This cartoon combines two nursery rhymes to illustrate the ill-advised marriage of Old King Cole to the Woman in the Shoe and the King's unfortunate attempts to keep her "many children" under control. In the end, these all precipitate a nervous breakdown in Old King Cole.

At a Spanish restaurant, the owner is at the bullfights and the restaurant is closed. The roaches come out to eat, drink and be merry. At a roach nightclub, a comely little female roach, dressed in red, flamenco dances for an appreciative crowd. A pet parrot escapes his cage and finds the night club and chases the little dancer. He catches her, and as he is about to eat her, a male roach sets fire to him. The parrot flies off with his tailfeathers burning and the roaches embrace.