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[[File:Monkey Business lobby card 2.jpg|thumb|400px|Our stowaways.]]
''[[Monkey Business]]'' is a 1931 comedy film by the legendary [[Marx Brothers]], co-written with [[S. J. Perelman]].
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Like ''[[Duck Soup]]'', ''Monkey Business'' is much more anarchic and gag driven than later movies like ''[[A Night at the Opera]]'', which heavily feature romance and, well, [[Excuse Plot|plots]].
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* [[The Family for the Whole Family]]
* [[Punch and Judy]]: Harpo gets mixed up in a show.▼
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "You're a woman who's been getting nothing but dirty breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten your brakes, but you'll have to stay in the garage all night."
** [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: Thelma Todd died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 1935, found dead in a locked garage with a running vehicle. Circumstances were suspicious enough (she had blood on her face as if she had been struck) that it's been thought she was murdered.
▲* [[Punch and Judy]]: Harpo gets mixed up in a show.
* [[What an Idiot!]]: One of the mob leaders ''arms Harpo and Chico.''
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Harpo infiltrates a ''[[Punch and Judy]]'' show in progress, and starts controlling and imitating the puppets...so what happened to whoever was controlling them ''before'' he got involved?
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{{AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs}}
[[Category:Films of the 1930s]]
[[Category:Marx Brothers]]
▲[[Category:Comedy Films]]
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