So said Mrs. Stan Laurel in the 1933 comedy short "Twice Two". Of course, Mrs. Laurel in that classic was actually Oliver Hardy in drag. Had Anita Garvin played the role she plays here in a talkie, she would have had to have say it it three times as each time Oliver brings out a cake, he slips on a banana peel, landing head first each time. it is with apologies from an employment agency that Laurel and Hardy are assigned as waiters for a high-society party where nervous hostess Ms. Garvin has enough of an issue trying to figure out what spoon to use for her fruit salad let alone the sloppy service she will get from these two clods. It's obvious between her and her husband that they are nouveau-riche and have no idea how to throw a high society function, and that is made worse by the presence of the help.
There's really no plot, just a series of visual gags that gets funnier and funnier, starting off with Garvin's tiara continuously slipping down her head and covering her eyes. She deserves credit for making that character stand out, and having read her biography in a series of interviews with veteran character actors, it's apparent that she had a ball working with Laurel and Hardy as well as the dozens of shorts she made each year.
While you almost expect the classic Mack Sennett pie fight here, that never happens, and it really doesnt matter because everything here is choreographed so perfectly that it's like a ballet where everything that can go wrong does, even if the dancers know how to step around each potential disaster. It's all topped off with Stan's undressed salad, a classic gag that still creates giant guffaws over 90 years later.
There's really no plot, just a series of visual gags that gets funnier and funnier, starting off with Garvin's tiara continuously slipping down her head and covering her eyes. She deserves credit for making that character stand out, and having read her biography in a series of interviews with veteran character actors, it's apparent that she had a ball working with Laurel and Hardy as well as the dozens of shorts she made each year.
While you almost expect the classic Mack Sennett pie fight here, that never happens, and it really doesnt matter because everything here is choreographed so perfectly that it's like a ballet where everything that can go wrong does, even if the dancers know how to step around each potential disaster. It's all topped off with Stan's undressed salad, a classic gag that still creates giant guffaws over 90 years later.