The Stooges, long-standing carpenters, find themselves assuming temporary stewardship of a drugstore in the absence of its proprietor who departs to negotiate the acquisition of copious quantities of alcohol consequent to the cessation of Prohibition.

An unexpected encounter with a liquor supplier prompts the trio to concoct a libation using an eclectic array of medicines and chemicals, inadvertently resulting in a potent elixir blended with a Wellington boot.

Despite its unconventional composition, the libation garners favor with the salesman, misconstrued as Scotch, prompting him to entreat the Stooges to masquerade as Scotsmen and attend a soirée at his employer's residence.

This event is an integral part of the storyline, with the drugstore owner (Al Thompson) frantically attempting to lay in a stock of liquor in anticipation of the imminent end of Prohibition.

[2] When the liquor supplier prepares to consume the Stooges' volatile concoction, they wish him well in a triad pattern saying "Over the river," "Skip the gutter," and concluding with "Ver gerharget," a Yiddish expression meaning "get killed"[2] or "drop dead.