A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker — the spitting image of Dracula’s long-dead wife, Elisabeta — obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) chokes to death and is resurrected by her loopy sister Zelda (Judith Ivey) on the one year anniversary of her death. Lucy, of course, does not believe she has actually been dead and thinks it is an elaborate hoax until she goes to her apartment and discovers her husband (Corbin Bernsen) married to her gold digging best friend, Kim (Sela Ward).