Another fine mess you'v gotten me in to

Well, I would personally dub them the best of the comic duos. Abbott and Costello, Lewis and Martin, and even Burns and Allen still don't quite make it, although Burns and Allen are extremely close but a wholly different comic schtick. My favorite is the short with the boys as piano movers partially because as a child, I climbed up and down those stairs where the piano meets its ultimate end.

What a coinkidink that you climbed those stairs too. Since childhood I believed that was a set. I couldn't imagine Hollywood had a set of stairs in the neighborhood of those proportions.

Have you ever seen "County Hospital".

Olly is in bed with his leg in plaster. Stan comes to visit - everything goes wrong (of course). But the bit that sticks with me is what Stan brought Olly as a gift - not grapes or flowers but:

"hard boiled eggs and nuts"

It has become a family joke to give this answer to any question about Christmas or Birthday presents. One year (as well as something decent) I gave my mother a hard boiled egg and a nut - just to uphold the reference.

Probably not funny to the rest of you but thanks for letting me share!

They are on Sunset Blvd. across from Elysian Park and we lived in an old Victorian house a few steps away from those stairs. The hill above us had various concrete sets of stairs rising up to the mesa at the top. The old Red Line streetcars ran into a tunnel about two or three blocks down the face of the mesa. When I saw those stairs in the movie and my Mom pointed out that they were one-in-the-same, I wondered how I could have been playing on them with my friends for so long without breaking something.

That's funny, kitchenpete. What a tribute!

BTW, welcome to A2K and the Film Forum, Spawn.

(BTW, the house at the top with the pond was a set).

i have been here bout 2 weeks and you are the first to say that thanks

personally i like the episode when they sighned up for the french foreign legion

The old timers are pretty good about welcoming new members, but sometimes the"spawn" fall through the cracks.
Belated welcome

The piano bouncing down the stairs with the boys in tow scene has to be the number one in cinematic history, even given the brilliance of Laurel and Hardy.

No2. For me was when they were doing the boat up so they could sell fish and cut out the middle man.

The simple truth is that these two fellas stood alone in the world of visual comedy and they will never be equalled, by anyone, not even close.

Charlie Chaplin was great in his own sphere of expertise but compared with Stan and Ollie, I dont think he was in the same league

That's from their full-length movie "The Flying Deuces." Very funny stuff. Laurel and Hardy were comic geniuses.

LW: have you ever been to this small theater in El Segundo, where they show old films, including silent shorts? Can't think of the name of it: it's on Richmond St., I believe. I've seen some silent Laurel and Hardy short films there, and it's always a hoot.