Their First Mistake

Trivia: The original script had Mrs Hardy returning with another adopted baby of her own, but so much time and money had been spent on adding Stan Laurel's improvisations that there was no budget left to film it.

Trivia: When Stan and Oliver return to the flat with the baby, Stan offers a man a cigar. This man is the film's director, George Marshall.

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: When Oliver chases Stan out of the kitchen, Oliver loses the slipper on his right foot and it flies out of the door, but in the next shot, the slipper is back on Oliver's foot again.

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Quotes

Stanley: I'm not as dumb as you look.

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