When the Three Stooges did it, at some point Curly would usually be seen nonchalantly strolling from one door to another, as if nothing unusual was happening.
Stangely, ever since Doctor Who did it, I had been thinking to ask where this originated.
FTR, my earliest example I can think of is The Monkees. I think they did it more than once.
This seems like it would have been a good silent film gag. I’ll bet it’s an old Keystone Cops bit.
He does use this other tune with a clarinet and and occasional trumpet with plunger mute. It’s more a vamp than a tune.
Buster Keaton did something similar (albeit with a stage set rather than a hallway) in the short “The Playhouse” in 1921.
didn’t they do this in an episode of Seinfeld with Jerry and Newman?
Fraiser had a marvelous scene set in a ski lodge, where everyone kept popping in and out of bedroom doors, looking for the person they wanted to sleep with and falsely thought said person wanted to sleep with them.
‘The Soul Mate’ - I think they were only running down various hallways in the building, not popping in or out of doors. I seem to remember Jerry catching Newman by hiding behind a corner and grabbing a out-of-breath Newman, but I could be misremembering…
Yes. Yes, it is. And it’s amazing.
There is a scene in “Looney Tunes: Back In Action” in which Elmer Fudd chases Bugs and Daffy in and out of famous works of art in the Louvre, such as The Scream and The Persistence of Memory. While not precisely a chase through doorways in a corridor, it is basically a similar concept as the chase goes in and out of paintings on opposing walls and in various directions across the museum floor.
Not a movie but a stage show at Tokyo DisneySea. There is a scene that has a chase through a “hallway” involving many doors.
From 2:40 on in this video:
I’m certain that it was done in an ‘original’ Doctor Who episode as well. I’m seeing Tom Baker, which would seem to fit. But I can’t for the life of me recall any more details in order to narrow it down to a particular story.
The cartoon (animated film?) Yellow Submarine has a scene like this.
Leading to Frasier’s pithy denoument line:
I seem to recall the gag being used in a somewhat forgettable 70’s Disney flick called No Deposit No Return, starring David Niven and Don Knotts. I could be wrong since I haven’t seen the movie since…oh…1981 or so.
It was used in the episode of Family Guy where Peter had a stroke from eating too many fast food burgers.