If a Body Meets a Body (1945)

Curly Q. Link: It's dark in here!
Moe Pink: I can see the darkness!
[finds Curly standing on his and Larry's shoulders]
Moe Pink: Oh it's you! Boy will you come on?
Curly Q. Link: [gets down] I don't like darkness!

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Moe Pink: [finds a horseshoe in his soup] Why you numbskull, we sent you to the butcher shop for meat, not the glue factory.
[hits Curly with the horseshoe]
Larry Mink: He's trying to poison us, that's what.
Moe Pink: You get out of this house before I split your throat from ear to ear you Lucrezia Borgia.
Curly Q. Link: If that means what I think it does...
Moe Pink: So what?
Curly Q. Link: So I'll go.

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Curly Q. Link: [reading his uncle's will] "To my niece, Elisa Link, I leave one million, two hundred fifty thousand dollars. To my nephew, Curly Q. Link..." That's me! That's me!
Larry Mink: Yes! Yes!
Moe Pink: How much. How much?
Curly Q. Link: "To my nephew, Curly Q. Link, I leave a sum total of sixty seven cents, net."
Moe Pink: [in despair] Sixty seven cents!
Curly Q. Link: Sixty seven cents!
Larry Mink: Sixty seven cents!
[they hit each other, pull out their own hair and say it over and over again until fade out]

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This has a plot identical to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's short The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case. Fred Kelsey even plays a domineering detective in both shorts.
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