Five million years ago, the Atlantic Ocean covered North America all the way to the Ohio Valley. As the ocean receded to form our present-day geography, a family of squids was stranded in a remote setting in the North Georgia mountains. This motley melange of mischievous mollusks, influenced by the rural ways of the redneck locals, quickly "adapticise" to a world of fighting, feuding and fornicating with a Faulknerian flambé of ferocious sea creature livin'. The humor lies in the "adapticization." Dan Halen finds financial bankruptcy less enjoyable than moral bankruptcy. Early and Tammi start a band. Granny finds love and Early loses his mind. Dan Halen's foolish new plan prompts Early to open a foolish new business.