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.

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.

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

Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.

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

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 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.

It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.

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

Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.

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.

Joe takes his wife on a much-needed vacation, and almost survives.

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.

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.

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.