A (hopefully) fun poll

[Brad Filippone]

I've notice there hasn't been much activity here recently, and very little
actually discussion of Laurel and Hardy, so I'll do what I did three or
four years ago. Here's a poll:

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Favorite Laurel and Hardy silent short:

Least favorite L&H silent short

Favorite L&H sound short:

Least favorite L&H sound short:

Favorite L&H Roach Feature:

Least favorite L&H Roach Feature

Favorite L&H post-Roach feature:

Least favorite post-Roach feature:

Favorite use of the line "Here's another nice mess...etc."

Favorite Stan crying moment:

Favorite Ollie tie twiddle moment:

Favorite Ollie pained-look-at-the-camera moment:

Favorite James Finlayson moment:

Favorite Mae Busch moment:

Favorite Stan without Ollie short:

Favorite Ollie without Stan short:

Favorite Edgar Kennedy moment:

Favorite Charlie Hall moment:

Favorite Tiny Sandford moment:

Favorite Anita Garvin moment:

Favorite Stan Laurel line of dialog:

Favorite Oliver Hardy line of dialog:

Favorite line of dialog by a supporting character:

Favorite moment in which something medically impossible happens to a human
body:

Favorite moment during which an innocent innanimate object gets destroyed:

Brad

[Jim Reid]

Sorry, I'm at work so I didn't have time to do all of them.

Two Tars
Least favorite L&H silent short
Flying Elephants
Hog Wild
Twice Two (can't take the voices)
Sons of the Desert
Least favorite L&H Roach Feature
Swiss Miss
Dancing Masters
Nothing But Trouble
Last shot of Helpmates
Wresting the tree in Big Business
The wax apple scene from Sons
The traffic jam in Leave Em Laughing
The look when he realizes he pulled the cop's button off in Double Whoopee
The look when she lands on the pie in Battle
He'd better be, we buried him!
Pardon me, but my ear is full of milk.

[j***@yahoo.com]

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The Finishing Touch

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Least favorite L&H silent short

Early To Bed
Helpmates
One Good Turn
Sons of the Desert

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Least favorite L&H Roach Feature

Swiss Miss
The Bullfighters
Flying Deuces (not exactly "post," but not Roach)

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Favorite use of the line "Here's another nice mess...etc."

Sons of the Desert
Sons of the Desert (confession)
Music Box (at cop)
Sons of the Desert (during Laurel confession -- funniest cutaway in
film history, IMO)
Jumping out with the gun in Way Out West
Watching the newsreel in Sons, just as Stan and Ollie come on screen
White Wings
Stick Around
oh shit!
putting the curling iron on Ollie's nose in Tit For Tat
bursting into tears in Big Business
Battle of the Century
For the meticulous way in which you used your finely formulated
mechanations, to extricate us from this devastating dilemma (or
something like that)
Excuse me, my ear is full of milk
(which is the funniest line I ever heard anyone say anywhere!)
all right you're not an overstuffed polywog, you're an inflated blimp

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Favorite moment in which something medically impossible happens to a human

Pulling Ollie through the trap door head first in Way Out West
statue in Wrong Again

that was fun
JN

[Eric Perlin]

(Brad Filippone) wrote:

} Favorite Laurel and Hardy silent short:
Liberty (although I suspect "Hats Off" was probably one of their all-time best,
based on a detailed synopsis I once read)

} Least favorite L&H silent short
"Flying Elephants"

} Favorite L&H sound short:
Impossible to narrow down to just one! It is a tie between ten or twenty of
them!

} Least favorite L&H sound short:
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

} Favorite L&H Roach Feature:
Way Out West

} Least favorite L&H Roach Feature
Swiss Miss (only because L&H don't have enough screen time; their footage is up
to par as always)

} Favorite L&H post-Roach feature:
The Big Noise

} Least favorite post-Roach feature:
Nothing But Trouble (I didn't see "A-Haunting We Will Go")

} Favorite use of the line "Here's another nice mess...etc."
Closing scene of "Utopia" (aka "Atoll K"); it was the best way to end L&H's
final film.

} Favorite Stan crying moment:
Helpmates: When Ollie says, "It's enough to make a man burst out crying!", Stan
immediately does just that.

} Favorite Ollie tie twiddle moment:
Can't think of a favorite. IMHO, the tie-twiddling was just incidental, almost
as natural as breathing or blinking; not really a laugh-getter.

} Favorite Ollie pained-look-at-the-camera moment:
2-way tie: "Sons of the Desert" scene when Stan spills the beans to the wives,
and "Blotto" when Ollie is told he had been drinking "cold tea"

} Favorite James Finlayson moment:
His numerous reaction shots in the soda fountain scene in "Men O'War" broke me
up when I saw that film for the first time. However, Finlayson is hilarious in
every appearance he's made.

} Favorite Mae Busch moment:
"Give me that key!" from "Chickens Come Home"

} Favorite Stan without Ollie short:
I've seen very few.

} Favorite Ollie without Stan short:
I've seen very few of these also. :(

} Favorite Edgar Kennedy moment:
The entire second reel of "Leave 'Em Laughing"

} Favorite Charlie Hall moment:
When he has a glued-on beard and a plunger on his head in "Them Thar Hills". I
suspect one of Hall's finest scenes were left on the cutting room floor in the
pre-release butchering of "Come Clean"; the ice cream shop scene abruptly ends
just when it's starting to build!

} Favorite Tiny Sandford moment:
When he pretends to have a heart attack and says "This is the big one! I'm
comin' to join ya, honey!" Oops. That was Fred Sanford.

} Favorite Anita Garvin moment:
Poking Stan's throat in "We Faw Down"

} Favorite Stan Laurel line of dialog:
"You'd better come up dead or alive!" from "March of the Wooden Soldiers"

} Favorite Oliver Hardy line of dialog:
2-way tie: "At last you're showing some intelligence. That's what comes from
associating with me" From "Pardon Us" and "A lot of weather we've been having
lately" from "Way Out West"

} Favorite line of dialog by a supporting character:
Finlayson in "Thicker Than Water": "He gave it to him to give to him...You're
all nuts!"

} Favorite moment in which something medically impossible happens to a human
} body:
The cop crushed down to midget size at the end of "Liberty". Ollie's neck being
stretched in "Way Out West" is a close second.

} Favorite moment during which an innocent innanimate object gets destroyed:
The automobile falling to pieces when Stan backs into it in "Chickens Come Home"