Rubin Farr is an eccentric, unsociable young man who lives in a motel run by his mother and mourns his cat, which is being stored in a refrigerator until he can find a proper spot to bury it.

As king, Rubin owns the world's biggest platform shoes and enjoys an inner-tube float on a placid lake while his cat goes water-skiing behind him in a boat piloted by his dream girl.

Busta gives chase only to collide, literally, with police intent on arresting him for stealing his own car, leaving Rubin and Ed to wander down a dark alley and argue, as they have throughout the film, over which of them is the bigger failure.

[1] Rubin & Ed was filmed in Utah in Salt Lake City, Hanksville, Factory Butte and Goblin Valley State Park.

[8] TV Guide called it "a warm, funny and well-crafted celebration of eccentricity with terrific performances from Glover and Hesseman, who could easily be the perfect comedy duo for the post-modern age" and praised director Trent Harris for "[maintaining] an easy mood of lunacy throughout".

"[10] Chris Hicks of the Deseret News gave a more mixed review, writing "Harris can be very eccentric — the dream sequence, with Rubin's cat resurrected on water skis, is a comic highlight — and he comes up with some funny, if quirky moments in the context of his lightweight screenplay.