Popeye buys a do-it-yourself kit and makes a mechanical servant. It continues its mechanical duties all through the night, pouring tea on Popeye, mixing salad in his mouth and tossing other items. It lights a match, causing Popeye to awaken blowing flames. Popeye ends by putting the mechanical servant in workshop vice. Popeye then does his own house work in an uncomplaining manner.

A dragon steps out of swee'peas storybook, he tries to be kind and helpful, but sneezes fire and the whole house goes up in flames. It ends with Popeye holding Swee' Pea in his lap in charred remains, reading fairytale book.

Wimpy, a night watchman in a herring factory, gets a cold and asks Popeye to take over. He hears strange noises and starts investigating, many hijinx follow and Brutus turns up.

Olive convinces Popeye to become a white collar worker. Popeye is hired as an insurance agent. His first assignment is to sell a policy to a stunt man. Popeye follows him on all his stunts, trying to get him to listen to his pitch. Popeye is getting the worst of it. The stunt man is so happy he did not have to take the falls himself, he signs the policy. The episode ends with Popeye bandaged from head to toe being wheeled into the insurance office by Olive to tell the boss he made the sale.

Popeye is reading a bedtime story, Popeye imagines himself as Daniel Boone tied to the railroad tracks by Indians. He awakens when the train falls on him in an attempt to escape.