Abbott and Costello — 1940

Inventor Alexander Rose shows off the Tunatype, a musical typewriter that plays a tune for anyone who can type.

Lou turns up with a do-everything robot built by one Homer Thucydides Tuckahoe III, whom he claims to have found on the subway.

A guest musician who tunes whiskey bottles to perfect pitch performs a medley on them.

Bud and Lou go into the movie business, founding the Wacky Motion Picture Company.

At a dance school where lessons run three for a dollar, Bud tries in vain to teach a hopeless Lou to dance.

Bud and Lou sign up with the Wackyville Volunteer Fire Department.

In the last New York broadcast, the boys argue their way toward California -- Bud for hitchhiking, Lou for a freight train -- as they head west to make a movie.

The first West Coast broadcast finds the boys hunting for a hotel, with guests Virginia Bruce, Robert Cummings and Allan Jones.

Bud and Lou pay tribute to Hollywood westerns and tour a 75-room mansion.

Lou buys a car and takes Bud for a ride, and the two stage a seafaring skit, 'Mutiny on the Mainsail.'

The boys launch a newspaper -- publisher Bud and star reporter 'Scoop' Costello.

Bud and Lou perform their signature routine, 'Who's on First?'