 Gordon is most eager to depart to press his candidacy for a European Comittee on the Leisure Industry at a dinner, but finds his wife Helen -who tells Laura he always drives waiters so furious they throw food at them- has psychosomatically blocked muscles and various staff members are programmed to make wacky responses to certain signals -Colin even drops trou- by a hypnotist. So Gordon asks him to cure Helen, but when he also goes in trance Laura convinces the therapist to temporarily remove his need to change the world...