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1* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Neil Brand's score for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z_Tl-1CthM You're Darn Tootin[='=]]]'', written for the 2006 documentary "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-muqmmjGvW0 Paul Merton's Silent Clowns]]".
2* FanNickname: "The Boys" is a collective nickname for the duo.
3* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Stan Laurel as Lord Paddington in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvO0E_8JUk0 A Chump at Oxford]]''. Oliver Hardy alongside Creator/JohnWayne in ''The Fighting Kentuckian''.
4* HilariousInHindsight: Where ''The Flying Deuces'' concludes with [[spoiler: Hardy dying and coming back as a horse]] was done for a combination of Tearjerker, Heartwarming, DarkerAndEdgier and pure silliness; nowadays a [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic particular group]] of [[FanWorks fanfiction]] writers would consider it to be a fairly typical setup.
5* HoYay: Yes, but really only by today's standards; the notion that "close friends of the same sex = homosexual tension" is a modern idea that would have never occurred to Stan and Babe.
6** However, the silent short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cyKRNCWZN8 Liberty]]'' involves them breaking out of prison, changing out of their uniforms and into civilian clothes, getting each other's pants by mistake, and then repeatedly being caught in public dropping their pants while trying to swap them, leading to hilarious amounts of NotWhatItLooksLike.
7** And at the end of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scnFp2s28g8 Our Wife]]'' Stan and Ollie do somehow end up married. ItMakesSenseInContext.
8** Especially in one scene in ''Beau Hunks'' where Ollie caresses Stan's foot, [[EpicFail thinking that it's his foot]]. Then it starts getting hilarious when he blows on Stan's toes ''for no reason''.
9** In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ID7mgfUcI Busy Bodies]]'', Stan tries to get Ollie's hands out of a wooden window frame, and it looks like he's twerking the camera.
10** ''Their First Mistake'' probably has the most Ho Yay out of everything they made.
11*** One scene has Stan and Ollie rolling around on Stan's bed like bored kids. And then they start talking about the argument Ollie has just had with his wife, and this happens.
12--->'''Ollie''': She says I think more of you than I do of her.
13--->'''Stan''': Well you do, don't you?
14--->'''Ollie''': Well, we won't go into that.
15*** When the solution to Ollie's marital problems (according to Stan) is to adopt a baby, they return to surprise Ollie's wife with the new baby, only to find her gone. It is revealed that she wants to divorce Ollie, and is suing Stan for ''the alienation of Ollie's affections!'' And when Stan tries to leave too, it leads to the following exchange which has hilarious amounts of DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything.
16--->'''Stanley''': Well, I'll be seeing you.
17--->'''Oliver''': Where are you going?
18--->'''Stanley''': Just going down...
19--->'''Oliver''': Well you can't leave me alone here with this child.
20--->'''Stanley''': Why?
21--->'''Oliver''': Why? Well you're just as much responsible for it as I am.
22--->'''Stanley''': What have I got to do with it?
23--->'''Oliver''': What have you got to do with it? What have YOU got to do with it? Why you were the one who wanted me to have a baby, and now that you've gotten me into this trouble, you want to walk out and leave me flat.
24--->'''Stanley''': But I don't know anything about babies.
25--->'''Oliver''': Well you should have thought of that before we got it.
26--->'''Stanley''': I don't wanna get mixed up in this thing. I've got my future, my career to think of.
27--->'''Oliver''': Your career. What about me? What will my friends say? Why I'll be ostricized.
28--->'''Stanley''': Well I don't want to lose my hook, line and sinker.
29--->'''Oliver''': So, you're going to desert me, just when I need you most.
30--->[''Stan hurtles towards the door, Ollie runs and beats him to it'']
31--->'''Oliver''': You're not leaving this room.
32** It's common for Stan and Ollie to share a bed in a totally platonic way, but when sometimes when they sleep together, they look a little too cosy...
33*** A brief scene in the trenches in ''Pack Up Your Troubles'' has Stan and Ollie sharing a small bed together. Their limbs are tangled up, Ollie is practically laying on Stan, and their feet are entwined around a hot water bottle. It's adorable.
34*** From the afore mention ho yay-athon that is ''Their First Mistake', there is a scene towards the end where Ollie, Stan and the baby are all fast asleep, only for the baby to start crying. Half asleep, Ollie shoves the bottle into Stan's mouth, and wraps his arm around him, pulling him close.
35* IronWoobie: ''Stan''. He goes through HUGE amounts of physical and verbal abuse at the hands of Ollie, and yet is still patient and often [[TranquilFury retaliates]] in a tit-for-tat way.
36* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler: Ollie dies for real in ''The Flying Deuces''.]] [[spoiler: Cut to Stan, now poor, wandering along a country lane...then comes Ollie reincarnated as a (rather cross) horse.]]
37* MemeticMutation: Stan's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrYVzb5KAU magic thumb lighter]]" from ''Way Out West'' is the subject of [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/Laurel-y-Hardy-en-la-modernidad-283125666 many]] [[http://princesstigerlili.deviantart.com/art/Laurel-and-Hardy-71906606 fanart]]. Similarly is a well known [[http://worldcinemaparadise.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Laurel-and-Hardy-Shh.jpg picture]] of the duo putting their fingers to their mouths to say "SSH!"-It even provides the main page image!
38** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpc9fxkuV6o dance]] the two do in ''Film/WayOutWest'' has been [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkZGg0qNdCc remixed]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL3mHPmNKRE several]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VR-eeTlJkw times]] on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1tkXHr2y6s Youtube.]]
39** "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
40** From ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqG5EP-Tsh4 Brats:]]'' "You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be ''lead.''"
41* {{Moe}}: Stan for the most part, due to his adorable smile and the fact that he is the more [[ManChild child-like]] of the duo. Ollie could also be regarded as a big, cuddly, ''very'' grumpy teddy bear.
42* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: An in-universe example-in ''Beau Hunks'', it's the sound of Laurel and Hardy coming to help the trapped and outnumbered garrison at Fort Arid (who think reinforcements have arrived.)
43* OlderThanTheyThink: Long before anyone had heard of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]], the exasperated cry of "D'oh!" was a trademark of frequent L&H foil [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Finlayson_(actor) Jimmy Finlayson.]]
44* RetroactiveRecognition:
45** A very young Creator/JeanHarlow briefly appears in three 1929 shorts.
46** A young Creator/RobertMitchum has a small, uncredited role as a gangster posing as an insurance salesman in ''The Dancing Masters''.
47** One of the university students who prank Stan and Ollie in ''A Chump at Oxford'' is played by a young Creator/PeterCushing.
48* SeasonalRot: It is near universal consensus that the films Laurel and Hardy made from 1941 to 1951, after they parted from Hal Roach, are poor and don't stand up to their 1930s work.
49* SoOkayItsAverage: The 1960s animated series by Creator/HannaBarbera is widely seen as being this. Most would agree that it's a perfectly competent series in its own right, but one that doesn't do much to stand out from other animated shows that were being made at the same time, and only very vaguely captures the essence of the duo's comedy.
50* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The films being made and set in TheRoaringTwenties and TheGreatDepression some 90 to 80 years ago naturally come off as this.
51** From ''[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xt0rmc_laurel-and-hardy-sugar-daddies-1927-silent-full_shortfilms Sugar Daddies]]'', amusement parks used to have rides where people were rolled around in spinning cylinders with no seatbelts or seats.
52** From ''Putting Pants on Phillip'', pants were not often mass-produced in assorted standard sizes, so men had to often go the nearest tailor for a custom fitting.
53** Laughing gas was commonly used by dentists.
54** Men slept in nightshirts a lot more frequently than today.
55** To start a Ford Model T, a crank needed to be turned, like a clockwork robot toy.
56** 78 RPM records were fragile and broke easily, as seen in ''Liberty'' and ''Unaccustomed As We Are''.
57** It was necessary to strike a match in order to turn on a stove, as seen in ''[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xt0rxi_laurel-and-hardy-unaccustomed-as-we-are-1929-full_shortfilms Unaccustomed As We Are]].''
58*** And the matches themselves tended to be the "strike anywhere" type that could be lit on, say, the back of one's pants.
59** ''Film/SapsAtSea'' shows an early electric hearing aid in 1940.
60* ValuesDissonance:
61** ''Bonnie Scotland'' has not aged well at all--it was set during a time when the British Empire still ruled, and it shows the mutinying Indians as [[DesignatedVillain evil villains]], [[UnintentionallySympathetic when they were in fact fighting against British racism themselves]]. Similarly, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGj5UIrabD0 Pardon Us]]'' has the boys donning ''blackface makeup'' to hide on a suspiciously happy cotton plantation.
62** Less egregiously, ''Chickens Come Home'' has mayoral candidate Ollie being blackmailed by an old flame, with the implication that merely having once had an out-of-wedlock sexual relationship--not even an affair, as he clearly states that it happened before he was married--would be seen as a shocking past indiscretion that could cost him the race.

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