Floyd Kincaid persuades a military academy to hold a celebration for his father Colonel Kincaid in Bradleyville, but Floyd's intentions extend beyond honoring his father, and the cantankerous Colonel wants nothing to do with the event.

Aiming to get in his old man's good graces, Floyd arranges a city-wide celebration lauding Kincaid as the oldest living graduate of a nearby military academy. Instead, the festivities serve only to make the already sour and crusty patriarch even more truculent and miserable.