Ollie's woken up with a sore head after a wild party, (Berating himself in the mirror when we think he was talking to someone else!).
Realising the battleaxe of a wife who's away and due to return, will 'return' to the wild party aftermath and suitably make Ollie's life hell in response, he employs the help of Stan, who was absent from the party because of a dog bite, to help clear up. "What's the matter with it?" (The house) says Stan to Ollie - who then states Stan never met his wife, showing Stan a picture emphasising the impending doom by his wife's sour face if the place isn't cleaned up!
Mishap after mishap happens, with the place getting wrecked due to Stan's ineptitudes and distractions to Ollie, including the gas cooker blowing up the kitchen. In fact, the only clothing Ollie has left as a result of Stan destroying his wardrobe is a military outfit, complete with feathered hat and ceremonial sword. "You can't go out like that," exclaims Stan, "You haven't got a horse!"
The wife rings Ollie, ordering him down to the railroad station to pick her up, leaving Stan to clean up the even newer mess they've created together. Stan is seen standing in the now-cleaned up house, but to add a touch of comfort, decides to light a homely fire for the couple using a generous amount of kerosene.
The next scene shows Ollie return to the front of the house, with a black eye and the ceremonial sword bent - to state his wife was none too pleased with waiting so long for him! As he walks through the door, he falls down a couple of feet to find a smouldering wreck of a house! Stan informs him of his attempt to 'build a nice fire' for his pal. Stan says to Ollie: "Well, I guess there's nothing more I can do." "No," replies Ollie, "I guess 'not'!" (As he's done more than enough!) Ollie then says to Stan to close the door as he'd like to be alone. (All the more stupid of course as the walls don't exist anymore!) It ends with Ollie, roofless, sitting in his armchair as if to strive towards normality, with a storm raining down on his head!
A nice short, especially the calamitous attempts to clean up and have Ollie at the sharp end of Stan, poking his eye out, drenching his clothes, customary getting bonked on his head, covered in soot and flour, sticking his head through a drawer, wrecking his crockery and assisting blowing up the kitchen and the finale of the inferno!
Realising the battleaxe of a wife who's away and due to return, will 'return' to the wild party aftermath and suitably make Ollie's life hell in response, he employs the help of Stan, who was absent from the party because of a dog bite, to help clear up. "What's the matter with it?" (The house) says Stan to Ollie - who then states Stan never met his wife, showing Stan a picture emphasising the impending doom by his wife's sour face if the place isn't cleaned up!
Mishap after mishap happens, with the place getting wrecked due to Stan's ineptitudes and distractions to Ollie, including the gas cooker blowing up the kitchen. In fact, the only clothing Ollie has left as a result of Stan destroying his wardrobe is a military outfit, complete with feathered hat and ceremonial sword. "You can't go out like that," exclaims Stan, "You haven't got a horse!"
The wife rings Ollie, ordering him down to the railroad station to pick her up, leaving Stan to clean up the even newer mess they've created together. Stan is seen standing in the now-cleaned up house, but to add a touch of comfort, decides to light a homely fire for the couple using a generous amount of kerosene.
The next scene shows Ollie return to the front of the house, with a black eye and the ceremonial sword bent - to state his wife was none too pleased with waiting so long for him! As he walks through the door, he falls down a couple of feet to find a smouldering wreck of a house! Stan informs him of his attempt to 'build a nice fire' for his pal. Stan says to Ollie: "Well, I guess there's nothing more I can do." "No," replies Ollie, "I guess 'not'!" (As he's done more than enough!) Ollie then says to Stan to close the door as he'd like to be alone. (All the more stupid of course as the walls don't exist anymore!) It ends with Ollie, roofless, sitting in his armchair as if to strive towards normality, with a storm raining down on his head!
A nice short, especially the calamitous attempts to clean up and have Ollie at the sharp end of Stan, poking his eye out, drenching his clothes, customary getting bonked on his head, covered in soot and flour, sticking his head through a drawer, wrecking his crockery and assisting blowing up the kitchen and the finale of the inferno!