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Brats
Directed by	James Parrott
Produced by	Hal Roach
Written by	Leo McCarey H.M. Walker (titles)
Starring	Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy
Music by	Leroy Shield (1937 reissue)
Cinematography	George Stevens
Editing by	Richard C. Currier
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	March 22, 1930
Running time	20:43
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Blotto
Followed by	Below Zero

Brats is a 1930 Laurel and Hardy comedy short. The film was directed by James Parrott. Laurel and Hardy play dual roles as their own children.

Brats was one of four Laurel and Hardy sound shorts reissued in 1937 with new background music scores by Leroy Shield. The others were Blotto, County Hospital and Perfect Day.

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3 Goofs
4 Special Effects
5 Quotes
6 External links

Plot

Laurel and Hardy are spending a night in with the kids. The fathers are playing checkers and snooker, but are constantly distracted by their own incompetence and by their children, constantly bullying each other and trying to stay up late.

Trivia

The second and other Laurel and Hardy film with no co-stars (the first was Early to Bed).
The only Laurel and Hardy film where they play natural fathers.
A German version was made, but is not known to have survived.
One of three Laurel and Hardy films where the two appear in double roles: the others were Twice Two (where they play themselves and their wives) and Our Relations (where they play themselves and their long-lost twins).
The photograph on the wall is of Jean Harlow.

Goofs

The moves in the checkers games don't make any sense.
When Hardy tumbles down the stairs, it's an obvious dummy.

Special Effects

The illusion of Laurel and Hardy as children was achieved using over-sized furniture.
The mouse that Stan Jr. nearly shoots with a pellet gun was animated.

Quotes

Stan: You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.

Stan: If you must make a noise, make it quietly.

Ollie: Will you brats keep quiet? How do you expect me to concentrate?

Stan Jr.: But Oliver won't let me play with my blocks! Ollie: (To Ollie Jr.) Will you leave Stanley alone, and play quietly?

Stan: Oliver, will you stop throwing things?

External links

Brats at the Internet Movie Database

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Silent short films (Starring roles)	The Lucky Dog (1921) • Duck Soup (1927) • Slipping Wives (1927) • Love 'em and Weep (1927) • Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) • With Love and Hisses (1927) • Sugar Daddies (1927) • Now I'll Tell One (1927) • Sailors, Beware! (1927) • The Second Hundred Years (1927) • Hats Off (1927) • Do Detectives Think? (1927) • Putting Pants on Philip (1927) • The Battle of the Century (1927) • Leave 'Em Laughing (1928) • Flying Elephants (1928) • The Finishing Touch (1928) • From Soup to Nuts (1928) • You're Darn Tootin' (1928) • Their Purple Moment (1928) • Should Married Men Go Home? (1928) • Early to Bed (1928) • Two Tars (1928) • Habeas Corpus (1928) • We Faw Down (1928) • Liberty (1929) • Wrong Again (1929) • That's My Wife (1929) • Big Business (1929) • Double Whoopee (1929) • Bacon Grabbers (1929) • Angora Love (1929)

Talking short films (Starring roles)	Unaccustomed As We Are (1929) • Berth Marks (1929) • Men O' War (1929) • Perfect Day (1929) • They Go Boom (1929) • The Hoose-Gow (1929) • Night Owls (1930) • Blotto (1930) • Brats (1930) • Below Zero (1930) • Hog Wild (1930) • The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930) • Another Fine Mess (1930) • Be Big! (1931) • Chickens Come Home (1931) • Laughing Gravy (1931) • Our Wife (1931) • Come Clean (1931) • One Good Turn (1931) • Beau Hunks (1931) • Helpmates (1932) • Any Old Port! (1932) • The Music Box (1932) • The Chimp (1932) • County Hospital (1932) • Scram! (1932) • Their First Mistake (1932) • Towed in a Hole (1932) • Twice Two (1933) • Me and My Pal (1933) • The Midnight Patrol (1933) • Busy Bodies (1933) • Dirty Work (1933) • Oliver the Eighth (1934) • Going Bye-Bye! (1934) • Them Thar Hills (1934) • The Live Ghost (1934) • Tit for Tat (1935) • The Fixer Uppers (1935) • Thicker than Water (1935)

Short films (As guests)	45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926) • Call of the Cuckoo (1927) • The Stolen Jools (1931) • On the Loose (1931) • Wild Poses (1933) • On the Wrong Trek (1936) • The Tree in a Test Tube (1942)

Feature films (Starring roles)	Pardon Us (1931) • Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) • Fra Diavolo/ The Devil's Brother/Bogus Bandits (1933) • Sons of the Desert (1933) • Babes in Toyland (1934) • Bonnie Scotland (1935) • The Bohemian Girl (1936) • Our Relations (1936) • Way Out West (1937) • Swiss Miss (1938) • Block-Heads (1938) • The Flying Deuces (1939) • A Chump at Oxford (1940) • Saps at Sea (1940) • Great Guns (1941) • A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) • Air Raid Wardens (1943) • Jitterbugs (1943) • The Dancing Masters (1943) • The Big Noise (1944) • Nothing But Trouble (1944) • The Bullfighters (1945) • Atoll K / Utopia (1951)

Feature films (As guests)	The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) • The Rogue Song (1930) • Hollywood Party (1934) • Pick a Star (1937)

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