During the opening monologue, Red demonstrates how different celebrities, like Napoleon and the Thinker, use their hats. In the main sketch, hoodlums in teacher George Appleby's class cause him to be fired by the Principal. When George tells his wife Clara about his dismissal, she clobbers him with a heavy history book, knocking him out. He dreams he is in 1785 Boston. But his wife, just as nasty as George's Clara, refuses to let him leave their house on the night of Revere's famous ride to warn the populace of the approaching British.