After winning custody of his eight-year-old son, Las Vegas comic Jerry Webster heads for his farm in California. Parenthood takes on an extra dimension when Jerry meets his farm hands: a young divorcee, her little girl, and an ex-vaudevillian.
Sandy and Tracy snitch food for a diminutive chap who says he's a leprechaun.
Jerry gets some fanciful notions at the prospect of a weekend alone with Sue. Alas, his waking moments deliver only rude reality.
Jerry learns the hard way that ""like father, like son"" ain't necessarily so. After Sandy flops in the school pageant auditions, Dad tries to bring the show—and Sandy—up to professional snuff.
Jerry risks life, limb and humiliation to go on a hike with Sandy's scout troop. Bugging him on: Sandy's insufferably superior scoutmaster.
Dewey's plan to get a comely girl into show business has Jerry facing two hazards: the possibility of losing Sue and/or tangling with the gangster boyfriend of the attractive aspirant.