Skinny Chancy and his newly found friend, the great rascal, enjoy humorous escapades as they travel by their wits up and across the Midwest in search of Chancy's family.

After leaving their rocky Connecticut farm to seek their fortunes in the West, Josh McBroom, his wife Melissa, and their eleven redheaded children stop in Iowa where they become owners of a small but very unusual piece of property.

Princess Tomorrow tries to predict the winner of tomorrow's horse race and the Bloodhound Gang sniffs out the plot of the fortune-telling swindlers