[Inspector Abberline]

Im not sure who came up with the double take and looks to the camera breaking the fourth wall,but Oliver Hardy was definitely a master of these comedy tricks,only equaled by James Finlayson and maybe Ricky Gervais or Martin Freeman or Eddie Murphy,any how you get the point.In the The Fixer Uppers Olly has plenty of opportunities to flex his comedy muscle,of course mostly due to Stan rubbing him up the wrong way.Also Stan gets to expand on one of his cunning plans,of course when ever he has to repeat said plan it usually goes horribly wrong with Olly seemingly understanding every word,even if it is totally inexplicable. The duo are out selling Christmas cards,(for some reason everything has gone Parisian,Im assuming because the French are always dueling perhaps),and after a rather successful sales pitch to professional drunkard Arthur Housman,they come across the sobbing Mae Busch who is having some marital problems with her artist husband played by Charles Middleton.This is where Stan come's up with the plan of trying to make her husband jealous by catching her with another man,after trying to explain how he heard of a similar story.The Fixer Uppers has some great moments,whether its Stan kissing Mae Busch until she faints,or Stan and Ollie waking up in an unfamiliar bed,until they realise that there back in the bedroom of Mae and her jealous husband.It all gets a bit farcical towards the end,with prat falls and some rather unconvincing acting from Olly as he fakes his death while having a duel.Still it has one of those typically memorable endings that stick in your mind well after you have seen it,even if its only Olly covered in rubbish in the back of horse drawn garbage cart.