The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair At their jobs in a theater where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary they witness a hypnotist doing his act The stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Marys operation