Line #135 Creator/AbbottAndCostello


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2	[[caption-width-right:305:Bud Abbott (left) and Lou Costello (right). Behind them, on first base: {{Who\|sOnFirst}}.]]
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4	->''"Heeeeey, Abboooooooott!"''
5	-->-- '''Costello'''
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7	William Alexander "Bud" Abbott (October 2, 1897 – April 24, 1974) and Louis Francis "Lou" Costello (March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959) were an American ComedyDuo who worked together from 1935 to 1957, starting out in {{burlesque}} theatre and expanding into radio, television, and films. They're best remembered for their signature "WhosOnFirst" routine, in which Abbott attempts to tell Costello about a baseball team whose players have confusing names like "Who" and "What". ("[[TropeNamers Who's on first?]]" "[[MathematiciansAnswer Yes.]]")
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9	In 1940, they appeared together in supporting roles in the film ''Film/OneNightInTheTropics'', and stole the show. The following year, they had their first starring vehicle, ''Film/BuckPrivates''. They went on to make over 30 films, remaining top-10 box office draws for the next decade. This later included the duo joining the Franchise/UniversalHorror SharedUniverse with the pair encountering all sorts of monsters and equally fantastic situations, an artistic merger that worked surprisingly well with each franchise allowed to play to their strengths.
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11	They also starred in ''[[TheEponymousShow The Abbott and Costello Show]]'', a weekly sitcom-cum-sketch show that aired on radio from 1942–49 and on syndicated TV from 1952–54.
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13	Eventually, Costello grew dissatisfied by the arrangements and left to perform his own in 1957, but he died soon after in 1959. Bud Abbott worked relatively little afterwards, suffering from gambling debts, income tax problems and declining health. However, he did get one last major gig near the end of his life performing the voice of himself in ''The Abbott and Costello Cartoon Show'' by Creator/HannaBarbera with Stan Irwin voicing Costello.
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15	Not to be confused with Tony Abbott and Peter Costello, a pair of [[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics Australian politicians]] who served together as ministers under Prime Minister John Howard. Abbott was later the Prime Minister of UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}.
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18	!!A list of their films:
19	[[index]]
20	* ''Film/OneNightInTheTropics'' (1940)
21	* ''Film/BuckPrivates'' (1941)
22	* ''Film/InTheNavy'' (1941)
23	* ''Film/HoldThatGhost'' (1941)
24	* ''Film/KeepEmFlying'' (1941)
25	* ''Film/RideEmCowboy'' (1942)
26	* ''Film/RioRita'' (1942)
27	* ''Film/PardonMySarong'' (1942)
28	* ''Film/WhoDoneIt'' (1942)
29	* ''Film/ItAintHay'' (1943)
30	* ''Film/HitTheIce'' (1943)
31	* ''Film/InSociety'' (1944)
32	* ''Film/LostInAHarem'' (1944)
33	* ''[[Film/HereComeTheCoEds Here Come the Co-Eds]]'' (1945)
34	* ''Film/TheNaughtyNineties'' (1945)
35	* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloInHollywood'' (1945)
36	* ''Film/LittleGiant'' (1946)
37	* ''Film/{{The Time of Their Lives\|1946}}'' (1946)
38	* ''Film/BuckPrivatesComeHome'' (1947)
39	* ''Film/TheWistfulWidowOfWagonGap'' (1947)
40	* ''Film/TheNooseHangsHigh'' (1948)
41	* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'' (1948)
42	* ''Film/MexicanHayride'' (1948)
43	* ''Film/AfricaScreams'' (1949) [[note]]Became public domain in 1977 due to the rights' owner having failed to renew its copyright. It has had numerous home video releases on VHS, DVD, etc over the years and can be freely viewed online nowadays.[[/note]]
44	* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheKillerBorisKarloff'' (1949)
45	* ''[[Film/AbbottAndCostelloInTheForeignLegion Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion]]'' (1950)
46	* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheInvisibleMan'' (1951)
47	* ''[[Film/CominRoundTheMountain Comin' Round the Mountain]]'' (1951)
48	* ''[[Film/LostInAlaska Lost in Alaska]]'' (1952)
49	* ''[[Film/JackAndTheBeanstalk1952 Jack and the Beanstalk]]'' (1952)
50	* ''[[Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetCaptainKidd Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd]]'' (1952)
51	* ''[[Film/AbbottAndCostelloGoToMars Abbott and Costello Go to Mars]]'' (1953)
52	* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' (1953)
53	* ''[[Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheKeystoneKops Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops]]'' (1955)
54	* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheMummy'' (1955)
55	* ''[[Film/DanceWithMeHenry Dance with Me Henry]]'' (1956)
56	[[/index]]
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58	!!Other Abbott and Costello works provide examples of:
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60	[[foldercontrol]]
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62	[[folder:General]]
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64	* AdultsDressedAsChildren: ''The Abbott and Costello Show'' features Joe Besser as Stinky the SpoiledBrat, who would get into hilarious spats with the equally childish Costello.
65	* AnimatedAdaptation:
66	** ''Abbott and Costello'', made by Creator/HannaBarbera in 1966. Abbott voiced himself; Stan Irwin stood in for the late Costello.
67	** And, unofficially, the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes characters Babbit and Catstello, who started out as cats (in Creator/BobClampett's ''A Tale of Two Kitties'') before being redesigned as mice (in Creator/FrankTashlin's ''A Tale of Two Mice'' and Creator/RobertMcKimson's ''The Mouse-Merized Cat'').
68	* BewareTheSillyOnes: Costello's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but he's not quite as stupid as he looks either. DependingOnTheWriter, he sometimes has scenes where he skillfully outwits people who think he's just a moron -- ''Whodunit'' in particular has him do this several times during the climax.
69	* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: In the majority of their works, Abbott (tsukkomi) plays the relative straight-man to Costello's (boke) antics.
70	* BrainChain: Virtually every character played by Lou Costello. Occasionally he will even lampshade ''himself'', such as when one of his characters in the film ''Who Done It?'' turns on a radio and hears "WhosOnFirst" (one of Abbott and Costello's most famous routines) and immediately turns it off, remarking how stupid the "short, chubby guy" (actually Costello himself) is.
71	* ButtMonkey: Costello, most of the time.
72	* CannotSpitItOut: Whenever Costello sees something that makes him flustered, he becomes hilariously tongue-tied and unable to explain it to Abbott.
73	* CassandraTruth: Played with in most of the horror spoofs -- the monster or ghost (and in one case, Indian chief) terrorizes Lou, but only when Bud isn't around to see it. Naturally, Bud never believes Lou. At the end of ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'', Lou goes off like this:
74	-->'''Costello:''' And another thing, Mr. Chick Young, the next time I tell you that I saw something when I saw it, YOU BELIEVE ME that I SAW it!
75	* ChainOfCorrections: Several of their routines fit this trope, none more famous than "WhosOnFirst". Played to perfection, the routine saw Abbott list the names of players on a baseball team to Costello, Costello constantly misinterpret the answers as non-responsive, Abbott correct him repeatedly and Costello becoming even more befuddled and confused to the point where, in the end he throws up his hands and says "I don't give a damn!" –- unwittingly identifying the shortstop.
76	* CharacterActionTitle: At least seven of their films have titles starting with the phrase ''Abbott and Costello Meet'', followed by a third character or group's name.
77	* CharacterCatchphrase: Costello's characters all have "Heeeeeey, Abb-ott!"
78	* CompilationMovie: ''The World of Abbott and Costello'' (1965) features various scenes from eighteen of their films.
79	* DerailedForDetails: The "Jonah and the Whale" sketch, where Lou's trying to impress a pretty girl with a joke, but Bud keeps interrupting with demands for details.
80	* DirtyCoward: Costello was often this in films, especially when dealing with the [[Franchise/UniversalHorror Universal monsters]]. Abbott usually upbraided him for this, telling him to [[TemptingFate "Be brave like me!"]]. Of course moments later the monster would return and Abbott would practically trample Costello on his way out the door.
81	* DisproportionateRetribution: {{Discussed\|Trope}} ([[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], natch):
82	-->'''Costello:''' What time tomorrow are you going to tell me who's pitching?\
83	'''Abbott:''' Now listen. WHO is not PITCHING.\
84	'''Costello:''' exasperated I'll break your arm if you say [[WhosOnFirst Who's On First]]!
85	* TheDitz: Virtually every character played by Lou Costello. Occasionally he will even lampshade ''himself'', such as when one of his characters in the film ''Who Done It?'' turns on a radio and hears "WhosOnFirst" (one of Abbott and Costello's most famous routines) and immediately turns it off, remarking how stupid the "short, chubby guy" (actually Costello himself) is.
86	* DontExplainTheJoke: Abbott explains the punchline to Costello's joke about Jonah and the whale, where the whale is cut up, and in it, has Jonah on a stool selling the apples he was hauling. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Costello then leaves in dismay.]]
87	* DropTheCow: Taken literally, sort of, during one of the pair's live TV performances in the 1950s. In the middle of performing one of their many army skits, what appeared to be a cow (or a cow costume, to be more precise) suddenly falls from the rafters onto Costello, knocking him to the floor and causing Abbott and the rest of the cast to have a WTF? moment as Costello tosses the costume aside and the skit continues (all the while the audience is in hysterics). Since A&C occasionally incorporated faked flubs into their performances, it's unclear whether this was an actual mishap, or was intentional. It can be seen on a rare 1980s VHS release of A&C bloopers.
88	* DumbIsGood: Abbott is clever and sly and Costello is usually dumb and happy or at least naive and happy-go-lucky.
89	* EatTheCamera: The intro to ''The Abbott and Costello Cartoon Show'' begins with an inversion, on [[NotQuiteStarring Costello's]] mouth as he's running screaming.
90	* ElevatorFloorAnnouncement: In an episode of their radio show.
91	* EndearinglyDorky: Often used in their movies: Costello's goofy, bumbling, buffoonish charm generally makes the women he meets fall for how adorable he is -- despite being a goof Costello always gets the girl in situations where the two are involved in romance.
92	%%* TheExitIsThatWay
93	* ExtremeDoormat: Costello, although he does have occasional TheDogBitesBack moments when he stands up to Abbott for bullying and taking advantage of him.
94	* FatAndSkinny: Abbott is the skinny, clever StraightMan; Costello is the chubby [[TheDitz Ditz]].
95	* HandyCuffs: One sketch involves one of them getting handcuffed with his hands in front when he points out that he can still swing his hands around. He then asks his captor to show where the cuffs need to go; the captor puts his hands behind his back, gets cuffed, and the good guy escapes.
96	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Bud and Lou's characters, and only on-screen. In real life, they were not particularly close (and at one point, at the height of their fame, spent a year not speaking to one another except when the cameras were rolling).
97	* HurricaneOfPuns: The basis of most of their humor.
98	* HustlingTheMark: This happens in several of the pair's movies. Typically it's also [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that [[ConMan Abbott]] 'tricks' seeming clueless innocent [[ObfuscatingStupidity Costello]] into a game of dice or poker, only for Lou to walk away with everyone's money.
99	* HypocriticalHumor: In one of the versions of their argument about hot dogs going with mustard, Costello says that he prefers Worcestershire sauce, but pronounces it "Wooshteshire-sheer shaush". Abbott tries to pronounce it, but messes it up, to which Costello replies "You can't even shay it."
100	* IdiotBall: In the diner routine (seen in ''Keep 'em Flying'' and an episode of ''The Abbott and Costello Show''), the waitress gives Lou a free piece of cake, only to leave and her twin sister comes in and tells Lou he has to pay for it, both coming in and out at different times and confusing Lou. Considering they're twin sisters working together, they should have explained they were twins, especially when Lou keeps mentioning his confusion.
101	* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: The "WhosOnFirst" routine has Bud try to convince Lou to go on a diet, resulting in this exchange:
102	-->'''Abbott:''' You should really go on a diet. You know what a diet is, don't you?\
103	'''Costello:''' Sure, that's where you can eat all you want of everything you don't like.
104	* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: Inverted in this bit from ''The Abbott and Costello Show'' episode "Hungry":
105	-->'''Abbott:''' Go ahead, just order something small.\
106	'''Costello:''' I'll have a small steak.
107	* InsaneTrollLogic:
108	** The "You're Not Here" routine, as seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh2E0z42RGA this video]]. In short, "If you aren't in Chicago, or in Philadelphia, or in St. Louis, then you must be someplace else... so you can't be ''here''."
109	** Also the basis of the sketch where Costello proves that 7 x 13 = 28.
110	* ItWasHereISwear: A standard bit, appearing in ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'' and ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff'' among others.
111	* TheJailBaitWait: Played for laughs with the "You're 40, She's 10" routine, when Abbott asks Costello how long he has to wait for the girl to be his age before marrying:
112	-->'''Abbott:''' Now here's the question: how long do you have to wait before you and the little girl are the same age? Now go ahead now, there's a very simple question. Think hard.\
113	'''Costello:''' I mean, the whole thing's ridiculous.\
114	'''Abbott:''' What's ridiculous?\
115	'''Costello:''' If I keep waiting for that girl, she'll pass me up!\
116	'''Abbott:''' What do you mean!?\
117	'''Costello:''' She'll wind up older than I am!\
118	'''Abbott:''' What're you talking about!?\
119	'''Costello:''' She'll have to wait for ''me''!\
120	'''Abbott:''' Why should she wait for you!?\
121	'''Costello:''' ''[with emphasis]'' I was nice enough to wait for ''her''.
122	* {{Jerkass}}: Abbott frequently is one to Costello.
123	* {{Joisey}}: Lou was very proud of his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey, and managed to get it mentioned in a great many episodes of ''The Abbott and Costello Show''.
124	* LargeHam: Lou Costello, especially on radio.
125	* LiteralMinded: Costello.
126	* LovableCoward, Costello, frequently. ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'' is a prime example.
127	* ManChild: Costello generally acts as one.
128	* NeverBareheaded: Costello was always been seen wearing a hat throughout a majority of movies, such as ''Africa Screams'' and ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', but ''The Abbott and Costello Show'' stood out the most with him always wearing his derby on even at home when Abbott takes off his when they don't go out.
129	* NeverSayThatAgain: The "Slowly I turned..." routine, in which a certain phrase causes a character to go berserk or otherwise react negatively, was used by Abbott and Costello several times: in the films ''Lost In a Harem'' with the trigger word "Pokomoko", and ''In Society'' with the trigger phrase "Susquehanna Hat Company", as well as in ''The Abbott and Costello Show'' on television, using the [[Film/TheThreeStooges more traditional]] "UsefulNotes/NiagaraFalls".
130	* NotNowWereTooBusyCryingOverYou: Several of their films include a routine in which Abbott believes Costello has been killed and has a HeelRealization, lamenting how he treated his friend, while Costello listens and cries along with him. Once Abbott sees that he's all right, he instantly goes back to his old self and slaps Costello for getting him so worried.
131	* NotQuiteStarring: The ''The Abbott and Costello Cartoon Show'' actually managed to get Bud Abbott to do his own voice (in a large part because he owed a lot of money to the IRS), but featured Stan Irwin as the voice of Lou Costello (the real Lou Costello being, unfortunately, deceased by this time).
132	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Very rarely, Costello is portrayed or merely implied as having this. Or more like he acts like a moron but he can be pretty quick when he wants to be.
133	* TheOperatorsMustBeCrazy: The episode "Who Done It" has a skit about a particularly bizarre and abusive operator.
134	* PeekABooCorpse: Happens several times in the murder mystery films, like ''Who Done It?'' and ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff''. Of course, when Costello alerts Abbott or the authorities, the body is nowhere to be found.
135	* PigLatin: In an episode of "The Abbott and Costello Show", the duo are filming a movie with Dorothy Lamour, where they face off against an Arab sultan named [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Atfay Elli-bay]].
136	* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: The duo sometimes did a variation: Lou gets a necklace from a mysterious woman, detective comes by and says a mysterious woman just stole a necklace, then Lou tries to hide it in Bud's hamburger so they don't get blamed for it. Eventually, Lou ends up eating it, just as the detective comes back and mentions there's a reward for it.
137	* PottyDance: An outtake exists from one film of Costello stopping a take by doing the dance because he had to pee.
138	* ThePratfall: Used regularly -- Lou was a master of the technique.
139	* PrecisionFStrike: The punchline to the "Who's on First" sketch is that the shortstop is named "I don't give a darn," a big enough deal at the time that they had to change it to "I don't care" when the routine was used in the film ''The Naughty Nineties''.
140	* PungeonMaster: Lou Costello, given that most of their humor was puns and deliberate misunderstandings of a punny nature.
141	* RandomEventsPlot: Many of the pair's films could qualify. If you were to tear out every scene that has little or nothing to do with the plot, you'd wind up with about twenty minutes of film per movie. Note that, of course, Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad; many of these gratuitous scenes, while not being plot-relevant, are still ''funny''.
142	* ReachingBetweenTheLines: Lou keeps trying to make an important call but is obstructed by the operator who keeps telling him, "The line is busy". Eventually Lou gets so frustrated that he squirts a soda siphon down the mouthpiece and the operator gets squirted in the face.
143	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The two receive one from Mr. Fields of Fields' Employment Agency after acting like bigshot jackasses.
144	-->'''Fields''': You've had ''your'' shay, now you listen to me. You came into this office like a wild man, you criticized my business and the way I run my business, you knocked my furniture, you insulted my wife. My wife! ''(picks up a photo of his wife from his desk)'' Do you realize that's the woman I married? That's the woman I love. The day I married her, she ran third of... ''(lets it go)'' You see? [[GotMeDoingIt Now, you've got me insulting my own wife!]] Don't you know that a gentleman never insults anybody? ''([[NeverMyFault Abbott]] [[{{Hypocrite}} agrees with him]])'' The first essential of politeness is consideration of the feelings of others? Graciousness without condescension? That's the attribute devoutly to be wished. You don't have it! Now listen to me. The next time you come into a man's place of business, always knock before you enter; and when you do come in, take off your hat. [[SuddenlyShouting TAKE IT OFF!]] And when you speak to a man, address him as "sir". ''Sir!'' S-I-R, "sir"! Another thing, politeness costs you nothing. If you can't say anything nice the way a man runs his business, '''don't say anything at all!''' Now I want you two hoodlums to get out of my office, and don't you dare to come back until you learn to act like gentlemen. '''''GET OUT!'''''
145	%%* RedOniBlueOni
146	* RichesToRags: In real life, Abbott and Costello got hit by the IRS demanding back taxes in the late fifties, forcing them to sell their homes and most of their assets, including the rights to most of their films.
147	* SadClown: Lou Costello himself, who suffered tragedy at the height of the duo's fame when his infant son accidentally drowned in his family pool. It's said he was a completely different person afterward, often clashing with partner Bud Abbott, which nearly led to the break-up of their act. Costello would later die of a heart attack at the age of 52, brought on by complications from chronic rheumatism.
148	* SayMyName:
149	** ''HEEEEY ABBBOOOOOTTTTT!''
150	** Substituted with Abbott's various character names in the movies.
151	* TheShowMustGoOn: On the radio show Lou and Bud worked on, one day around the time they were working on ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'' Lou came in for show late, very quiet, and went through his routines flawlessly but without speaking to anyone outside of the job, which was ''very'' unusual for him. Then at the end he said to his very young son, "That one's for you." He then explained to his fellow performers and the listeners at home that his son had drowned earlier that day, but not before Lou promised him that "Tonight you'll hear Dad on the radio." [[IGaveMyWord Lou kept his promise.]]
152	* SignatureHeadgear:
153	** One of Costello's trademarks across his appearances was a nice derby hat. Over time, he definitely has a habit of trying on various hats throughout his movies.
154	*** At one point, in ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy'', he sees a panhandler carrying a basket and asking for money and tries to buy the ''basket'' as a hat, but gives it back after it turns out it's too big for him to wear.
155	* SitComic: ''The Abbott and Costello Show'' was produced by having the film and Vaudeville stars give their performances in camera-equipped area.
156	* {{Slapstick}}: A staple of their routines.
157	* SlippingAMickey: A regular routine, where Lou realizes his drink has been poisoned, so he distracts the bad guy ("HELLO! Steve, old boy!") so he can switch the glasses. HilarityEnsues, especially when the move was faked.
158	* SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: Bud Abbott's character is always portrayed as more intelligent than Lou Costello's, and he often talked down to him, complained about him, and slapped him. Lou Costello was almost always nice and friendly, but not very bright.
159	* SpoiledBrat: ''The Abbott and Costello Show'' features Joe Besser as Stinky, dressed as a little boy and constantly in a SitcomArchNemesis rivalry with Costello.
160	* StockScream: Costello's screams from the wax museum scene in ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'' became this through their following movies.
161	* StraightMan: Abbott. Generally regarded as one of the greatest straight men in the history of show business, if not ''the'' greatest. He was so important to the team that Costello originally insisted he get 60% of their pay.
162	-->'''Lou Costello:''' Comics are a dime a dozen. Good straight men are hard to find.
163	* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Abbott and Costello are masters of this.
164	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVlyR_0j-pM a sketch]] from ''The Colgate Comedy Hour''. The joke is that Costello is supposed to eat a hamburger on which a thief has secretly stashed a stolen diamond necklace. The only problem is, he finds it too hard to scarf down an entire burger for real and, being on live TV, suffers a total fit of {{corpsing}}. (At one point toward the end of the sketch, you can see him turn to Abbott, gesture helplessly at the burger, and between giggles clearly mouth the words, "I can't do it!")
165	* TongueTied: Several films have Costello needed to impart some important information, usually that the movie's villain is nearby. However, while he mimes speaking the words, he's so scared that he literally cannot make any kind of audible sound.
166	* TraumaButtonEnding: Used in two classic routines that follow a similar path:
167	** The "Niagara Falls" routine (also made famous by ''Film/TheThreeStooges''), in which two men meet (one is implied to be a wanderer) and in casual conversation, Costello's character triggers Abbott's (the wanderer) BerserkButton ('''"NIAGARA FALLS!"'''), and he brutalizes Costello's character while reminiscing the time that he hunted down a man who stole his girlfriend to that location. Variations of the routine have Costello's character either reflexively wincing when someone else comes along and says the name after the wanderer leaves, being pummeled by the wanderer because of said button-pressing ([[SelectiveEnforcement but the newcomer stays safe]]), repeating the wanderer's irate rambling (and pummeling) to the newcomer, or discovering the hard way that the bitter rival the wanderer keeps reminiscing developed the same BerserkButton from those events and getting pummeled ''again''.
168	** The "Susquehanna Hat Company" routine has Costello's character wandering the streets trying to deliver straw hats to the titular hat company, only to find out that every person that he meets for one reason or another has the hat company as a BerserkButton (the company is rumored to be corrupt, their loved ones died wearing a hat from the company, a crazy guy (that thinks he's a ghost and is implied to be the one that a previous passerby considered "dead") was wearing one when he "died", etc) and they wreck a hat in a rage before storming off (to add insult to injury, they pluck it off Costello's character's head to do so -- and in one occasion even pulling it off the box he placed it in to ''prevent'' them from destroying it the moment he noticed they were starting to act crazy). The routine ends with Abbott's character (a fellow salesman) pointing out that Costello's character only has one hat remaining ("and what excuse are we gonna give the Susquehanna Hat Company?") and Costello's character wrecking the hat as he goes in a similar screaming fury.
169	* UniversalAdaptorCast: Abbott and Costello starred in several films where the pair acted in various genres. Probably the most notable were a series titled ''Abbott and Costello Meet...'' where they would indeed meet various horror monsters.
170	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: At his worst, Abbott is a manipulative and selfish JerkAss.
171	* VersusTitle: Many of the duo's later movies had titles of the form ''Abbott and Costello Meet (something else from Universal)''.
172	* VitriolicBestBuds:
173	** Onscreen, this was played straight. Offscreen, though, the "Best Buds" part was questionable.
174	** The reason they have so few scenes together in ''Little Giant'' and ''The Time of Their Lives'' is because they were so estranged at that point, that was the only way they would agree to appear in the same picture.
175	** Though their relationship was strained in their later years, there were a few moments of TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther, if you knew where to look. Abbott volunteered at Costello's charity as an attempt to bury the hatchet (Costello was allegedly deeply touched when Abbott suggested naming the establishment after Costello's late son) and, when Costello died of a heart attack, Abbott backed out of a revival project with Candy Candido playing Costello's role, claiming that there was no one who could truly replace Lou.
176	* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: In the immortal WhosOnFirst routine, Bud and Lou go through the names of eight players, but never name the right fielder.
177	* WhatsAHenway: One of their recurring gags. For example, from the episode "Costello's Farm":
178	-->'''Abbott:''' What kind of cow have you? A heifer cow?
179	-->'''Costello:''' What?
180	-->'''Abbott:''' A heifer cow?
181	-->'''Costello:''' Nah, I gotta whole cow! I gotta whole flock o' cows!
182	-->'''Abbott:''' No, no, no, stupid! It's not flock, it's herd!
183	-->'''Costello:''' Herd o' what?
184	-->'''Abbott:''' Herd of cows.
185	-->'''Costello:''' Sure I've heard o' cows!
186	-->'''Abbott:''' No, no, no, I mean a ''cow herd.''
187	-->'''Costello:''' What do I care if a cow heard? I ain't said nothin' to be ashamed of!
188	-->'''Abbott:''' Oh, just forget it, Costello. I'm not in the mood.
189	-->'''Costello:''' Not in what mood?
190	-->'''Abbott:''' A cow mood.
191	-->'''Costello:''' Who cares if a cow mooed?!
192	** And of course, "WhosOnFirst".
193	* WhosOnFirst: In many of their routines, of which the trope namer is only the most famous.
194	* WithFriendsLikeThese: In the majority of their films, the pair's characters are supposedly friends, yet Abbott's character almost always bullies and abuses Costello's.
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200	%%[[AC: ''Pardon My Sarong'' (1942)]]
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202	%%* LadykillerInLove: Tommy Layton's character arc.%%Needs more details before transferring to the film's page.
203	%%
204	%%[[AC: ''Who Done It?'' (1942)]]
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206	%%* AmbiguousGender: The hotel employee who constantly swindles Lou.%%Exactly how is their gender ambiguous? Fill in before transferring to the film's page.
207	%%
208	[[AC: ''In Society'' (1944)]]
209
210	* NoodleIncident: The "Susquehanna Hat Company" phrase makes men react in rage and anger against Costello and causes women to scream in terror and anguish. We never really discover why the mention of this company causes such wild and violent reactions in passersby, although one stranger accuses the company of employing child labor, and another blames their hats for her husband's death.
211
212	[[AC: ''Here Come the Co-Eds'' (1945)]]
213
214	* AccidentalAimingSkills: In completely the wrong direction -- Oliver Quackenbush (Lou Costello) loses a tied basketball game when his shot at goal misses, bounces of the backboard and ''flies the entire length of the court'' to land in the opposition's basket.
215	* LineageLadder: Mr. Kirkland, the stuck-in-his-ways landlord of Bixby College, uses one of these to rebuke the newly appointed Dean's requests to modernize the school.
216	--> '''Dean Benson''': But, if you'd just let me make this a real school--\
217	'''Mr. Kirkland''': Bixby was good enough for ''my'' mother. And her mother! And her mother's mother! And her mother's mother's mother!
218	* NonIndicativeName: The school in question is actually an all-girls school, so technically the girls there are not "co-eds."
219	* OwnGoal: Oliver (Costello) makes a shot at goal in a basketball game that bounces off the backboard, flies the full length of the court, and lands in the opposition's basket.
220	* SuperRinger: A professional women's basketball team is secretly brought in to play a women's college team. (There's heavy betting involved. The college's future is at stake.) One of the college players is injured, so Lou Costello puts on a dress and a wig and goes in as a sub. He's terrible, but after he's knocked out mid-game, he awakens with amnesia and is told, "You're Dolly Dimple, the world's greatest woman basketball player!" Living up to his billing, his team wins. At the end of the game, all of the ringers are revealed. The officials decide that "Five ringers are worse than one" and award the game to the college players (and Lou, who isn't in college.)
221	* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Costello is about to sweep under the rug but as he lift it there's writing on it saying "Don't put it here" and when he lifts the other corner there's more writing saying "Not here ''either''".
222
223	[[AC: ''The Naughty Nineties'' (1945)]]
224
225	* TheGayNineties: The film is set in the 1890s, and involves Abbott and Costello's characters trying to help their boss regain ownership of his showboat after he loses it in a card game.
226	* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: Costello's character ends up having a drink with a FemmeFatale. At one point Costello loses track of who has the poison, so he dumps it into a potted plant. ThatPoorPlant withers away and dies, prompting Costello to wipe his glass out ''very thoroughly.''
227	* ThatPoorPlant: In a hilarious scene, the BigBad and Costello's character Sebastian are put alone together in a private room in a theater, where she proceeds to poison his drink. They then do a PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo back and forth until ''he'' gets confused and opts to toss the drink in the fern next to him. Sebastian watches the fern die very slowly, and then wipes his glass ''very'' thoroughly on his tux.
228
229	[[AC: ''Little Giant'' (1946)]]
230
231	%%* BadBoss: Abbott's first character.
232	* ReassignedToAntarctica: Benny Miller (Costello) is so incompetent in his job as a TravelingSalesman that his boss John Morrison transfers him to a remote regional branch: Morrison not wanting to fire him for it will expose that he has been StealingFromTheTill.
233	* ReassignmentBackfire: Benny Miller is transferred to a remote sales district following a disastrous first day as a TravelingSalesman. However, due in a large part to a prank played on him by his coworkers, he ends up becoming the company's Salesman of the Year.
234	* TravelingSalesman: Lou plays a naïve country boy named Benny Miller, from Cucamonga, California, who has been taking correspondence phonograph lessons in salesmanship. Convinced of his own brilliance as a salesman, he gets a job as travelling salesman for the Hercules Vacuum Cleaner Company. He is so inept that after one day he gets [[ReassignedToAntarctica transferred to a remote regional branch where he can't do any harm]]. This becomes a ReassignmentBackfire when circumstances conspire to make him the company's Salesman of the Year.
235	* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Bud Abbott plays the head of a vacuum cleaner company and his much nicer cousin and head of a branch office, who explains the resemblance with a photo of their grandmother (Abbott in drag).
236
237	[[AC: ''Buck Privates Come Home'' (1947)]]
238
239	* ButtMonkey: The fate of Sgt. Collins.
240	* HonoraryUncle: The boys (Costello mostly) become this to an adorable French orphan girl.
241	* IAmSpartacus: A six-year-old orphan named Evey is discovered hiding out in an Army troop ship. She's discovered by the hated Sgt. Collins who intends to turn her over to the authorities.
242	--> '''A soldier:''' How about pretending you didn't see her?\
243	'''Sgt. Collins:''' Oh sure, sure. And lose my stripes for it. Then what?\
244	'''Another soldier:''' You might become a regular guy\
245	'''Sgt. Collins:''' ''[angrily]'' Who said that?\
246	'''All the Soldiers:''' I did.\
247	'''Evey:''' I did.
248	* MistakenForTerrorist: Slicker (Bud) and Herbie (Lou) apply for a bank loan for their friend's midget race car. When demonstrating the model of the car, Herbie starts it in reverse, causing it to backfire, making it look like they were robbing the bank with a machine gun.
249	* AnOddPlaceToSleep: Herbie (Lou) finds it too hot to sleep inside the apartment, so he rigs up a makeshift hammock on the clothesline that runs between the buildings.
250	* {{Sequel}}: ''Buck Privates Come Home'' is, indeed, one of these to ''Buck Privates''.
251
252	[[AC: ''The Noose Hangs High'' (1948)]]
253
254	* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: Abbott and Costello try to commit a crime to GetIntoJailFree. It doesn't work out so well because they target the wrong people (e.g., stealing something from a guy who stole it himself).
255	* GetIntoJailFree: Abbott and Costello try this because in jail they would be safe from the guy who wants them dead (protective custody hadn't really been established when the film was made). It becomes a case of CantGetInTroubleForNuthin.
256
257	[[AC: ''Mexican Hayride'' (1948)]]
258
259	* ClearMyName: The goal of Costello's character, after Abbott's character left him holding the bag in a phony oil field scheme.
260	* InvoluntaryDance: Costello's character finds himself compelled to dance when he hears a samba after sambaing in a dance marathon for 68 hours to win the money to get to Mexico.
261	* MotorMouth: The reporter, who talks over Costello constantly and then tells him [[{{Hypocrite}} "Next time a reporter asks you for an interview, don't talk so much!"]]
262	* ReflexiveResponse: Costello can't help but dance uncontrollably every time he hears samba music.
263
264	[[AC: ''Africa Screams'' (1949)]]
265
266	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: After Costello rescues a gorilla from a trapper's pit, the gorilla follows him around, repeatedly saving him from other animals and cannibal natives and recovering a bag of diamonds Abbot had stolen from the natives. Later, after Costello makes it back to America (presumably with the Gorilla's help) he uses the diamonds to become head of the department store where he worked and appoints the Gorilla as his vice-president while Abbot (who used and abused Costello throughout the entire film before abandoning him after losing the diamonds) is reduced to working beneath them as an elevator operator.
267	* {{Bowdlerization}}: The original movie poster, as well as some early home video releases, shows a racist caricature of an African stewing Abbott and Costello in a cauldron as he holds a cookbook. This is absent from modern video covers and streaming service thumbnails for obvious reasons.
268	* DarkestAfrica: The setting of the film, complete with a friendly gorilla, a safari, [[CannibalClan a cannibal tribe that wants to cook Bud and Lou in, respectively, a tall skinny and short round iron kettle]], and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou oodles of Costello-hating African wildlife]].
269	%%* GreatWhiteHunter: Parodied.
270	* NotNowWereTooBusyCryingOverYou: When Buzz Johnson (Abbott) thinks Stanley Livington (Costello) has been eaten by a lion, he begins mourning and wishing he'd been nicer to Livington, only for Livington to show up and commiserate with him. Once Buzz finally realizes that it's Livington crying on his shoulder, he immediately reverts back to his old self and [[AngerBornOfWorry slaps Livington]].
271	* PublicDomain: The film ''Africa Screams''; its rights were purchased in 1953 by independent distributor Robert Haggiag. However, he eventually lost interest in the film and failed to renew its copyright, resulting in it lapsing into public domain, the first and only Abbott and Costello film as of 2024 to do so.
272	* TookALevelInJerkass: Abbott's selfishness and cruelty to Costello is taken up to eleven here, where he's nearly driven insane by greed upon discovering diamonds in the African jungle. He ends up being a victim of LaserGuidedKarma at the end when [[spoiler:a friendly gorilla gives Costello the diamonds and makes him filthy rich, and Abbott ends up working as his elevator operator]].
273
274	[[AC: ''Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion'' (1950)]]
275
276	* AccidentalBid: Lou accidentally wins a slave girl auction by repeatedly waving to a girl when he was just being friendly, not knowing that the auctioneer is misinterpreting him as bidding. When he and Lou try to get out of it, the auctioneer won't hear of it, noting that Lou's win is a good buy. To that, Lou responds "Good buy? Goodbye!" as he makes a break for it.
277	* DemBones: Lou hallucinates a talking skeleton while in the desert.
278	* HollywoodMirage: Lou has several. One is even a milkshake bar in the middle of the desert! When the boys stumble across an oasis, he takes several minutes to accept that it's real.
279	* LegionOfLostSouls: Bud and Lou somehow enlist with the Legion in Algiers by accident. They proceed to save the day by accident, and are rewarded with medals and honorable discharges.
280	* NotNowWereTooBusyCryingOverYou: When Bud Jones (Abbott) thinks Lou Hotchkiss (Costello) has been blown up, he begins mourning and wishing he'd been nicer to Hotchkiss, only for Hotchkiss to show up and commiserate with him. Once Bud finally realizes that it's Hotchkiss crying on his shoulder, he immediately reverts back to his old self and [[AngerBornOfWorry slaps Hotchkiss]].
281	%%* SelfOffense: ''Abbott and Costello Join the Foreign Legion''
282
283	[[AC: ''Comin' Round the Mountain'' (1951)]]
284
285	* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Wilbert warns Devil Dan Winfield that Winfield will "get the chair" when he tries to kill Wilbert. Devil Dan dismisses this, stating that every judge on the local circuit was a Winfield, only to find out Wilbert meant it literally when Dan's hit with a chair by Wilbert's companion.
286	* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Costello finds his grandfather's revolver and immediately starts pulling the trigger while aiming at the floor. Abbott takes it from Costello, but (still pointed at the floor) pulls the trigger himself several times, firing the one round loaded, unbeknownst to either. The result is more annoyance by Costello and their companion than anything else.
287	* LovePotion: Costello and several other characters accidentally drink one. HilarityEnsues.
288	* ShotgunWedding: Alluded to after Costello's love interest takes a LovePotion.
289
290	[[AC: ''Lost in Alaska'' (1952)]]
291
292	* FunWithForeignLanguages: Costello sees some Eskimos communicating in sign language and makes a few random hand gestures of his own. The Eskimo chief starts laughing, telling Costello, "You just told a funny joke!" Later, when Costello meets an attractive Eskimo lady, he tries to impress her by creating the same hand gestures he used before. She slaps him in the face; apparently it was ''that'' kind of joke.
293	* KitchenSinkIncluded:
294	** While throwing things at the bad guys to keep them from advancing, Abbott says they've thrown everything but the kitchen sink. Guess what Costello does.
295	** Also this exchange:
296	--->'''Costello:''' ''You know –- you know, [[ButtMonkey they have hit me with everything but the kitchen sink]]''\
297	'''Abbott:''' ''Oh, well –- we can fix that.''\
298	''(Pulls the sink out of the wall, breaks it over Costello's head.)''
299
300	[[AC: ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' (1952)]]
301
302	* BeanstalkParody: Eloise Larkin and her fiancé Arthur's plans to attend the rehearsal of a play are jeopardized because no one will babysit her obnoxious kid brother Donald. Eloise phones the Cosman Employment Agency, where Mr. Dinkel (Bud) and Jack (Lou) just happen to be seeking work. Jack flirts with Cosman employee Polly, but he is thwarted by the arrival of her boyfriend, a towering police officer. Polly sends Dinkle and Jack to babysit, but an attempt to lull the boy to sleep by reading the fairy tale ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' (Jack's "favorite novel") aloud fails when Jack stumbles over the larger words. Bemused by Jack, Donald reads the story instead -- a role-reversal made complete when Jack falls asleep as Donald reads. In his slumber, Jack dreams that he is the young Jack of the fairy tale. HilarityEnsues as he [[AndYouWereThere the people he has met fill the various roles in the story]].
303	* ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou: Lou's character dreams that he's Jack, with the other characters corresponding to people he knows in real life.
304	* CookingTheLiveMeal: The giant captures Jack (Costello) and ties him to a rotating spit in his fireplace, complete with an apple in his mouth. Jack manages to get rid of the apple to cry for help.
305	* TwoPersonLoveTriangle: This was part of the basis for the romantic subplot. Princess Eloise is supposed to marry Prince Arthur, but they've never met. They both get kidnapped by the giant, call themselves Darlene and Arthur, and [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage fall in love.]]
306
307	[[AC: ''Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd'' (1952)]]
308
309	%%* NoIndoorVoice: Captain Kidd.
310	* PuddleCoveringChivalry: Played for laughs when the duo stops to help a woman in this manner. Costello puts his vest down, she steps off the curb... and sinks waist-deep in mud.
311
312	[[AC: ''Abbott and Costello Go to Mars'' (1953)]]
313
314	* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Lou falls in love with the Amazonian Queen of Venus, a love she reciprocates... until his inability to keep his hands off of her subjects, and his cohorts' foolish attempt at staging a palace revolt, gets them all shipped back to Earth. Insult is added to injury when the Queen looks at a hologram of the former King, who's one good-looking hunk, and both she and her court dismiss the dumpy Lou.
315	* ColdEquation: Spoofed. The spaceship has too much weight to take off so they have to leave behind... all the [[LadyLand gorgeous space-babes]] that [[AllMenArePerverts Orville is trying to sneak back to Earth]].
316	* LadyLand: Venus is home to an all-female society, including the Queen and cabinet. The men are treated as interesting curiosities, but in the end are rejected in favor of mere holograms of the former beefcake King.
317	* LieDetector: One is made using balloons and an electric chair that can read minds.
318	* MistakenForAliens: The boys [[ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans land in New Orleans during Mardi Gras]], and the locals' large papier-mâché costumes convince them that they're on Mars.
319	* NonIndicativeName: ''Abbott and Costello Go to Mars'' actually sends the title characters to ''Venus'', rather than Mars (though Mars ''was'' their original intended destination).
320	* NotSoRemote: At the end, Abbott and Costello's rocketship crashes outside New Orleans during Mardis Gras. They assume they're on Mars and the people in costumes are aliens.
321	* OneGenderRace: The Venusians are all female, having banished the males and claiming to have perfected immortality. One or two small girls are seen, so it's possible that some form of procreation goes on.
322	* SolarSystemNeighbors: ''Abbott and Costello Go to Mars'', despite the title, is actually about the duo going to ''Venus'' to meet space women.
323	* SpaceEpisode: The title says it all, really, as the pair launch into space to visit Mars, only to end up on Venus by mistake.
324
325	[[AC: ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops'' (1955)]]
326
327	* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Con man Joseph Gorman and his accomplice Leota Van Cleef swindle Harry (Abbott) and Willie (Costello) before fleeing to Hollywood to become a producer with Leota as leading lady. The head of the movie studio, Mr. Snavely, discovers who they really are, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure but since he consider Gorman a great producer he decide to let them keep their fake identities, but their salary will be used to pay back to the people they have swindled in the past]]. The two con artists starts to like the opportunity to make an honest living, but their hired accomplice blackmail them to rob the studio's safe.
328
329	%%[[AC: ''Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1953)]]
330	%%
331	%%* SelfOffense: ''Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''.%%How? Fill in before transferring to the film's page.
332	%%
333	%%[[AC: ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy'' (1955)]]
334	%%
335	%%* MistakenForAnImposter: ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy''.%%When, and why? Fill in before transferring to the film's page.
336	%%
337	%%[[AC: ''Dance with Me Henry'' (1956)]]
338	%%
339
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345	!!ReferencedBy:
346
347	* Jerry Seinfeld referenced them a number of times on his show, most notably when George tries to explain his idea about 'a show about nothing'. He would also produce and star in an NBC special ''Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld''.
348	* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes parodied them in three cartoons as "Babbit and Catstello". They also borrowed some of Lou's catch phrases and made them their own, like "I'm only three-and-a-half years old" and WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's "Gee, ain't I a stinker?"
349	* In the "Vintage Steele" episode of ''Series/RemingtonSteele'' a body is found in a vat of wine at the Costello Monastery. When Laura suggests they interview the abbot, Movie buff Steele quips "Ah...the Abbot of Costello".
350	* ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' has a scene where a church abbot is greeted with Costello's catchphrase.
351	-->'''Costello lookalike:''' HEY ABBOT!\
352	'''Abbot:''' I ''hate'' that guy...
353	* If you didn't see some similarities between [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]] and Abbott and Costello, you weren't paying close enough attention.
354	* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' episode "Friar Tum" features a character named Abbot Costello.
355	* ''Literature/FiveHundredYearsAfter'' has a passing mention of a famous farce, ''Who Dropped Her First?'', set in a bedchamber laid out (reading between the lines) like a baseball diamond.
356	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "A Pharaoh to Remember" has a reference to ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy''.
357	* VideoGame/{{Mother 3}} features a duo of comedians named Lou and Bud as minor characters.
358	* An anonymous email that has been circulating around the internet for many years casts Abbott as a tech-support operator attempting to explain to Costello that to stop his Windows PC he must click on the "Start" button.
359	* In Australia, the days when Tony Abbott and Peter Costello were prominent members of the Liberal Party were a gift to political commentators across the country.
360	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' featured Larry and Mr. Lunt's characters having a battle of wits, with the riddle they must solve being presented by the Abbot of Costello. The riddle itself is a parody of the WhosOnFirst routine.
361	* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Joker's Millions", Joker named his loyal pet hyenas Bud and Lou (previously only known as Harley Quinn's "babies"). This makes sense, given Joker's appreciation of comedy. The hyenas are given the same names in ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog''.
362	* In the ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' episode, "Monster Child In A Promised Land," Iolaus mentions a comedy team known as Abbotus and Costellocles.
363	* A recurring segment on ''Series/SquareOneTV'' featured [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Cabot and Marshmallow]]. Set backstage at a Vaudeville theater, the segments show Cabot getting the better of Marshmallow through a variety of math related tricks. Always started with a suitably altered version of Costello's catch phrase.
364	* In the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode "The Hounds of Baskerville", the Major snarkily tells Sherlock (who he's mistaken for a ConspiracyTheorist) that they have two aliens in their basement named Abbott and Costello.
365	* Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal has them in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3051 a dark subversion]] of their WhosOnFirst routine.
366	* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' has two characters named Falstaff and Truck who act like raccoon versions of Abbott and Costello.
367	* Creator/RobertRankin has a RunningGag that Hugo Rune hates Bud Abbott. In ''The Book of Ultimate Truths'', the protagonists visit an monastery. Guess the Abbot's name.
368	* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' used a ''Who's on First'' joke in an ''U.S. Acres'' episode where three dog brothers come to help on the farm, their names are "Who, What, and Where"!
369	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had Chalmers and Principal Skinner attempting to do a recreation of WhosOnFirst. Skinner ruins it almost immediately by [[DontExplainTheJoke explaining the joke.]]
370	* The "Next" cell phone app did a radio ad with Bud and Lou soundalikes doing a routine with "Which app?" "The Next app!" "The one you got on your phone!" etc.
371	* In ''[[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1963 The Amazing Spider-Man]]'' #205, Black Cat burgles a museum guarded by two inept security officers named "Bud" and "Lou", who look and act like the duo.
372	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' had "Who's on Stage?" in "Woodstock Slappy", ironically using the ''real names'' of various 60s rock bands such as Music/TheWho.
373	* In the ''Diana: Warrior Princess'' spin-off ''Elvis: The Legendary Tours'' (a role-playing game based on an imaginary far-future TV series with ''massive'' amounts of FutureImperfect), Music/ElvisPresley's EvilTwin is the SinisterMinister Abbot Costello (which is also a sideways reference to Music/ElvisCostello).
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376
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378	-->''"I don't care ''who''[='=]s on first!\

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