 Susan is sick and tired of hearing her sister Mary s husband Chris is so perfect, in fact slavishly house-trained, while her unemployed Tom is very inventive in finding ways and reasons to get out of any chores. So Tom decides to get the inconvenient  good example  Chris to become less helpful and spend some time drinking. It works like a charm, but to Tom s horror Mary finds Chris being in the dog house makes him sexy, so he stops helping out and the Kelly parents expect him to take over...