Short
Thicker
Both words in one sentence
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A variation of this tends to happen in Time Squad, for example where the Power Trio must help Confucius, who instead of writing short maxims to express his Aesops, writes books thicker than a dictionary to convey them.
- At the end of the Laurel and Hardy short Thicker Than Water, after a botched blood transfusion, the two have swapped to each other's mannerisms (as well as hairstyle, and Hardy's mustache).
Source: Personality Swap -
The Laurel and Hardy short Thicker Than Water parodied the wipes by having Ollie reach out to the edge of the frame and physically drag the new scene across the screen as he and Stan exit.
Source: Idiosyncratic Wipes
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