica and continues this behavior, as the bum replaces it with a guitar, a trombone, then a keyboard from his bulky coat.

The Colonel’s daughter, Patricia, bails them out. A shaky relationship with Sullivan begins. She hates his wise-guy attitude, he manages to worm his way into her affections.

Sullivan and Dog move in. Investigate the con men, complain to police, but the cops ignore them. When the Colonel gets an eviction notice, the boys have got his back. They feel they owe it to him to take action. The Colonel recruits Jerome Bullfrog, a conspiracy theorist, who built a helicopter from stolen spare parts.

Patricia tags along when the group robs the con men and escapes in Bullfrog’s helicopter.

The makeshift copter sputters, loses altitude. The Colonel tumbles out, disappears. They're stuck in a desert pit.

Absurd escape attempts fail, like using the landing skids and fan belts for a crude human slingshot. Bullfrog winds up with his head stuck in the side of the pit.

Another copter lands, the con men. Sullivan and Dog manage to strand the villains. Bullfrog is convinced they're Martian invaders, as he pilots their helicopter away.

More problems. Copter ditches into a farmer's hay loft. Dog emerges from the hay wearing a nest for a hat, while a chicken lays an egg that hatches. Bullfrog plops into a pigpen. A pig gets annoyed and kicks mud in his face.

Later, in the farmer's kitchen, by mistake, Dog stuffs a turkey with popcorn kernels. It escapes the oven, propels around the room, till Bullfrog shoots it down. The gang buys the family's junker truck and take off, as the family munches on a huge bucket of popcorn.

Cops stop them for a bad tail light. The con men show up in a stolen sports car. Overpower and tie up the cops, recover the money, and take the junker truck.

Dog and Bullfrog put on cops' uniforms. With Sullivan and Patricia in the trunk, the patrol car drives into Mexico after the bad guys.

In the village of Pueblo Del Phlegm, both vehicles literally split in half. Our heroes reunite with the Colonel, in a bar, of course.

The climax: Two horse-drawn wagons in a frantic chase scene with bizarre physical stunts. At one point, Patricia drives the wagon while Sullivan dirt-skis behind it. One con man tumbles into a cactus patch, the other takes a ride on a cougar's back. The good guys win.

They get a huge reward for capturing the con men.

So, Sullivan opens a nightclub, circus oddities serve as employees: including a fire eater specializing in flambe desserts.

Sullivan and Dog perform the song, “When You’re Rich Like Me, It Makes It Hard To Sing The Blues”. The fire eater triggers the sprinkler alarm, the drenched crowd goes wild with applause.