While they are there, Silky Fellowsby, a gangster who is admitted as a patient to establish an alibi for a robbery he is planning, mistake Tubby and Flash for two Detroit hitmen.

Fellowsby heads to a ski resort in Sun Valley to "recuperate", hiring Burns and his nurse to care for him.

They attempt to retrieve the stolen cash by blackmailing the gangsters with the bank photographs, which turn out to be worthless since the robbers' faces are not shown.

[2] On the final day of shooting, the team appeared on their weekly radio show, where they were crowned the nation's top box-office stars for 1942 in a poll of theater exhibitors.

It was re-released by Realart Pictures on a double bill with an earlier Abbott and Costello film, Hold That Ghost, in 1949.