In this slapstick comedy, four guys with no background in crime decide that they need money badly enough that they want to try and rob the bank in their small town. They go ahead with their plan and get the loot, escaping in a perfectly functional getaway car. However, when they get stuck in the traffic behind a funeral procession, it begins to look as though the police will nab them for sure, so they ditch the car and hotfoot it across the countryside. As the town learns of the robbery and hears that the culprits have not yet been captured, various people decide that it's time to try some things they'd been thinking about doing and blame the resulting disruption on the missing robbers, while some of the town's younger citizens decide they want to get into the cops 'n robbers business.