Grateful for their assistance, Widow Jenkins treats the Stooges to a lavish meal, and in return, they offer to fix her broken water pump.

During the repair, they accidentally uncover oil beneath the farm, transforming the pump into a geyser and staining their clothes.

[1] The studio crew can be heard laughing when Curly accidentally hits his head on Widow Jenkins' kitchen door while trumpeting and singing "A-Pumping We Will Go.

[1] Moe Howard recalled in his autobiography that he received a glob of goo (representing oil) directly under his eyelids during shooting: I remember once when the prop man concocted a smorgasbord of gook: chocolate, whipped cream, asbestos chips, linseed oil, ketchup, and other unknown goodies.

[3]Moe would have a similar ordeal while filming 1946's The Three Troubledoers, when chunks of black soot became lodged under his eyelids.