In Popular Culture
A series of TV ads for Amco windshield wipers featured character actors Chuck McCann and Jim McGeorge, as Laurel & Hardy. One of the ads in question referred to this film by portraying them trying to safely deliver a piano.
A scene from the film appeared on a movie screen in the February 3, 2011 edition of the Luann comic strip.
Ray Bradbury's short story The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair from the collection The Toynbee Convector features the stairs prominently as the catalyst for the beginning of a love affair between a couple who affectionately refer to each other as 'Stan' and 'Ollie'. His short story Another Fine Mess from the collection Quicker Than the Eye features the ghosts of Laurel and Hardy haunting the staircase by replaying the scene.
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