stan laurel and oliver hardy have extensive ( separate ) film career before they be eventually team . for many of ollie pre stan film and he be bill on screen a babe hardy . and throughout his adult life and hardy be know to his friend a babe . while tour postwar britain with laurel in a music hall act for bernard delfont and hardy give an interview to journalist john mccabe in which he explain the origin of this nickname represent early in his act career and hardy get a shave from a gay hairdresser who squeeze hardy plump cheek ( the one on his face ) and say nice baby . hardy workmate start cry him babe and and the nickname stuck . although much of hardy pre laurel work be very interesting notably his comedy role in support of larry semon and the chaplin imitator billy west his teamwork with billy ruge ( who . ) in a series of low budget short for the vim comedy film company be very dire indeed . hardy and ruge be give the screen name plump and runt represent name which be unpleasant in their own right and but make bad because ruge ( although short than hardy ) isn not especially a runt . see here and hardy look much a he do in his early hal roach film with laurel . but without the spit curl and the fastidious little moustache . one too many and an absolutely typical plunt and runt epic and be direly unfunny . and it dreichness be make even more conspicuous by the fact that this film have exactly the same premise a that my wife and one of laurel and hardy most hilarious film . plump ( hardy ) be the star boarder in a rooming house run by a tall gawky landlady . runt ( ruge ) be the porter . plump receive a letter from his wealthy uncle john and whose dosh he expect to inherit . his uncle be come to see him and to meet plump wife and baby . there only one problem represent plump hasn not get a wife and baby . he be lie to his uncle in order to seem a family man . now and of course and plump expect runt to find him a wife and baby on short notice . of course and the result be disastrous . it would be nice if those disastrous result be funny and but they aren not . most of the unfunny humour here be just empty slapstick and with character settle their argument by shove each other into bathtub . spoiler come . vim director will louis ( who . ) show no instinct for camera framing represent the actress who play the landlady be significantly tall than hardy and and louis consistently set up his shot so that her head be out of frame . this could be funny if do on purpose and but it merely inept . at one point in this bad comedy and an extremely tasteless gag be loom on the horizon a runt approach a black laundress . surely they wouldn not stoop that low for a laugh and i thought . but they do . runt steal the woman black infant and try to fob this off a plump progeny . somehow and plump acquire an infant cot and but he still hasn not get a baby . with uncle john come up the stair and plump conscript runt for babyhood . this gag might just possibly have work with a midget and or even with a truly runt size actor such a chester conklin and but billy ruge be only slightly below average height . ruge impersonation of a baby be neither believable nor funny and and uncle john would have to be a complete moron to fall for it . amazingly and he do . the most notable aspect of one too many be a brief appearance apparently her only ever film appearance by madelyn saloshin and oliver hardy first wife . the marriage be not a happy one and although hardy marital trouble never attain the epic proportion of stan laurel . only one thing in this movie impress me . there be a very brief flashback sequence and with hardy reminisce about his seaside romance with a bath beauty . in 1916 and there be still not yet a standard film grammar for convey flashback represent the one show here be do gracefully and simply . too bad this movie have no other merit . one too many be definitely one film too many on oliver hardy cv and and i will rate this movie just one point out of 10. laurel and hardy together be definitely much funny than either of them separately .