泰迪（吉恩·怀尔德 Gene Wilder 饰）经营着一家广告公司，生意十分的红火。泰迪拥有一位美丽的太太和一个可爱的小女儿，几乎可以算得上是模范中产阶级。然而一次偶然中，泰迪在停车场邂逅了一位名叫夏洛特（凯莉·勒布洛克 Kelly LeBrock 饰）的年轻女子，这匆匆的一瞥竟然让泰迪丢了魂。

Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) is the junior writer on a top-rated variety/comedy live television show, in the mid 1950's. Young Benjy has a crush on a coworker, K.C. Downing (Jessica Harper), but rather than asking her for a date, he routinely tries to get her to sleep with him.