So You Want to Enjoy Life

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.

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.

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.

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.

Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.

When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner 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 McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.

In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

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 begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.

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?

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.

Diane, a total introvert, is obsessed with lurid crime-romance paperbacks, longing for passionate, dangerous love to sweep her off her feet. One day, she gets her wish when Razor appears—a tattooed, cigarette-smoking butch who seems like she walked off the pages of one of her novels. Soon, Diane must decide whether she really wants her fantasies to become reality.

The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.

For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.

An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.