When Dumleigh Saw the Joke剧情介绍

One of the boys tells a joke in the office and Dumbleigh, not understanding it, sits there like a bonehead. It is evidently an extremely funny joke for everyone bursts into convulsions when they hear it, so Dumbleigh grieves and broods over his inability to see the point and partake of the merriment. His gloom is deepened when he received word that his best friend, Wood N. Head, has just died. As he sits among the mourners at the funeral services, a great light suddenly bursts upon Dumbleigh. He sees the joke, and bursts into a roar of laughter. The other mourners are shocked and highly indignant, but poor Dumbleigh cannot now stop laughing and the men are about to seize him, when, to everyone's horror, Dumbleigh sneaks up to the corpse and tells his departed friend the joke. Galvanized into life by the witticism, the late departed comes to life and lets out a howl of mirth, in which the mourners, after hearing the joke, boisterously join. When the corpse jumps out of his resting place, however, everyone dashes for the door. Dumbleigh goes too, still laughing, and his ridiculous antics attract such a crowd, a policeman arrests him for obstructing traffic. On the way to the station house Dumbleigh tells the officer the joke. He sees the humor of it, but walks Dumbleigh right along just the same. Arraigned in court, the magistrate himself cannot help chuckling at the mirth of those around him, so he asks Dumbleigh to tell him the joke; when the latter leans over to whisper in the magistrate's ear, the poor fellow finds to his horror, that he has forgotten it. The official gets angry and sends Dumbleigh to a cell to ruminate until he can recall the joke, with the understanding that he is to stay there until he does.