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- 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.
- 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.
- Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
- 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 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.
- 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 gets more than he bargained for when he goes on a vacation.
- 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.
- A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the habit.
- A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes.
- Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Brothers and must settle for being a stand-in.
- 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.
- 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.
- Joe McDoakes graduates from Potash University and gets a job in a bank run by former classmate Harrington Arrington Farrington Jr. Joe struggles in his menial tasks for years and eventually learns enough to embezzle $1,000,000 and take over the bank.
- 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.
- Joe and Homer are both on a jury trying an accident case involving their boss and a gangster. Interference from both sides makes their task difficult.
- 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.
- A humorous look at the pitfalls of gambling.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.
- Joe McDoakes decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, he sees his dream house turn into a nightmare.
- A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems.
- 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 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.
- 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 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 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 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.
- 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.
- Joe uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible.
- Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument. Then a friend gets him a job as a fiddle player in a gypsy tea room, but his playing drives away the diners and he is fired. He finally catches on as a one-man band.
- 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'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.
- 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' dimwit neighbor Marvin becomes a dentist, and manages to convince poor Joe to let him become Marvin's first patient.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 MacDoakes' next-door neighbor Marvin comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, but they get the pipes crossed with the gas-line and almost asphyxiate themselves. They then decide to paint the living-room table and end up painting the whole house trying to cover their mistakes. Marvin accidentally gets Joe caught in the washing machine, thinks he is seeing him on a television set, and goes home leaving Joe to tumble-and-rinse.