So You Want to Enjoy Life 1952
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.
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 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 McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare.
It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.
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 decides he should become a plumber.
Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.
When his wife Alice questions Joe as to whether his insurance policy is paid up, he begins to see a plot to murder him in everything she does.
Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.
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.
Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.
In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes, dissatisfied, attempts to save his five-years marriage to Alice.
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.
Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.
Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor, Marvin, comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, but they get the pipes crossed with the gas-line and almost asphyxiate themselves.
Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to domestic duties. When Alice threatens to return to her old job, a reluctant Joe agrees to her request to get her a job at his office. How will this work out?