Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.
Joe McDoakes and his wife love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfere every time they are lucky enough to be chosen as participants.
Joe takes his wife on a much-needed vacation, and almost survives.
Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to domestic duties. When Alice threatens to return to her old job, a reluctant Joe agrees to her request to get her a job at his office. How will this work out?
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.
When a watch intended for a contest winner at the office gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again finds himself on the short end.
In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare.
Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.
It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.
Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.
Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
A Funny Girl
A rich girl leaves her family to avoid marrying the person her father has chosen for her. Her father offers a reward in order to find her and an other girl that looks exactly like her is brought to him.
Barry, a wretched playboy, expects to get rich from the legacy of an uncle of his, the king of roast meat sauce, but his lawyer informs him that the secret of the sauce recipe has been lost along with his uncle, and there is nothing to inherit except for a small island in the Aegean - called Eftychia - where his uncle came from. A hotel keeper, Richard, is interested in the island and plans to create a tourist resort on it, so the two men come hastily to Greece to arrange the sale. On the island of Eftychia they meet a beautiful young teacher, Aliki, and her mother Anna, who are determined to stop foreigners and tourist development from coming to the island. Aliki's beauty and charm seduce Barry, while Richard is enslaved by the wonderful cooking of Anna. One day while they are tasting her food, Richard discovers that Anna possesses the secret of the famous sauce, by which Barry can really become rich. Thus the island is saved, and everyone celebrates their unexpected good fortune.
A pair of ex-lovers spend a spontaneous afternoon together that could either lead to rekindled love or further heartbreak.