My Little Margie's Boy Friends #11

When a young man reads about how heroes are made—being in the right place at the right time—he and his companion stumble upon what they believe is a washed-out bridge in a rainstorm and decide to build a warning fire on the tracks. Their misguided but earnest attempt to prevent a train wreck takes a comedic turn as they improvise materials and face one mishap after another, only to discover their well-intentioned efforts may have had an unintended consequence they never saw coming.

When Harvey volunteers to retrieve a carpenter's plane that the bully Stud Krooly has borrowed, he sets off on a comedy of errors filled with clever disguises and mistaken identities. Determined to get the tool back for Freddie, Harvey tries everything from impersonation to sneaking around, but keeps running into trouble with the aggressive Krooly. By the time Harvey finally swipes what he thinks is the right plane, a hilarious mix-up threatens to turn the whole scheme upside down.

Margie enters her quirky recipe—toasted marshmallows on marinated French fried potatoes—into a television cooking contest under a fake name to keep it secret, but when the entry unexpectedly wins, her father gets caught up in the chaos of prizes and public attention. As the scheme spirals out of control, Margie and her accomplice Mrs. Odettes scramble to keep up the deception while her father finds himself the unlikely celebrity at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon with unexpected consequences.

When two rival boys both ask Merry to the winter dance, she suggests they settle it the only fair way—a ski race. The trouble is, one of them can't ski at all, and his rival isn't above a little sabotage to make sure he stays off the slopes. Watch as schemes backfire and the slopes become a slapstick battlefield in this 1958 romp from *My Little Margie's Boy Friends*.

Freddie and Harvey think they've found the secret to impressing Margie—play hard to get and she'll come crawling back—so they brush her off when she calls. Their scheme seems to be working until Margie shows up with a very different reason for needing their help, and the boys discover that confidence and clever tactics don't always pay off the way you expect.