So You Want to Know Your Relatives

So You Want to Know Your Relatives 1954

1

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.

1954

So You Want to Build a House

So You Want to Build a House 1948

4.50

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.

1948

So You Think You're Not Guilty

So You Think You're Not Guilty 1950

5.71

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.

1950

So You Want to Be in Pictures

So You Want to Be in Pictures 1947

5.80

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

1947

So You Want to Hold Your Wife

So You Want to Hold Your Wife 1947

5.00

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes, dissatisfied, attempts to save his five-years marriage to Alice.

1947

So You Want to Play the Horses

So You Want to Play the Horses 1946

6.00

In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.

1946

So You Want to Wear the Pants

So You Want to Wear the Pants 1952

5.00

It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.

1952

So You Want to Be a Detective

So You Want to Be a Detective 1948

6.80

Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.

1948

So You Want to Enjoy Life

So You Want to Enjoy Life 1952

2.00

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.

1952

So Your Wife Wants to Work

So Your Wife Wants to Work 1956

7.00

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?

1956

So You Want to Be a V.P.

So You Want to Be a V.P. 1955

8.50

Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.

1955

So You Want to Play the Piano

So You Want to Play the Piano 1956

4.00

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.

1956

So You Want to Keep Your Hair

So You Want to Keep Your Hair 1946

6.00

Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.

1946

So You Want to Be on the Radio

So You Want to Be on the Radio 1948

5.70

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.

1948

So You Want to Be a Handyman

So You Want to Be a Handyman 1951

1

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.

1951