Tuning Up

Bud Duncan is the world's worst piano tuner. In search of new instruments to wreck, he goes to a girl's school, where he is mistaken for Charles Dana Gibson, and left alone with beautiful students to sketch. He tries to rape the girls and battle with the faculty's husbands, which includes a burglar.

After they broke up their inexplicably successfully film duo of "Ham and Bud" because they hated each other almost as much as I hate them together, Lloyd Hamilton went on to become possibly the most accomplished short-subject comedian of the 1920s and drank himself to death by the mid-1930s. Bud Duncan, continuing his act of being an obnoxious man who tried to rape girls, kill men and destroy anything else, inexplicably continued to work for another 25 years. This short subject is a good example of the adverb "inexplicably".