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- Joe McDoakes goes through all the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father. The results aren't exactly what he expected.
- 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.
- Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
- When a watch that Joe McDoakes bought for Mr. Batten, who intended to give it to office contest-winner Bessie Wigglegood, is spied by both Mrs. Batten and Joe's wife Alice, Joe once again finds himself on the short end, and winds (no pun intended) up missing out on his vacation and must pay for two watches instead of just one.
- Joe McDoakes gets more than he bargained for when he goes on a vacation.
- 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.
- Sent to clean the basement, Joe finds some photos that make him fondly recall his bachelor days. The circumstances of his proposal and marriage are muddled and he thinks he might have done better. Then an ex-girlfriend visits.
- Joe and Alice McDoakes are planning on throwing a party, but Joe mixes up his list of creditors with the list of names Alice gave him to invite. The creditors have a much better time than Joe does.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Despite the fact that during the war, Joe McDoake's dog Dusty did everything wrong including giving information to the enemy, Joe brings him home with him. Dusty continues his dumb ways as a civilian with such playful tricks as helping a burglar, derailing trains, and bringing strange people into the house. Joe and Dusty are drafted into the Korean War where more adventures await them.
- 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 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.
- Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Brothers and must settle for being a stand-in.
- Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.
- Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the target of murderously greedy family members.
- A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the habit.
- In need of a new vehicle, Joe goes to the Cagey Car Company lot to get a used car--with predictable results.
- 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.
- A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes.
- 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.
- Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor. None of the courses of action she is advised to take have any impact on Joe until she is advised to create the impression that she has left Joe for another man.
- Average Joes have struggled throughout the centuries to deal with allergies like hay fever, and Joe McDoakes is no exception.
- A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems.
- Joe McDoakes decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, he sees his dream house turn into a nightmare.
- When Joe and Alice have problems with the plumbing around the house, hiring a professional would be too expensive, so Joe goes at it himself. Imagine the worst, then watch it transpire.
- Joe is back in the gladiator days and finds himself sentenced to be thrown to the Coliseum lions after breaking a string while playing the lyre for King Nero. His friend Homer says he will disguise himself as a lion, but Homer gets sidetracked and Joe goes out to meet a real lion with his lyre as his only weapon. But he wins out and is awarded a slave girl as his prize, until his wife steps in.
- 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 uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible.
- Joe McDoakes endeavors to move his furniture with a 1906 car.
- Joe McDoakes wants a career in politics but is elected city dog-catcher instead.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- When Alice questions Joe as to whether his insurance policy is paid up, he begins to see a plot to murder him in everything she does. He shakes and sweats when he hears Alice discussing with the handyman how to use an ax, when she orders a gun for his birthday, when he finds a box of rat poison, and even when she offers to rub his neck. Soon Joe has been committed to a sanitarium for hallucinations.
- In this Joe McDoakes Comedy, Alice insists that they go to a night club, although Joe is both tired and broke. Once there, they meet Joe's friend Homer and his girlfriend. Joe gets into the spirit of things, including ordering champagne for all. He can't pay the large tab and follows a conga line out of the club and winds up in the police station.
- 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 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.
- Joe McDoakes is new at selling vacuum cleaners and, despite using every technique and approach in the manual, he fails to sell even one, as his wife also refuses to buy one. He is fired and ends up doing singing commercials on the radio.
- Unemployed thespian Joe McDoakes makes all the casting calls, reads all of the trade papers, sees agents, and tries out for casting directors and producers, and finally lands a role: the guy behind the 8-ball that is on the title frame of all of the Joe McDoakes shorts.
- Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.
- 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.
- Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.