Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can’t pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea…

The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen’s house….

It’s Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.