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        <![CDATA[ I am going thru the collection right now, and even though I remembered a bunch of weird and dark instances it was the end of Laughing Gravy that really inspired the thread.As I said I remembered the boys generally being presented as living 'toons' as if made of rubber, Ollie's neck stretches to unnatural proportions in Go West; Stan's ear does the same in Swiss Miss; they get skinned alive so that all you see are skeletons with only their heads remaining;&nbsp; Stan drinks a tub of water and... ]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Re: The Darkness of Laurel and Hardy  ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ kcor wrote:I tend to think that the earliest film comedies reflect a world in which life was still, relatively, nasty, brutish and short. And solitary and poor.

This was a marvelous factor of film, somewhat new in the world--the hoi polloi speaking to ...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/839315/The-Darkness-of-Laurel-and-Hardy#reply-839315">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ I tend to think that the earliest film comedies reflect a world in which life was still, relatively, nasty, brutish and short. And solitary and poor.

This was a marvelous factor of film, somewhat new in the world--the hoi polloi speaking to the hoi pol...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/839140/The-Darkness-of-Laurel-and-Hardy#reply-839140">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ In the last scene in The Midnight Patrol they are shot at and apparently killed by the chief of police, who then calls for a coroner. ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:32:20 PST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Curiously, some people criticized the end of ATOLL K (UTOPIA) when we learn that the character played by Max Elloy was finally eaten by a lion - but this gag is an exact reflection of their earlier morbid gags, and Stan & Ollie's characters are just as th...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/830341/The-Darkness-of-Laurel-and-Hardy#reply-830341">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 21:12:10 PST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Just saw another one where Stan gets flushed down the drain...&nbsp; There doesn't seem to be a scientific name for the fear of drains, and maybe the scene was prompted by a pre-existing fear, but it seems to me that a young kid could be scarred by that s...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/830303/The-Darkness-of-Laurel-and-Hardy#reply-830303">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Unlike Charlie Chaplin or other comedians, the Laurel & Hardy short subjects and features produced by Hal Roach almost never indulged in sentimental endings. When their later MGM feature, NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (1944), featured a sappy ending with the boys s...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/826941/The-Darkness-of-Laurel-and-Hardy#reply-826941">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 23:39:15 PST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I never understood the morbidly downbeat ending of Laughing Gravy. That's one of their best shorts ever (IMHO) and Charlie Hall commiting suicide, off camera, seemed like a starnge way to end it. In the recently released L&amp;H collection, they have the ...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/826821/The-Darkness-of-Laurel-and-Hardy#reply-826821">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Grant wrote:hermanthegerm wrote:&nbsp;There is one particularily memorable speech that Ollie says (a mean one, if truthful) about Stan becoming an absolute nothing without Ollie.You must mean the scene in Flying Deuces, which leads to&nbsp;Ollie talking S...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/826239/The-Darkness-of-Laurel-and-Hardy#reply-826239">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ The frequent morbid gags in the Laurel and Hardy films were a holdover from the silent comedies that Hal Roach and Mack Sennett produced in the 1920s, when tasteless humor was more acceptable. Stan Laurel preferred these grotesque endings for the team's p...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/826086/The-Darkness-of-Laurel-and-Hardy#reply-826086">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ hermanthegerm wrote:&nbsp;There is one particularily memorable speech that Ollie says (a mean one, if truthful) about Stan becoming an absolute nothing without Ollie.You must mean the scene in Flying Deuces, which leads to&nbsp;Ollie talking Stan into a s...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/826050/The-Darkness-of-Laurel-and-Hardy#reply-826050">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ True enough, Herman, and the facility with which the boys cope with the not so innocent world is probably the key to their popularity and longevity. ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 04:07:05 PST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[ They, themselves, are innocents, but the situations they find themselves in not necessarily so. ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:33:15 PST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I see not so much a darkness in Laurel & Hardy as an unworldly, even at times otherworldly quality, not quite spectral but not of the world as we know it. Brothers from another planet before their time maybe. 

Also, the tortoise-like pacing of their sh...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/824318/The-Darkness-of-Laurel-and-Hardy#reply-824318">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Liz wrote:

OLIVER THE EIGHTH. &nbsp;All I have to say.   My favorite part was Stan playing with the 12 gauge. Stuff like that just warms my black heart! ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:00:38 PST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[ OLIVER THE EIGHTH. &nbsp;All I have to say. ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ And I still laugh my butt off at the Boys.  I should feel guilty, already?  Nyet!  They were geniuses ... just watch and enjoy! ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ I forgot the title, but I think they play cops--anyway, their frustrated boss shoots them (offscreen) at the end and then yells, "Call the coroner!"  In another one, they get literally torn limb from limb and their legs are tied around their necks like bo...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/823871/The-Darkness-of-Laurel-and-Hardy#reply-823871">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Comedy is Tragedy with Timing. ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ I am going thru the collection right now, and even though I remembered a bunch of weird and dark instances it was the end of Laughing Gravy that really inspired the thread.As I said I remembered the boys generally being presented as living 'toons' as if m...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/43283/The-Darkness-of-Laurel-and-Hardy">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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