This later Leon Errol short has him as the inventor of a bunch of junk destined not to work, always annoying wife Dorothy Granger and getting teen son and partner Raymond Roe into all kinds of trouble. Errol wants to aide his son in his desire to marry the daughter of local banker Russell Hicks, but suspicions fall on the son that he stole money from the bank. Somehow the money ends up in Errol's hands and then into the hands of a bumbling crook, and of course there's the use of comic bits showing off some of Leon's wacky inventions, most notably a shoe shine machine that's a shoe shredder and a hand that comes from the closet to take people's coats.
It doesn't seem that Leon's aged at all, having spent more than a decade moving between features and shorts, with Dorothy Granger his most frequent on screen spouse. This is funny enough to get more genuine laughs than normal, especially because of the creative use of props, as well as special effects that show Errol's hands lighting up unplugged bulbs and later electrocuting someone.
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