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- Trouble starts at the very beginning with Buster's characteristically masculine inability to cut the bread for sandwiches and otherwise help. Mary Jane does the work. Once started, Buster's baby brother tosses the contents of the luncheon basket to the trailing Tige so that there is no food when the picnic grounds are reached. Tige makes amends by stealing the luncheon of a neighboring party. Also having eaten the cream covering off a cake he creates a panic because all the picnickers think he is frothing at the mouth and suffering from the rabies. To add to the comfort (?) of the recreation-seekers a hornet's nest is dislodged and the hornets rout the entire picnic-camp crowd. For a finale a table cloth becomes a parachute and carries the youthful trio over a cliff-side into the ocean. All rescued, it becomes an entry in a Samuel Pepys diary "and so home to bed."
- Charles is an impoverished shoe clerk who is an aspiring social climber. His first attempt is via horseback riding, and his sorry efforts with the prancing steeds are constantly riotous. Later, when the society belles visit the shoe store where Charlie is clerking, he furnishes a goodly portion of fun by pretending to be the owner of the establishment.
- Tony, the beloved of Wanda, starts things off hilariously by providing his mother-in-law to be with the first thrill she has had in thirty years by taking her home in a motorcycle side-car. Narrow escapes galore and finally a wreck. Then the engagement party of her daughter. The villain, a bigamist for whom the police are looking, has ambitions of adding Jane to the collection of wives. He is in a fair way to do so until Tony discovers from a newspaper story that the chap who is wrecking the engagement party, his happiness and his face is the man wanted. He gets him by bringing in a bunch of kids who have been subsidized with a nickel bribe to claim the impostor as their father, Tony, with dress and veil, pretending to be one of the deserted wives.
- Charley is trying to hold onto a job for a collection agency. He has arrived at his office late and is fired. Drawing on a very fertile imagination, he tells the boss a thrilling story, which we see on the screen, of how he had saved the boss' daughter from a band of Indians. That is why he was late. Great; the story goes over until the girl comes in to disclaim any knowledge of the whole episode. One more opportunity to hold the job is given Charley. He must collect a payment on a diamond ring or retrieve the ring. A strong man holds the bauble. Accompanied by the girl, this modern David goes forth to meet the 1926 Goliath. The first three rounds go to the title-holder but Kid David stages a comeback with the help of the girl. When Charley pretends to kidnap the girl, the giant shows undreamed-of chivalry and pursues the kidnapper. The chase leads to the office, where the ring which is in dispute is regained, to be used for an engagement ring.
- Wanda learns of an inheritance and the plan of the villain to marry her. She confides in her sweetheart who aids her by masquerading in her clothes and rescuing her when the villain seeks to take her away in a taxi.
- Charlie is clerking in a soda establishment patronized by college girls. Here he meets a pretty heiress and insists on accompanying her home, and plays Sir Walter Raleigh at a muddy crossing so that she can mount the taxi. Quite a stir of funny action takes place at the store when Charlie is trying to disguise himself in order not to be recognized by the heiress. Comedy winds up in a riot of fun when he takes the girl home and there beats up a couple of burglars in a Van Bibber style, is acclaimed hero, and receives a fat check from the girl's father. Of course Charlie claims the girl also, so he gets both.
- Burlesquing none too gently the great American custom of camping out.
- The family go Christmas shopping. Snookums, whether through hereditary influence or not, is a kleptomaniac. He takes unto himself a train of cars without the formality of paying for the same. Father makes two attempts to bring home a Christmas tree. The first is denuded going through the crowd. The second picks up from other shoppers various articles so that when it arrives at the Newlyweds' domicile it is already decorated. Enter the burglar. After him the pursuing policeman. Lest the baby's illusion be destroyed the burglar is made up as a Santa Claus and entertains the baby.
- Possessed of histrionic ambitions, even though her audience is limited to the hired man and the other dumb animals on the farm, Jane gets her chance when a wandering theatrical man puts in an opportune appearance in a smart car and whisks her off to the big city. To save her from what he thinks is certain ruin, at least morally, the hired man follows. Thwarted in trying to enter the house where Jane is having a try-out before the above-mentioned critical manager, this son of the soil makes an entrance through the chimney and fireplace. His rescue scene with Jane is so amusing both are hired for a long-term contract, subject of course to some other enterprising manager seeing them perform and stealing them.
- The first entry in the two-reel shorts series based on "The Newlyweds" (later changed to "Snookums") comic strip by George McManus. There is a neighborhood feud when Snookums throws empty cans into the neighbor's yard. This one features dancing eggs with the feet sticking out, a trained goose, and Snookums getting dizzy on a phonograph turntable.
- Charlie's mother-in-law arrive for an uninvited visit and was is declared at once. It intensifies when the pet parrot tells Ma that Charlie has been saying bad things about her. A family picnic allows Charlie to win a bout or two.
- George flirts with a tough guy's wife, but finds himself chased by the irate husband who works at his new job on a skyscraper.
- This starts with an amateur theatrical given by Buster to his friends. A fat boy starts to muss things up by firing vegetables at the star performer, Tige. Then the fat boy takes Mary Jane to a fun palace, and Buster finds himself outside, unable to buy a ticket. Tige comes to his rescue by raiding a crap game and returning with a quarter for Buster's admission.
- This short is an eclectic set of outtakes from several of the Boy's films which was prepared as a gift for Stanley's birthday party in 1938.
- Father buys so many toy balloons for Snookums that the baby carriage sails away through the air and lands on top of a telegraph pole.