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- An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
- Two factions struggle to gain and keep possession of a pool of molten gold.
- Snub has a lot of fun trying to get rid of his job. He does everything he can to torment his boss but still is not fired. At length he knocks him down and serves notice upon him. But just as he does this along comes a telegram which tells about a large sum of money that Snub is to inherit provided he still has his job.
- A young man and his pal get caught up in a gambling craze that's sweeping the area.
- The monkey gland operation is about to be performed upon Snub. A flash-back shows how the lack of pep has affected his spirits. While under ether he dreams that he has become an ape and is forced to swing upon the chandeliers and walk up the sides of the buildings. He wakes up just before the operation is performed and takes the chance to beat it out of the hospital. The horror of the dream gives him more pep than monkey glands.
- Snub takes a job as handy man to one of the pests who is ever saying - "this is going to hurt a little" - and his work is pulling teeth. A heavy weight is attached to pulleys and the forceps hooked onto a cord. Thus the tooth is pulled automatically. Naturally such effective treatment spoils the business of a rival dentist. So the latter plots to discredit his colleague. His scheme is to use tooth cement to keep the teeth firm and foil the pulley machine. Snub gets a real inspiration, by attaching the rope to a trolley car and then to the door knob and as the police enter the tooth is extracted.
- Snub, securing a wishing carpet, is carried through the air to a mythical land where he gets into all sorts of scrapes and is glad to get back home.
- A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his home town.
- 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.
- Marie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping in the park, to assist.
- Snub writes a scenario and goes to the local theater to see the picture. After a good deal of trouble he and his wife succeed in getting into the house, but are unable to find two seats together. The center aisle is built very steep, and the ushers are dressed like Alpine climbers. This provides a great deal of action for those who must climb up, and those who slide into their seats. Then comes the film. The main title tells that the picture is made by the "Shameless Film Co." As Snub's seat is up against the screen he sees the picture greatly distorted. The picture shown on the screen satires the current melodrama, and will bring a laugh in itself. The comedy ends in a free-for-all fight.
- Eddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on time.
- A visiting New Yorker inspires the hotel keeper toward improving his establishment.
- Looking back on his younger days, Snub recounts how he outwitted his rival for Marie's affections. In the present day he gets back at his rival, who is now suffering from gout.
- Newlyweds have a baby wished on them as a wedding present. Someone steals the baby along with all of the furniture and the chase to recover the little tot when its mother demands its return begins.
- The girl of very superstitious Paul insists on getting married on Friday the 13th. His rival tries to prevent the marriage at all cost.
- The comedy revolves about a summer hotel where the proprietor expects a Prince from India. The Prince appears, and proves to be first-rate second-story man. Then the real Prince arrives and the uproarious comedy moments commence, leading to the bearding of the impostor.
- A young woman is heir to vast timber lands which the timber trust seeks to secure. She is opposed by a cousin who seeks to prevent her from marrying before she is twenty-one, as under the terms of her father's will he will then inherit the property. In her fight against these odds she is assisted by a lumber foreman who falls in love with her.
- 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.
- 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.
- Paul is about to be married but loses his clothes.
- Jitney bus drivers are stealing business from the streetcar franchise, and work to sabotage the streetcar owner. The streetcar driver and company owner's daughter work together to save the business from ruin.
- 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.
- After many difficulties getting into a baseball game with his girl, Paul is pressed into service as a pinch hitter.
- Paul is a stay-out-at-night hubby and in order to explain his delay he invents a lovely story about freight yard rough-necks and how he was robbed, gagged and bound to the tracks with the Overland Limited dashing towards him. He was saved by an earthquake which shook the ground and threw the locomotive off the tracks. Does the mother-in-law believe the story? Not a bit of it.
- Paul is trying to elope with a girl whose father offers vigorous opposition. A rival suitor, who is a giant in stature, is also an impediment in the pathway of the swain and "his girl," but opposition to the runaway is finally overcome when the girl in the case sets fire to the house in which she is held captive and in the ensuing complication of events escapes with her Romeo.
- The fun occurs in and around a garage which is used by a young married couple as their home.
- Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, much to her and her chauffeur's eventual regret.
- 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.
- Paul plays at being a detective until dad, who is a revenue officer, sends him out to prove his worth by rounding up some desperate moonshiners.
- An old man, with many branches to his family tree, attempts to make the quarrelsome crew live in harmony by promising them his money if they will all build houses on the same plot of ground and live peacefully for one year. Not having room on the lot, one family takes to the air, hitching its home to a balloon. This creates a disturbing element by reason of the things that fall overboard. But when the year is up, and there has been a reasonable amount of peace, the old man starts to divide his fortune, but is mistaken by all the heirs except one for a "faker," and the lucky one is rewarded with the entire estate.
- With a radio-equipped camel, a young American invades a desert encampment and finally gallops away with the Sheik's favorite wife.
- Hapless photographer James Parrott attempts to shoot a bathing beauty pageant.
- The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine.
- 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.
- Snub is the pilot of a ferry boat who has not renewed his license since 1891 and must pay up or lose his boat.
- Our hero becomes a member of the police force. A sudden alarm at the station house calls out the reserves to subdue a riotous member of the tenement house section and only when said riotous member has demolished nearly all of the reserves, Paul our hero, appears on the scene and when the pugnacious battler spills and strikes his head on the sidewalk, Paul takes advantage of his unconscious moment and places him under arrest. Shortly after, a girl in tears approaches our hero and tells him that her father had just been arrested and she desires to get his release. Father is released on BAIL and Paul accepting the young lady's invitation goes to the house where, to his surprise, her father turns out to be the man who he had arrested. Father deeply resentful, makes it quite lively for the young man, and after ducking in and out of closets, tables and eventually sliding down a fire escape, the last we see of our hero he is headed south and rapidly becoming a dim spot on the horizon.
- Paul and Jobyna are newlyweds and Paul's father-in-law rents them a house. During a storm some nearby campers are wrecked and wrapping their tent about them they seek shelter in the nearest house which belongs to the newlyweds. The white-draped figures are taken for "spooks" creating an opportunity for the usual gags.
- Will Rogers repeats for the camera his famous roping tricks from the Ziegfeld Follies. With a white-painted rope to show up against his black horse Dopey, Rogers demonstrates running catches, wherein he ropes the fore legs of the galloping horse. Rogers also spins his trick lariat, jumping through it and back, and exhibiting the prowess that made his roping a national sensation.
- Paul slaps golf balls around to the damage of everything and everybody in sight, both on the links and in his home.
- Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich, after years of unsuccessful treatment. Dr. Jack's old-fashioned methods do the trick, and the quack is sent packing.
- An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help.
- Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train station he proves his worth.
- Snub in a free-for-all fishing contest, with everybody, including the fish, working against the hero, who finally triumphs.
- Paul in a laughable adventure with the "South Sea Island Whooplesnips." A mutiny, a romance and several other interesting things happen to the hero.
- Paul, a great college athlete, is sent to his uncle's farm to be developed, but turns against the continual round of chores. And at the table he is continually elbowed aside by the huskier farmhands, until he gives up in disgust. But a last attempt to understand the intricacies of the tractor results in his demolishing the house, and the farmer's daughter aids his escape.
- The Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from kidnappers and of creating a utopia called Freetown.
- Paul's first car arrives "knocked down," and his first thought is to assemble it and outstrip a rival in taking the prettiest girl in town for a ride. She announces that she will go out with the first to reach her house. The competition between the two drivers is keen until a maneuver by Paul outwits the rival and captures the girl.
- The Rascals, feeling unloved at home, decide to become pirates. Meanwhile, a mother, an aunt and a valet join the cops in searching for the runaways.