Kitty: Isn’t this funny?
Diggins: It’s corny.
This should have been the tag line for the Glove Slingers series. I don’t share the same hatred towards this short that Paul does...but it’s still not a good short.
On the positive side, Shemp has a few funny scenes, mainly in the kitchen, and his and the other students’ comments on how terrible the cake was also got a laugh out of me. But otherwise, it’s very clichéd, the “coughing up feathers” gag is very awkwardly paced (despite the funny comments), and the acting is a step down from the first one. Give the first one credit, at least it tried to go in a different direction than usual for White, but here, with a Columbia stock gag taking up a good portion of the short, you get the sense that White is now trying to play it safe. It baffles me that this series continued for so long.
3 out of 10
"Professor Whiz" is the same person that played the announcer broadcasting the hanging scene in IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE.
Also the voice of Mickey Mouse on Disney’s weekly radio series (ironic considering I just switched my profile picture to Mickey).