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Line 70: One more complex running joke has Groucho turning the dialogue into a scene out of a [[Eugene O'Neill]] play, ''[[Strange Interlude]]'', in which the characters continually spoke [[aside]]s that revealed their thoughts. Groucho's voice becomes deep and droning as he steps apart from the other characters to comment on the scene:<blockquote>''"Living with your folks. Living with your folks. The beginning of the end. Drab dead yesterdays shutting out beautiful tomorrows. Hideous, stumbling footsteps creaking along the misty corridors of time. And in those corridors I see figures, strange figures, weird figures: Steel 186, Anaconda 74, American Cane 138..."''</blockquote> The comedy, thus, is in the unpredictable shifting of the scene's meaning, from two socialite ladies and a world-famous explorer mingling at a party, to a parody of O'Neill's work, to a mimicking of a man reading out stock prices. Incidentally, Groucho had heavy investments in Anaconda Copper and after the [[stock market crash of 1929]] experienced a bout of depression as well as insomnia.<ref>[http://ww.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=114181633 Comedy And The Economic Crash Of 1929]</ref> In the final scene, Harpo uses a [[Flit gun]] to pacify an entire crowd, finally spraying Groucho, who falls unconscious to the ground. The current prints of the film have the "Flit" name blotted out, since Paramount Pictures didn't get permission to use the trademarked name. ==Musical numbers==