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- Ambrose is being coached in the art of boxing by Tewksbury Spat, who gets his information from a text-book. "Guillotine" Gilbert, the professional pug who is to fight Ambrose, scares him into saying that his arm is broken and he cannot fight. Tewksbury, on the night of the fight, is pushed unwillingly into the ring. Fortified by smelling-salts, Mr. Spat battles through several rounds, being saved constantly by Mrs. Spat who is the official bell-ringer. The fight ends, however, in a free-for-all battle with the wives of the fighters and the guests all engaging.
- The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture.
- Difficulties befall a father who attempts to alibi his chosen son-in-law in the eyes of his daughter when a lady of past acquaintance unexpectedly intrudes upon a peaceful home.
- The English member of the triumvirate has just come upstairs from the furnace and leans against the wall. The blacken imprint of his hand is taken for the evil omen of gangsters which are supposed to be rampant at the time. In order to combat any insidious attack the Spats adorn their doors with "connecting things'' which in turn, as might be expected, hand them the greatest number of wallops. An erstwhile party bent on surprising a newlywed couple picks out the Spat residence by mistake. Shooting, scrambling and a glorious mix-up take place before identities are made known and peace is again restored.
- Pilot for a situation comedy developed by CBS about the adventures of a gentle Irish-American beat cop and his non-confrontational methods of resolving neighborhood problems.
- Billy and Ben continually make a mess of things, having multiple accidents with their Taxi.
- Paul finds himself alone and penniless in a small town and to add to his discomfort, he is exceedingly hungry. He enters a restaurant A-La-Cafeteria and before selecting the items that would make up an ordinary meal, he samples nearly everything on the layout before the proprietor gets wise to him. In revenge, the proprietor outs him to work and all would have gone well until Paul's inventive brain exerts itself and he induces the proprietor to install a new system, namely one of the LUNCH BASKET ORDER which automatically locks as the goods are put into it. The scheme worked nicely until one day with an unusual lunch hour rush, the baskets are all filled and a cry of fire soon empties the restaurant, guests baskets and all. This so annoys the proprietor that the last we see of Paul is his being flattened against the wall with the proprietor's two revolvers pointing at him.
- Irvin takes the governor on a duck hunting trip in the hopes of securing a plumb job, but his annoying nephew has other plans.
- After Billy gets discharged for wrecking his Taxi, he takes a job at a Taxidermy business. Ben brings in his flea to be stuffed & loses it. They get locked in at night and are frightened.
- An ex-girlfriend moves into the apartment across the hall from her ex-boyfriend. Both are married now, and their jealous spouses force them both to move. That should solve their problems, right?
- The Spat family are forced to go west to take care of a gold-mine that Mr. Spat has foolishly purchased.
- Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.
- Paul and his girl, invited by their friends to make a trip through Chinatown, decline on the plea that nothing ever happens there. But when the girl is snatched from his arm and disappears through a narrow doorway, Paul finds adventure a-plenty. He fights his way to her side, after which the "Chinamen" reveal themselves as the friends who wished to give them a thrill.
- Mr. Gander, who in the role of a "city slicker," trifles with the hearts of the "fair ones" in the poultry yard. The "village gossips," played by two hens, bring word of the scandal to "father" gander who promptly calls in the service of the local constable, a clever monkey, to rid the poultry yard of the nuisance. The rest of the action shows how Mr. Gander is pursued, captured, and properly disciplined.
- A visiting New Yorker inspires the hotel keeper toward improving his establishment.
- The hero rescues an heiress from drowning, but has a hard time letting her know about it. Finally he starts to elope with her, but father has other views. All sorts of complications ensue and finally father and the other suitor are shanghaied as a crew for the hero's yacht.
- Snub adopts a newsgirl, Marie and her little brother. A mean landlord seeking rent complicates matters and the trio take a train to Florida. But by mistake the train goes to Iceland.
- Paul is very timid and is reproached by his girl for his "shyness" as she terms it. He is finally goaded into a fight with "Poison Fist O'Flanagan," a cross-eyed bantamweight, and to the surprise of himself and his loved one, knocks out the champion.
- A city couple, after two years of saving, can finally afford a vacation, and they head west to the wide-open spaces and peaceful tranquility. Their old flivver of an automobile barely gets them there but they finally arrive at the guest ranch. However, "Ma", who runs the ranch is given to night-spells of shooting off her pistols, and she's got plenty of ammunition.
- The difficulties of a green boob clerk in a shoe store.
- Trying to take the place of her deceased mother, a little girl struggles to care for her younger brothers. But the children and their papa have a wonderful surprise in store for them.
- After running over a police officer's motorcycle, Ben and Billy are chased by the law onto a docked ship where they disguise themselves as a European baron and general. In the same guises they then invade a high society party with the gendarmes in close pursuit.
- Farina, Joe and Mickey are all struck by the love bug. After several problems, they go to the beauty salon, where Pineapple works and proceed to make shambles of it. The police arrive and arrest them, but Grandma comes to their rescue.
- The Spat family takes a transcontinental trip in a van of their own design, which includes a bathroom, parlor, kitchen and bedroom "all in one."
- An umbrella salesman decides to help a lady in distress raise $500, so she, and her father, will not be blown up.
- Charley has several dilemmas facing him at Christmas, all posed by his greedy, heartless landlord Noah and his family. He wants to get an expensive wristwatch for his wife, but his landlord takes it, then his other presents are switched with Noah's, and then he and Noan battle back and forth for a long white beard for their Santa Claus costumes.
- An escaped convict sets loose a box of bees and turns them upon an old fashioned camp meeting of colored folks. Prison guards pursue the convict and discover his disguise.
- Glen is an infatuated lover with a lot of competition for the hand of his fair one. Katherine plans a get-together meeting of all her boy friends. Fire breaks out while she is upstairs in her home and Glen effects a rescue.
- The Spats are seen in a mythical kingdom, where they strive to win the favor of the king by assembling a "Ford" shipped in parts to his majesty, who is curious and somewhat fearful of the "case received from Detroit." When they get the car together Tewksbury attempts to drive it and there is more havoc. It ends by their being driven out to sea, where even the U. S. warship refuses to take them in and the last seen of the "Spats" they are following their anchor to the depths.
- The chief complication is the effort of phonograph officials to persuade an opera singer and her husband to sing a duet without fighting with each other. Just when it seems that domestic peace has been attained, a chicken or a dog interrupts the singing, and temperamental hostilities are again begun. When at last the cherished record is complete, Stone holds it in one hand while kissing a girl and it melts.
- Paul in a laughable adventure with the "South Sea Island Whooplesnips." A mutiny, a romance and several other interesting things happen to the hero.
- After learning to be a cowboy by reading a dime novel, Paul goes West and is made sheriff of a town.
- The Only Son decides to leave home - the little village, and make a name for himself in the great outside world. Nearly all of his neighbors accompany him to the depot for fear he might miss the outgoing train. Moving rapidly away from the place of his birth, he rides as far as his scanty bankroll will carry him which happens to be a little town on the Western border, and the day of his arrival happens to be a day when a new sheriff was to be elected. It's a bad town and they need a sheriff badly and the committee decides that Paul should be the sheriff and his election is held with joy on the part of the bad men. But Paul surprises everyone however - and a lucky chance enables enables him to round up the gang crowd and bring peace to the little county.
- The scene is set in the time designated by the title, with the performers costumed appropriately in animal skins and existing under contemporary living conditions with just enough modern appurtenances to make it laughably absurd.
- A soldier of fortune is carried off by a rich senorita to her father's rubber plantation, where a bull fight is in progress on his arrival. Inadvertently he is thrust into the bull ring and his escapades as a toreador are ludicrous in the extreme. In fact "throwing the bull" brings the hero both fame and fortune.
- Snub and Marie purchase a house guaranteed to be on a dry spot, but which proves to be when it rains a real floating home.
- With all speaking French, Chase joins a golf club to win its president's daughter. The game descends into chaos when the other players conspire against him and he ends driving across the course.
- The fun occurs in and around a garage which is used by a young married couple as their home.