It's a Frame-Up!

2013
30m

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Those merry madcaps of mayhem, Biffle & Shooster, in the movie that sets comedy back 75 years--to when it was, y'know, actually funny. The less-than-legendary vaudeville team made 20 comedy ... Read allThose merry madcaps of mayhem, Biffle & Shooster, in the movie that sets comedy back 75 years--to when it was, y'know, actually funny. The less-than-legendary vaudeville team made 20 comedy shorts between 1933 and 1938; this was their final one. The boys get jobs in an art galler... Read allThose merry madcaps of mayhem, Biffle & Shooster, in the movie that sets comedy back 75 years--to when it was, y'know, actually funny. The less-than-legendary vaudeville team made 20 comedy shorts between 1933 and 1938; this was their final one. The boys get jobs in an art gallery on the very day that a priceless painting is delivered. You can pretty much imagine how ... Read all

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Trivia
Daniel Roebuck runs a lemonade stand and does a slow burn, reminiscent of Edgar Kennedy in Duck Soup (1933). Later in the film, he reveals his name is also Edgar Kennedy.

Quotes
Sam Shooster: What does your watch say?
Benny Biffle: It don't say nothin', ya gotta look at it.

Crazy credits
This film was partially made with recycled material. Especially the jokes.

Connections
References Duck Soup (1933)

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6/10

Why the Short Subjects Were Short

Do you remember the comedy short subjects that used to be part of every movie show, or are you not old enough to remember when people put salt on everything, including grapefruit? Nick Santa Maria and Will Ryan have invented two ex-Vaudevillians, Biffle and Shooster, who starred in many of them, creatures of puns, set phrases an Three-Stooges-like eyepokes and Michael "No One Has Ever Confused Me With John" Schlesinger, produced a series of shorts that recreate the lost children of Hollywood's Not-So-Golden Years.

In this, the first and nominally the last of the Biffle & Shooster shorts, they wind up employed in an art gallery. Robert Picardo has a great bit in which he does a dead-on imitation of 1930s comic drunk Arthur Housman