We haven't had a Laurel & Hardy film here for a while so here's Perfect Day, which was released on August 10, 1929. When it first appeared, it did not have the famous "kuku" song that you'll hear in the opening here and which most of us know as the boys' theme song. That didn't appear until a year or so later but it was later edited onto earlier films when they were reissued.
This was their fourth "all-talking" film and, in my opinion, the first really good one. The film is lively, funny and it gains a lot from the participation of the great character actor, Edgar Kennedy. Reportedly, the material you'll see in this short — the family heading out for a picnic — was only supposed to occupy the first half of this short but with on-set improvisations and add-ons, it ran so long so they decided to not shoot the picnic and end it as it ends here…