Hi-Jinx #3

When Tommy and his pals discover that jitterbugging is losing popularity, they decide to open a dance school—right above Urbano's bakery—to win back converts. But their enthusiastic lessons prove shaky for the baker's goods, and when Officer O'Rooney arrives to investigate the complaints, he discovers he's got quite the talent for the jitterbug himself. The Hepcats learn that sometimes the best way to save a trend is to get everyone—even the law—dancing along.

When Tommy plans a dance party and rents a juke box on a shoestring budget, he puts down his entire life savings as a deposit—only to have the machine go missing before the big night. Tommy and his pals hatch a scheme to cover their tracks, but their hastily improvised solution proves far messier than the original problem in this hilarious 1947 romp starring the Hepcats.

When Tommy gets a snazzy new car phone, he uses it to charm a cute redhead named Miss Twerp at the local malt shop—but his girlfriend Kitty finds out and calls him mid-drive, leading to a wild chase that lands him in hot water with the law. This 1947 romp from Hi-Jinx shows what happens when a hepcat's latest gadget becomes more trouble than it's worth.

When the jukebox at the Kitty-Kola breaks down, Tommy and Kitty turn to their unhip pal Square—who just happens to work at the McSnooty Music Shop—to help save the day by rounding up some instruments. Square takes the gang's jive slang literally and shows up with the wrong items entirely, leading Tommy Horsey to give him a crash course in hepcat lingo so he can finally get hip to the scene.

Tommy Hepcat thinks baby-sitting sounds like an easy buck, so he sets up shop at the Kitty-Kola soda fountain—but his first job sitting for young Egbert turns into a hilarious disaster when the three-year-old proves to be more than this would-be entrepreneur bargained for. It's a comedic lesson in learning that some "soft touches" come with more chaos than cash.