If a Body Meets a Body (1945)

Moe Pink: Hark, who goes there?
Curly Q. Link: Friend or enemy?
Larry Mink: Give us the countersign.
Moe Pink, Curly Q. Link, Larry Mink: [Detective slaps all three of them] Pass, friend.

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Curly Q. Link: Pardon me, I...
Detective: Who're you?
Curly Q. Link: [indignantly] I'm Curly Q. Link!
Detective: Oh, you're the missing Link!
Curly Q. Link: No, I'm da found Link! Nyuk nyuk nyuk!

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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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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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