George Burns is a street sweeper in this short. Gracie Allen is a nurse walking a baby. It takes about half of the movie in various bits and gags before Gracie begins one of her monologues about her brother, so tht means that's about four minutes of top notch material in this short comedy, derived from their stage routine "Dizzy.'

Burns once remarked that he had theeasiest jb in the world: all he did was say "What's the latest from your brother?" and smoke a cigar. He was also kept busy as a straght man helping his partner keep the pacing right, working on productions, and so forth, but once they get past the irrelevant absurdities with George Clute, it's Gracie talking about her brother. It's an act that was successful on stage, radio, and television for. 38 years. She's still funny.

"Walking the Baby" is a typical Paramount short by George Burns and Gracie Allen. For some, this is a good thing. For me, it's not as I have found most of these shorts to be so similar that you cannot even remember which ones you've seen!

In this case, George plays a trash collector and Gracie a nurse taking care of a baby (heaven forbid!). He tries to pick her up and she ends up doing her usual idiot spiel. Nothing new or innovative here.

So says street sweeper George Burns to nanny Gracie Allen in a chance encounter where he deliberately confuses her with another girl whom she claims to be. Of course, he shows up for work with a car and driver and a beaver coat, obviously a rich man who works as a street sweeper just to encounter pretty girls. Gracie, claiming that when she was a baby she was very young, is someone that a masher like the Burns character would try to get rid of almost immediately, but for some reason, he hangs around. it all culminates with burn somehow getting Gracie's baby carriage and Gracie ending up with George's trash collection cart.

Having seen many of the Burns and Allen shorts as well as their films and later TV show, I found this one not to be as funny because it seems to be trying too hard to come up with hysterical gags and lines. Comedy just happens and when it is forced, it ends up falling flat. still, there's no denying that the chemistry between Burns and Allen is there. Once again Chester Clute shows up here, cast as another street sweeper, and he seems the smart one, having gotten away right after Gracie arrived. A funny gag convolving Gracie baby races this up a notch at the conclusion, but overall I would have to describe this as one of the most disappointing of the Burns and Allen one reel shorts.