Fact1: Sir Guy Grand together with start playing elaborate practical jokes on people newly adopted heir, Fact2: big spender does not mind handing out large sums of money bribing them shocking them, Fact3: original Rembrandt portrait having bought it in front of Dugdale, Fact4: Guy and Youngman buy tickets for luxury liner along with richest strata of society, Fact5: waiter and cinema film features unsuccessful transplant of black person 's head onto white person 's body
Output: Sir Guy Grand Peter Sellers, an eccentric billionaire, together with his newly adopted heir formerly a homeless derelict, Youngman Grand Ringo Starr, start playing elaborate practical jokes on people. A big spender, Grand does not mind handing out large sums of money to various people, bribing them to fulfill his whims, or shocking them by bringing down what they hold dear. Their misadventures are designed as a display of father Grand to his adoptive charge that everyone has their price—it just depends on the amount one is prepared to pay. They start from rather minor spoofs, like bribing a Shakespearean actor Laurence Harvey to strip during a stage performance of Hamlet, and persuading a traffic warden Spike Milligan to take back a parking ticket and eat it delighted by the size of the bribe, he eats its plastic cover too and proceed with increasingly elaborate stunts involving higher social strata and wider audiences. As their conversation reveals, Grand sees his plots as educational. At Sothebys art auction house, it is proudly claimed that an original Rembrandt portrait might fetch £10,000, yet to the astonishment of director Mr. Dugdale John Cleese, Grand makes a final offer of £30,000 £453,100 today for it and having bought it, proceeds, in front of a deeply shocked Dugdale, to cut with his scissors the portraits nose from the canvas. In a classy restaurant he makes a loud show of wild gluttony, Grand being the restaurants most prominent customer. In the annual Boat Race sports event, he bribes the captain Richard Attenborough of the Oxford team where Graham Chapman plays a member of the rowing team and makes them purposely ram the Cambridge boat, to win a screamingly unjust victory. In a traditional pheasant hunt, he uses an antiaircraft gun to down the bird. Guy and Youngman eventually buy tickets for the luxury liner The Magic Christian, along with the richest strata of society. Guests seen boarding the yacht include John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis all played by lookalikes. In the beginning everything appears normal and the ship apparently sets off. Soon, things start going wrong. A solitary drinker at the bar Roman Polanski is approached by a transvestite cabaret singer Yul Brynner, a vampire Christopher Lee poses as a waiter, and a cinema film features the unsuccessful transplant of a black persons head onto a white persons body. Passengers start noticing, through the ships closedcircuit television, that their captain Wilfrid HydeWhite is in a drunken stupor and gets carted off by a gorilla. In a crescendo of panic, the guests try to abandon ship. A group of them, shown the way by Youngman Grand, instead reach the machineroom. There, the Priestess of the Whip Raquel Welch, assisted by two topless drummers, commands more than a hundred slave girls. They are naked except for loincloths. Rowing five to an oar, their wrists are manacled and fastened by chains to the ceiling. As passengers finally find an exit, and lords and ladies stumble out in the daylight, it is discovered that the supposed ship was in fact a structure built inside a warehouse, and the passengers had never left London. As they break out, a large painted sign reading SMASH CAPITALISM can be seen on the inside wall of the warehouse. During the whole misadventure, the Grands look perfectly composed and cool. Toward the end of the film, Guy fills up a huge vat with urine, blood and animal excrement and adds to it thousands of bank notes. Attracting a crowd of onlookers by announcing Free money!, Grand successfully entices the citys workers to recover the cash. The sequence concludes with many members of the crowd submerging themselves, in order to retrieve money that had sunk beneath the surface, as the song Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman, is heard by the movies audience. The film ends with both Guy and Youngman, having returned to the park where the film opened, bribing the park warden to allow them to sleep there, stating that this was a more direct method of achieving their mostly unstated ends.