Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.

A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.

Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.

In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.