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- The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry. Roach, however will not have his daughter marry a lowly farmhand, although Louise loves the farmhand. It's also rent day, and their landlord - the mortgage holder of the farm - is making his rounds to collect the moneys. He uses his position of power to garner sexual favors from women in return for non-eviction. Having never met Louise, the landlord immediately falls in love with her, who he too wants to marry. Louise hatches a plan to throw off the landlord's unwanted advances. That plan has unintended consequences. Add to the mix Louise's fear of mice, the landlord intercepting an important letter to Roach, a collar salesman and his missing infant son, and it becomes unclear who Roach will allow marry his daughter and if she will get married at all.
- An unconventional dentist deals with a variety of eccentric and difficult patients in slapstick fashion.
- The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
- An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of tonsorial skill.
- A small town girl dreams of movie stardom. A switched photo wins her a movie contract. Arrivng in Hollywood, she is assigned to the props department. Her parents visit and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
- The story of a producer's troubles in selecting and "making" a new juvenile star. The opening is in Mack Sennett's private office, with Sennett himself interviewing directors, actors, would-be comedians and lions. A director tells him of a child he has seen and is told to sign him up. After much trouble this is done and the kid becomes a star.
- An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.
- A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize: a complete wardrobe. Later, the clerk mistakes the manager's wife for his own and sets out to avenge a kiss he sees them exchange. A trip to the hospital later, the shoe clerk still has an eye for a peach.
- Newlyweds Gloria Swanson and Mack Swain take a train for their honeymoon. The usual Sennett chaos ensues in the dining car but when they attempt to sleep in the Pullman car, a bank-robber interrupts the serenity.
- Mack Sennett comedy short-subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and Limburger cheese.
- A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintains his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.
- In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him that the bride only wants him to collect his life insurance. Finally they marry and her family moves in with them. Harold is now convinced that he'll be poisoned at dinner. When further mishaps give him stomach problems, McGlumm rushes him toward the hospital. On the trip, all is revealed and it takes a bride's kiss to set things right.
- A misogynist Fire chief counsels his nephew to avoid matrimony at all costs. Uhe love-struck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel.
- After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries, tries again.
- Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
- Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her next job in a restaurant kitchen, Louise scrambles up her powder puff and her biscuits. The cook orders her to lighten them up. She blows them up like balloons, but they come out like rubber balls and so she is bounced out of that job. In her next position as housekeeper to a rich family, she throws a party for her friends when the family goes on vacation and they turn the house topsy-turvy.
- When a woman's voracious appetite causes her to gain weight, her husband starts spending evenings with a slender married woman. When the spouses arrive and catch the philandering pair together, they all reconsider their decisions.
- Film director Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to illustrate his fictional biography.
- A circus worker wins a sweepstakes prize of $150,000 and must travel to England to present his ticket and collect his winnings. He books passage on a transatlantic liner, but on board is a shady hypnotist who hears about the man's good fortune. He manages to get a chance to hypnotize the winner and then takes his ticket, after which he disappears. When the man wakes up and realizes his ticket has been stolen, he sets out to find the phony "professor" and reclaim his ticket.
- This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film.
- A store clerk is wrongfully arrested for theft and killing the night watchman, who is very much alive. After dangling from a building, he stumbles onto the real burglar.
- Polly Moran has a jealous husband, who conducts a bowling alley. Ben Turpin gets a job in the bowling alley and becomes involved in painful complications with his boss. Madeline's tender heart has been moved by the aged and infirm bowlers and she gets up a benefit for the Old Bowlers' Home and volunteers as one of the actors. The jealous husband drops in at the benefit and is amazed to see his pretty wife come forth attired in blue silk tights and a ballet skirt, and at this point the lives of Ben and Polly become exciting and as time elapses, the excitement develops.
- Bing Crosby as himself in a comedy of romance and mistaken identity.