Barney Google decides to cash in on the current music rage by recording the song that Snuffy Smith sings as he chops wood. Believing that Snuffy's song will make them a fortune in the recording business, Barney encourages Snuffy and his wife Louise to travel to New York City to make a record of the song at the Sam Stereo Recording Company. The recording executive is impressed with the man's talent... but when Snuffy's still explodes and wrecks the recording studio, the deal is off, and the angry recording company executive throws the trio out.
Snuffy, Barney and Louise are stranded in the big city with no money for a mule and a wagon until a pair of gangsters offer to buy them one if they will just deliver a note and a satchel to the nearby bank. Desperately in need of funds to return to Hootin' Holler, Snuffy gets a job helping out the men by standing guard outside of a building... not realizing that he's becoming an unwitting pawn to a pair of bank robbers. The chase is on. The only clue to the robbery is a photograph of Snuffy's hat.
Actress Beulah Bangfoot wants to use Loweezy as a model for her next play. She copies Maw so closely that Snuffy can't tell them apart.
Snuffy is drafted. But he's the wrong Smith. He goes through fire and brimstone to reach the commanding general to explain the mistake. Mistaking Snuffy for a draft dodger, two MPs arrest Snuffy and take him to a military base at the North Pole for basic training. As usual, Snuffy and his horse Sparkplug create havoc.
Snuffy loses his house in a Saturday night poker game. The sheriff comes to throw the Smiths out. Snuffy needs $13.85 to save the homestead. They decide to look up Barney Google and get the money from him... Meanwhile, Jerky Jockey steals Snuffy's Hexing Posies and uses them in the big race against Sparkplug with Barney up.
In order to go after the big money, Snuffy and Barney gather blackbirds for Louise's blackbird pie for the annual pie-baking contest in the big city. As usual, Snuffy inadvertently lets the crows out of the pie crust, and the blackbirds wreck the contest, leaving the Smiths the only winners... and losers. They forgot to pay the entrance fee, and they have to pay taxes on the money that they won.
Snuffy and Louise receive a telegram informing them that they have inherited their late Uncle Cromwell Smith's estate in England. Snuffy's long-lost English cousins leave him with a fortune and a castle: the rich uncle has left him a million dollars. Barney has his cousins head for Great Britain to claim their new fortune. Louise and Barney accept the wealth, but a hillbilly can't have fun with butlers: Snuffy is weary of the fancy life. He sells the property to a con man for a pittance. Happy with his sale, he wants to get back home so that he can get some good vittles for a change. They all return home to the States, poor once again.
Barney Google's rich uncle sends tickets for an ocean cruise. Barney, Louise and Snuffy go on a trip on a luxury liner to London. Snuffy tries to adapt the liner to the hillbilly way of life. The trio create havoc and are thrown off the boat by the captain.
Snuffy's dog Bullet has become such a sissy. Fed up with his dog's inability to hunt for game, Snuffy sends his incompetent mutt to the local gym to get him in shape. After several months, Bullet has become a strong, smart and very snobby dog.
Used car dealer Barney Google tries to get his two cousins Snuffy Smith and Louise to trade in their old jalopy for an even worse automobile. Barney convinces Snuffy that George Washington crossed the Delaware in this car. Besides, Barney puts in a new rubber band for an engine. Barney tries to pull the wool over Snuffy's eyes in the fast deal. But Snuffy's new heap turns out to be a valuable antique. An eccentric car collector trades Snuffy's and Lousie's car for his limousine. The pair get the better deal, and poor Barney gets nothing.
When he finds out from Louise that the rabbit has been stealing the Smiths' carrots again. Snuffy tries to clobber the pesky animal by throwing a plate at him. The angry hillbilly misses the rabbit. Seeing golden opportunity in his cousin's athletic abilities, Barney- luring him with tales of rabbit-chasing- suggests that he enter the Olympic Games as a means to catch the rabbit. At the Olympic Games, the rabbit beats out the Russian, French, British and Japanese competitors... and even poor Snuffy. In the end, the rabbit wins the games, and Barney ties up Snuffy in a bag and signs up the animal for future athletic events.
Seeing a lot of people heading for Hootin' Holler on vacation, Barney Google decides to make a fortune by turning Snuffy's home into a tourist attraction, much to his cousin's displeasure. He would have sold the place piecemeal, for souvenirs, if a rainstorm hadn't chased away the tourists.
Jughaid reads Uncle Snuffy the story of Rip Van Winkle. When Snuffy goes to sleep, Jughaid decides to recreate the story... but with Snuffy in the lead. Jughead decides to play a practical joke on his uncle by making him believe that he has slept for 20 years. The ghosts of the gnomes from the Washington Irving story are not pleased by the boy's stupid prank, and they decide to teach him a lesson.
A letter, arriving 30 years late, sends Snuffy to college. Snuffy, Barney Google and Louise receive scholarships to Backward University. Snuffy refuses to go. His wife and his cousin convince him that this could be beneficial to him. At Backward U., Snuffy proves to be the worst student that the college ever had... until he gets hit with a football, and a clout on the head gives him new mental powers. He becomes the school's most brilliant scholar!