The stagehand, for a practical joke, changes the card on the bouquet so that it appears to be meant for the theater's lady janitor.
The Stage Door Johnnie, shocked to see the janitor approaching, tries unsuccessfully to escape her embrace.
)[3] Georges Méliès had previously used the same location for his 1907 film The Good Luck of a "Souse".
[2] Based on an analysis of the surviving fragments of the film, a publication on Méliès's films by the Centre national du cinéma suggested that Buncoed Stage Johnnie may possibly have been directed not by Méliès himself but by his production assistant, the actor Manuel.
[3] The surviving print of the film is incomplete, making it difficult to follow the narrative continuity.