Two Black Crows

Although Moran and Mack's gags were mostly corny and the characters were stereotypical (one practical but naive, the other seemingly slow and lazy yet quick with a quip and a certain skewed logic), the relationship depicted plus their laconic delivery made them one of the most successful of comedy teams.

The duo of Moran and Mack appeared in vaudeville with W.C. Fields, on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 and in Earl Carroll's Vanities in the mid-1920s.

[1] At the height of their popularity, after completing their first talking feature film, Moran had a salary dispute with Mack and sued him in 1930.

Moran would later appear in three W. C. Fields films, The Fatal Glass of Beer, My Little Chickadee, and The Bank Dick.

", was the punchline to a lengthy dialogue that Moran initiated by telling Mack that, "The early bird catches the worm".