"Pardon My Greed!" takes as its inspiration “The Pardoner’s Prologue” and “The Pardoner’s Tale” from Chaucer’s "The Canterbury Tales." In this adaptation, Chaucer himself is a character who introduces the Pardoner, who explains his lucrative business of selling papal pardons for sins (indulgences). The Pardoner denounces greed as the root of all evil and illustrates his point with a play about three wastrels who set out to kill Death but, through their avarice, end up killing each other instead. With ribald humor and poetry, "Pardon My Greed!" exposes the hypocrisy of the Pardoner’s actions, and the greedy Pardoner as the epitome of a man who practices what he preaches against.