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

So You Want to Be a Detective

1948

6.8

So You Want to Be in Politics

1948

Joe McDoakes becomes enmeshed in a corrupt political election.

So You Want to Be in Politics

1948

So You Want to Be on the Radio

5.7

1948

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.

So You Want to Be on the Radio

1948

5.7

So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter

Joe McDoakes does NOT want to be a baby sitter.

So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter

1949

So You Want to Be Popular

Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox

So You Want to Be Popular

1949

So You Want to Be a Muscle Man

Joe wants to be a muscle man.

So You Want to Be a Muscle Man

1949

So You're Having In-Law Trouble

Joe's in-laws come over, and they suck.

So You're Having In-Law Trouble

1949

So You Want to Get Rich Quick

Joe comes up with a complicated scheme to bilk his dead uncle out of an inheritance.

So You Want to Get Rich Quick

1949

So You Want to Throw a Party

4.0

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.

So You Want to Throw a Party

1950

4.0

So You Think You're Not Guilty

5.8

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.

So You Think You're Not Guilty

1950

5.8

So You Want to Hold Your Husband

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.

So You Want to Hold Your Husband

1950

So You Want to Move

Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.

So You Want to Move

1950

So You're Going to Have an Operation

A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes.

So You're Going to Have an Operation

1950

So You Want to Be a Handyman

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.

So You Want to Be a Handyman

1951

So You Want to Be a Cowboy

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 McGur

So You Want to Be a Cowboy

1951

So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger

Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife.

So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger

1951

So You Want to Buy a Used Car

In need of a new vehicle, Joe goes to the Cagey Car Company lot to get a used car,... with predictable results.

So You Want to Buy a Used Car

1951

So You Want to Be a Bachelor

"I never knew what happiness was till I got married—and then it was too late," Joe recalls, flashing back to bachelor days and his courtship with Alice.

So You Want to Be a Bachelor

1951

So You Want to Be a Plumber

3.0

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.

So You Want to Be a Plumber

1951

3.0

So You Want to Get It Wholesale

Joe uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible.

So You Want to Get It Wholesale

1952

So You Want to Enjoy Life

2.0

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.

So You Want to Enjoy Life

1952

2.0

So You Want to Go to a Convention

Joe has to find a way to go to a convention.

So You Want to Go to a Convention

1952

So You Never Tell a Lie

6.0

When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again finds himself on the short end.

So You Never Tell a Lie

1952

6.0

So You're Going to the Dentist

Joe McDoakes' dimwit neighbor Marvin becomes a dentist, and manages to convince poor Joe to let him become Marvin's first patient.

So You're Going to the Dentist

1952

So You Want to Wear the Pants

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

So You Want to Wear the Pants

1952

5.0

So You Want to Be a Musician

Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument.

So You Want to Be a Musician

1953

So You Want a Television Set

6.0

Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop in, stay to watch television, and raid their refrigerator.

So You Want a Television Set

1953

6.0

So You Love Your Dog

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.

So You Love Your Dog

1953

So You Think You Can't Sleep

Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.

So You Think You Can't Sleep

1953

5.0

So You Want to Be an Heir

Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the target of murderously greedy family members.

So You Want to Be an Heir

1953

So You're Having Neighbor Trouble

Joe starts having trouble with an obnoxious neighbor.

So You're Having Neighbor Trouble

1954

So You Want to Be Your Own Boss

Joe McDoakes, determined to be his own boss in this Joe McDoakes Comedy entry, opens up a new restaurant. Complaining customers and a sanitation inspector who closes the restaurant are just some of Joe's problems.

So You Want to Be Your Own Boss

1954

So You Want to Go to a Nightclub

In this Joe McDoakes Comedy, Alice insists they go to a night club, although Joe is both tired and broke.

So You Want to Go to a Nightclub

1954

So You're Taking in a Roomer

Joe and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato broker.

So You're Taking in a Roomer

1954

So You Want to Know Your Relatives

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.

So You Want to Know Your Relatives

1954

So You Don't Trust Your Wife

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.

So You Don't Trust Your Wife

1955

5.0

So You Want to Be a Gladiator

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.

So You Want to Be a Gladiator

1955

5.0

So You Want to Be on a Jury

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.

So You Want to Be on a Jury

1955

So You Want a Model Railroad

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. When Alice's mother comes to dinner, Joe even has a rigged-up train serving as the dumb waiter. Mr. Agony helps Alice to solve her problem.

So You Want a Model Railroad

1955

So You Want to Be a V.P.

8.5

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

So You Want to Be a V.P.

1955

8.5

So You Want to Be a Policeman

Joe McDoakes is a shy, rookie motorcycle cop.

So You Want to Be a Policeman

1955

So You Think the Grass Is Greener

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.

So You Think the Grass Is Greener

1956

So You Want to Be Pretty

1.7

In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.

So You Want to Be Pretty

1956

1.7

So You Want to Play the Piano

4.0

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.

So You Want to Play the Piano

1956

4.0

So Your Wife Wants to Work

7.0

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?

So Your Wife Wants to Work

1956

7.0

Kassie is a smart, fun-loving single woman who, despite her neurotic best friend Wally’s objections, decides it’s time to have a baby – even if it means doing it herself… with a little help from a charming sperm donor. But, unbeknownst to her, Kassie’s plans go awry because of a last-minute switch that isn’t discovered until seven years later… when Wally gets acquainted with Kassie’s cute, though slightly neurotic, son.

The Switch

2010

6.2

Me Time

5.9

2022

With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventure.

Me Time

2022

5.9

Delivery Man

6.2

2013

An affable underachiever finds out he's fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago. Now he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them file a lawsuit to reveal his identity.

Delivery Man

2013

6.2

Father's Little Dividend

6.5

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

Father's Little Dividend

1951

6.5

YES DAY

6.7

2021

A mom and dad who usually say no decide to say yes to their kids' wildest requests — with a few ground rules — on a whirlwind day of fun and adventure.

YES DAY

2021

6.7

Daddy Day Care

5.9

2003

Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.

Daddy Day Care

2003

5.9

Raising Arizona

7.1

1987

When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

Raising Arizona

1987

7.1

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