21 December 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 does NOT have a lobster on his backside.
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United States 21 December 1903
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01 January 1903
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01 January 1903
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05 June 1903
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29 June 1903
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01 January 1903
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18 May 1903
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