Cradle Rockers

Released
April 16, 1924

Starring

 * Ernie
 * Farina
 * Jackie
 * Joe
 * Mango
 * Mary
 * Mickey
 * Sing Joy

Story
The gang is stuck baby-sitting their little siblings, when Mary comes along and tells them about a baby contest. The biggest remaining prize is for the fattest baby, so they dress Joe up in baby clothes. At the show, Joe chickens out, and his actions cause the contest officials to get suspicious. The police are called in, and the gang is caught. They are brought before a judge and convicted of attempted fraud.

To teach the gang a lesson, the judge believes in punishment appropriate to the crime and sentences the gang to wear only diapers for the next month. Mickey points out that they are still under the sentence of having to wear grass skirts. The judge says that apparently hasn't been working well enough, but the remainder of the grass skirt sentence will be applied after the diaper sentence is completed.

The gang is humiliated worse than with the grass skirts and loincloths from the past and teased in school and everywhere else they have to go. However it isn’t all bad. They win a baseball game because the other team is laughing too hard. Live models help their classes do better in biology and anatomy. Mango is six months old at the time and was being babysat by Ernie and not participating in the gang's misdeeds, but she is in included in the diaper sentence and never comprehends what the fuss is about.