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- 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 young woman is taken to a fancy nightclub by her uncle, but is stuck with the bill when the stingy uncle gets into an argument with a waiter and leaves without paying. While working off the debt, she recommends some friends of hers as an act for the club. Her friends are hired, but their performance does not go over very well, and soon the whole club is in an uproar.
- 3:00 AM at the Firewater Club, and Stanley is drunk. When he tries to conducting the orchestra, the manager - a former boxer - tells him to cool down. But Stanley then he then tries to dance with the manager's wife. Big mistake.
- A traveling salesman battles hurricane-force winds and a disapproving father in competing with a rube for a local beauty's hand in marriage.
- Stan Laurel stars as a tramp, "a fierce, fiery, fearless, two-fisted loafer." Trouble announces itself as a plate loaded with doughnuts on a windowsill. The farmer's daughter takes pity on him and Stan falls in love. Before the end there will be tears, broken dishes and more doughnuts.
- Stan is a detective who essentially relies on different costumes to successfully complete his investigations.
- Harry Sweet in the story is an outcast from society, as he is a ne'er do well. He rents a room where Gale Henry is a landlady. He is unable to pay his room rent. Instead of paying his room rent with money he earned. Someone was always selling him something on his way home to pay the rent. Finally, the landlady threatens to put him out of the house, but as she goes to notify him, she hears an attorney reading the will of his grandfather, who has left Harry Sweet a million dollars. From then on he is chased by women, and his landlady Gale Henry in particular, all of the women trying to marry him.
- 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.
- 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.
- A naïve/credulous/gullible/ shy young man (Stan Laurel) finds himself alone on an island inhabited by very enterprising/ sprightly women.
- The heavyweights, as the Barrel Brothers, through an employment agency get jobs in the home of a doctor. With the help of a thunder storm and the unexpected return of the doctor, who immediately dresses himself in his operating clothes to dissect a monkey which escapes, give these comics every opportunity to bring forth laughter from the audiences.
- The story treats of a wealthy girl portrayed by Lois Boyd who owns the hotel in town and the attempts made by a notorious crook who inveigles her into a phony elopement. The crook's Wife becoming wise, complicates matters and the fat men who play tho part of bell boys in the a picture certainly give the heavy an awful time. Finally they save the girl from the villain and all ends well.
- 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.
- A trio of overweight and incompetent carpenters are hired by a young woman to build a house.
- 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.
- Stationed in Latin America, lonely sailor Stan wants company. He invites himself to a dinner the Chief has been invited to, where he becomes entranced with the pretty hostess -- much to the chagrin of the Chief and of her local beau.
- 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 tailor employs a dog to tear men's clothes, so as to increase his business. He tries this stunt on a Moorish prince to his sorrow and the feud grows as they both fall in love with the same girl. The Prince lures the tailor into a dungeon where gruesome shapes appear. By rubbing the lamp he escapes only to go through more wild adventures until he wins the girl.
- Frank makes fun of golfers until he sees all the other men with pretty partners. Now he has the golf "bug" and his sons try everything to cure him.
- Ordinary tenants and their landlords never have too amiable relations. You can imagine what happens when an emaciated landlord and his bony wife occupy the ground floor of a two-family house, the upper floor of which houses "Fatty" Alexander and his equally rotund wife. "Fatty" persists in pushing the legs of the chairs through the floor. His brother and their children come to destroy the bars in the banister, to chop his hat in two with an axe, to flirt with his daughter, Lois. Finally the entire contingent celebrates its decision to live with "Fatty" by breaking the entire ceiling and falling downstairs, They then go out house-hunting in a flivver which is reputed to have the body of a flivver and the heart of a truck. Even the magnet with which they are supplied by the dealer to hold the car together proves useless, for the car just lies down and dies. They all enter to investigate a bungalow and destroy it so the irate owner sends the cops after them. Uncle Oswald has a delightful time walking along the edge of a roof to which the boys climb to evade the cops. Finally they all fall through a skylight and miraculously land in their own house, much to the disgust of the landlord.