Another Fine Mess (1930)

Stan Laurel: Stan

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• Ollie : Agnes, call me a cab.

  Stan : Huh?

  Ollie : Call me a cab.

  Stan : You're a cab.

• Stan : [as Agnes the Maid]  Bedrooms, let's see, there's mine and the master's and the master's and mine. That's four.

  Lady Plumtree : No no, there's the master's then yours. That's two.

  Stan : Oh, yeah. Then there's the nursery.

  Lady Plumtree : A nursery? I didn't know the colonel was married.

  Stan : Oh, he has that in case of accidents.

• Stan : [posing as the butler]  You wish to see Colonel Buckshot?

  Lord Leopold Plumtree : Why, I'd LOVE to! Hauw-haw-haw-huh-huh-huh-huh!

  Stan : [turning away and calling toward the stairway]  Colonel Buckshot!

  [a few seconds pass with no answer] 

  Stan : Oh, Ollie - - uh - - Colonel Buckshot!

  [No answer] 

  Stan : [speaking to Lord Plumtree and his wife]  Wait there.

  [He walks several yards to the foot of the stairs, then cups his hand to his mouth and hollers up the stairs] 

  Stan : Colonel BUCKshot...

  [using his classic shrill whistle] 

  Stan : ... HHREEE-YER-REEET!

  Ollie : [posing as Colonel Buckshot]  What is it, Hives?

  Stan : [wincing at the derogatory name Hardy has chosen for him]  Lord Appletree - - he wants to rent a room.

  Lord Leopold Plumtree : No, no, my dear fellow - - 'PLUMtree'. 'PLUMtree'. Lord Leopold 'Plumtree' - - my card. And I wish to rent the entire HOUSE.

  [inspects the new card that Lord Plumtree has given him, then absently tosses the first card away] 

• Lady Plumtree : Agnes, how long have you been here?

  Stan : [in drag as the maid]  About half an hour.

  [realizing what she has said] 

  Stan : Oh, heh!

  [laughs] 

  Stan : How silly of me! I'm so nervous. Heh, I mean half a year - to be exact, three months!

• Lord Leopold Plumtree : Oh, by the way, Colonel, do you have any horses?

  Ollie : [posing as Colonel Buckshot]  I'm sorry... I've just shipped all my horses to my plantation in Kentucky.

  Lord Leopold Plumtree : Kentucky? What part of Kentucky do you come from, Colonel?

  Ollie : [fondly and grandly]  Omaha... dear old Omaha!

  Stan : I thought Omaha was in Wisconsin.

• Lady Plumtree : Tell me Agnes, how many maids does the Colonel keep?

  Stan : [dressed as a maid]  Oh, he never tells me his private affairs.

  Lady Plumtree : Private affairs? Why, servants aren't private affairs.

  Stan : Oh, some of them are.

• Ollie : You got me into this mess and you've got to get me out of it!

  Stan : What do you mean I've got to...

  Ollie : Go put the maid's clothes on and we'll get rid of them.

• Lady Plumtree : How many beds are there?

  Stan : I haven't looked yet.