Edgar has taken a correspondence course in being a detective. Lew Kelly shows up and tells him about $50,000 hidden in the walls of a house occupied by a couple of crooks, and offers him a 10% finder's fee. Edgar's first attempt to get into the house fail, but when Black cook Lilian Randolph shows up, Edgar scares her off, puts on blackface and presents "herself" as the new cook.
Well, this is one sure to offend people who get offended by bad drag acts, people who think White people should stay out of blackface -- even when the stupidity of the disguise is the point -- people who think making fun of the mentally ill is wrongand people who think it's easy to fry a chicken well. Frankly, it's a good thing Edgar Kennedy was a fat White guy. It's ok to make fun of him!
It is one of the poorer entries in Edgar Kennedy's long-running series for RKO; the meta-humor about him dressing in Blackface and fooling everyone is a bit too subtle for the rough-and-ready slapstick humor he specialized in.
