In this plotless, mindless chase movie, papa Big Enos and son Little Enos (
Pat McCormick
and
Paul Williams
) hire Cletus (
Jerry Reed
) to haul a Jaws-replica shark from Miami to Texas to advertise their new seafood restaurant. There is big money in it for Cletus if he can get to Texas on time. Buford T. Justice (
Jackie Gleason
) mistakes Cletus for his old nemesis the Bandit (
Burt Reynolds
, who only appears briefly at the beginning of the film), postpones his retirement, and with his inept son Junior (
Mike Henry
) in tow, chases Cletus across the South for a disconnected series of misadventures and bad jokes.