Review of Perfect Day

This is one of several L&H comedies I'm familiar with where the film ends with the boys, and sometimes others, in a car that sinks into a large water-filled hole in the road, usually where road work is being done. I would say this is an average L&H talkie comedy short. Edgar Kennedy also has a fairly important role, as Uncle Edgar, who lives with the Hardys, and is suffering form a severe case of gout, and has his foot well bandaged to minimize contact with other objects. Despite this protection, innumerable times during the film , he howls with pain from a physical assault. Even the dog, at one point, takes pleasure in using the bandage as a plaything, pulling at it........Kay Desly plays Mrs. Hardy, while Isabella Keth plays Mrs. Laurel. While they are included in many takes, they really have little to do, as the men monopolize the action and dialogue.........The film begins in the dining room. The boys have made a pile of sandwiches and Ollie is bringing them into the dining room on a tray. Unfortunately, the swinging door between the rooms hits Stan from behind, shoving him into Ollie, who drops the tray. A fight breaks out between the two, throwing sandwiches, pushing , etc.. The girls tell the boys to make up. On the surface they appear to acquiesce, but they're soon at each other's throats again. The changing expressions in Ollie's face are priceless.......But, their major difficulty in getting to a country picnic spot is the car. Optimistically, they wave goodbye to the neighbors about 100X, which gets wearing. But, the car immediately runs over a nail, and the back tire goes flat. As you can imagine, the boys have a heck of a time changing the tire. Several times, a cloud of smoke emanates from just in front of the driver, usually accompanied by a bang. Ollie tells Stan to throw out the clutch. Of course, he undoes the clutch and throws it on the road. When Stan forgets to let the carjack down, Ollie takes it and throws it far, going through a neighbor's window. The neighbor takes it and throws it through the windshield. Ollie throws it through another house window of the neighbor. The neighbor thows it through a window in Hardy's house. They stop when a minister walks by. The boys try to put their jackets back on, but keep inadvertently putting one arm in the jacket of the other. I've seen them do this gag in another film, and, for example, Harold Lloyd did it back in 1920, in "High and Dizzy". ......I saw the colorized version, at YouTube.