Heckle and Jeckle, the talking magpies, tangle with a pirate who has a treasure map, and after much finagling and talk, they are able to get the map and the treasure, only to find that an agent for the Iternal Revenue Service is waiting to collect the unpaid back taxes.
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.
Heckle and Jeckle set up camp on the lawn of a swank Miami Beach hotel, raise havoc hither and yon and all about. All efforts and methods use by the hotel management result in total failure, until...
Heckle and Jeckle, the talking Magpies, are running rampant and causing much havoc in a supermarket mush to the dismay of the proprietor. Seveal wild chase ensue, with the store owner on the short end of most of them, until all three are caught inside of a giant soap bubble and carried skyward. The bubble bursts, and H & J are returned to the cartoonist's inkwell.
Heckle and Jeckle read in the newspaper about a reward offered by a millionaire for the finder of his childhood sweetheart. Since they have a storehouse filled with any kind of costume, they decide to collect the money by convincing the millionaire that Jackle is his lost love, so Jeckle shows up disguised as a woman---or female of whatever species applied. JUst as Jeckle has about convinced the millionaire that he is a she and his long-lost sweetheart, a slew of impostors walk in with the same claim.
Heckle and Jeckle, the talking magpies, are in need of upgraded-housing and decide to help themselves to the logs and lumber laying unused in Big Pierre's lumber yard. Big Pierre thinks this a bit high-handed on the part of the two birds, and his objections leads to several battles and m�l�es, which leads to a big explosion which causes the logs to fall and form a house. But the house collapses, and Heckle and Jeckle shrug it off and depart the premises.
There's a big sale about to start at the store. To get there early, Heckle and Jeckle go to bed in the store's window.
Heckle and Jeckle, the talking magpies, have trouble sleeping because they live under a bowling alley...
Heckle and Jeckle ruin the business of a body building instructor by peddling fitness pills that promise instant results.
Dangerous Dan the desperado enters the barbershop run by Hackle and Jackle with guns blazing, and that is his highlight as the Magpies use their barber equipment to teach him a lesson and drive him crazy.
