After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.

波特莱尔他人这次遇到了爬虫类，他必须忍受爬虫类恶臭味道、随时会攻击人类大蛇和一位他人永远都不希望再看到人。