Towed in a Hole (1932)

Stan Laurel: Stan

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• Stanley : [Seeing Ollie covered with paint]  What did you put that stuff on your face for?

• Oliver : Fre-esh fi-i-i-ish!

  Stanley : [blows horn] 

• Oliver : Boy, oh boy! For the first time in our lives, we're a success. A nice little fish business and making money.

  Stanley : You know, Ollie, I've been thinking.

  Oliver : What about?

  Stanley : I know how we could make a lot more money.

  Oliver : How?

  Stanley : Well, if we caught our own fish, we wouldn't have to pay for it. And whoever we sold it to, it would be clear profit.

  Oliver : Tell me that again.

  Stanley : Well, if you caught a fish, and whoever you sold it to, they wouldn't have to pay for it. Then, the profits would, they'd go to the fish, if, eh, if you could, if you caught...

  Oliver : I know exactly what you mean.

• Oliver : Now, wait a minute. Isn't this silly?

  Stanley : What?

  Oliver : Here we are two grown-up men acting like a couple of children. Why, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. Throwing water at one another.

  Stanley : Well, you started it.

  Oliver : No, I didn't.

  Stanley : Yes, you did.

  Oliver : Well, I didn't!

  Stanley : [starts crying]  You certainly did.

  Oliver : Well, I didn't!

  Stanley : You certainly did.

  Oliver : Well, I know that I didn't.

  Stanley : You did too!

  Oliver : Well, if that's the way you feel - - - Can't we stop this quarreling? That's why we never get anyplace.

• Oliver : I thought I told you not to come out of there?

  Stanley : Well, I got a good idea.

  Oliver : I don't want to hear it. Now, you get back in there and don't come out again until I call you!