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- 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.
- Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Flatsorsharpsky, next door. Joe buys a piano, and the accompanying free lessons, and sets out to impress Alice. Alice is vastly unimpressed.
- 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 and his wife go apartment hunting.
- 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.
- A humorous look at the pitfalls of gambling.
- 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.
- Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Brothers and must settle for being a stand-in.
- A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the habit.
- Joe McDoakes stands to inherit $100,000 if he can prove he has a male heir, so he adopts a tough kid called Stinky. When the check arrives, it is made out to Stinky, so Joe tries to change his name and cash the check. Par for his usual course, this action does not work out for poor Joe.
- Joe McDoakes, determined to be his own boss in this Joe McDoakes Comedy entry, opens up a new restaurant. Complaining customers and a sanitation inspector who closes the restaurant are just some of Joe's problems.
- 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 gets more than he bargained for when he goes on a vacation.
- Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a raise. Joe works hard and is selected, but manages to get himself de-selected when he hears his boss rehearsing for a gangster role in a play and calls the police.
- Joe and Alice's marital issues force a joint counseling session with a psychiatrist who implements a form of role reversal so each partner can see the other's side.
- Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
- 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' boss invites him to a swanky dance. Joe admits he can't dance and the boss gives him a lesson in the office. At the dance, Joe is a social failure and makes many mistakes while dancing with his boss' wife. He goes to a dancing school and becomes a big success.
- 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.
- A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems.
- 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.
- Joe McDoakes goes through all the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father. The results aren't exactly what he expected.
- When he gets to his office after a usual morning of his wife Alice's nagging, Joe McDoakes starts to daydream about what life would be like married to the beautiful office blonde. She, in his dream, turns out to be indolent and parasitical, and when he awakens, life with Alice looks pretty green.
- 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.
- Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.