Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
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Oliver: Now isn`t this nice?
Stan: It sure is. We`re just like two peas in a pot.
Oliver: To catch a Hardy they`ve got to get up very early in the morning.
Stan: What time?
Oliver: Oh about half past - "What time." Hmph.
Stan: I`ve certainly got to hand it to you, Ollie.
Oliver: For what?
Stan: Well for the meticulous care with which you have executed your finely formulated machinations in extricating us from this devastating dilemma.
Oliver: Get in bed.
Stan: What?
Oliver: Get in bed. "Meticulous." Hmph.
Oliver: Where is she?
Stan: Maybe she went to the mountains.
Oliver: I`ll bet she did. You know she makes me sick.
Stan: Well if she didn`t go to the mountains, then Mohammad would have to come here.
Oliver: Well, here`s another nice mess you`ve gotten me into.
Lottie: Have you anything else to say?
Oliver: Why no. That`s all there is. There isn`t anymore. Is there Stanley?
Stan: No, that`s our story and we`re stuck with it. In it.
Lottie: You`re going to Honolulu if you have to go alone.
Oliver: If I have to go to Honolulu alone
[Points to Stan]
Oliver: He`s going with me.
Oliver: That settles it! I`m not goin` to Honolulu!
Lottie: [angrily] Oh, yes, you ARE going to Honolulu if you have to go alone!
Oliver: [pointing at Stan] If I have to go to Honolulu alone, he`s going with me!
Oliver: You`d better take my temperature.
[pointing]
Oliver: Get that thermometer.
Stan: The what?
Oliver: Thermometer! You`ll find it on the shelf.
[groaning]
Oliver: Ooh... ooh... ooh.
Oliver: [as Stan puts it in his mouth] Uh-um.
Oliver: [after Stan has taken his pulse] What does it say?
Stan: Wet and windy.
Lottie: [after the boys have rung the bell one time too many] What d`ya think this is? Halloween?
[to Ollie]
Lottie: Come in, you bad boy!
Oliver: Do you have to ask your wife everything?
Stan: If I didn`t ask her, I wouldn`t know what she wanted me to do.
Oliver: What did Betty say?
Stan: Betty said that honesty was the best politics.
Oliver: Now why did you hire a veterinarian?
Stan: I didn`t think his religion would make any difference.
Oliver: Why didn`t you want to take the oath?
Stan: I was afraid.
Oliver: Of what?
Stan: I was afraid that if I took the oath, that my wife wouldn`t let me go. And the Exhausted Ruler said that if... you took an oath, it would have to be broken for... generations and... centuries of... hundreds of years and my wife would let...
Oliver: Do you have to ask your wife everything?
Stan: Well if I didn`t ask her, I wouldn`t know what she wanted me to do.
Oliver: Why don`t you pattern your life after mine? I go places and do things and *then* tell my wife. Every man should be the king in his own castle.
Oliver: I go places and do things, and then *then* tell my wife.
[on the telephone]
Lottie: Charley tells me you`re from Los Angeles. What part?
Oliver: All of me.
Betty: Stanley wouldn`t dare lie to me. I hate to think what would happen if he ever did.
Stan: I may not be king of my castle, but I certainly wouldn`t allow my wife to wear any pants. I`d like to see my old woman throwing things. It`s disgraceful. Never heard of such goings off. On. If my old ball and chain ever talked to me... If she even dared... You know what I`d say?
Oliver: What?
Stan: I`d say...
[Sees Betty]
Stan: Hello, honey. I...
[Double takes]
Stan: If you don`t be careful, she`s going to get the upper hand of you.
Lottie: I`ll show you, you Son of a Desert! Go to a convention on me, ha! ha!
Dr. Horace Meddick: What seems to be the trouble?
Stan: I think he`s suffering from a nervous shakedown.
Lottie: I haven`t heard from you since you sang in the choir.
Charley Chase: And you used to pump the organ, remember? You little old organ pumper, you!
Trivia
The role of Stan Laurel`s wife was originally slated for Patsy Kelly, but Hal Roach had loaned her to MGM for Going Hollywood (1933), which was running over schedule when shooting for this film began. Dorothy Christy joined the cast as Stan`s wife four days into filming.
Lillian DeBorba was drafted into filling a seat in the theatre sequence. She was on the lot with her little daughter Dorothy DeBorba who was "Echo" in the Our Gang comedies.
The "Sons of the Desert" theme song is a pastiche of several popular tunes, including "Give My Regards to Broadway."
The movie`s line "Well, here`s another nice mess you`ve gotten me into." was voted as the #60 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
Three decades after the movie`s release, its motif inspired the creation of an "international Laurel and Hardy appreciation society," named after the movie and created by Stan Laurel and his biographer John McCabe.
Stan Laurel reads the January 1930 issue of The American Magazine when at the Hardy residence.
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