The Inglorious Third

Released
July 3, 1927

Starring

 * Farina
 * Harry
 * Jackie
 * Jay R.
 * Joe
 * Mango

Story
The gang is in their grass skirts as usual, but it is a hot day in July and nobody cares. The rest of the gang isn’t treating Farina and Mango very well because they don’t have any money, so those two make a mountain of popped paper bags. Then Farina gets a quarter from a random kid to take his dog Pansy, and Farina buys a large firecracker. He and Joe fight to set it off, and when it does, it lands in the fireworks stand and sends all the fireworks all over the place.

One of the fireworks whizzes by Jackie and sets his grass skirt on fire. Upon seeing this, Harry bends over laughing, but his facial expression changes when he gets hit in the butt by another firework. Next is Jay, and within seconds all of the grass skirts are on fire. With severe problems mere seconds away, Mango gets a rare line and shouts, “The paper bags!” The gang runs and jumps into the huge pile, shedding their grass skirts just in time. With highly skilled film shooting nothing inappropriate appears onscreen.

The gang then puts on paper bags to preserve their decency (it takes Joe some extra time to find one that fits). When they emerge from the pile, they find out they have to do the second half of the film wearing only the paper bags. Thus they chase after Pansy, who swallowed a lot of explosive Bahama-oil capsules. After they run through and mess up the wet cement once, the cement-layer comes up with a plan. He quickly pours more cement down the block where some ground has been excavated. When the gang runs over that, they sink up to their waists, just past the tops of the paper bags. They don’t sink further because of the high density of cement, but they get stuck facing the street and the cement hardens.

The town decides that since the gang is such troublemakers they have to stay embedded in the cement for 24 hours. The gang is humiliated as newspapers take pictures the gang is powerless to prevent. Then they are given chisels and hammers to chip their way out, which takes many hours.