Saps at Sea (1941)

Oliver Hardy: Dinner! Oh, Mr. Nick? Dinner is served.
Nick Grainger, Escaped Convict: [enters and sits down] Well... looks good
[smells the fake dinner]
Nick Grainger, Escaped Convict: smells good, and I better it probably tastes good.
Oliver Hardy: Oh, you're going to like this. It's just like mother used to make.
Stanley Laurel: Oh, it's better than that.
Nick Grainger, Escaped Convict: [grins] Well, if it's that good,
[puts dinner on two plates and gives one to Stan, one to Ollie]
Nick Grainger, Escaped Convict: you eat it.

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Nick Grainger, Escaped Convict: [to Stan and Ollie] Excuse me, jitterbugs. Where you heading for?

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Nick Grainger, Escaped Convict: Just like mother used to make, eh, Dopey?
Stanley Laurel: [nods weakly]
Nick Grainger, Escaped Convict: Only better, right, Dizzy?
Oliver Hardy: [nods weakly]
Nick Grainger, Escaped Convict: [smirks] Have a meatball, Dizzy.
Oliver Hardy: [very weakly] Thank you.
Nick Grainger, Escaped Convict: [smirking] You're welcome.

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The film ends with "The Koo-koos" played in an ominous minor key. This is appropriate, since Stan and Ollie will share a cell with killer Nick Grainger.
The title was a pun on the 1937 film Souls at Sea, starring Gary Cooper, but the two films otherwise have nothing in common.
James Finlayson's and Charlie Hall's final film with Laurel and Hardy.
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