The Extra-Quick Lunch

19181918
6m

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

112

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

438,445

271,700

Animation Comedy Short

A customer arrives at a restaurant in which Mutt is the waiter, and Jeff is the cook. The customer orders oxtail soup, and then argues with Mutt when it turns out to contain no actual tail. ... Read allA customer arrives at a restaurant in which Mutt is the waiter, and Jeff is the cook. The customer orders oxtail soup, and then argues with Mutt when it turns out to contain no actual tail. After Mutt then attends, with some difficulty, to two other customers, he takes an order f... Read allA customer arrives at a restaurant in which Mutt is the waiter, and Jeff is the cook. The customer orders oxtail soup, and then argues with Mutt when it turns out to contain no actual tail. After Mutt then attends, with some difficulty, to two other customers, he takes an order for pancakes from an attractive woman. When the pancakes arrive, she is dissatisfied with t... Read all

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

112

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

438,445

271,700

Directors
- Charles R. Bowers
- Bud Fisher
Writer
- Bud Fisher(comic strip Mutt and Jeff)

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Has Some Interesting Features

Although somewhat plain overall, this Charley Bowers/Mutt and Jeff feature has a number of interesting features. Bowers and Bud Fisher worked together on a great many animated features in this series, but almost nothing remains of them, making this a rare chance to see what the series was like. There are also at least a couple of good gags in this one that are interesting as previews of the material in some of Bowers's later movies.

All of the action takes place in a restaurant in which Jeff is the cook and Mutt is the waiter - and it is not long at all before things get out of hand. Some of the animated slapstick is a but routine, but a couple of things stand out. At least a couple of the gags involve the kind of gadgetry that Bowers later used to great effect in some of his own films, and in particular there are one or two specific gags that he used in a more elaborate form in "He Done His Best".

The gag with the woman's pancakes is also of interest, because it shows, in a simpler way, the kind of unexpected transformation that Bowers would later perfect and use as part of some of his best visual effects.

All of these features make this otherwise unexceptional little movie worth seeing, at least for those who enjoy Bowers's later, marvelously inventive features.

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