Bud watches a Western movie on television and shrinks himself down to the size of a bug to visit a Western bug town that he built around his electric model railway. He becomes the sheriff of the town and even falls in love with a singing earwig named Ramona.
Privé de sa télévision, tombée en panne au milieu de son western favori, Bud erre comme une âme en peine dans le grenier de la maison à louer…