Léontine cannot resist her desire to sail her new toy boat indoors. She plugs up the drains and turns on the faucets, flooding the house as water rains down through the floorboards and collapses the ceilings.
A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.
In a not very distant galaxy, an empire will try to nail their flag.
A work-obsessed inventor uses a video-telephone to spy on his girlfriend, who in turn uses film to teach him a lesson. (MoMA)
The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
The mistress of Cunégonde is going out so Cunégonde puts on her mistress' clothes. When she goes out into the street, she encounters an instantly enamoured gentleman who takes her to his house. However, when the man is about to declare his love the actual owner of the house barges in. Cunegonde's gentleman turns out to be just a regular servant and Cunégonde walks away annoyed. When Cunégonde meets the servant the next day she is still mad at him and quarrels with him. At the police station he declares his love for her in spite of her being a maid. They happily fall into each other's arms.
When a tramp asks him some money, a cat has to struggle with his many internal consciences to come up with a decision.
From a futuristic airship, the French police stop crime, arrest criminals, and catch dogs without touching the ground. (MoMA)
In a twist on the “Baby Incubator” phenomenon of the age, a fall into a slop pit gives a heavyweight farmer the power to incubate chicken eggs on his belly, much to the delight and advantage of his neighbors.
A robust housekeeper loses control of her new pet monkey, and it quickly trashes her middle-class employer’s home.
A little boy, left in charge of a Parisian apartment building, goes on a murderous rampage.
Over-stimulated by boxing lessons, Gavroche brings a lion home to spar with, triggering an all-out assault on public order.
When the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive.
A cinema becomes the site of sexual intrigue when a man looking for romance in the dark follows a woman into the movies and finds himself molesting her husband instead.
A gambler and his victim are going to play a game, betting fifty euros
Pursued by a cop, Lloyd tries desperately to demonstrate that he has a job so he won't be pinched as a bum, including posing as a peanut vendor, shoe shiner and toy balloon man.He helps corn remedy sales by hitting passers-by's feet with a hammer, and eventually he and the cop accidentally get high when opium is burned during a raid on Chinatown.
While in his cups, an older gentleman buys a surprise for his family—one that eats peanuts and weighs 11,000 pounds. (MoMA)
A magic wand falls into Calino's hands, and he turns everything he touches into running water, until he falls victim to his own witchcraft. The catastrophic meets the fantastic, for the triumph of the absurd.
Rigadin encounters nothing but trouble on Friday the 13th.