There are no reception desks, lobbies or bellboys. The film stars Arbuckle and Buster Keaton as bellboys in the Elk's Head Hotel. For years the hotel was kept intentionally primitive, offering neither bellboys nor indoor bathrooms. The group was modelled after Bill Haley's Comets and Freddie Bell & the Bellboys. Lewis' characters in both films are bellboys named Stanley. Bellboys would buy "Pensacola rye" from the nearby police station to sell to hotel guests.