Imitation of Wife

2015
24m

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Shooster thinks he can snag that big promotion by inviting the boss over for a home-cooked dinner. This does not sit well with Mrs. Shooster--especially when she learns Biffle is coming over... Read allShooster thinks he can snag that big promotion by inviting the boss over for a home-cooked dinner. This does not sit well with Mrs. Shooster--especially when she learns Biffle is coming over to help her cook.Shooster thinks he can snag that big promotion by inviting the boss over for a home-cooked dinner. This does not sit well with Mrs. Shooster--especially when she learns Biffle is coming over to help her cook.

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The women's shoes that Nick Santa Maria wore hurt his feet so badly that after the first day, he was allowed to wear normal shoes for the rest of the shoot except for a couple of master shots where his feet needed to be visible.

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References Dracula (1931)

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Dance of the Hours
Composed by Amilcare Ponchielli
Played during the cooking sequence (The title also functions as a pun, as there are frequent cutaways to the clock)

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6/10

It Seemed Like a good Idea at the Time, But That Was Eighty Years Ago

Do you remember the comedy short subjects that used to be part of every movie show, or are you not old enough to have to eat only pureed food? Nick Santa Maria and Will Ryan have invented two ex-Vaudevillians, Biffle and Shooster, who starred in many of them, creatures of puns, set phrases an Three-Stooges-like eyepokes and Michael Schlesinger, who has spent thirty years insisting that SHH! THE OCTOPUS is the greatest movie ever made, has written, directed and generally cajoled a lot of professionals who you would expect would have better things to do with their time into helping out with a series of shorts that recreate the lost children of Hollywood's Not-So-Golden Years.

This is a pastiche of those Laurel & Hardy movies -- and Charley Chase movies, and Edgar Kennedy movies and you name it movies -- in which the husband brings his husband home for dinner in order to win the promotion, only to have the wife walk out on him, whereupon the other one (usually Stan Laurel) dresses up like a woman. Glen Taranto does a dead-on imitation of comic foil Vernon Dent as the boss in this one.