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The Alligator and the Shoes | 鳄鱼与鞋
A woman, determined to get affordable alligator shoes, decides to hunt her own alligator in the L...
Monkey Business | 带它去动物园
A policeman misunderstands his boss's order to take a stray monkey to the zoo, instead treating i...
Free Drinks For Everybody | 人人有份的免费酒水
A drunk man repeatedly offers to buy drinks for everyone but never pays, getting thrown out each ...
A Busy Man's Wit | 忙人的机智
A man cleverly outwits mischievous children who ask him to fetch birds' eggs, by securing his boo...
The Painted Vase | 被粉刷的花瓶
A painter solves an impossible color-matching task by cleverly altering the original vase, not th...
The Beautiful Hat | 漂亮的帽子
Mr. Jones loses his hat out of a train window and throws his bag out too, believing that the addr...
He Thinks He's a Refrigerator | 他以为自己是台冰箱
A woman seeks help for her husband's delusion of being a refrigerator, but her real concern is th...
Two Dollars | 两美元
A man cleverly tests a rude shopkeeper's valuation of his own merchandise, ultimately purchasing ...
A Private Conversation | 私人谈话
The narrator recounts a frustrating experience at the theatre where a private conversation behind...
Not Your Mama's Chili | 此辣酱非彼辣酱
A young cowboy eagerly eats an old man's untouched bowl of chili, only to discover a shocking sec...
How Could Anyone Stoop So Low? | 谁能如此卑劣？
A beloved but short-statured restaurant manager angrily reports a pickpocketing. Amidst the stunn...
Emergency Call | 急诊电话
A panicked parent calls a doctor after their child swallows a pen, only to receive a humorous and...
The Supermarket Mother | 超市里的“妈妈”
A young man, moved by an elderly lady's story of her late son, agrees to call her "Mother" as she...
A Way to Make Money | 生财之道
A mother saves money by hand-washing a dress instead of dry-cleaning it, proudly telling her husb...
The Grounded Conductor | 接地气的调度员
A job applicant for a signalman position gives a series of increasingly improbable contingency pl...
Redneck's Birth Control | 红脖子的避孕方式
A father misunderstands the term "sexually active" when taking his daughter for birth control, le...
The Weight Loss Skipping | 跳跃式减肥
A doctor prescribes a diet of eating for two days and then fasting for one. The patient loses muc...
Mr. Ferdinand's Lunch | 费迪南德先生的午餐
Mrs. Ferdinand leaves her husband a tin of fish for lunch. When she returns, he complains of sore...
The Silent Ride | 无声飞行
A farmer takes a dare for a free airplane ride by staying silent, only to reveal the shocking rea...
How Do I Get the Gum Out? | 怎么把口香糖取出来呢
A stewardess distributes gum to prevent ear-popping, but a passenger misunderstands and asks how ...