07 November 1903 Comedy 3 mins
Buster Brown plays a practical joke on his mother, persuading her to to put her hands into a pan of lobsters, then puts a bunch of them in his father's bed. They made two versions of this gag. One where a lobster is pinching his butt, the other not. This one has the lobster clawing his backside.
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United States 07 November 1903
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01 January 1903
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31 December 1903
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18 January 1903
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06 December 1903
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01 January 1903
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18 July 1903
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