Here's an (inevery way) outstanding movie, that desperately needs a favorite scene section. Feel free to participate...
I'll start with my favorite moment, that's the moment when, after a good hour of sheer lunacy, Martha Raye sings the Robert E. Lee. It always gets me, and as she's yodeling and running like crazy on the treadmill (ole-y-ole-y-ole-y), my bladder just bursts. Honestly, I die laughing, hysterically shouting, every time...
Oscar ? Oscaaaar ? Oscar !
Ole & Chic's arrival "Down Below", falling out of the taxi, and declaring, "That's the first time a cabbie ever went straight where I told him to go!" had me rolling. But the argument between the guys in the movie and the projectionist made me howl, not just for the actual content, but the almost surreal nature of the situation! And Shemp Howard always breaks me up!
shareJust found my VHS copy last week. The sequence with the "Harlem Congeroos," alias Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, is an explosion of dance energy. And oddly enough, Rex Stewart (in baker's garb playing cornet), and the other musicians including Slam Stewart on bass, go uncredited.
Comedy-wise: love the scene when Old & Chic and their director walk from one set to another and their wardrobe changes each time; Ole, Chic & "Woody" at the mercy of Shemp the projectionist and having to push the film frame back into place; the sappy love song being interrupted by the message to "Stinky Miller"; ANY scene Hugh Herbert appears in (thought my bladder would burst); and the mock ballet being sabotaged by Ole & Chic.
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?"
While it's hit or miss all the way for me, there were several belly laughs. The moment that made me laugh hardest, I think, was a complete throwaway sight gag, during Martha Raye's big number near the end, when the creep in the audience was trying to frighten ladies with a mask, removed the mask and the lady next to him ran away screaming.
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