... that being a friend of Charley's who, while playing golf, Charley thinks he has hypnotized. Dugan thinks so too. What actually happened is that Charley's wife, also playing golf, hit Tom in the back of the head with her golf ball and knocked him out for just a minute. This supposed talent comes in handy one night when Charley wants to go play poker with the boys, but the wife will not hear of it. He has to stay home with her. So he attempts to hypnotize her saying "you are a good fellow, you want your husband to go out". Since she is perfectly conscious when Charlie does this, she decides to teach him a lesson by becoming a "good fellow", dressing to the nines and going out on the town by herself. This development has Charley forgetting all about the poker game.
Ever notice how the Hal Roach characters live in the safest neighborhoods? There is always a beat cop just outside of their house. But even Charley's beat cop wants to know what Charlie is doing "harrassing a woman" - his wife - while he is carrying a zither under his arm. Oh, and we get to see Chase sing a rather silly song in this one. I don't know, maybe Charley's wife was right, those poker buddies in the opening scene looked a lot like gangsters to me.
The studios should have studied the Roach comedies more. They had a blueprint on how to entertain audiences in the production code era. Here you take a common occurrence - a man wants to go out with his buddies but his wife is against it -and you add a bunch of absurdities that create a great comic narrative.
