# Rediscovering the Marx brothers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 2, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-the-marx-brothers/386419 "2007-01-02T15:40:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-the-marx-brothers/386419/41 "2007-01-08T16:12:25Z")
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus] Groucho also had the utmost respect for Red Skelton, considering him the successor to Chaplin. [/QUOTE] I agree. Chaplin and Skelton are both annoying, over-rated and not very funny. I love the Paramount Marx Bros., but pretty much lose interest when they were sold to MGM, where Irving Thalberg had them neutered. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-the-marx-brothers/386419/42 "2007-01-08T16:13:39Z")
After countless viewings, I still laugh at the mirror scene in Duck Soup, but I gotta say my favorite MB bit is the scene with the pushcart vendors, with the swapping hats and Harpo wading in the lemonade. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-the-marx-brothers/386419/43 "2007-01-08T17:12:46Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] I agree. Chaplin and Skelton are both annoying, over-rated and not very funny. [/QUOTE] You missed “mawkish.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-the-marx-brothers/386419/44 "2007-01-08T19:09:09Z")
[QUOTE=t-bonham@scc.net] How about mentioning the elderly Groucho singing this on the Dick Cavet show. I remember that years later. (Though I think he adlibbed some of the lyrics.) [/QUOTE] I was expecting a play on this line (which I actually still don’t get, to tell you the truth): “I can’t think of the ending to this song.” “I can’t think of anything else.” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-the-marx-brothers/386419/45 "2007-01-08T21:13:16Z")
If you like the Marx Brothers, you’ll love [Faustfeathers](http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/faustplay.html)! It was my privilege to see this read by the author and some of his friends. One of th eguys did a **great** Groucho! At one int, two people each read two characters in a four-way conversation. As each person changed character, he also changed his hat or wig. Good times!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-the-marx-brothers/386419/46 "2007-01-08T21:18:47Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] “I can’t think of the ending to this song.” “I can’t think of anything else.” [/QUOTE] It’s actually “I can’t think of the finish”/“Funny, I can’t think of anything else.” Chico can’t remember how the song ends. Groucho hates Chico’s playing, so he can’t think of anything except the bliss he’ll feel when the song is over. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-the-marx-brothers/386419/47 "2007-01-09T01:26:36Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] “Mice don’t play music!” [It’s from Duck Soup] [/QUOTE] Right, but it’s the line about “memorize your name and throw my head away” that I can’t place. ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-the-marx-brothers/386419/48 "2007-01-09T03:12:37Z")
Groucho: (into the phone) He has a tapeworm! Groucho: (to Harpo) He [the manager] says the tapeworm will have to register! Groucho: No trains will be sold once the tickets leave the station! 😃 Marx Bros! The Tops! - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-the-marx-brothers/386419/49 "2007-01-09T05:08:40Z")
I have seen all the boys’ films, but rewatched a few of them on my DVR in the past few days. I was watching _At The Circus_, and noticed that the [film’s trivia section at IMDB](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0031060/trivia) states: “The scene in the midget’s trailer was the only time Harpo Marx was even vaguely heard on-screen (when he sneezes).” This strikes me as arguably wrong. First, it seemed to me that the sneeze in that scene was rather obviously dubbed in and not really Harpo’s voice. Second, in _A Night at the Opera_, when Harpo, Chico, and Allan Jones are thrown in the ship’s brig, Harpo is playing “Cosi Cosa” on a comb and tissue-paper kazoo, which is obviously his own real voice. I think this is the best example of Harpo’s voice in one of the films. I haven’t watched all of the films recently enough to recall other possible examples. **Exapno** , I’d appreciate your expert opinion on this subject. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-the-marx-brothers/386419.md?page=2)