The awful truth: A separated couple sabotages each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final. Born yesterday: A crooked businessman hires a journalist to teach his crass but beautiful girlfriend some culture before he introduces her to Washington, D.C. society. His girl Friday: An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses dirty tricks to keep his ace reporter (and ex-wife) from retiring to marrying a mama's boy.

Tribal nitwits, Zed and Oh, are two guys living in the year one. Neither one can hunt nor gather, so they are thrown out of their Neanderthal community and dung-and-stick huts. Zed eats the forbidden fruit and the two become curious about what may lay outside of their limited little world. They decide to embark on a journey through the ancient world. On their travels they meet Cain and Abel, Abraham and Isaac. They wind up in Sodom where their girlfriends...