It's a Great Life

Dagwood is sent to buy a house but instead, dopey Dagwood gets mixed up and buys a horse from those folks...not a house. Naturally Mr. Dithers is angry...and as usual he fires him and quickly hires him back. This is because the scatter-brained client they are trying to sign (Hugh Herbert) loves horses and has taken a shine to this horse. But there are complications...Blondie sold the horse to Dithers' competitor AND Dithers wants Dagwood to pretend to be an expert rider. This leads to a goofy horse riding sequence...the low-point of the film because it's obviously NOT Dagwood riding a horse.

This is a fair installment of the series and not much more. More about the horse than really about the Bumsteads. Not terrible...not all that good either.

By the way, IMDb trivia for this one says "Since Larry Simms was quickly approaching his pre-teen years, the producers of the series decided that "Baby" Dumpling couldn't go on being called "Baby" forever and they decided to drop the moniker and call the Bumstead son by his given name, Alexander. This is the first in the Blondie series in which it went into effect." However, two episodes earlier, "Blondie's Blessed Event", Baby Dumpling announces that now that he's about to have a sister he needed to grow up and wanted to be referred to as Alexander from now on.