The Garage
Sight gags and synchonized acrobatic gags from the comedy duo of Arbuckle and Keaton - lacking the wildness and zaniness that Al St. John contributed, but still funny. Dark comedy creeps in when Keaton's character is pleased with the effect of adding toxic wood alcohol (methanol) to his drink - a not uncommon practice in those days of Prohibition when industrial alcohol was all that was available. The practice results in blindness, respiratory paralysis, or death. And in 1927, the government increased the toxicity of such industrial alcohol “to root out a bad habit”, according to a Prohibition proponent - by “legalized murder.”, as it was described by a Prohibition opponent.