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1. In this film, Buster and Roscoe play mechanics who are also firemen. Buster drinks wood alcohol, shimmies up a firehouse pole upside down, and gets stuck on a rapidly spinning turntable. He also gets his trousers chewed off by Luke, the Comique dog, and dons a kilt cut off a billboard to avoid being arrested for indecent exposure. Which film is this?
2. This film has Buster working at a general store, along with Roscoe, who is also the postman. In the closing gag, Buster encourages Roscoe to eat a plate of onions to strengthen his voice for a talent show -- leading everybody to turn their backs on Roscoe when he's accused of stealing $300 from a registered letter. Which film is this?
3. This movie has Buster playing a stagehand who must help Roscoe and Al defeat an enraged strong man. We see the first instance of the falling wall gag that Buster will eventually scale up to the massive falling facade scene in "Steamboat Bill Jr." (1928), though this time the wall falls on Roscoe, not Buster. Buster also does an early version of his "Princeess Rajah" dance, and shimmies when Roscoe tells him to shiver. Which film is this?
4. In this, his film debut, Buster Keaton starts out as a customer in a general store, then turns kidnapper at the behest of Al St. John, who is trying to snatch Roscoe's girlfriend from her boarding school. Roscoe and Al cross-dress and Buster does a bit of a break dance. Which film is this?
5. Buster plays a delivery boy turned cop in this film, which starts with Roscoe setting his bed on fire. Roscoe also flirts with the maid and raises the ire of his wife and mother-in-law. We see Buster smile when he does a bit of flirting with the pretty maid, then he joins in some Keystone Kops antics with Al St. John and another man as they respond to a robbery at Roscoe's house. Which film is this?
6. Buster Keaton reprises his role as a delivery boy in this film, which features Roscoe Arbuckle as a soda jerk at a drug store. This time it's Buster, rather than Al or Roscoe, in women's clothes -- Alice Mann's clothes, to be exact. Al and his gang, intending to kidnap Alice, end up kidnapping Buster by mistake. Which film is this?
7. Buster and Roscoe are law enforcement, out to break up Al's illegal business. Buster falls off a cliff and brings Roscoe's pants with him. In the surviving 16mm version, Buster also turns into a monkey and a girl falls in love with Roscoe in a hurry. The best known gag, though, is the insane clown car gag, in which nearly two dozen men pile out of one car. Which film is this?
8. In this film, Buster plays Roscoe's son. Roscoe is an abusive father, frequently making Buster cry grotesquely. But Buster also laughs at a horse that runs the wrong way on the race track. Alas for Buster -- he's laughing at the horse his father had bet on, losing the last of the family money. But Al lost all his money, too, which he means to recoup by robbing Roscoe's family. Which film is this?
9. In this film, Buster starts out with the girl, but loses her to Al who loses her to Roscoe, who is hiding from his wife. This film features a cross-dressing Roscoe, looking quite fetching in a woman's bathing costume. Buster turns lifeguard and treats us to an impromptu standing backflip. When Buster reveals Roscoe's true identity to his wife, a fight breaks out that leaves an opening for Buster to get his girl back. Which film is this?
10. In this movie, both Buster and Roscoe dance for us in their own version of Egyptian style. But when Al St. John manhandles Alice, the gloves come off. Buster, Roscoe, and Luke take action. We see a Keaton laugh as Luke the Dog swings around from Al St. John's bottom, and a Keaton smile as Roscoe snips a strand of spaghetti. Luke the Dog really shows off his talents, climbing a tall ladder to chase Al.
11. This film features Buster as a doctor and Roscoe as the patient at his sanitarium. Roscoe's not there willingly -- his wife brought him there to dry him out after he came home with an organ grinder and a monkey. Roscoe, dressed as a woman to try to sneak out, flirts with Dr. Buster, eliciting a Keaton smile. Too bad Buster leans on a door and falls right through -- giving a lady patient a chance to bean him on the dome with a pitcher!
12. We see Buster and Roscoe spring cleaning: Buster by diligently polishing non-existent glass, and Roscoe by scrubbing and mopping while sitting down. Roscoe's barbering skills transform Rasputin into General Grant, Abe Lincoln, and Kaiser Wilhelm. Buster gets caught first in a stuck elevator, then on elk antlers. Then Buster and Al, sent to fake a bank robbery, break up a real bank robbery in their own acrobatic way. Which film is this?
13. Roscoe the drifter ends up dumped near Buster's saloon. A cigar-smoking, top-hatted Buster shoots a man for cheating at cards, the rolls his body through a trap door in the floor. Roscoe gets a horse drunk. And Al, it turns out, is a tough man who can't be defeated with bottles or bullets, but is helpless when tickled. Which film is this?
14. Though the Internet Movie Database lists Buster Keaton in an uncredited and unidentified role in this film, Buster wasn't really in it at all. It features Roscoe as a wayward husband, and Al St. John as the man whose girl Roscoe steals a kiss from -- only to have his attempt at infidelity captured by a newsreel cameraman. In the climax, Roscoe and Al fight both on the screen and in the aisle of a crowded movie theater. Which film is this?
15. With Buster in France with the Army, Roscoe and Al enlist Monty Banks to fill out the cast of this movie. Roscoe loves the farmer's daughter, but the farmer wants her to marry Al, whose father has promised him a nice chunk of land in exchange for a bride. But with the men falling down the well and getting into a massive broom-fight, is there any time for romance?
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