Lenore insists on upholding her family's tradition, wherein the eldest daughter must marry first, and Shemp's substantial wealth is an additional incentive.

However, Shemp's persistent inebriation and infatuation with an imaginary avian creature, Carrie, pose significant obstacles to his marriage prospects.

[1] The theme of a woman's unwillingness to marry until her sister can be found in a willing husband-to-be alludes to Kiss Me, Kate, a 1948 Cole Porter musical based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, which also had a 1953 MGM film adaptation.

It is one of the only Stooge shorts in which he plays a different character than usual: tougher, more domineering, and speaking in a gravelly, mumbling voice in a broad parody of Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.

This course of action always worked against the team; author Jon Solomon concluded "when the writing divides them, they lose their comic dynamic.