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3	''Coney Island'', aka ''Fatty at Coney Island'', is a 1917 film starring Creator/FattyArbuckle and a young Creator/BusterKeaton. This film, directed by Arbuckle, features Fatty as a HenpeckedHusband who escapes from his nagging wife for some fun at the famous Luna Park on Coney Island. Keaton plays a young man who wants to take his girl to the park, but doesn't have money for tickets, whereupon she goes to the park with another admirer. Said admirer is also an old friend of Fatty's wife. Fatty also hits on Buster's girlfriend after entering the park. HilarityEnsues.
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5	One of [[ThoseTwoActors fourteen films]] that Arbuckle and Keaton co-starred in before Keaton went solo and Arbuckle's career was destroyed by the Virginia Rappe scandal.
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10	* AmusementPark: Luna Park on Coney Island. The film starts with a lovely clip of the park lit up at night.
11	* AsideGlance / BreakingTheFourthWall: Fatty looks at the camera and winks a couple of times. Another time, when he is changing into a swimming suit, he signals the camera to pan up. (This was a recycled gag from earlier Arbuckle film ''Film/TheKnockout'').
12	* BeachBury: Fatty does this to himself to escape his nagging wife at the beach, using a periscope to confirm that she's left in search of him.
13	* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the original ending to the film Arbuckle approaches a well-dressed woman on the street. She turns and is revealed to be a Black woman. Arbuckle mugs for the camera and runs away in a parody of fear. This ending was considered racist even by mid-1920s standards, and so it was cut from the film.
14	* DisguisedInDrag: It's kind of accidental, as Fatty steals a woman's swimsuit after finding out that the rental counter doesn't have a men's swimsuit big enough for him. He also winds up grabbing the woman's wig and parasol, and puts the whole ensemble on.
15	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Keaton, at this early stage in his career, had not evolved the "[[TheStoic Great Stone Face]]" deadpan persona that he made famous in TheRoaringTwenties. Viewers more familiar with his later, more well-known work may be surprised to see a Keaton who cries, smiles, laughs hysterically, and mugs for the camera.
16	* LiteralAssKicking: In one scene Fatty stands between the other admirer and a cop, kicks the cop's butt, and ducks out of the way as the cop turns around and hits the other admirer.
17	* ManChild: Fatty is introduced at the beach, shoveling sand into a toy bucket with a plastic shovel.
18	* NamelessNarrative: Typical of silent pictures of the day. The guy hitting on Buster's girlfriend is here referred to as the "other admirer".
19	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: The other admirer is none too pleased to find out that Fatty's actually a man.

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