Left alone by his wife, Fatty joins a poker game across the hall from his apartment and is left to face the law when the game is raided by police. He is given shelter by a neighbor, Mrs. Kennedy, leading to suspicions that they are romantically involved.

Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.

Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.

Harry MacCoy's get-up looks a lot like Chaplin's, with his bowler, black cutaway coat and baggy pants, and Mae Busch's outfit certainly suggests Mabel's usual urban outfits -- although hers was fairly standard at the time.