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Fans of the Laurel&Hardy comedy Sons of the Desert should enjoy this sublimely derivative episode, in which Fred and Barney hope to attend a three-day lodge convention at Frantic City. Naturally, Wilma and Betty must be kept in the dark about this, so one of the boys' friends, a plumber, poses as a doctor and diagones them with "Dipsey-Doodle-Itis"--a rare disease that can only be cured by a three-day vacation from home. Meanwhile, Fred has brought home a talking Doozey Dodo Bird as a pet for Wilma; alas, the bird steadfastly refuses to say a single word... until it overhears the boys' elaborate scheme to sneak off to Frantic City, that is!