Loony Locals and Other Lopsided Lamebrains

Westview, North Carolina is a typical, sleepy southern town, full of charm, sweet-smelling peony—and crazy people. And, since there are only so many public offices to fill, a lot of them end up in the notorious Loony Bin asylum, where it’s often difficult to tell who’s crazier—the residents or the staff.

Intrepid Westview Gazette editor Matt Andrews goes there looking for a readership-boosting human interest story for his small newspaper, but instead is taken hostage by an unhinged Loony Bin patient. Matt’s graphic artist, Sterling Smullen, has meanwhile volunteered at the asylum to teach finger-painting. His noble effort is hampered, however, when he becomes the object of a delusional Swedish sex therapist’s infatuation. Joanna, Matt’s TV-obsessed wife, hires a Sherlock Holmes-worshipping detective to locate her missing husband.

Add to the mix a couple of not-so-competent psychiatrists, their lovers, would-be lovers, an inept hit man, and assorted off-balance patients, and you have a fast-paced melodramatic farce that will have you bouncing off your padded walls.