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[[File:the_boat_5161.jpg|frame|Amazingly, [[It Gets Worse]].]]
{{quote|''Eight bells and all's NOT well.''|'''opening title'''}}
Family man [[Buster Keaton]] wants to take his brood on a cruise in his homemade boat, but first he has to get it out of the basement and afloat, and then...
''[[The Boat]]'' can be viewed at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyToeE5Lh9s YouTube]
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* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: Buster & Family are seemingly unmoved by the destruction of their house.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Just before the boat is launched, we see its name painted on the prow: "Damfino." Guess what's the punchline to the whole film?
* [[Bumbling Dad]]
* [[Cool Boat]]: The masts and smokestack of the ''Damfino'' are collapsible, for passing under low bridges.
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: The newly launched ''Damfino'' sinks like a stone, Buster standing in the bow the whole time. (Possibly the inspiration for Captain Jack Sparrow's entrance in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]].'')
* [[Curious
* [[Death
* [[Didn't Think This Through]]
** Getting the boat out of the basement. See picture.
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* [[Distress Call]]
* [[Double Take]]
* [[Dragged
* [[Dutch Angle]]: Used to depict the ''Damfino'' going uphill.
* [[Epic Fail]]
* [[Fade to Black]]
* [[Fake Action Prologue]]: We open below decks on a storm-tossed boat -- wait, no we don't.
* [[Going Down
* [[Grievous Bottley Harm]]: The wife's first attempt to christen the ''Damfino'' leaves the bottle intact and the keel dented.
* [[Harmless Electrocution]]
* [[Help, I'm Stuck!]]: Buster accidentally lowers a smokestack over one of his sons.
* [[Human Ladder]]: Buster acts as one for his son as they're trying to climb back on board the ''Damfino.''
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]
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* [[Irony]]: See [[Super Drowning Skills]], below. Also, the anchor ''floats.''
* [[It Got Worse]]: First, extracting the boat from the basement destroys the house. Then, the car goes in the water. Then the boat sinks during its launch. Then a storm hits while the family is aboard. Then one of the boys [[Visual Pun|pulls the plug]] of the bathtub the family is using as a lifeboat...
* [[It Was a Dark
* [[Law of Disproportionate Response]]: Buster seems far more perturbed by the loss of his lifeboat (which he promptly replaces with a bathtub) than the collapse of his house.
* [[Lethal Chef]]: The pancakes are too tough to cut, and Buster uses one to patch a hole in the hull.
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* [[Murphy's Bed]]: Actually, a Murphys Bunk.
* [[Not Quite Dead]]
* [[Painted Tunnel, Real Train]]: Evoked when Buster nails a seascape to the cabin wall and water begins running out from beneath.
* [[Ribbon
* [[Slapstick]]
* [[The Stoic]]: Buster, while [[Going Down
* [[Stop Drowning and Stand Up]]
* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: The ''boat,'' at least at first. Also the life preservers.
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