History Creator / LaurelAndHardy

* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: In ''Their Purple Moment'', Stan – who has already discovered he doesn't have the money he thought he did, and will therefore be unable to pay the check at the nightclub he and Ollie are dining at with a couple of girls – is further confronted with a taxi driver, who has been parked outside with his meter running the entire time and has run up a fare of $22.10 (equivalent to nearly $400 in 2024 money) and counting. Then, to make things worse, Ollie – who is unaware of the money situation as yet – generously invites the cabbie to sit down and have a steak... on them.

A 2018 film titled ''Film/StanAndOllie'' chronicles their tours in Europe after their movie career in Hollywood ended. Creator/SteveCoogan and Creator/JohnCReilly portrayed the duo in it.

* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: In ''Their Purple Moment'', Stan – who has already discovered he doesn't have the money he thought he did, and will therefore be unable to pay the check at the nightclub he and Ollie are dining at with a couple of girls – is further confronted with a taxi driver, who has been parked outside with his meter running the entire time and has run up a fare of $22.10 (equivalent to nearly $400 in 2024 money) and counting. Then, to make things worse, Ollie – who is unaware of the money situation as of yet – invites the cabbie to sit down and have a steak... on them.

** The 1936 Hal Roach feature ''Pick a Star'' feature the team (partially in character and partially as themselves) in several memorable scenes.

** Frequent co-star James Finlayson had his trademark exclamation of "D'oh!"

* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: In ''Their Purple Moment'', Stan – who has already discovered he doesn't have the money he thought he did, and will therefore be unable to pay the check at the nightclub he and Ollie are dining at with a couple of girls – is further confronted with a taxi driver, who has been parked outside with his meter running the entire time and has run up a fare of $22.10 (equivalent to nearly $400 in 2024 money) and counting.

* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: In ''Their Purple Moment'', Stan – who has already discovered he doesn't have the money he thought he did, and will therefore be unable to pay the check at the nightclub he and Ollie are dining at with a couple of girls – is further confronted with a taxi driver, who has been parked outside with his meter running the entire time and has run up a fare of $22.10 (equivalent to nearly $400 in 2024) and counting.

!!Notable Laurel and Hardy works:

* ''Film/UnaccustomedAsWeAre'' (1929) -- their [[MediaNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies first sound film]].

* PintsizedPowerhouse: Stan, who can punch a man in the chin hard enough to ''knock him out.''

Laurel and Hardy started their screen partnership with director Hal Roach's studio in the late 1920s, and occasionally worked with bigger studios such as Creator/{{RKO}} and Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer. Notable for their successful [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies transition from silent-era film to "talkies"]], they were extremely prolific throughout the late '20s and the '30s and continued to make movies through 1951. In later years, they also toured extensively as stage performers in UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}.

* ''Film/UnaccustomedAsWeAre'' (1929) -- their [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies first sound film]].

* ''Film/TheMusicBox'' (1932) -- winner of the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Short Subject (Comedy).

* MisplacedRetricbution: In ''Oliver the Eighth'', the BlackWidow villain was [[WomanScorned abandoned on her wedding eve]] by a man named Oliver, [[DisproportionateRetribution and so now she seeks out other Olivers to court and subsequently murder]].

* RevengeByProxy: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''Oliver the Eighth''; the BlackWidow villain was [[WomanScorned abandoned on her wedding eve]] by a man named Oliver, [[DisproportionateRetribution and so now she seeks out other Olivers to court and subsequently murder]].

* FailedASpotCheck: Hardy at the beginning of ''Hog Wild'': "Where is my hat?!"[[note]]He's wearing it.[[/note]]

* ImpliedDeathThreat: In ''Me and My Pal'', Ollie is set to be married, and best man Stan is responsible for ordering flowers for the ceremony. Ollie ends up running ''very'' late (he got distracted by a jigsaw puzzle), and when the flowers are delivered to the wedding venue while everyone is waiting, they turn out to be a funeral wreath (because, well, [[CloudCuckoolander Stan]]). The incensed father of the bride storms off to confront Ollie himself... then briefly returns to grab the wreath before he goes, remarking, "I may have some use for this!"