The show, which features Baldrick's Charlie Chaplin impression (featuring a dead slug called Graham as Baldrick's "moustache"), which Melchett thinks is a slug-balancing act, and Lieutenant George's drag act, "Gorgeous Georgina", is a success on its first night, but unfortunately Melchett falls in love with "Georgina", takes her to the Regimental Ball, and proposes to her, even nicknaming her "Chipmunk", much to the shock of Blackadder.
Worst of all, George accepts because he feared he may have been court-martialled for disobeying a superior officer, which prompts Blackadder to sarcastically respond that, on the other hand, he will "receive the Victoria Cross" when Melchett lifts up his frock and finds himself looking at the "last turkey in the shop" on the wedding night.
At first Melchett is worried she may be Welsh, but Blackadder then informs him of Georgina's "death" from stepping on a cluster of landmines.
He then refuses to continue the show, claiming that Georgina was "the only good thing about it", but Blackadder says he has already found a new leading lady.
In spite of Bob's more convincing and better received "drag" act, and Baldrick's now seemingly "feeble impression of Buster Keaton", Melchett proclaims the second night's show a "disaster", recognising Bob and still not realising she is a woman, and immediately stops any possibility of a tour (and Blackadder leaving).