At least not in this movie. One of the girls has moved back from the Big Apple but because she was out of apple seeds and needs her wealthy rancher mother's help. Kathryn Sheldon is the Charlotte Greenwood owner of the large ranch who happens to notice the acrobatic horse riding of the zany Adam Sandler look-alike Joe Penner, literally jumping on and off horses and dancing on their backs as if he was Barishikov. What she doesn't know is that his agent (Richard Lane) has a petrified almond which has the ability to hypnotize Penner into getting over his fear of horses and literally make him a he-man. Ditzy Lorraine Krueger has her eye instantly on Penner even though she's the subject of amorous affections by possessive native American Paul Guilfoyle whose Indian name is Chief Dog in the Manger.
A subplot has Sheldon's rival rancher Lafe McKee manipulated by Lane into thinking that Penner could be his long-lost son. McKee keeps molesting Penner to find evidence through a mole on his back while Lane searches for the missing almond so Penner can help the feisty Sheldon win the rodeo. There are several very funny sequences, especially one where an "Indian Love Call" like moment where Krueger, Penner and Guilfoyle keep confusing each other through "woo-hoo's" in a tall grass field that attracts a local wolf and has them standing in view of the audience without even realizing that the others are right behind them. Another moment has the hypnotized Penner standing up to the knife-clenching Guilfoyle and showing that sometimes, wimpy can win. Plot wise, this is totally silly, thin stuff, but with those really funny moments, its rating rises up to make it better than it would have been otherwise.
A subplot has Sheldon's rival rancher Lafe McKee manipulated by Lane into thinking that Penner could be his long-lost son. McKee keeps molesting Penner to find evidence through a mole on his back while Lane searches for the missing almond so Penner can help the feisty Sheldon win the rodeo. There are several very funny sequences, especially one where an "Indian Love Call" like moment where Krueger, Penner and Guilfoyle keep confusing each other through "woo-hoo's" in a tall grass field that attracts a local wolf and has them standing in view of the audience without even realizing that the others are right behind them. Another moment has the hypnotized Penner standing up to the knife-clenching Guilfoyle and showing that sometimes, wimpy can win. Plot wise, this is totally silly, thin stuff, but with those really funny moments, its rating rises up to make it better than it would have been otherwise.
