during this time only w. c. field be show a typical american family a a bunch of good for nothing and ungrateful lout and but even field worst can not match a tenth of the so called merry frinks . dad be a drunken newspaperman who can not hold a job and his mother be a crotchety whiner who demand breakfast in bed while try to sneak booze away from her son and his old son be a communist constantly spout off about the evil of capitalism and the young son play hooky from school to go to prizefight and his daughter be have an affair with a married man . the only decent person in the house be long suffer mama frink who wait on them and clean up the catastrophe the frinks leave in their wake . her job becomes even hard when her husband windbag uncle show up on the doorstep from new zealand . the cast be populate with some of warner brother best character actor of the early 1930 but the result be more outrageous than funny and after a while you just want someone to kill the family and be do with it . director green do provide one great camera move a papa frink arrive home to be pursue by his nag relative while walk through the entire house twice in a continuous track shot that must have be difficult to stage . plus warner lab must have be especially bore a this film use every optical wipe of the time .