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Star O ' Hanlon and director Bare shared the same crazy sense of humor, which ran all through the series.

So You Want to Be a Detective kids the daylights out of the detective mystery The Lady in the Lake, with the action in the first person and the camera representing everything tough-guy Joe sees.

In So You Want to Be in Pictures, McDoakes is listening to a record that is providing an acting lesson, and when the telephone rings the record tells him to answer it.

Later in that same short, McDoakes is hired to serve as a stunt double at a movie studio.

The job turns out to be a George O ' Hanlon comedy ( the clapboard identifies it as So You Want to Hold Your Wife ), and Joe takes a pie in the face from Jane Harker!

So You Want to Know Your Relatives turns into a wicked satire of This Is Your Life, with Joe as the reluctant recipient.

Joe occasionally punctuates the end of a scene by looking straight into the camera to speak to ( or commiserate wit ) the movie audience.