Dressed up for a weekend break, the Optimist (Enn Reitel) arrives at a dude ranch. He meets the beautiful Girl (Carinthia West), a riding instructress, and squares off with a handsome Rival (Martin Kove), who also pursues her affections. Learning to be a cowboy, he tries to spit like the grizzly Veteran (Bill Erwin), gets lost in the desert, is lassoed in the corral, and knocks himself out on the gun range, before fantasising he's Clint Eastwood in a shootout with the Rival.