Keaton later used many of the physical gags he created for this film later when he wrote (uncredited) gags for the Marx Brothers A Night At The Opera.

It's a great physical gag, for instance, playing Beethoven on percussion instruments while keeping pins suspended in the air.

Lohan's character is supposedly cursed with bad luck, though the movie confuses misfortune with plain stupidity, leading Lohan into a long series of silly and senseless physical gags.

(From a character-based physical gag used in the original Saturday Night Live cast skit "Gidget Goes to Shock Therapy").

Many of the physical gags were lifted from the Buster Keaton film Spite Marriage (1929).

But it can't be all about silly physical gags.

For the physical gags Curly's declining health is apparent, and Moe is rarely around to cover for or interact with him.

Groucho, Chico and Harpo do nonstop gags, verbal and physical.

Many of these physical gags were exaggerated forms of violence, or even abuse, and came to be called "slapstick".