Things are all over the place when a Russian guy, a singer, comes to town. He is welcomed with open arms. Everyone loves him except Maurice, who hates him because he is a Russian. Also a superior chess player. Holling is having disturbing dreams (sleep and dreams being continuing subjects). Joel treats him but it is doing no good. Eventually, there is to be an old fashioned duel between Maurice and the Russian. Ed falls in love with an empty headed young woman who comes from a very strange family. Chris does the Edmund Rostand thing, writing a sultry letter to her. She thinks Ed wrote it and things get crazy in the cow barn. The conclusion is really unexpected--a little Blazing Saddles.