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What's your favorite gag in 'Thugs with Dirty Mugs' (1939)?


Mine is the safe combination dial that inexplicably becomes a radio dial tuning in "The Lone Stranger," which inspires the gang lie in front of it like a group of fascinated children.

... Justin

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I like the gag where the guy in the audience squeals on the crooks. The Fred Allen impersonation comes out of nowhere, which I thought was pretty good too.

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The split screen where the stool pigeon is trying to reach the police chief by whispering into the telephone and the police chief tells him to speak up when he leans over the split screen.

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My favorite has to be when the police officer yells "Take that, you rat!" repeatedly while feeding cheese to an actual rat.

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