A family moves out to the suburbs, where everything that can go wrong, does.
Wallace McCutcheon, the Old Man of Biograph (he had attained the great age of 44 when this was released) is only known to have co-written this one, but it clearly shows his hand, not only in his sense of humor, but in his taste for the "illustrated text" style of film-making that this is an example of. The occasional titles serve to tell the audience what they are about to see, followed by the action.... only the action comments ironically on the brief titles. The result is a film that even today is very amusing, despite elaborations on the theme at far greater length n later years, in films like MR BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE and THE MONEY PIT.