Tracy Turnblad, en stor jente med et stort hår, og et enda større hjerte. Hennes store lidenskap er dansing, og drømmen er å opptre på "The Corny Collins Show", byens hippeste danseprogram på tv. Og Tracy er tilsynelatende en passende deltager, bortsett fra en liten deltalje. Hun passer ikke. Hennes store figur har alltid avskjermet henne fra de kuleste motene, noe hun til stadighet påminnes om av sin elskelige - men også overbeskyttende mor Edna. Men dette stopper ikke Tracy. For er det en ting denne jenta vet, så er det at hun ble født på dansegulvet, hun var rett og slett "born to boogie".
A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
A teacher from New York moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him.
When their housemother places them on probation, these sorority girls dress their boyfriends in drag and throw an “all-girls” pajama party!
Popeye is running a women's gymnasium next door to Bluto's cabaret. Seeing Popeye's greater success with women, Bluto dresses in drag and challenges Popeye to various feats of strength.
When the actress he loves seems to be infatuated with a frivolous count, an actor disguises himself as the count's real interest, a wealthy Spanish woman whom the count has never seen before but wants to hoodwink into marrying him.
In Over the Garden Wall, a working class couple (Jimmy James and Norman Evans) are planning to give their only daughter and their new GI son-in-law a right Northern welcome. As always, though, riotous trouble starts to flare up when a young man starts to flirt with James and Evans's daughter!
Nightfall. Marco, a politician, is murdered while he is going home. Also Luca, a gay man, is going home, where his partner Paolo is waiting. But he is on the killer's way, and he is shot. Paolo dashes to the hospital but the doctor doesn't want to tell him anything because Paolo isn't a "real" relative. Luca dies. Paolo starts walking in the streets of the town, where his loneliness will be ever misunderstood. A barman tries to comfort him supposing he was discharged by his girlfriend. Luca's mother orders Paolo to leave the house. A guy takes Paolo to him's, looking for a partner in the night. Paolo runs away from everybody, also from his friend Francesca: she says she is understanding but she can't. While the dawn is coming, Paolo reads about the murders on the newspapers, and realizes that what happened was reality.
Eddie Izzard's routine has a loose trajectory from the beginning of the Old Testament and the creation of the world in seven days to Revelations. Along the way, we learn of the search for a career, bad giraffes, Prince Philip's gaffes, toilets in French campsites, the mysteries of hopscotch, becoming one's Dad and tranny bashing.