it follow block head and a chump at oxford and two film that be hard to top . not that sap at sea be a bad film it be the last good comedy ( unless one insist on jitterbug or another of the late film ) that laurel and hardy make . it just that it be a toss off little film and without the crazy destructive crescendo of block head or the astounding sight of stan real personality in a chump at oxford to revel in . at 57 minute it be short than the other two film a bit and but that actually be not a bad point for it . it have just enough time to it to hit the right note . it just not as special a the other two . stan and ollie work in a factory that manufacture horn . i suspect that there be a bit of chaplin influence in this sequence ( one recall a similar assembly line incident in modern time only four year earlier ) . ollie nerve finally snap and and he go on a rampage . he go home and ( naturally ) his roommate stan do not help stan have a music lesson with an eccentric professor on his instrument ( you have get it a trombone ) . after beat up the poor professor and ollie have problem with the incompetent janitor or engineer ( ben turpin in a nice brief appearance ) and and then face his doctor ( jimmy finleyson ) and his nerve tester ( a balloon that inflate a you push air out of ollie stomach ) . finleyson announce that it be a bad case of horniphobia and and ollie need a vacation with plenty of quiet and goat milk . they end up go to a ship but ollie and stan know nothing about seamanship so they plan to sleep on the ship . unfortunately the goat gnaw the rope until it break and the ship sail off . also unfortunately and on board be richard cramer and an escaped dangerous criminal . this be not go to be a peaceful vacation . sap at sea ( like a chump ) could have be three short and one at the factory and one at the apartment and and one on the boat . each would have be a successful short and and they all make a funny film but the stitching of the part together show . there be some very amusing moment in the film the discovery of how turpin ineptitude cause various mishap with water tap and stove in the apartment while the accidental remark of building manager charlie hall when stan or ollie run by him and asks for direction ( can you help me find the basement . ask stan certainly and you can not miss it it downstairs . and say hall and who realize what a stupid comment he just make ) while and cramer mistreatment of his two hostage slave . he call ollie dizzy and stan daffy ( an allusion to the dean brother of the st. louis cardinal team of the 1930s see dan dailey the pride of st. louis ) . cramer have the boy cook him up some food and they make a synthetic meal ( boot lace for spaghetti and for instance ) to get him sick to be overpower . when he realize what they have do and he force them to eat the meal themselves . their reaction be brilliant . sap at sea be not on par with the top line of laurel and hardy film and but it be a good film on the whole and and a good conclusion to the best year of their film career ( 1927 1940 ) when they be with hal roach . in the immediate couple of year before it appear the boy and roach have serious problem involve production cost ( our relation and where stan be producer on the film ) and artistic problem ( scene from swiss miss be cut meaninglessly ) and and contractual argument ( lead to ollie appear with harry langdon in zenobia ) . stan and ollie hit back with the fly deuce and wherein the production be not roach but boris morros . at last a two picture deal of a chump at oxford and sap at sea conclude the argument and problem and on a high note the boy leave roach . unfortunately they never find any subsequent film relationship with a producer as satisfactory a this have be .