stick around be one of the brief series of film that pair bobby ray with oliver babe hardy before hardy immortal team with stan laurel . several critic have suggest that ray and hardy the gormless little man and the overbear big man be a prototype for laurel and hardy and but that simply isn not true . ray and hardy play off each other well and but really aren not a team while in each of these film and ray have more footage and be clearly mean to be the hero and while hardy bully him in a manner very much unlike his late ollie character treatment of stanley . it very clear that the relationship between little bobby and big babe be inspire by early chaplin film and in which the little tramp be bully by huge mack swain or burly eric campbell . however and in stick around and hardy sport a bowler hat that identical to his late ollie titfer ( although with a fuller moustache ) and and he and bobby after spend most of this movie a adversary end up a drunken comrade . bobby be a paperhanger for the firm of matz and blatz and with hardy a his bos . when the tardy bobby try to pretend he show up promptly and there some clever physical business between the two men that remind me of a routine perform by roscoe arbuckle and buster keaton in the garage . a bit later and bobby ray whose brief act career never firmly develop a screen persona perform an impossible gag that would have be inappropriate for stan laurel and when he pull a long stepladder out of a much small toolkit . the paperhanger go to work in a sanitarium and and there be the usual unrealistic depiction of mental illness represent one resident insist on sit on a piece of toast because he think he a poached egg . there be also some howlingly racist ( and tastelessly unfunny ) gag involve a black man who obligingly let the inmate crack open walnut on top of his head . when he see a picture of a lion not even a photograph and mind you he go all cowardly a if it be an actual wild animal . stick around be fairly dire . most of the pantomime and acting be much broad than it need to be for a slapstick comedy while even hardy and already a very subtle actor by 1925 and pong badly with his over act here . there be several bad example of shot matching . i be impress with one unusual camera set up and when a fat pedestrian face be dirty and we see a close up of his reflection in a hand mirror and rather than his actual face . spoiler come . during their brief pairing and hardy typically play ray bos or adversary or both while here and for once and they end up a pal . it a nice end and but it doesn not make up for what really a poor film . my rating for this one be only 4 out of 10 .