However, their plans take an unexpected turn when Ollie receives a phone call from Cookie, a lodge acquaintance, inviting them to a stag party in their honor.

In a bid to participate in the event, Ollie feigns illness, prompting him to send their wives ahead while he and Stan commit to joining them the next morning.

Faced with limited options, Stan and Ollie seek refuge in a Murphy bed, their apprehension palpable as they await the inevitable confrontation.

Anita Garvin played Mrs. Laurel in all three films; she mouthed her foreign lines phonetically, on-camera but off-mic, while a voice actress just off-camera spoke into a "hot" mic.

[1] Besides serving as a dress extra Jean De Briac was also Laurel's and Hardy's dialogue coach on the French-language version, Les Carottiers (in which he also played Cookie).