On Again-Off Again (1937)

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This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company.  Director: Edward F. Cline  Writer: Nat Perrin, Benny Rubin, Edward Peple  Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Marjorie Lord

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00:00What makes you think that On Again, Off Again is the funniest picture you ever made?

00:11Well, I, uh...

00:11That'll be all. Step down.

00:15What makes you think that On Again, Off Again is going to be such a riot?

00:18Well, I, uh...

00:19Oh, that's what's going to make the audience laugh, eh?

00:22Have you got anything else to say?

00:24Nothing, except I'm the best one in the picture.

00:26That'll be all. Step down.

00:28What's the idea of telling that judge that you were the best actor in the picture?

00:31I had to tell the truth. I was under oath.

00:34I can't get a word out of these fellows.

00:36Your Honor, we start off as very successful businessmen.

00:40If we had to depend on your pill, we wouldn't have a business.

00:44If we had to depend on you around here, we wouldn't even have a pill.

00:47Why, you yellowback lizard.

00:50Yellowback lizard?

00:51You're a yellowback lizard if I ever lived one.

00:54What, Your Honor?

00:54And this, Your Honor, is Miss Patricia Wilder, a lady friend of mine in the picture.

00:59And this is my wife.

01:03And this is Marjorie Lord, my sweetheart, in the picture.

01:08We're through, melted, dissolved.

01:11Then, Your Honor, we really get going, and I break a couple of bones.

01:14Then I become a butler for reasons which I can't tell now.

01:18Well, I agreed to be a good butler.

01:21And I am going to be a good butler if it kills me.

01:25And you, too.

01:26Go on.

01:27And he held me close.

01:29Keep going.

01:30Our lips touched.

01:33And then...

01:34And then?

01:34The phone rang.

01:37First inning, no hits, no runs, no errors.

01:40Well, Your Honor, what do you think?

01:42I really think everybody will have a grand time laughing at both of you.

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