Summary
The three Dover Boys, Tom, Dick and Larry (a play on both the Rover Boys' names Tom, Sam and Dick, and the generic reference "Tom, Dick and Harry"), who attend Pimento University ("good old P.U."), are introduced. "A gay outing at the park has been planned by the merry trio, and they are off to fetch 'their' fiancée, dainty Dora Standpipe, at Miss Cheddar's Female Academy, close by." (The occurrences of the names Cheddar and Roquefort are another play on words, reflecting the Rover Boys' old school of Colby Hall.)
The Boys are called upon to rescue Dora when she is kidnapped by the nefarious stock villain Dan Backslide (a play on the name of the Rover Boys series villain Dan Baxter). "The former sneak of Roquefort Hall, coward, bully, cad and thief, and arch-enemy of the Dover Boys," his feelings for Dora are summed up in his comment, "How I love her! ... (father's money!)" Backslide then steals a conveniently placed, unoccupied runabout (after loudly declaring his intention to do so), which he uses to kidnap an oblivious Dora while she and the Dover Boys are playing hide-and-seek, spiriting her away to a remote mountain lodge. But Backslide soon discovers that despite appearances, Dora is anything but dainty; she proceeds to administer a sound thrashing to the villain, all the while acting the damsel in distress—crying for help and pounding on the door and on Backslide—until he is himself crying out for help from Tom, Dick and Larry!
When the Dover Boys finally arrive, they lay a few punches on the by-now barely conscious Backslide before managing to knock each other out in unison as Backslide collapses to the floor safely beneath their swinging fists. Dora is then escorted away by an odd grey-bearded man in a Victorian-era bathing suit and sailor's cap who was a running gag throughout the cartoon, appearing periodically to interrupt the story by shuffling across the screen to the tune of Ed Haley's "While Strolling Through the Park One Day." He and Dora proceed to shuffle off into the sunset as the cartoon concludes with the familiar iris-out.
From time to time throughout the cartoon, the Boys lapse into various renditions of their alma mater, sung to the tune of George Cooper and Henry Tucker's "Sweet Genevieve."
Read more about this topic: The Dover Boys At Pimento University Or The Rivals Of Roquefort Hall
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