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- A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the habit.
- Joe McDoakes (George O'Hanlon) 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 imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
- Alice visits Mr. Agony with her latest problem with Joe: they gave Junior a toy railroad for Christmas, but Joe took it over and became obsessed with it, to the point that he has built a railroad empire using all of his time, energy, and money. When Alice's mother comes to dinner, Joe even has a rigged-up train serving as the dumbwaiter. Mr. Agony helps Alice solver her problem.
- Joe McDoakes' neighbor Ellery, who continually embarrasses Joe with his physical prowess, makes a big hit with Joe's wife Alice.When she wants the piano moved, Ellery is on hand to do the job with such ease that Joes decides to take a correspondence course in body-building. As usual with Joe's ideas, not a good idea.
- Homemaker Alice McDoakes wants to return to work to add income to the household; her husband Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to her domestic duties. When Alice threatens to return to her old job as bus driver, which would be the worst situation in Joe's mind, a reluctant Joe agrees to her request to get her a job at his office. He makes a deal with his boss, Mr. Batten, to give her the worst jobs in the office so that she'll want to quit and go back to being a homemaker. But given tedious job after impossible job, Alice manages to come through with flying colors time after time. Although Mr. Batten agrees with Joe that a woman's place is in the home, can he argue with success? Joe figures that he only has one choice in solving the matter to his desired end goal.
- White-collar worker Joe McDoakes is full of fears and phobias, but his most deeply-rooted psychic disturbance is fear of his boss. He has a dream and sees himself as besting his boss and establishing himself as the boss of his own super-deluxe office.
- Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.
- 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 McDoakes endeavors to move his furniture with a 1906 car.
- Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the target of murderously greedy family members.
- As soon as Joe and Alice McDoakes buy a television set, the neighbors begin to stream in, on any or no excuse, and stay to watch television and raid the refrigerator. To escape the turmoil, Joe goes to the movies, where he finds himself sitting between Doris Day and Gordon McRae.
- Joe McDoakes goes through all the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father. The results aren't exactly what he expected.
- Joe McDoakes'in-laws come to dinner and announce that they intend to spend the rest of the year, and Joe is furious. Then Joe's family arrives, and a battle royal begins between the opposing in-laws.
- Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Brothers and must settle for being a stand-in.
- A humorous look at the pitfalls of gambling.
- Joe and Alice go on separate vacations to do things for themselves: makeovers via plastic surgery. Then they meet at a bar not recognizing each other because they look so different. Names changed to protect the innocent.
- Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks. The sixth vice-president tries to tutor Joe in how to get ahead with the boss, but all his ideas backfire. Thirty years later, Joe is the only vice-president left to be promoted, but just as the prized promotion is about to be bestowed, the Boss--as usual--forgets Joe's name...and so does Joe.
- Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.
- When Joe and Alice McDoakes attend a western movie, Joe soon imagines himself up on the screen as Jump-Along Skip-Along McGurk, western terror pitted against an outlaw and his six henchmen, all of whom are named Tex. Since Warners wasn't making any series westerns at the time and since this short was poking fun at such, the lobby poster at the theater was from a Columbia Durango Kid film.
- Joe McDoakes is a shy, rookie motorcycle cop. The first traffic violator he stops is a tough character and intimidates Joe out of giving him a ticket, and the next is a beautiful blonde who has no trouble distracting Joe and avoiding a ticket. Joe decides to be tough on the next one he stops, which turns out to be the police commissioner. Joe is removed from the force, caught speeding, and given a ticket.
- Joe McDoakes wants a career in politics but is elected city dog-catcher instead.
- A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems.
- Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife. With the help of his neighbor Marvin, and despite interruptions and mishaps--lots of mishaps--Joe completes the job. There is a minor problem: Marvin has been papered to the wall.