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- Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Brothers and must settle for being a stand-in.
- Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.
- A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the habit.
- 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.
- 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.
- Average Joes have struggled throughout the centuries to deal with allergies like hay fever, and Joe McDoakes is no exception.
- 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.
- Joe McDoakes goes on "The Hour of Agony" radio show and tells Dr. Agony of his marriage problems. The biggest is that his wife Alice snores. Joe has even more problems trying to follow Dr. Agony's instructions.
- Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.
- A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems.
- Joe McDoakes goes through all the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father. The results aren't exactly what he expected.
- Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
- 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.
- 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' 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 (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.
- Comedic Warmer Bros short film featuring George O'Hanlon as Joe McDoakes. In this outing, Joe just loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning. Hanging around the stables and getting to know the horses is one way or starting rumors about other horses is another. Then there's fate such seeing the same number everywhere or using your own math formula. Joe has little luck, but when he finally wins the big one, his bookie has another surprise for him.
- Joe McDoakes decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, he sees his dream house turn into a nightmare.
- 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 McDoakes gets more than he bargained for when he goes on a vacation.
- Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
- 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 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 and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato broker. He sets up an office and talks Joe into being his partner in the "potato" business. Joe thinks business is fine--until Marvin skips town and two bookies show up to collect the 'potatoes" from Joe.