Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis: women. Especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father doesn't share her affection for Dobie, although--or maybe because--she says she's in dreamville. An English essay that almost revolutionizes English instruction and Dobie's role in a chemistry-lab explosion convince Mr. Hammer that he is right. Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an eastern school, but with help from Happy Stella Kowalski's all-girl band, several hundred students, and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.