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Line 1: {{work\|One Week (1920 film)}} ~~{{trope}}~~ [[File:oneweek_5926.jpg\|frame\| Where's ''[[Extreme Makeover: Home Edition]]'' when you need them?]] {{quote\|''The wedding bells have such a sweet sound but such a sour echo.'' ~~{{quote~~\|''~~The wedding bells have such a sweet sound but such a sour echo.~~'~~'\|'''--~~ opening intertitle'''}} ''One Week'' is an 1920 short film starring [[Buster Keaton]] and Sybil Seely as newlyweds who receive a DIY portable house as a wedding gift. They spend a week assembling it with disastrous results thanks to sabotage by a rejected suitor, as well as their own hilarious ineptness. ''One Week'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2008. This film is in the public domain and can be viewed in its entirety at [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3147358394537366471 Google Video].▼ ▲This film is in the public domain and can be viewed in its entirety at [https://web.archive.org/web/20120523010534/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3147358394537366471 Google Video]. Has nothing to do with the [[Barenaked Ladies]] song. ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== "One Week" provides examples of: ===~~ * [[Agony of the Feet]]: Sybil stamps her foot ... onto her other foot, and makes the classic one-foot hopping exit. * [[Amusing Injuries]] * [[Anvil Onon Head]]: Buster is repeatedly flattened by a piano. * [[Aside Glance]]: Sybil grins at the audience while in the bath. * [[Bizarrchitecture]] Line 26 ⟶ 30: "I'll be right down!" The date of the housewarming party (see [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]], below). * [[Green -Eyed Monster]]: Hank. * [[Irony]]: The title on the sheet music placed on the piano, which has just made a crater in the floor? "The End of a Perfect Day." * [[It Got Worse]]: On top of everything else, they '''built the house on the wrong lot'''. Line 37 ⟶ 41: * [[Railroad Tracks of Doom]] * [[Read the Freaking Manual]]: Averted. The newlyweds did read the directions, but the parts had been renumbered. * [[Shout -Out]]: Keaton claimed the title was a reference to the 1907 novel ''Three Weeks,'' by Elinor Glyn. * [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: The housewarming party is on Friday the 13th. * [[Trash the Set]] Line 45 ⟶ 49: [[Category:National Film Registry]] [[Category:One Week]] [[Category:~~Trope~~Short Film]] [[Category:Silent Movie]] [[Category:Film]]