History Film / SonsOfTheDesert

* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: The eponymous Sons of the Desert.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: After discovering the boys' deception, Betty and Lottie get into an argument regarding on who most of the blame lies, with Betty declaring that it was entirely Ollie's "negative influence" that got Stan involved when he is normally entirely honest with her.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: After discovering the boys' deception, Bettie and Lottie get into an argument regarding on who most of the blame lies, with Bettie declaring that it was entirely Ollie's "negative influence" that got Stan involved when he is normally entirely honest with her.

* [[FailedASpotCheck Failed a Listen Check]]: Downplayed. Lottie ''does'' notice that her brother's friend whom she's speaking to on the phone sounds very much like her husband (especially when, [[OhCrap as soon as he realizes who he's talking to]], he hastily hangs up with a stammered "Goodbye, [[ReflexiveResponse Sugar]]"), but as at that point she's still certain that Ollie and Stan are in Honolulu, she sets aside her suspicions for the moment.

* [[FailedASpotCheck Failed A Listen Check]]: Downplayed. Lottie ''does'' notice that her brother's friend whom she's speaking to on the phone sounds very much like her husband (especially when, [[OhCrap as soon as he realizes who he's talking to]], he hastily hangs up with a stammered "Goodbye, [[ReflexiveResponse Sugar]]"), but as at that point she's still certain that Ollie and Stan are in Honolulu, she sets aside her suspicions for the moment.

'''Lottie''': That's just what I said! That you're not going to the mountains, that you're going-- that you're going to the ''mountains!''

* MathematiciansAnswer: Stan and Ollie wouldn't get back home until they came up with a cover story for an escapade. When interrogated by cops about their places of residence, Ollie claimed to live at home and Stan said he was Ollie's next door neighbor. Stan, being Stan, told a really useful answer later.

-->'''Stan:''' Well can you beat that? [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I'm sure glad we didn't go.]] If we'd've... ''(beat; looks at the headline again, starts freaking out)''

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Distraught over the notion that their husbands might have perished at sea, Lottie and Betty go to the cinema to distract themselves while they wait for the rescue ships with the survivors to arrive the next day. This fails, as the first thing that comes up at the feature is a newsreel of the Sons of the Desert convention, causing Betty to sob with guilt over not having let Oliver attend. After a few seconds, however, [[MoodWhiplash they spot two familiar faces in the convention crowd...]]

* OhCrap: Ollie has one when he sees the newspaper headline reporting the sinking of the ship they told their wives they were on.

'''Stan''': Po-''[[RunningGag da''.\\

* ContrivedCoincidence: Charley, the annoying conventioneer that Stan and Ollie meet in Chicago, happens to be Lottie's long-lost brother.

* HypocriticalHumor: Ollie criticizes Stan for letting his wife, Betty, boss him around. Then we meet Ollie's wife, Lottie...

'''Stan''': Po-da.\\

Stan and Ollie are neighbors and fellow members of the "Sons of the Desert" society. They very much want to go to the society's national convention in Chicago, but Ollie's wife has a previously scheduled vacation in the mountains and categorically refuses to let Ollie go. Stan and Ollie conduct a wacky scheme in which Ollie fakes an illness and convinces his wife that he needs a health cruise to Hawaii. It works, and the boys attend the convention--but they have difficulties on the way home.

* {{Blackmail}}: When Stan wavers about sticking to the cover story, Ollie threatens to tell Mrs. Laurel that Stan smoked a cigarette at the convention.

'''Stan''': Well if I didn't ask her I wouldn't know what she wanted me to do.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Charley, the annoying conventioneer that Stan and Ollie meet in Chicago, happens to be Mrs. Hardy's long-lost brother.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Particularly at the end of the film, between Oliver and his wife.
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Ollie attempts this while arguing with his wife, but she catches herself just in time.

'''Mrs. Hardy''': That's just what I said! That you're not going to the mountains, that you're going-- that you're going to the ''mountains!''
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Ollie's wife has a habit of either cracking vases over his head or chucking them at his head from across the room.
* HairTriggerTemper: Mrs. Hardy

* HypocriticalHumor: Ollie criticizes Stan for letting his wife boss him around. Then we meet Ollie's wife...

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Ollie's wife gives him an off-screen one by ''throwing every dish in the house'' at him.

-->'''Stan''': Well I didn't think his religion would make any difference.
* OffTheTable: Implied; Ollie's wife originally wanted him to go to a retreat into the mountains instead of the convention. When Ollie's big lie is uncovered, he sheepishly [[RefugeInAudacity suggests they take that trip into the mountains]]. Ollie's wife doesn't verbally answer but ends up hitting him with many dishes.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: The wives see Stan and Ollie in a newsreel, thus realizing that they did not go to Honolulu. They then decide to see if their husbands confess. Eventually Stan does, and is pampered with cigarettes and candy by Mrs. Laurel. Ollie, who sticks to the cover story, takes a beating from Mrs. Hardy.

-->'''Stan:''' I've certainly got to hand it to you, Ollie.\\

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Distraught over the notion that their husbands might have perished at sea, Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Laurel go to the cinema to distract themselves while they wait for the rescue ships with the survivors to arrive the next day. This fails, as the first thing that comes up at the feature is a newsreel of the Sons of the Desert convention, causing Mrs. Hardy to sob with guilt over not having let Oliver attend. After a few seconds, however, [[MoodWhiplash they spot two familiar faces in the convention crowd...]]

* ThePrankster: Charley, a particularly obnoxious conventioneer who does stuff like the SquirtingFlower gag and the cigarette-case-loaded-with-spring-snake gag.

* ThePrankster: Charley, a particularly obnoxious conventioneer who does stuff like the squirting flower gag and the cigarette-case-loaded-with-spring-snake gag.

* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: The "Sons".

* CatchPhrase: As usual, we're treated to Ollie's "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" and "Do something to ''help'' me!"

* CatchPhrase:
** "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
** "Do something to ''help'' me!"

* CatchPhrase: "Well here's another nice mess you've gotten me into."

''Sons of the Desert'' is a 1933 comedy film starring [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy]]. It was directed by William A. Seiter.

Charley Chase, a fellow veteran of Hal Roach-produced short comedies going back to the silent days, has a supporting role as an obnoxious conventioneer.