So You Want to Be a Banker

Continuity was NOT a strong point in the Joe McDoakes shorts. Mrs. McDoakes was played by a variety of folks as was Joe's co-worker, Homer. Additionally, often Joe's life is incredibly different from one short to another. In this case, Joe doesn't work at the usual company but instead it shows him graduating from PU and then going to work in the banking industry. However, his old college rival (Alvy Moore of "Green Acres" fame) is now his boss. But, using perseverance, hard work and lots of criminal activity, Joe manages to eventually take control of the bank...at least temporarily.

This is sort of a screwed up Horatio Alger story where hard work AND cheating are the keys to success. Clever...but also very strange as it seems very much unlike all the previous McDoakes films.