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1. Love blooms in a tenement garden in this Romeo and Juliet story. Buster and Virginia are in love, but their parents disapprove. Big Joe Roberts as the girl's father battles Buster's on-screen and real-life father, Joe Keaton. In which short do The Flying Escalantes add their acrobatic skills?
2. To forget his beloved, who has jilted him, Buster puts to sea. He's taken aboard a whaling ship. Gags include Captain Joe's habit of tossing crewmen overboard for the slightest infraction (tossing wreaths after them). What film has Buster getting blown sky-high by Naval target practice?
3. Buster's favorite comic foil, Big Joe Roberts, plays his boss in this film, set in a combination garage and smithy. Buster uses a helium balloon to substitute for a jack stand, trashes a Cadillac, and leaves his greasy hand prints all over a beautiful white horse. What film ends with Buster pulling the shade as his wife puts the baby to bed?
4. Buster and his pal share a one-room house, where the one room is every room. The bed converts to an organ. The phonograph converts to a stove. The couch converts to a bathtub. But trouble brews when both roommates love the farmer's daughter. Which film leaves Buster both drenched and newly married in the end?
5. This spoof of melodramatic westerns exists only in fragments. Buster holds up a saloon with a cut-out partner, shoots the wrong couple, and courts a woman who is not his wife. Which film is unique in presenting Buster as the bad guy?
6. We start with Buster's unsuccessful attempts to end his wretched life. But the streetcar won't run him down, the safe won't fall on him, and he can't even hang himself properly. What film leaves Buster in a predicament that leaves him no choice but offer to hunt up a wild armadillo?
7. Buster is a bank teller, and a sucker for a pretty girl. When he follows bank robbers to their hideout, all sorts of trouble ensues. What film leaves Buster facing stern judgment in the end?
8. The natives are restless after white men try to steal their land. Buster bungles to the rescue. A lot of the gags involve tremendous falls -- off a cliff, through a broken bridge, and in a leap from a tree. In the end, Buster's efforts leave him in great peril, but eventually save the day. Which short was a feather in Buster's porkpie hat?
9. How many Busters can one movie hold? More than two dozen, if it's this film! Buster is the orchestra and the orchestra leader, the stage hand, the minstrels, and the entire audience. Which film made movie magic with multiple Busters?
10. Buster gets the wrong diploma, and with it, a job offer he can't refuse. But since he lacks the requisite skills, everything goes wrong. Even in real life, things went badly amiss for Buster, since one of his masterpieces malfunctioned and left Buster with a broken ankle. Which short left Buster busted?
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ubermom
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