 Ted, works as a guide at the Bloomsberry museum, sent on a  business  trip of sorts by the museum s owner, to find a Zagawa shrine, he encounters a playfully mischievous and curious monkey...actually a chimp who he nicknames  George  after the George Washinghton statue. His trip being less than a success, he returns stateside, only to find George wanting to return Ted s hat, has stowed away on-board Ted s boat. Back in the states Ted finds himself lumbered with George, who can t help but make Ted s life even more hectic than it already is.