The WORST episodes of Laurel & Hardy
Every episode of Laurel & Hardy ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Laurel & Hardy!
The Laurel and Hardy Show is a series of short silent films which later led into talking short films and feature movies with the progression in sound technology. The show revolves around the duo getting into various situations that are often a bit unrealistic and silly. The main focus is on the two disagreeing so often that it got them into trouble on more than one occasion. 'The Laurel and Hardy Show' is a syndicated version of The Boys, seen weekly throughout the late 80s. Showcased collections of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's genius work, as well as featurettes ending each episode dediacted to the bit-players seen in many shorts. Distributed and made by Hal Roach.
#1 - The Devil's Brother
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/5/1933
Feature - Laurel and Hardy become accomplices to the most feared bandit in all of 18th century Italy.
#2 - Way Out West
Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/1937
Laurel and Hardy are hired to deliver the deed to a gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector.
#3 - Our Relations
Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1936
Two pairs of long-lost twin brothers experience high jinks involving a valuable ring, cases of mistaken identity, and gangsters.
#4 - The Bohemian Girl
Season 12 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/14/1936
Stan and Ollie, who is also married, are in a gipsy bunch. The lover of Ollie’s wife (Mae Busch) gets caught in the property of a count and therefore whipped. Ollie’s wife seeks for revenge, captures the counts little daughter, introduces it to Ollie as his daughter, let the child with him and runs away with her lover. Fifteen years later, the girl (Julie Bishop) is grown up, the Gipsies are again near the count's castle…
#5 - Bonnie Scotland
Season 11 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/1935
Stan and Ollie head to Scotland to collect Stan's inheritance, but accidently enlist in the Scottish army and become stationed in India.
#6 - Thicker Than Water
Season 11 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/16/1935
Stan unintentionally causes much anger between Ollie and his wife, eventually forcing him to donate blood to Ollie with unexpected results.
#7 - The Fixer Uppers
Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/9/1935
Failed greeting card salesmen Stan and Ollie are hired to romance a lonely wife and make her husband jealous.
#8 - Tit For Tat
Season 11 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1935
Stan and Ollie run a store, they try to sell electrical stuff. After opening they go to introduce themselves to the neighbour, Charlie Hall who runs a grocery store. When his wife (Mae Bush) interrupts they notice that they know each other already (Them thar hills), Mrs Hall and Stanley repeat their favourite song from that recent encounter, she sings, he falls in with Pompom. Since Mr Hall remains still angry the three men start by the usual Tit-for-tat-mode destroying several items in each store. In the mean time a thief is removing items from Stan and Ollie’s store, starting with little things and getting bigger and bigger.
#9 - Babes in Toyland
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/14/1934
In mythical Toyland, Laurel and Hardy try to prevent Mother Peep's house from being repossessed by evil Mr. Barnaby.
#10 - Them Thar Hills
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/21/1934
Because of an illness Oliver gets advised to spend some time in the mountains. Once there, Stan and Ollie prepare a meal inside a trailer, of course doing the usual goof stuff. Later Mr and Mrs Hall (Charlie Hall, Mae Bush) appear there because they just run out of fuel. While Mr Hall goes back to his car, Mrs Hall stays with the boys. They drink water from a well, unknowing that a gang previously poured cheap liquor into the well, considering the strange taste because of the iron in it. When Mr Hall returns, noticing all of them, including his wife, drunk and singing, they start arguing.
#11 - Going Bye-Bye!
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/23/1934
Laurel and Hardy testify against a convict and send him to prison for life. He soon escapes and comes looking for them.
#12 - The Live Ghost
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/8/1934
The captain of a haunted ship gets Laurel and Hardy to help him snatch a new crew.
#13 - Oliver The Eighth
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/1934
Laurel and Hardy play owners of a barber shop that compete for the hand of a rich widow who has place a personal ad for a new husband.
#14 - Sons of the Desert
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/29/1933
Laurel and Hardy lie to their wives and sneak away to attend a lodge convention in Chicago.
#15 - The Midnight Patrol
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/3/1933
Rookie cops Laurel & Hardy are put on night duty and end up mistaking their chief for a burglar.
#16 - Swiss Miss
Season 14 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/20/1938
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice. While visiting one village, a cheese shop owner cons them out of their wares with a bogus banknote, and they are forced to work as dishwashers in a nearby hotel after ordering a slap-up meal they are unable to pay for. A Viennese composer present at the hotel is disrupted by the presence of his wife - an opera singer who upstages him constantly; Ollie subsequently falls in love with her. After various adventures (including a confrontation with a gorilla on a perilously-perched rope bridge), the boys overpower the hotel's burly chef and leave the hotel and village, but only to discover the opera singer is indeed married to the composer and then be confronted by the vengeful gorilla (in crutches) before they depart.
#17 - Dirty Work
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/25/1933
Laurel and Hardy have more problems at work. This time they are hapless chimney sweeps.
#18 - Busy Bodies
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1933
Laurel and Hardy have a few problems at their job at the wood shop.
#19 - Me And My Pal
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/22/1933
Stanley gets his pal Ollie a jigsaw puzzle for a wedding gift. Instead of heading to the wedding the pals start working on the puzzle. They are soon joined by the driver, the butler and others leaving Ollie's bride-to-be and future father-in-law rather upset at the church.
#20 - Twice Two
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/24/1933
Laurel and Hardy fight with each other at work while their wives fight with each other at home. The boys are married to each other's sister and headed for home to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
#21 - Their First Mistake
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1932
Stan convinces Ollie to adopt a baby and suprise his wife.
#22 - Pack Up Your Troubles
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/17/1932
When their best friend is killed in the trenches in WW1, Stan and Ollie care for his daughter and attempt to locate her grandparents.
#23 - Scram!
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/10/1932
Laurel & Hardy are ordered out of town by mean Judge Beaumont. On their way out of town they help a drunk find his car keys, and he takes them to what he believes is his home, although it actually belongs to the judge.
#24 - The Chimp
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/21/1932
After the circus where they work goes bankrupt, Stan & Ollie recieve trained gorilla Ethel as compensation.
#25 - Towed In A Hole
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/31/1932
Laurel and Hardy try to increase their profit selling fish by fixing up an old boat to catch their own fish.