When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they’re sent to prison!

A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. “This will only take ten minutes”, they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer.

A scientist in the rain forest squares off against a land developer while trying to solve some unexplained deaths.