Dennis the Menace

Dennis Mitchell is a five-year-old boy who lives with his parents, Henry and Alice, and is the bane of next door neighbour George Wilson and others in his neighbourhood. One morning, Dennis shoots an aspirin into George's mouth with a slingshot after two failed attempts to give the man an aspirin by hand. This causes George to gag and spit out the pill, as Dennis flees home. Henry and Alice learn of the incident, but because they both have to work, Alice has to take him to stay at Margaret Wade's house for the day. Dennis dislikes Margaret who is mean to him. Margaret and Dennis, along with his friend Joey, venture into the woods to an abandoned tree house and intend to fix it up. Later, while getting paint from a high shelf in the garage, Dennis tries to grab his slingshot, which was taken away from him by Henry, and accidentally spills the paint on the ground. He tries to vacuum it up, but ends up spilling a glob of paint into George's barbecue grill, while George cooks chicken, and he tastes the paint. That night, Dennis has a set of babysitters; Polly and her boyfriend, Mickey. He plays doorbell pranks on them and they retaliate by sticking a thumbtack on the doorbell and preparing water and flour to douse on the prankster. However, George goes over to Dennis's house, against the wishes of his wife, Martha, to find out what Dennis knows about the paint in his chicken. But when he rings the doorbell, he pricks his thumb, and gets water and flour dumped on him, much to Martha's amusement. Meanwhile, a burglar named Switchblade Sam arrives in town and begins robbing houses, as well as stealing things outdoors and striking fear into the children he meets.