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.