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- A burlesque on love in the stone age.
- Penniless and without a job, Mortimer has just been evicted from his apartment. When the disorganized Matthew is late again for work, he is fired, and Mortimer gets a chance to take Matthew's place as a truck driver. The optimistic Matthew continues to flirt with his ex-boss's daughter, and he feigns an injury so that he can be near her. Little does he realize that the inexperienced Mortimer is about to affect his life again, in a most unexpected way.
- Cliff has bought and furnished a home, and is looking for the girl. He finally finds her in the person of Virginia Vance and she takes her step-mother and small brother to inspect her new home. All goes well until it starts to rain and then the gables of the house flap madly in the wind while the rest of the cottage slowly loses its form until the floors develops hills and valleys and finally the entire structure collapses.
- A thoroughly up-to-the-minute prison, operated by electricity, and various humorous attempts of inmates to escape are shown.
- A hotel's press agent draws the crowds and ruins the hotel with a story about it containing a lost treasure.
- Phil, as a chap who has imbibed too freely and starts out to visit a friend in a bungalow, supplies all of the comedy. He has all sorts of trouble getting into the house, finally mounting a bus and entering the second story. He is scared by animal skins, skids on the slippery floor and mixes things up generally, in the end he gets on a bus that runs away.
- Cliff and Virginia are sweethearts about to undergo the perils of matrimony, though a loud-snoring father doesn't approve and a mischievous brother makes life miserable for all about him.
- The familiar topic of a pipe bursting in a bathroom, the plumber making matters worse, and the guests being deluged below.
- Jimmie has a toothache and no matter what he does he can get the tooth pulled. His sweetheart won't marry him until the deed is done.
- Geoffrey, in his efforts to pursue his suit with Hazel in the silk department, becomes the victim of the masses in one elevator after another, being pushed, mauled, jammed and trampled on by the crowds.
- Two married couples attempt to obtain possession of a furnished house that has been willed to the one who first occupies it. In the end, after wrecking the house, they discover that they are in the wrong place.
- A man takes a trip to a seashore resort with his girl and her fat father, who falls in the water.
- A not over-wealthy young man takes his best girl for a little supper at an ultra-expensive café.
- The girl after Jimmie's heart is employed as a manicurist in a barber shop. Jimmie gets thrown out of the barber shop in divers ways, but returns as a barber.
- A chap is raised by his mother to be a regular sissy, much to the disgust of his father, who is a he-man and the descendant of a long line of "strong-men." Mother comes near spoiling his elopement by making him put on a tiger skin and join with a bunch of girls in nature dances, and the cop finishes the job when he mistakes him for a tramp with whom he has changed clothes.
- Cliff is a Jack Tar on shore leave in Egypt. Having left the U.S.A. he is looking for a dryer country and finds it in the desert. He is out riding on a camel when he meets Virginia, the daughter of Professor Newton, who is trying to find the knee caps of King Tut's first wife. While Cliff is entertaining Virginia by playing on an Egyptian tootle-pipe, Chief Alababa, head of the Desert Brigands, decides that Virginia is just the girl he needs to become Mrs. Alababa No. 43. Cliff has just mastered "Red Rot Mamma" on the pipe when the chief snatches Virginia from his side. Cliff gives the war cry of the gobs and a quartet of Jackies join him. They trace Alababa to an underground tomb and when they finish with Alababa and his gang the tomb has several more permanent residents, and Virginia is safely on the way to a future with a husband on the bounding main.
- Jimmie is an unfortunate married man who hasn't the wherewithal to meet his rent and is therefore "dispossessed." His furniture, wife and baby are all thrown after him by an irate landlord. A man who has invented a "house-aeroplane" sees an opportunity to get it tried out by offering a home to the destitute three. But he warns the husband not to attempt to "fly" the house- boat until he has further instructions. But husband is eager to "sail" with the result that the great propeller is set in motion and the family of three find out all about living "sky high."
- An old curiosity shop never did a bit of business until a young man, who has been bequeathed a jardinière by his grandmother, falls in love with the proprietor's daughter and takes upon himself the job of selling out the store. He circulates the report that a treasure is located in the article listed as Number Five. The hat-full of money which the proprietor takes in is burned by a cigarette and when a clerk breaks the jardiniere, which he has received in lieu of wages, it is found to contain a fortune.
- A girl's suitor attempts to prove that the "Count," who is his rival, is in reality a crook.
- A young lover tries to take his girl and her whole family out in a Ford sedan but it falls to pieces under the strain. A hired car is smashed by a train. A taxi stops on a wharf and father falls into the water. After he is rescued, the party goes off in a motorboat without the youth, who remains to pay the taxi driver.
- Cliff vies for Virginia's affections with Eddie, but ultimately she chooses Cliff to be her groom. The newlyweds move in to their new home, but the spurned rival makes a shambles out of the house in retaliation.
- A house-to-house salesman plants mice in residences and then sells the housewife his patent self-filling mouse trap.