![]() ![]() ![]() Harpo and Chico, from inside the room, keep adding hard boiled eggs to the request. The gag not only works on a physical level as people pile over one another in the room, but before the craziness commences, Groucho stands outside the room giving a ridiculously long lunch order to a waiter. Anyone studying the Marx Brothers’ influence on later generations of comedians can certainly point to this scene as one of the most prominent examples. The scene is quintessential Marx Brothers humor and is one of the most famous comedic moments in cinema history. The character of Driftwood is fully convincing in his absurdity-there is no doubt that he would invite endless streams of people into the crowded room and think nothing of the madness madness is his normal. The crowded stateroom scene is perhaps the most recognizable, in which Groucho’s character Otis Driftwood cordially invites person after person into his cabin, despite the fact a large steamer trunk sits in the middle of the room occupying almost all the space. A Night at the Opera (1935) contains a few of the Marx Brothers’ most iconic comedic gags, many of which are facilitated by Groucho. No matter what is happening, he’s Groucho.
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