Larry is in a restaurant kitchen cooking up some rabbit and hot dogs for a couple of customers. Yum Yum! A cat shows up and he chases it away just so he can pick it up and bring it back to the kitchen. A dog then shows up and he chases it away. Why? So he can grab it and bring it back to the kitchen.
The contrived plot has Moe, Curly and the two customers all thinking that Larry has just butchered the cat and dog and is serving them as dinner. They hear dog and cat noises each time they start to eat the food. Um, excuse me, but isn't that a total ripoff of a famous Lou Costello scene a few years earlier. Yeah! Poor Lou thought that his steak was actually a cat and he kept hearing meows and purrs that he thought was coming from the pieces of meat on his plate. Nice ripoff Stooges!
The highlight of the short comes when the film makers actually tie something around a cat and viciously yank it upwards in order to get it to shriek in pain. Fun for the whole family! The only positive thing to say about "Malice In The Palace" is that their signature idiotic slapping and eye-poking is kept to a minimum here. I'm thankful for that small miracle.
The contrived plot has Moe, Curly and the two customers all thinking that Larry has just butchered the cat and dog and is serving them as dinner. They hear dog and cat noises each time they start to eat the food. Um, excuse me, but isn't that a total ripoff of a famous Lou Costello scene a few years earlier. Yeah! Poor Lou thought that his steak was actually a cat and he kept hearing meows and purrs that he thought was coming from the pieces of meat on his plate. Nice ripoff Stooges!
The highlight of the short comes when the film makers actually tie something around a cat and viciously yank it upwards in order to get it to shriek in pain. Fun for the whole family! The only positive thing to say about "Malice In The Palace" is that their signature idiotic slapping and eye-poking is kept to a minimum here. I'm thankful for that small miracle.