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The Music Box

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32 feature instances
6 referencing feature instances

The Music Box	type	TVTItem
The Music Box	label	The Music Box
The Music Box	page	TheMusicBox
The Music Box	comment	The Music Box is a 1932 Laurel and Hardy short film directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Regarded by many as the best film the duo ever made, it was the winner of the first Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Comedy) in 1932 and was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry in 1997.The short itself depicts Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as delivery men attempting to carry a large, heavy player piano up a long flight of stairs, and failing spectacularly several times. Once they finally do get the piano up the stairs they have even more trouble getting it into the house they're delivering it to. And to top it all off, the recipient of the piano is someone Laurel and Hardy angered while bringing it up the long flight of stairs, and was unaware he was getting a piano because his wife bought it as a surprise. He is not thrilled to see Laurel and Hardy invading his home and making a nice mess of things.
The Music Box	fetched	2023-10-19T07:14:40Z
The Music Box	parsed	2023-10-19T07:14:40Z
The Music Box	isPartOf	DBTropes
The Music Box / int_143ea829	type	Absurdly Long Stairway
The Music Box / int_143ea829	comment	Absurdly Long Stairway: Laurel and Hardy deliver a piano up one of these. The staircase, which is still there in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles, was also used in the comedy films Isn't Life Terrible? and Ice Cold Cocos.
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The Music Box / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
The Music Box / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Oliver steps on a nail, and it's Played for Laughs. Until you notice it is still stuck in his foot.
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The Music Box / int_382c7a57	type	Now You Tell Me
The Music Box / int_382c7a57	comment	Now You Tell Me: It turns out that Laurel and Hardy could have taken the piano around the corner and avoided the stairs entirely, but they don't find this out until they finally reach the top. They then haul the piano back down the stairs and take the short cut. Naturally.
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The Music Box / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
The Music Box / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Laurel, as usual.
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The Music Box / int_54243cf7	type	Parrot Exposition
The Music Box / int_54243cf7	comment	Parrot Exposition: When the duo are told by a postman that the house that they're delivering is right on top of the stoop, Ollie repeats exactly that.
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The Music Box / int_655d406a	type	Instrument of Murder
The Music Box / int_655d406a	comment	Instrument of Murder: Well, not really, it just causes them massive amounts of physical pain.
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The Music Box / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
The Music Box / int_67792344	comment	Grievous Bottley Harm: The nurse breaks a milk bottle over Oliver's head.
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The Music Box / int_6b27162d	type	The Remake
The Music Box / int_6b27162d	comment	The Remake: The film is basically a remake of an earlier, silent L&H short called Hats Off (in which the duo attempted to navigate a washing machine up the same set of stairs). This is considered a lost film, sadly, and there are no known surviving prints of it.
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The Music Box / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Music Box / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Every time the piano rolls down the stairs.
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The Music Box / int_728298ef	type	Vandalism Backfire
The Music Box / int_728298ef	comment	Vandalism Backfire: Professor Von Schwarzenhoffen smashes the player piano that his wife bought for him as a surprise.
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The Music Box / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The Music Box / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Not overly harsh, but the cop does get a little rough with the boys.
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The Music Box / int_7484b619	type	Herr Doktor
The Music Box / int_7484b619	comment	Herr Doktor: Professor Theodor Von Schwarzenhoffen.
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The Music Box / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Music Box / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Professor Theodore von Schwarzenhoffen.
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The Music Box / int_84762bed	type	Product Delivery Ordeal
The Music Box / int_84762bed	comment	Product Delivery Ordeal: Laurel and Hardy play a pair of deliverymen who have to deliver a piano up a steep flight of stairs. It's Played for Laughs.
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The Music Box / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
The Music Box / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: Professor Theodore Von Schwarzenhoffen, M.D., A.D., D.D.S., F.L.D., F.F.F and F.
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The Music Box / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
The Music Box / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: The music playing during the introduction turns out to be played by the piano, and it stops when a salesman turns it off.
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The Music Box / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Music Box / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: After finally getting the piano up the stairs, they learn there's an easy alternate route. And are then dumb enough to take it all the way back down so they can use it.
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The Music Box / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Music Box / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: It's just one right after another.
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The Music Box / int_b9922ce5	type	Literal Ass-Kicking
The Music Box / int_b9922ce5	comment	Literal Ass-Kicking: Laurel kicks a nurse who laughs at their misfortunes in the behind. Later a cop kicks Hardy.
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The Music Box / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
The Music Box / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Addressed; the nurse is clearly shown to be in the wrong after slapping Stanley and breaking a bottle over Ollie's head, but the duo are the ones who get blamed by a policeman for when Stanley kicked her, which she claims is "molesting" her.
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The Music Box / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
The Music Box / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: When telling the cop what happened to her, the nurse says she got kicked right in the middle of her "daily duties".
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The Music Box / int_dc6a260b	type	Try to Fit That on a Business Card
The Music Box / int_dc6a260b	comment	Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Professor Theodore von Schwartzenhoffen, M.D., A.D., D.D.S., F.L.D., F-F-F-und-F.
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The Music Box / int_de9fd393	type	Piano Drop
The Music Box / int_de9fd393	comment	Piano Drop: The Trope Codifier; happens when it rolls down the stairs several times, and again when the boys are trying to hoist it up to the second story of the house with a crudely put together pulley.
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The Music Box / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
The Music Box / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: As usual, Ollie pulls it off multiple times.
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The Music Box / int_ea1a7543	type	That Was the Reward
The Music Box / int_ea1a7543	comment	That Was the Reward: Played to a tee. While trying to get a player piano delivered, the duo angers Professor Theodor Von Schwarzenhoffen. He turns up at the end of the short and destroys the player piano in a fit of rage - only to learn from his wife that it was intended as his present.
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The Music Box / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Music Box / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Ollie gets poked in the groin, twice, by the policeman.
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The Music Box / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Music Box / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The nurse who laughs at Laurel and Hardy when she causes the piano to roll down the stairs again, and breaks a bottle over Oliver's head for laughing when she slaps Stanley for kicking her. Then she gives a policeman a one-sided story of what happened. The professor, who loses his temper and goes on a long angry rant simply because Stan and Ollie asked him to step a foot to the side and go around.
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The Music Box / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
The Music Box / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Professor Von Schawarzenhoffen.
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The Music Box / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Music Box / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Laurel.
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The Music Box / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
The Music Box / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: The police officer accuses Laurel and Hardy of 'molesting' the nurse, which at one time just meant 'bothering' without any sexual connotations.
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The Music Box / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
The Music Box / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: "I hate and detest pianos!"
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The Music Box / int_name	type	ItemName
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The Music Box	hasFeature	Absurdly Long Stairway / int_ea56613d
The Music Box	hasFeature	Eye Poke / int_ea56613d
The Music Box	hasFeature	Product Delivery Ordeal / int_ea56613d
The Music Box	hasFeature	Short Film / int_ea56613d
The Music Box	hasFeature	The Great Depression / int_ea56613d
The Music Box	hasFeature	Vandalism Backfire / int_ea56613d

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