Gerry and Cookie Fleck are a middle-class couple from Florida who arrive at the Taft Hotel with their Norwich terrier Winky.

After having forgotten to pay their credit card bill and short of cash, they are forced to sleep in the hotel's storage room.

Harlan Pepper, the affable Southern owner of a fishing goods store and an aspiring ventriloquist, arrives with his bloodhound Hubert.

A former two-time winner of the show, Sherri Ann receives help with her standard poodle Rhapsody in White, also known as Butch, from her taskmaster trainer Christy Cummings.

Scott Donlan and Stefan Vanderhoof are a campy gay couple who take great pride in their Shih Tzu Miss Agnes and are confident that she will win the competition.

Christy and Sherri Ann, now openly in a relationship (Leslie's fate is unclear), publish American Bitch, a magazine for lesbian owners of purebred dogs.

After spending weeks on a kibbutz, Harlan fulfills his dream of being a ventriloquist, entertaining sparse crowds with a honky tonk song-and-dance number.

Stefan and Scott design a calendar featuring Shih Tzu dogs in costume appearing in scenes from classic films such as Casablanca and Gone with the Wind.

Meg and Hamilton are visibly happier together after replacing Beatrice with a pug named Kipper, whom they claim enjoys watching them make love.

The website's critical consensus reads, "A fine example of writer/director/star Christopher Guest's gift for improvisation comedy, Best in Show boasts an appealingly quirky premise and a brilliantly talented cast.

[10] To celebrate Halloween 2022, former Victorious castmates Ariana Grande and Elizabeth Gillies paid homage to Best in Show by recreating several scenes from the movie in which they each dressed up as multiple characters.