A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the habit.
A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems.
Average Joes have struggled throughout the centuries to deal with allergies like hay fever, and Joe McDoakes is no exception.
In this outing, Joe just loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.
Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.
White collar worker Joe McDoakes is full of fears and phobias and his most deeply-rooted psychic disturbance is fear of his boss.
Joe McDoakes goes through all the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father. The results aren't exactly what he expected.
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Brothers and has to settle for being a stand-in.
Joe McDoakes is informed of his two-week vacation at the last minute and decides to take advantage of a "free" vacation-planning service at a local department store.
Joe McDoakes is new at selling vacuum cleaners and, despite using every technique and approach in the manual, he fails to sell even one.
Feeling unsatisfied with his marriage, Joe McDoakes seeks help from an on-air marriage counselor named Mr. Agony, whose tag line is "how to be happy tho married".
Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.
A humorous look at the pitfalls of gambling.
Joe McDoakes decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, he sees his dream house turn into a nightmare.
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 love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfere every time they are lucky enough to be chosen as participants.
Joe baby-sits a monstrous little boy.
Joe McDoakes was born unpopular and slowly dug lower as life went on.
Ellery, who continually embarrasses Joe McDoakes with his physical prowess, makes a big hit with Joe's wife, Alice.
Joe McDoakes' in-laws come to dinner and announce that they intend to spend the rest of the year, and Joe is furious. Then Joe's family arrives, and a battle royal begins between the opposing in-laws.
Joe McDoakes stands to inherit $100,000 if he can prove he has a male heir. He adopts a tough kid named Stinky. When the check arrives, it is made out to Stinky, so Joe tries to change his name and cash the check. Par for his usual course, this action does not work out for poor Joe.
Joe McDoakes, unemployed thespian, makes all the casting calls, reads all of the trade papers, sees agents and tries out for casting directors and producers, and finally lands a role; the guy behind the 8-ball that is on the title frame of all of the Joe McDoakes shorts.
Joe and Alice McDoakes are planning on throwing a party, but Joe mixes up his list of creditors with the list of names Alice gave him to invite. The creditors have a much better time than Joe does.
Joe McDoakes (George O'Hanlon) 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.
Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor. None of the courses of action she is advised to take have any impact on Joe until she is advised to create the impression that she has left Joe for another man.
Joe tries to cheap out by moving all of his own furniture when he and his wife relocate to a new home.
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. Joe works hard and is selected, but manages to get himself unselected when he hears his boss rehearsing for a gangster role in a play and Joe calls the police.
A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes.
Joe McDoakes' 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 and his wife Alice attend a western movie and George soon has himself in the movie shown on the screen as Jump-Along Skip-Along McGurk, western terror pitted against an outlaw and his six henchmen, all of whom are named Tex. Since Warners wasn't making any series westerns at the time and since this short was poking fun at such, the lobby poster at the theater was from a Columbia Durango Kid film.
Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife. With the help of his neighbor, Marvin, and despite interruptions and mishaps - lots of mishaps - Joe completes the job. There is a minor problem; Marvin has been papered to the wall.
A professional pianist moves into the house next door to Joe. Seeing the effect the man's music has on his, Joe gets jealous and vows to learn to play the piano too.
Joe reminisces about life as a bachelor.
Joe cheaps out yet again by attempting to fix the plumbing in his house by himself.
Joe uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible.
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 tells his wife he's going to a convention. But is he?
When a watch intended for a contest winner at the office gets mixed-up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again finds himself on the short end.
Joe McDoakes' dimwit neighbor Marvin becomes a dentist, and manages to convince poor Joe to let him become Marvin's first patient.
Joe and his wife are hypnotized into thinking they've switched places.
Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument. Then a friend gets him a job as a fiddle player in a gypsy tea room, but his playing drives away the diners.
Joe McDoakes is invited by his boss to a swanky dance. Joe admits he can't dance and the boss gives him a lesson in the office. At the dance, Joe is a social failure and makes many mistakes while dancing with his boss' wife.
Joe and Alice buy a television set and, on some excuse or another, the neighbors begin to drop in, stay to watch television and raid Joe's refrigerator. To escape the turmoil, Joe leaves and goes to the movies.
Despite the fact that during the war, Joe McDoake's dog Dusty did everything wrong including giving information to the enemy, Joe brings him home with him. Dusty continues his dumb ways as a civilian with such playful tricks as helping a burglar, derailing trains and bringing strange people into the house. Joe and Dusty are drafted into the Korean War where more adventures await them.
Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.
Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the target of murderously greedy family members.
Joe has trouble with his neighbor, Marvin.
Joe McDoakes, determined to be his own boss, opens up a new restaurant. Complaining customers and a sanitation inspector who closes the restaurant are just some of Joe's problems.
In this Joe McDoakes Comedy, Alice insists they go to a night club, although Joe is both tired and broke. Once there, where they meet Joe's friend Homer and his girlfriend, Joe gets into the spirit of things, including ordering champagne for all.
Joe McDoakes graduates from Potash University and gets a job in a bank run by Harrington Arrington Farrington Jr, a former classmate. Joe struggles in his menial tasks for years and eventually learns enough to embezzle $1,000,000 and take over the bank.
Joe and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato broker. He sets up an office and talks Joe into being his partner in the "potato" business. Joe thinks business is fine, until Marvin skips town and two bookies show up to collect the 'potatoes" from Joe.
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.
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.
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 and Homer are both on a jury trying an accident case involving their boss and a gangster. Interference from both sides makes their task difficult.
Alice visits Mr. Agony with her latest problem with Joe. They had given Junior a toy railroad for a Christmas present, and Joe had taken it over and become obsessed to the point he has built a railroad empire using all of his time, energy and money.
Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks. The sixth vice-president tries to tutor Joe in how to get ahead with the boss, but all his ideas backfire.
Joe McDoakes is a shy, rookie motorcycle cop. The first traffic violator he stops is a tough character and intimidates Joe out of giving him a ticket, and the next is a beautiful blonde who has no trouble distracting Joe and avoiding a ticket.
When he gets to his office after a usual morning of nagging by his wife, Alice, Joe McDoakes starts to daydream about what life would be like married to the beautiful office blonde.
Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Flatsorsharpsky, next door. Joe buys a piano, and the accompanying free lessons, and sets out to impress Alice. Alice is vastly unimpressed.
Housewife Alice McDoakes wants to return to work to add income to the household. Her husband, Joe McDoakes, would rather she stay at home to tend to her domestic duties. When Alice threatens to return to her old job as bus driver, which would be the worst situation in Joe's mind, a reluctant Joe agrees to her request to get her a job at his office.