The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas documents in rousing song and dance a Texas legend, the demise of the real-life Chicken Ranch. Burt Reynolds stars as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd and Dolly Parton as the Chicken Ranch's proprietress, Miss Mona, an unlikely duo who join together not only in romance, but to fight big city TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe (Dom DeLuise) in his efforts to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal, and thus close it down.