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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.
- A Senate candidate juggles too many women in his house when the wives of his two rivals, an amorous admirer and a blonde bombshell descend on his home with a film crew waiting to capture blackmail material.
- Henpecked husband Harry is coerced by a good time pal to go on a clandestine double date. Of course, no good will come of this, as they encounter streetwalkers, bumpy roads, and a couple of toughs previously jilted by their dates.
- A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St. Clair, an erring Knight, who is proud of his long list of feminine conquests. But the Navy officer again comes to her rescue, and Sir Rodney is left to marry the harem's fattest woman after she puts a love potion in his drink.
- Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who cares when parties, sport games and lots of fun are available?
- The stranger from the city starts the trouble. One innocent country maiden is ignored, another is wooed. The father of the unlucky girl, who already has a perfectly good sweetheart, favors the city chap to save the old home. The unwilling bride puts the veil on the willing bride. Then it passes back and forth several times until the city chap and the favored lover aren't quite sure which girl is which. Of course true love triumphs in the end.
- Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.
- A bumbling, cross-eyed buffoon falls into the role of movie stunt man.
- A movie "vamp" has secretly married her chauffeur, even though her contract with the motion-picture firm stipulates that she is not to marry.
- Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
- Family and friends head to the beach in their flivver with a trailer attached that is loaded down with home brew.
- A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another woman, as "proof" that he was cheating on her. The husband, for his part, claims that he was just innocently helping the woman and that he was being blackmailed by the photographer who took the picture.
- A meek man heads to the north woods to try his hand as a lumberjack and ends up at a wild west saloon as he woos a beautiful girl.
- A burlesque of the popular stage drama, Salome, and Bronson Howard's Civil War drama, Shenandoah. An inept theatrical troupe present the two dramas to a bucholic audience.
- Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.
- A man accidentally locked out of his house is mistaken for a burglar as he attempts to re-enter the house. The person mistaking him is an actual burglar, thinking that the man is a rival to his score.
- As both the local photographer and the sheriff, Harry must track down an arsonist and deal with his un-photogenic in-laws.
- A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not to let his wife see him enjoying himself.
- A foolish husband attempts to make a date with a fair and frivolous charmer whose card has come into his possession, and is arranging all the details while his wife stands listening. He tries to explain that it is a business matter, but is forced to go to the bathroom to think it over. While thus engaged he has a horrible dream of his adventures with the frivolous lady who puts him through the exciting adventures of a badger game. That he finally escapes and wakes to find himself safe at home determines him that it shall be his last false step.
- Move over, Ben Turpin--the dog is the star of this partially lost film, smoking, drinking, playing checkers and other fine tricks in the fragment which remains.
- Two golf pros challenge Andy and Marjorie to a game.
- Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.
- Jim's sweetheart agrees to marry him when he sells a dubious invention for $10000. His assistant schemes to separate Jim from his money--and his girl.