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- In Victorian London the esteemed Dr. Pyckle uses himself as a guinea pig when he experiments with a new drug that changes him into a compulsive prankster.
- A burlesque of Rudolph Valentino's "Monsieur Beaucaire." As M. Don't Care, he is forced to flee France for England and takes work as a barber. Complications follow - duels, a love affair with the Belle of Bath and the expose of M. Don't Care as a prince.
- Mickey has decided that the kids should start their own movie studio and he naturally considers himself the most qualified person to take charge of production, and he should also play all the lead roles too.
- A naïve/credulous/gullible/ shy young man (Stan Laurel) finds himself alone on an island inhabited by very enterprising/ sprightly women.
- Toots and Casper think they are going on a relaxing vacation until their rich relative decides to come along.
- Toots (Thelma Hill) and Casper (Bud Duncan) visit a college campus and get mistaken for freshmen.
- The unhappily married couple head to divorce court where Toots tells a series of funny stories about Casper.
- As the three fat boys, answering the radio's call of "Get Up, Babies," roll out of bed, they begin their daily morning exercises. These include "ups and downs," "Dumbel Exercises." and such, which are necessary, says the aged and crippled broadcaster, if one wishes to attain physique such as his. During the "Ups and Downs," the fat boys use pulley-weights, and finally produce from the other side of the wall a man in a bath-tub. who complains that it is bad enough taking a bath without making a personal appearance. The ''Skipping Rope" Exercise proves to be disastrous, as the next scene shows the floor undulating with the bounces of the three fat boys, and finally collapsing when they all pounce upon a medicine ball. Nothing daunted, they run out into the hall where they find their rowing machine. This carries them into the street, and down a hill, where they make the discovery that they are late for the barber school. There they ply their trade on various interesting customers, whom they elevate in the barber chair at will. One of these received a most unusual hair-cut when the clippers plow a path in his hair from his forehead. to the back of his head. Another customer's beard discloses a pigeon when one of the boys starts to cut it. Lois Boyd, the manicurist, displays her ingenuity when she removed a half moon from her table in order that the fat boys may be seated comfortably when being manicured. But in spite of their cleverness, the boys and Lois Boyd cannot fool the two-gun man who is their last customer, and the fade-out shows them being chased down the street by their ferocious client.
- On his brother's birthday, a wealthy couple adopts Mickey's kid brother. Mickey and his pals go to the city searching for him.
- An employee at a commercial laundry mistakenly thinks he's Chinese. Complications ensue.
- This is a story of a tourist who is mistaken for the king of a country which he visits and is persuaded by the king who is warned that his life is threatened, to take his place. Naturally many amusing things happen and all the attempts at the king's life are frustrated by his understudy. However action gets too hot for the Duke, and next the characters are getting back to their original costumes.
- A man struggles to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
- Neely portrays the role of the secretary to a famous explorer who is in Egypt to find the famous mummy cave. Alice is the explorer's daughter. We are introduced to the exploring party through the eyes of a telescope held by one of the Sheiks. who observes them from the window of his palace. The beauty of the girl entrances the potentate and he sends for the party. Determined to add the girl to his harem, he used every effort, but the secretary frustrates his attempts and rescues the girl.
- Dinky Doodle and Weakheart discover a hen that lays golden eggs, but also a giant ogre who's very hungry.
- On his way to collect inheritance in the small town on Hot Dog, Stan gets robbed by highwaymen, one of which is the other person who shall attend the reading of their late Uncle's will. The reading of the will states Stan will get everything, including 'The Last Chance Saloon', but in the case of Stan's death, the saloon will be split between Bad Mike and his friend. Stan nows flees town, but gets on Bad Mike's horse, which takes him to Bad Mike's house. Bad Mike and his gang arrive at the house, after robbing the saloon. They soon hear Stan, and an epic gun battle follows, with the town Sheriff not far behind.
- A man tries to rescue a beautiful woman being held in a spooky old house by a mad hypnotist. This comedy is only known to survive in in partial form.
- Three rather "heavyset" young men compete for the affections of a pretty girl at a rooming house.
- Stan Laurel is a man who is robbed of his civilian clothing by an escaped prisoner, who then dresses Stan in the striped uniform. Naturally, since it's Stan, a guard nabs him and locks him in the pokey.
- Jimmy the soap salesman gets into trouble with the Bolsheviks and falls in love with a girl.
- Mickey and his pals search for buried treasure. When a thunderstorm suddenly appears, they take refuge in a house that's supposed to be haunted, and it's not long before they find themselves being terrified by the house's ghosts.
- Stan (Stan Laurel) works in a grocery store in the middle of the mountains, buried in snow. The young woman he's in love with is falling for a fraud who pretends to be an officer. Stan has to do something! There's no time to waste!
- A jealous husband has his friend invite Fatty and his pals to the Welcome Club. They get quite the welcome with dancing skeletons, gorillas, mummies and assorted characters before they jump out the window to escape their tormentors.
- The gang improvise a radio broadcast and impersonate Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Kate Smith, Bing Crosby and Cab Calloway.
- A high-society boy falls for a girl from a family of acrobats. He invites her to his home to meet his parents.
- One of the fat men is the husband of the newly married bride, Lois Boyd. The other two fat men are the brides' brothers. They all go on a hiking and camping trip to spend the honeymoon. Many adventures befall the quartet. Trying to ride a river the rapids upset the canoe and cause the hikers much annoyance. They have many amusing experiences as huntsmen, etc. and the newly married couple finally decide that it is better to continue the honeymoon without the assistance of the two robust brothers.
- An artists, trying to tune into a certain radio station, gets Fairyland instead. Humpty Dumpty, Mary and her little lamb and Tom the Piper's Son are all there, and Dinky Doodle and his dog join them. The program ends and the station signs off when Dinky, mad because Mary refused his marriage proposal, knocks her little lamb across the yard.
- This Blue Ribbon Comedy treats on the subject of a love sick couple who are afraid of the girls father. The cousin of the boy decides he will fix things up for the lovers and all his attempts result in getting the boy in worse with his prospective father-in-law. The lovers finally elope and are pursued by the irate father who of course must become reconciled now that the couple are wedded.
- A fire inspector discovers that his father, an industrialist, is secretly producing nitroglycerin at his warehouse.