Will Rogers plays an American mill owner who has to go to England for business ... but he hates the English. So he rounds up his wife (Irene Rich) and his just graduated son (Frank Albertson) and makes the voyage cross the Atlantic. Onboard, Albertson meets a pretty English girl (Maureen O'Sullivan in her first American film) and the two fall in love ... while Rogers and Rich spend the trip with sea sickness.
Of course O'Sullivan's parents are terrible snoots and hate Americans (Lumsden Hare, Mary Forbes) so when Lady Amy (Dorothy Christy invites them all for the weekend, you know it's not going to be good. While the snoots sit when dinner is announced, Rich comes galloping down stairs and yells, "Pa, the chow's on" at which point Rogers comes sliding down the banister letting out Indian war whoops. Once down, he and the missus do a war dance number. You get the idea.
In the end the parents come to see eye to eye once all the charades are over but Rogers gets quite a few zingers in and tells some funny stories. It ends with the drunken Rogers and Hare bellowing "God Save the Queen" / "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
Of course O'Sullivan's parents are terrible snoots and hate Americans (Lumsden Hare, Mary Forbes) so when Lady Amy (Dorothy Christy invites them all for the weekend, you know it's not going to be good. While the snoots sit when dinner is announced, Rich comes galloping down stairs and yells, "Pa, the chow's on" at which point Rogers comes sliding down the banister letting out Indian war whoops. Once down, he and the missus do a war dance number. You get the idea.
In the end the parents come to see eye to eye once all the charades are over but Rogers gets quite a few zingers in and tells some funny stories. It ends with the drunken Rogers and Hare bellowing "God Save the Queen" / "My Country 'Tis of Thee."