Review of Helpmates

Helpmates (1932)
10/10
His First Mistake
15 December 2020
While his wife was away, Ollie threw a wild party. Now she is returning, and the house is a mess. He asks Stan for help cleaning up another fine mess.

It's about a minute of set-up, and after that it's two reels of destruction. How far can that destruction extend? Just be glad this was made in 1933! A dozen years later it probably would have involved nuclear bombs, or at least blockbusters.

I wonder, looking at this, how the kitchen looks to a modern viewer. To me it looks all right, but then I knew that my mother's kitchen was modern and up to date, about thirty years after this was made, That's a big part of why I find these shorts so funny: they refer to a world I can understand, and to the sort of inept friends I have to this day; the sort of inept friend, in fact, that I am.
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