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- A salesman brings his girlfriend to a party given by the aristocratic company owner. The salesman's gauche efforts to impress annoy everyone, but his girlfriend catches the eye of the owner's son.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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 misogynist Fire chief counsels his nephew to avoid matrimony at all costs. Uhe love-struck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel.
- 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.
- A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintains his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and is also in love with the mayor's daughter. But when Yukon Jake brings his gang to town, causing trouble and kidnapping Bill's girl, it looks as if Bill might have more trouble than he can handle.
- 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.
- 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.
- A bumbling, cross-eyed buffoon falls into the role of movie stunt man.
- Arriving at Ellis Island from Ireland, alone, Kitty finds upon arrival that she is just one more person than the quota system would allow to be admitted. However, when she sees a Jewish family with which she has become acquainted on the ship, admitted, she finds a way to get by the gateman and join her friends inside. Established in the home of the Jewish immigrants in the Ghetto, Kitty becomes enamored of Danny, a handsome young copper who patrols the nearest beat. One day she meets Eddie a childhood sweetheart in Ireland and finds that he is keeping company with Marion, a hard boiled rose of the Ghetto and Eddie's dancing partner in an amateur dancing skit. Kitty rushes into the second hand store and takes a vase which she proceeds to throw at Eddie. The vase narrowly misses a cop who rushes into the store. Kitty seeing her predicament takes some hair and makes herself a mustache, puts on a derby and makes it appear that she is a man. Later, she goes to the amateur show to see Eddie do his dance. Tomatoes, eggs, cabbages and then watermelon slices greets Eddie's efforts. Kitty throws a potato at Eddie so hard her mustache is knocked off and Eddie recognizes her. He hits her with a catsuppy tomato. A general riot starts and Kitty chases Eddie across the stage. As she reaches the far end of the stage, Danny the cop enters from the opposite side as Eddie is the target for another barrage of vegetables. The second hand dealer rushes to the aid of his borrowed suit and as Eddie is stripped of his finery, Kitty embraces Danny the cop and leaves the theater.
- Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned by the arrival of Pearl Minnow, a gold digger in town for the annual Catalina Channel Swim, sponsored by Wrigley's. Wanda and Pearl take a dislike to each other; Hamhocks is charmed by Pearl and Eddie stays loyal to Wanda. The day of the swimming contest arrives, the two women compete, and the two men try to help their respective gals. Their trials and tribulations mix with documentary footage of the event. An angry swordfish gets in the act.
- An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.
- After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on. (He was in a German prison camp, escaping while his captors celebrated the Great War's end.) Turns out, he's the spitting image of Bomania's King Strudel. The prime minister wants Strudel to sign a peace treaty ending civil war with a cousin. Bomania's General Von Snootzer wants the war to continue, so he contrives to derail the treaty. Strudel is a drunk, his queen hates him. Into the mix stumbles our dough boy. If he can pass for the king, maybe the treaty can continue. But what of the queen and her plans?
- "Old-fashioned rancher father Pop Martin wants his wayward daughter Marje to marry foreman Jim Brady just as soon as she leaves the finishing school he has sent her to make her behave herself. Marje prefers dashing young cattle inspector Frank Thornby and runs away from school. Jim finds Marje and brings her home. Pop is waiting for his disobedient daughter. Marje has a lot of explaining to do, and a lot of cajoling if she's to marry Frank instead of Jim. A slapstick battle of wills follows between Pop and Marje."
- Bing Crosby as himself in a comedy of romance and mistaken identity.
- When a hotel orchestra leader starts to flirt with a girl in the audience, her fiancé is very displeased. Then the orchestra leader finds out that the hotel flower girl is really a rich heiress, and he shifts his attentions to her. Now the flower girl's boyfriend is unhappy, and soon there are even more complications.
- A jealous father thinks his son is after Dad's fiancee and kicks the son out. Working in California, he falls for a girl and runs into his new Mamma with another man. Will our farm boy and his sweetie stop injustice from happening again?
- A Baron trying to sell Mack Sennett on the idea of starring his new prodigy in one of his films. Set around a swimming pool in which Sennett's bathing beauties and at a glitzy Hollywood nightclub.
- Mack Sennett comedy short-subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and Limburger cheese.
- 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.
- Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turoin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
- Detective Harry is on the trail of a stolen diamond necklace worth $100,000.
- A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than in getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.
- In old California, Don Fernando and Don Diego hope to consolidate their adjoining ranches by betrothing their children, Ramón and Dolores. However, Ramón is in love with Suzanna, the daughter of a peon on his father's ranch, and Dolores is interested in Pancho, a toreador. When Suzanna learns that she and Dolores were switched in infancy, making her Don Diego's actual daughter, she keeps silent. Ramón finally rebels and steals Suzanna from the altar as she is about to marry Pancho. Following the necessary explanations, Ramón marries Suzanna and Dolores marries Pancho.
- Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautiful in California. Also visiting for the day is non-member, Billy Divott, a golf enthusiast who is a little too enthusiastic. He seems to cause havoc everywhere he goes, especially as he plays a round of golf and tries to teach some of the less experienced members the finer points of the game. That havoc is compounded whenever he deals with sand traps, water traps, or especially flying insects with stingers.
- 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 country girl is sent to visit her Aunt Maggie in the city. She arrives, carrying a pet duck. Aunt Maggie hates her niece until she learns that the girl has inherited a million dollars, when her hatred turns to love.
- 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.
- 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.
- A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.
- A wife is tired of her husband (Ben Turpin) ignoring her to go hunting so she runs off with one of his friends.
- While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while trying to just be helpful to a damsel-in-distress, Walter's jealous wife suspects there may be some hanky-panky involved.
- A young married couple seek to escape the annoying company of a number of relatives who have parked themselves in their home for an indefinite period. Relief arrives with a friend's invitation to spent the belated honeymoon aboard a yacht. Reaching the boat, they find the troublesome relatives have preceded them.
- Bing Crosby meets one of his fans, who won't believe it's him.
- Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
- Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.