在这部Tightwad Buys a Laundry喜剧/短片片中,
Gink's collars and cuffs are frayed and the collar buttons have to be pried open with an axe. Gink condemns all laundries and the one which undertakes to ruin his underwear in particular. He looks at the bill. Five dollars odd, simply outrageous. Something must be done. Gink sees a circular in the window of a general store: "Great Sale of Pott's Celebrated Automatic Laundry. You turn the crank, the machine does the rest." The machine arrives and Gink tells Mrs. Gink and the cook that HE will show 'em how to wash. With Mrs. Gink and cookie following with alarm. Gink tears down the curtains from the windows and the sheets from the beds, and secures an assortment of shirts and things which would delight the heart of any Chinese laundry gentleman. Gink dumps all into the machine. He turns the crank and to the shrieks of two distracted females the one perfectly good assortment of linen comes out in rags and ribbons. Gink groans and suggests there may be something wrong. The person who ...
