So You Want to Know Your Relatives 1954
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.
Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.
Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a raise.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare.
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.
Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes, dissatisfied, attempts to save his five-years marriage to Alice.
In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.
Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.
Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Flatorsharpsky, next door. Joe buys a piano, and the accompanying free lessons, and sets out to impress Alice. Alice is vastly unimpressed.
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.
Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.
In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.
Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.
Joe thinks he's back in the gladiator days, and finds himself sentenced to be thrown to the Coliseum lions after breaking a string while playing the lyre for King Nero.
It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.