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- the Gump clan, Andy, Bim, Min and Chester, start at a hotel, where dreaming of a seashore, Andy high dives through the floor into the lobby. They drive to the ocean, where Andy does sinks his boat while fishing. Then they go to an amusement park, where a bumper-car mishap casts Andy through the air and into a roller coaster ride.
- Andy's boss is constantly harping on the fact that he is no longer a young man and threatens to get a younger man in his place if he doesn't get in on time. This gets Andy thinking and he decides to take a course advertised by a Fanny Fair to make you youthful. Min sees a note from Fanny telling Andy when to come for his first treatment and immediately thinks that her husband is untrue to her. She confides in a neighbor who advises her to get dancing lessons. Andy goes to Fanny's institute and gets an awful deal. When it has been completed he is told to look in the glass and see how young he has been made. What he looks through is merely a frame with a handsome youth on the other side. He mimics Andy's movements so well that Andy really believes he has been remade. On the way home, however, he wants a second look and takes a mirror out of his pocket. What he sees makes him go back and swat the man behind the frame with a brick. When he arrives home he finds his wife in the company of the dancing master and remonstrates with her, demanding to know who he is. Min comes back with the story of the note she found from Fanny. Explanations follow and everyone is happy once more.
- Papa, trying to show how Buffalo Bill or Hoot Gibson ride, gets thrown and his horse gets lost. Chester finally locates it in a haystack and brings it back to Andy. They all ride to the George Washington Golf Club (where nobody tells a lie - much). Andy's ball rolls off the tee so Chester affixes it with his chewing gum. Andy drives, but the ball flies back and hits him in the eye. An expert tees off his watch and holes out in one. Andy wants to show Min how good he is and borrows a watch from a man whose wife won it for dancing seven hours in a telephone booth. He, also, holes out in one; but with the watch, having completely missed the ball. The watch is wrecked and the owner has a fit. Later, Andy gets bunkered and takes a dozen strokes, claiming he only took three, the others having been used to kill a rattlesnake. He sees a caddy steal his ball and goes after him. All the other caddies come to their mate's rescue and Andy gets beaten up.
- Andy goes to Old Timers farm for a rest. He goes in swimming and two goats chew up his clothing. In the meantime a telegram arrives from the neighborhood town asking Andy to come and speak. Min finds Andy in the lake and his clothes gone. He rushes home in Min's petticoat and gets dressed. They race with the train to the crossing, but the train hits them and they find themselves on the fender. They arrive at the station and the whole town is asleep. Andy awakes the people in the hotel and is greeted with a great ovation. The people ask him to make a speech, but he would rather get dressed first and goes upstairs. Little Chester, while playing croquet, hits the ball and breaks open a hornet's nest right over Andy's pants, and the hornets hide themselves in them. Andy slips on his pants while reading over his speech and does not feel the hornets until he has his suspenders over his shoulders. He then starts to run wild all over. He runs into a smokeroom and smokes them out. Andy is asked to deliver his speech and he asks for a stump. Meanwhile, the city is dynamiting all stumps and the one Andy starts to speak on is already charged. The last line of his speech is that his position will take him to dizzy heights and he is blown sky-high and lands on a telephone pole.
- Andy, trying to flirt with a girl in the train who has winked because of a cinder in her eye, not only gets slapped by her, but is bawled out by Min on account of white glove marks on his shoulder, in reality made by leaning against a pair of newly cleaned gloves. The train shoots into a tunnel, and Andy thinks he's been blinded by hootch. Teaching Chester how to use a lariat, Andy ropes a wasp's nest into the car, causing consternation among the passengers. Put off the train by the porter in mistake for another passenger, Andy, in nightie, arrives at Nightmare, Cal., on a hand-car. On his recently inherited jumping-bean ranch, he and the rest have difficulty picking and eating the crop. Working as a barber, Andy mistakes red paint drops on a tough customer's face for blood, in the resulting altercation thinks he's been beheaded, and wakes up in the train to find it all a dream.
- Andy is given a vacation, but is ordered to be back promptly in two weeks. The family dash away with complete camp supplies. After the car is nearly torn apart by a chain, a cop pinches him when little Chester explodes firecrackers. Andy is sent to jail and serves a few days. Continuing their journey, the car suffers four punctures at one time. Pitching camp in the dark, Andy falls off a cliff, his nightshirt catches onto a tree. Min and Chester lasso him, finally dragging him to safety. He then goes hunting and wastes a lot of good shells. A skunk crosses his path and the family has to air their clothes. He sees a calendar and believes his vacation is up. Arriving at the office, he finds he is five days ahead of time, little Chester having torn off five days to start a fire.
- The Gump family is given a great send-off at the railroad station by their fellow townspeople. Andy makes a flamboyant speech and tells them of the great deeds he will do in the West. Then they fare forth in their flivver, California bound, followed by a long row of trailers on which are piled their household effects and elaborate equipment for the long journey. At the first crossing Gump stops the flivver to let a train pass, but the dog jumps out and runs across the track, pulling the flivver in front of the train by his leash. They escape with the car and their lives but the train wrecks the trailers. Andy rigs up a bear trap to show Little Chester how easy it is to get big game if you know how, but is caught in the trap himself and is rescued by Chester and Min. Nearing their destination in California, they are blocked by a freight train. Andy places some sloping planks to enable him to pass through a box car to the other side. When they get inside the car the train starts and the doors slam shut. The Gumps are imprisoned for several days, after which the train stops, the doors are opened and they find themselves back home and broke.
- Dimwitted sheriff Andy Gump finds himself feuding with a neighbor and some pesky firecrackers.
- Andy, Min and little Chester are getting ready to go to Shady Rest for an outing.
- Andy pays five thousand dollars received from Uncle Bim to a real estate shark for a home that belongs to some one else.
- With his wife in the country, Andy gets polished up and goes out sporting. A flock of girls are playing pushball. One of them gets caught on a limb. Gump cuts her down and she falls for him, making the husky trainer jealous, but the girl won't let him punch Gump. The ball rolls down a hill, Gump fleeing before it. The ball bumps him all over the landscape and he arrives home battered and torn. He shaves again and uses hair restorer on his face instead of shaving lotion, causing a heavy beard to grow. In front of a ladies' Turkish bath establishment he sees the husky trainer and ducks into the bath parlors, hiding in the steam cabinet. In trying to escape he is discovered, but he disguises as a woman taking off the beard with hair remover, and is put through various grilling treatments by a woman attendant. Finally escaping to the street, he is followed by the husky trainer, but asks a policeman to protect him from the "masher." The cop escorts him a short distance when the brawny sweetheart of the policemen, mad with jealousy steps out of a doorway, beats up her rival whose wig falls off revealing Gump to the trainer who puts him to rout.
- The start is one of those charmingly domestic scenes where Andy, ordered to wash and dry a mountain of dishes which could be accumulated only in a movie home, brings in the garden hose to do the work. Then the dishes are hung to the clothes line or scattered on the grass to dry. The neighbor's boy uses the dishes much as a shooting gallery marksman would clay rabbits. His aim is good. When Andy spanks him he arouses the ire of the boy's father. Here is the beginning of the conflict which extends to a mountain-climbing contest. Forced into the latter against his wishes, Andy finds his principal rival for the honors and the money prize the same father of the boy. How, through no fault of his own, he outwits him and wins the peak first is the story told. It partakes of those thrilling cliff-side situations where the characters are about to or do fall great spaces to emerge from the experience unscathed.
- Andy is called upon to referee a boxing bout at a swell reception. He gets a large percentage of the blows, loses his pants, is knocked all over the place but finishes as a social success plus torn clothes and black eyes.
- The trouble started because Andy is a late riser and so eats his breakfast from a tray placed on the handlebars of his bicycle while wheeling to work. If he had not been gulping down coffee he would not have run down the pedestrian who causes all his subsequent troubles. But he did run down the man and the latter, seeking to buy a new suit, encounters Andy in the department store, where he is a clerk. He attempts to fit the irate one to a suit but, his identity being established, Andy takes to flight throughout the department store. Finally he takes refuge in a show window where a bedroom set with dummies is being shown. Followed there by Min, with their fight watched by a crowd outside the window in the street, you can imagine for yourself just what the poor simp has to go through. The requisite number of vases are broken over his head and a sufficiently energetic rough house staged to satisfy the store window spectators.
- On a flivver trip in the west, the Gumps are encamped. Andy demonstrates how Min can reduce by following his instructions in daily calisthenics. Some ants get down her back and she does the hula, a bad example to set for little Chester, says Andy. He is shocked when the ants get at Chester, who goes through the same contortions. While he is moralizing the insects reach him and he does it too. Chester gets into a flight with a big boy and begins to get the best of him. Andy draws up and enthuses over the fighting Gump, just like his father. The strange boy's father, a giant, announces that if Chester whips his boy, he will fight Andy. Andy calls for Min, who makes Chester stop. The Gumps are thrown off the land, which belongs to the bully. They go back home and go to bed. Min walks in her sleep, out the window to a steel beam, thence to a building in construction, where she walks confidently over dizzy heights. Andy, afraid to wake her up, follows, crawling along the perilous beams. Chester calls out the fire department. A stew bum gets hold of the fire hose and throws a stream in the air upon which Gump falls. He is lifted on the water jet to the top of the frame, where Min is in danger. He grabs Min and they are both lowered to safety on the receding water jet.
- Arriving in California with his family, Andy Gump is flattered by the attentions of a real estate salesman who meets them at the station and arranges to take them for a ride. They go in a bus through Hollywood, where the real estater points out the homes of the movie greats and finally sells Gump a bungalow set on the edge of a cliff. Min sets the house in order and prepares a luncheon of wienies. Chester substitutes a cigar for the wienie in Gump's sandwich. Gump begins to reel. A dynamite crew at the base of the cliff breaks down big chunks of the bungalow's foundation and the house rocks. Gump thinks he is very sick. Finally the house slips over the edge, being held only by the clothes line. A bottle of floor wax tips over and the Gumps try to climb the slippery floor but slide down and out the open door, narrowly escaping death by clinging to the edge of the swinging door in mid air. At last Chester comes to the rescue with a line, and they reach firm ground just as the house tips off and crashes to bits on the rocks below.
- It certainly proved an eventful day for the family. First, Andy and Min both had experiences with a mouse trap, then Andy got in trouble with a pot of hot coffee. Finally the bunch start for a picnic with Andy racing for the bus and being knocked off with Min holding him by his suspenders and eventually the whole family landing on the ground after more exciting experiences.
- Andy, in his nightie, locked out of his house accidentally while getting the Sunday papers, is seen by the minister and several ladies of the church, to their mutual embarrassment. Escaping indoors through a window, Andy attempts to fix the water main, but mixes the gas and water pipes, flooding the stove, soaking the food and almost asphyxiating himself. All the Gumps put baking powder in Min's dough with the result that the biscuits float in midair and explode. Later, Andy shows Chester how to throw a boomerang, sent by Uncle Bim, but succeeds in breaking two windows and a lot of furniture. Almost killed by his wife while getting mixed up in a carpet she is beating, Andy tries to repair the roof. Clogging the chimney with his toolbox, he sees smoke pouring from a window and sends in an alarm. His house drenched by the firemen, Andy takes Min and Chester on a picnic in 348. He wrecks his garage, later drenches his picnic lunch with a system of grass sprinklers, steps on another picnic party's lunch while showing Chester how to fly a kite, falls in pond, off cliff, smashes car, and gets home to find the hot water boiler has exploded, blowing his house to bits.
- Bound for Australia, Andy manages to break about a dozen flasks of hootch belonging to the man in the adjoining cabin. He meets Miss Summers, the blonde vamp, and unintentionally arouses Min's jealous streak. Their ship wrecked by a derelict, the women passengers and Andy are cast on a desert island, where Gump is made sultan by the women. He has considerable difficulty in fishing, being caught by an alligator. Trying to milk a cow, he is beaned by a rock he's tied to the bovine's tail to keep it still, and later, after tying the tail to his belt, is dragged all about the island by the indignant moo-moo.
- Andy wins a decorated automobile parade contest. Hence to the sea shore. Why the sea shore? That is obvious; that there may be an invasion of the field with bathing beauties in one-piece suits as a background for the Gump family. Once robbed of his prize money by the avaricious Min, Andy seeks solace playing with the nymphs. Putting him on the end of the line they snap-the-whip with great success, sending Andy sprawling into beach luncheon parties, etc. Always in evidence is Andy's Nemesis, the man from whom he took the automobile prize money. In and out of beach tents disturbing various people in various degrees of undress or up and down and in a mad seemingly never ending pursuit race go the two rivals. The end comes when the race leads to the Gump tent where that representative of the so-called weaker sex, Min, puts to rout the burly opponent of her husband.