Freddy #14
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeA man in a red jacket attempts to entertain houseguests with noisy antics, causing his neighbor to threaten calling the police unless he stops the commotion. A cooking instructor teaches a woman how to bake a cake, but the lesson goes awry, resulting in a hole in the cake. Later, the group discusses getting into professional movie pictures, with one character mentioning a free screen test, leading to further comedic misunderstandings and bickering among the characters.
When a new girl at school asks Freddy to help her study for a history quiz, he ditches his study date with another girl—but his lie about having a cold comes back to haunt him when both girls show up at his door. Caught between two commitments and a fabricated illness, Freddy learns that fibbing to impress someone always catches up with you in the end.
Stuff orders an enormous meal at a restaurant, but when the manager arrives, Stuff reveals he's come prepared this time—having washed dishes there the week before to pay off a previous unpaid bill, he's ready to settle accounts and prove he can handle the tab.
Oley the janitor launches an all-out cleaning campaign at the school, determined to whip the students into shape—much to their dismay and Freddy's exasperation. As Oley sweeps through classrooms from the gymnasium to the chemistry lab, he turns chaos into order, but his relentless pursuit of perfection leads to some unexpected results that prove cleanliness might be taken a little too far.
Andy pulls off a clever trick by getting people to look up at nothing—until he tries it on his friend Harry, who refuses to fall for the gag and stays focused on what's really in front of him. When Andy persists with the joke, he learns a quick lesson about the risks of not paying attention to his surroundings.
When a film crew led by Mr. Flicker arrives at a high school to shoot a documentary, the students can't resist trying to get in front of the camera—much to the filmmaker's frustration. As Mr. Flicker attempts to capture authentic footage of the building, he keeps running into eager performers who are convinced they're about to launch movie careers. The real comedy unfolds when his candid shots, including one of the janitor Oley, end up creating something far more entertaining than he ever intended.
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Reprinted in Freddy #3 (1959)
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