The Vegetable, or From President to Postman

"The Vegetable" is a comic romp revolving around the misadventures of middle-class striver Jerry Frost. An ordinary railroad clerk, he gets drunk on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s Republican presidential nomination in 1920, then suddenly finds himself and his entire family (including his nagging wife, Charlotte, and his eccentric father, Horatio, a.k.a. Dada) catapulted from Chicago to the White House. The consequences for President Frost are predictably disastrous, but Jerry is able to escape them by waking up. Much relieved, he can fulfill his true calling: to be a postman.