Abbott's arithmetical skills are equal to Costello's ability to multiply 13 by 7 and get 28

@audermarspiguet6127

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha so true!!

@olcuqap1789

3 жыл бұрын

I just came from that video

@scottmiller6495

3 жыл бұрын

The brilliance of this routine is Priceless!!!!!

@christiancarranza3824

2 жыл бұрын

Qq

@creepynickel084

2 жыл бұрын

@@olcuqap1789 Same

The deduction for the lunch break was the most brutal 😂

0:28 there's 24 hours in a day, all but February which has 28.... That one tried to slip under the radar lol

Hey look, it's the historic creation of the IRS (non-colorized).

Getting a dollar a year is a hilarious premise all by itself.

@neilgerace355

2 жыл бұрын

FDR had a whole bunch of "dollar-a-year men" ... They helped the USA win the Pacific War.

@develynseether4426

Жыл бұрын

That's 35p in British money back then. That's the equivalent of 4 weeks pay in the year 1300 for a labourer so god knows if there was ever a time someone was paid the equivalent of 1 dollar for a whole years work.

Of course February has 28 hours in a day

@garrisonvalentinelli1312

2 ай бұрын

He meant days

My two favourite parts are when Lou says "24 Hours in a day, except February" and when Bud says at the end "Fine time to take a nap!" 🤣

1940 was the debut year of A&C, but it was also a year when the Marx Bros, The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy and even Charlie Chaplin were all making films still.

@Selrisitai

4 ай бұрын

You mean in film.

@jonathanswift2251

4 ай бұрын

@@Selrisitai Appearing in films.

"Wait a minute, Im glad I thought of this..." Every boss and CEO ever.

These were two of the funniest guys I have ever seen.

Should have said in the end, "But, wait a minute. You didn't work on your birthday, did you? So that's one dollar."

This is how taxes work

My favorite bit from the movie😂

@scottbuckley823

5 жыл бұрын

their scenes were the only good thing about it

The geek in me tried to actually do the math to find out what Costello should have actually got, even if we're generous with Abbott's weird rates that Costello only earned $1 per 24 hours worked. Let's see here... +365 days a year -14 for a vacation -50 for Sundays, not counting two Sundays from his vacation -12 for assumed holidays This is the part with most assumed variables. We don't know what counted as holidays in 1940, if any happened on weekends, or if any happened when Costello was on vacation, so I'll give Abbott the benefit of the doubt and subtract 12 days max (at least one of the 13 holidays had to be Easter Sunday, which wasn't worked anyway). This means he worked approximately 289 days that year. 289 - 50 for half day Saturdays, again not counting two from his vacation (we'll add them back in later) x (7/24) for hours worked per day, assuming a standard eight hour 9-5 but minus that one hour for lunch + [50 x (4/24)] to add the hours worked per half day Saturdays back in, assuming he didn't take a lunch So Costello is owed about $78.04 even with Abbott's smooth logic, if he didn't cheat him. With inflation rates that would equal $1,541.79 today, meaning he got fast talked out of a minimum of $1,522.03 to be left with a measly $19.76 for a full year of employment.

@Nominal_GDP

2 жыл бұрын

Taking 14 days vacation should be counted as 12, since he wouldnt work on sundays anyway so they shouldnt be counted

@bayardzylos6199

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nominal_GDP It would come up the same. 365 - 14 - 50 - 12 = 289 365 - 52 - 12 - 12 = 289

This is not only funny but extremely brilliant as well, PERIOD!!!!!

GENUIS COMEDY and not 1 swear word needed !😜👍🏻

A fantastic skit in this early movie, with Abbott and Costello as supporting cast members.

Costello: “Well give me the 69 dollars.” Abbott: “Eh, but...” Costello: “WHAT’S WITH THE BUTS?!” 😂😂

@Jarvis-fo9yn

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for putting in subtitles. really appreciate it.

I like how he only paid him for 1/3rd days, but he deducted his vacation of 14 FULL days ($14)

@ThorbzE

2 жыл бұрын

I'm very glad you were here to explain the joke. Otherwise I would not have understood it.

@Getorix

2 жыл бұрын

That's how he counted everything. He only granted him a third of a days pay, but when he took away money it was for a full day. It was shit from the gitgo.

him just being pure defeated at the end…

The actual amount he is owed is (365-52-14-15-13-26)/3 , or 81.66 dollars.

@sunchoi4790

2 жыл бұрын

I can't believe someone actually calculated this!

@xeilot5358

2 жыл бұрын

@@sunchoi4790 I'm still off by a little. Im pretty sure I got the half days on saturday part wrong.

@mayokichi2339

2 жыл бұрын

what’s the divided by 3 part?

@xeilot5358

2 жыл бұрын

@@mayokichi2339 work 8 hours out of the 24 hours in a day

@waefr7878

2 жыл бұрын

but...

The old. Times when TV comedy is legit funy

Brilliant vaudeville routines... Just think...way back when, you could get into a theater for 25 cents and laugh your ass off for a solid three hours...and even hick towns had a theater... I would have loved to have lived back then and had a partner and performed funny routines... That would have been the life...

Kings of comedy - none better.

That's what Tesla employees make. 😂🤣

At 2:50 Costello is a master of bumping into things and making it look real.

I can't believe this is the only time they did this bit in their movies and tv shows--this rivals "Who's on First." 😅

The exact same guidelines are used by the Commonwealth Bank and most other banks when they want to charge fees for service that was never provided "We owe you (X) dollars, ahh but......"

a comedic due like this only comes once in a lifetime

At any moment I thought he was gonna say "do I look like a clown to you" lol

he acutally deserved nothin that one day was his birthday

Abbott can get you to owe him

Reason they invented the Time Clock

Sounds like the Federal government.

@willy102073

3 жыл бұрын

Probably where they perfected their tax cuts

@gregberzinski

3 жыл бұрын

lol exactly...or we owe them money in some twisted way

(365 - 52 - 52/2) * (8-1) / 24, depending on the amount of time he took for a lunch break on saturday

When your boss tries to explain why he's not giving you an end of year bonus

Wait so he worked for 365 days and didn’t get paid until he got fired?

Ah, back when actors - and the audience - could do math in their heads. One more reason why this is so good and so entertaining!

@ooomph9602

2 жыл бұрын

Or it's in the script lol

@Ojj2002

2 жыл бұрын

ok dude

@oscaradeaza1203

2 жыл бұрын

It’s because people now don’t have the knowledge of the past

@snixal

2 жыл бұрын

Just because modern entertainment kinda sucks doesn’t mean people are dumb

The IRS when you dare to earn money within taxing distance 1940 noncolorised

Absolutely hysterical!😂😂😂😂😂

1:35 He already deducted Sundays and half Saturdays, but still deducts 14 days for 2 weeks' vacation, whereas he should have deducted 14 days--2 sundays--1 day(two half Saturdays) = 11 days Means he gets 1+3= 4 dollars.

@firdausroblox2111

2 жыл бұрын

still higher than my salary 💀

@lookwhoscomin

2 жыл бұрын

GUYS WE HAVE A GENIUS OVER HERE

@marinhotorres

2 жыл бұрын

The video is full of this, that's the joke

@markeddy4256

2 жыл бұрын

He double counted pretty much every deduction he made lol

There is 24hrs in a day, all but February that has 28… 😂😂😂😂 didn’t know that February has 28 hours in a day, my watch must have been missing some hours every February month!!! Castello my guy!!!😂😂

@dariowiter3078

6 ай бұрын

😝😝😝😝😝

0:59 Nice

@fruta6279

2 жыл бұрын

69!

If I get some of it I’ll be lucky.

I worked for a company that saw it that way.

Jeff Bezos: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN!!!

@wisdomandquotes2284

2 жыл бұрын

OMG funny 🤣🤣🤣

Why does this actually seem realistic? Rather close to home I’d say

Great timing, both of them. "BUT! See I know it better than YOU do!"

It's great to see that wages haven't gone up since then.

Finally getting to a point where you realize you worked for nothing

@drmodestoesq

2 жыл бұрын

Hence the great resignation of the 2020s.

Abbott and Costello at their best. Their vocal routines were a million times funnier than the slapstick. IMHO they resorted to slapstick when they ran out of material like this.

13×7=28 is much cleverer than 365 × 8/24 × 5/7 minus etc. etc. etc., which suggests a dollar-a-day isnʼt worth two cents in todayʼs economy.

@Darth_Conans

3 жыл бұрын

$365 in 1940 is almost $7k now.

@WhoThisMonkey

3 жыл бұрын

No, it would be worth a dollar 😉

This is me filing my taxes lmfao 🤣

lol its a dollar a day when he is subtracting his pay but 33 cents a day when he is adding it up his wages at the start

What I don't understand is why Costello wait one year to collect his salary!!!

Tax cut in a paycheck be like

The US tax system in a nutshell.

@mrminkman952

2 жыл бұрын

Better then the UKs If it was the UKs you’d somehow end up owning them 365 dollars.

this is how the IRS operates

Maravilha!!!!comédia do meu tempo!!!!dei muitas gargalhadas👋👋👋👋👋👋

"What's with the but!?!" fucking sent me XD

Abbott's form of math really cracks me up. Please think positive daily. ©® March 16, 2022 @ 8:00 am ©®

Alright, breakdown time (this is too sly not to be exposed): _Quick note before we begin: Some comments have pointed out some logic flaws I missed, so I've added those in later._ 365 days @ $1/day = $365 8 hours = 1/3 day 1/3 x $365 = $121 (rounding down, but fair enough so far) _But of course Costello couldn't be expected to work the full 24 hours, so it'd be more reasonable to consider each day he works the number of hours expected a full day's payment, thus effectively nullifying this discount._ Take out Sundays for 52 Sundays a year 121 - 52 = 69 (nice) Here we see our first logical flaw. Abbott "forgets" to take into account his calculation regarding hours worked, thus reducing the payment by triple. The actual fair equation should read: Take out Sundays for 52 Sundays a year @ $1/3 a day 1/3 x 52 = approx. 17 (again rounding down, but I reckon it cancels out the rounding down before, since this reduces the amount taken away) 121 - 17 = 104 (already increased by over 30%) Take out half Saturdays for 52 Saturdays a year 52/2 = 26 69 - 26 = 43 Again, Abbott "forgets" to take into account his first calculation, compounding on the previous error. With all errors resolved, the equation is thus: Take out half Saturdays for 52 Saturdays a year @ $1/3 a day 1/6 x 52 = approx. 8.5 (more rounding down because I'm nice) 104 - 8.5 = 95.5 In fact, Costello could gain even more depending on what is meant by "half day". If this means half of what he usually works (i.e. 4 hours), then the equation remains the same. However, if it means a half of the full day (i.e. 12 hours), he would actually gain money, since he works more than usual: (1/2 x 52 - the money that Costello earns in total) - (1/3 x 52 - the money that Costello earns in excess of his usual earnings) = 1/6 x 52 Therefore, he gains what he originally lost: 104 + 8.5 = 112.5 Sadly, this latter option is unlikely given the context: if it had been the case, even Costello would've noticed Abbott's trick, as he would be plainly losing money; thus, I'll work with the value of $95.50 from here. Take out vacation for 14 days 43 - 14 = 29 Once again, Abbott relies on his old trick of "forgetting" his first calculation; doubly clever as this reaffirms the idea that it is actually sound logic (repetition legitimises, shout out to Adam Neely viewers). The completely rectified equation: Take out vacation for 14 days @ $1/3 a day 1/3 x 14 = approx. 5 (I've been too lenient) 95.5 - 5 = 90.5 _Edit: Additionally, Abbott already discounted Sundays and half Saturdays, meaning the vacation should only result in 12.5 days worth of payment: 12.5 days @ $1/3 a day 1/3 x 12.5 = 4.2 95.5 - 4.2 = 91.3_ Take out one hour for lunch for 365 days 365/24 = approx. 15.2 (Holy crap Abbott's good at math when he wants to be) 29 - 15 = 14 Abbott switches from flawed to flawless logic- ironically- flawlessly. Taking into account past corrections: 90.5 - 15.2 (since we're working with decimal points now apparently) = 75.3 _Edit: (I can't believe I didn't spot this) Abbott has completely disregarded all days he already discounted (Sundays, half Saturdays and the vacation). This means the actual number of days worth of pay discounted should actually be: 365 - 52 - 26 - 12.5 = 275.5 So: 275.5/24 = approx. 11.5 91.3 - 11.5 = 79.8 And this is assuming his lunch hour isn't sandwiched in between his 8 hours, making 9 in total and nullifying the need for this discount entirely._ Take out holidays for 13 days- wait a minute... do these days coincide with the vacation mentioned earlier...? Probably not, again, Costello would've noticed. 14 -13 = 1 You know where this is going 13/3 = approx. 4.3 (you'll see, it works out) 75.3 - 4.3 = 71 _Edited: 79.8 - 4.3 = 75.5_ If Abbott hadn't been -a character in a math related comedy show- a sly manipulative employer (which, to be fair, can also be said of Costello's characters), Costello would've gained up to $71. If the waiter for some strange reason had still interpreted one of Costello's dollars as charity, it would've rounded it out to a nice even $70 (so close... so close). Probably enough to get by until he found another job. _And with the help of @Cam Bowman, we've gotten him another $4.50 for a total of $75.50... unless Cam's theory about Costello's lunch hour is correct, then the figure shoots up to $15 for a whopping $86. Thank you for your help! Together, little by little, we can achieve justice for Costello!_ _And then @Jupi swoops in and multiplies Costello's salary threefold. Legendary._ This, ladies and gentlemen, is why you need maths. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk, next week I discuss why Buster Keaton is a madlad. Sincerely, Oscar Gill P.S. If you find any more errors in my logic, please let me know in the replies and I'll rectify it as quickly as possible!

@ryvic9021

2 жыл бұрын

Dude you are an absolute madlad for making this wtf

@domowos9609

2 жыл бұрын

this mf really did all the math for a comedy that was released in the 1940s respect.

@oscargill423

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryvic9021 Thanks! It's what I do; I have more breakdown comments than I do videos...

@rainhunter5546

2 жыл бұрын

You missed where Abbott slyly converted a two week vacation into a 14 day deduction, despite those two weeks containing 2 Saturdays and 2 Sundays A similar thing happens when talking about that 1 hour off for lunch which he applied to 365 days, when it has already been counted out of Sundays and vacation days, and probably Saturdays as well if he's taking a half day on those And that's assuming that taking a 1 hr lunch break means working 7 hours instead of 8. If it's just splitting up the 8 hours it shouldn't be deducted at all.

@Official_Happy_

2 жыл бұрын

That's wrong, he get's 1 dollar for working 1 day, which is 8 hours, but that irrelevant. What matters is he worked those days, so he instantly is owed 287 (including Saturday what has been halved in value). He took 14 days off so now he is owed 273. Now he loses 1/8 of the dollar because of his 1 hour break. That means 1/8 of 273. That is -34 which means he is owed 239. He had 13 days in holidays so thats another -13. That means in total he is owed $226.

Whats with the butttttt!!!!!😂😂😂😂

Government Taxation 101

He over charges him for lunch. Says it’s 365 days when he has already deducted Sunday when he doesn’t work as well as others.

@rougn

4 ай бұрын

That's the joke....

@user-yg1rh3og2q

4 ай бұрын

Why over analyze the joke? just enjoy the genius of these two greats

@teemuleppa3347

3 ай бұрын

over charges him for lunch???? so everything else was solid? dude....

I really love how some of these people in the comments take a simple joke thats not suppose to make sense in the first place so seriously lol

I tried to calculate based on sketch’s contents and got 288 ;)

@mialopi2010

3 жыл бұрын

But then you gotta divide that by 7 so you end up with 133

@develynseether4426

3 жыл бұрын

365 Days = $365 52 Sundays so -$52 = $313 12 days vacation (already counted Sundays so -$12= $301 50 Saturdays (already counted holiday 2) half days so equal to -25 full days = $276 13 holidays so -$13 = $263 1hr Lunch of 238 full days (week days in a year as wouldn't take hour lunch on 4 hour saturdays) is equal to 30 days lunch so -$30 = $233 Even if you count the 1/3 days worked BS it still comes to $77 (rounded down which employers love to do). So he'd either get $233 or $77.

@svkeeley

2 жыл бұрын

@@develynseether4426 You have to take into account that Abbott is taking multiple deductions for each day. He starts by deducting 2/3 of 365 days. Then he deducts 52 dollars for Sundays, but he already deducted 2/3 of those Sundays. And so on...

Sad, they both died broke..

All of that to get one dollar a waiter take said dollar AND you get knocked out bruh😂😂😂

Unpaid two weeks vacation. Bahahaha

That sounds like my boss.

Some of those days overlapped. Smh.

@helenchen6308

2 жыл бұрын

Some of those days? A dollar a day for which you’ve worked a third. Which is already a questionable rate but that’s 2/3s of a dollar per day already accounted for Subtracting the Sundays, but instead of subtracting a third you subtract a whole dollar. That’s 52 times 2/3 dollars cheated from you Half of a Saturday and that’s 1/6th of a day worked counted for 1/2, that’s 1/3 (1/2-1/6) times 52 dollars cheated from you Now of course the vacation overlaps with the weekends, but they’re not only overlapping but counted for more than 3 times their weight (because that’s only 16 hours per 5 days plus 20 for Saturday you didn’t work) so whatever you didn’t work times two is the hours cheated from you. (This works out to be 7ish bucks +1 from Sundays) More than $60 is cheated just out of maliciously calculated hours 💀

00:58 "WHAT'S WITH THE BUT!" He got mad cuz he didn't get his 69$ dollars if you know what I mean

this is how tax in Finland works

@drmodestoesq

2 жыл бұрын

Yet, you're supposedly the happiest people on the planet.

@mrminkman952

2 жыл бұрын

@@drmodestoesq yes pay ya tax and reap the rewards.

Classic!

Dig Lou's "Mister B" collar

🤔 Common Core math? 🤔 😂 🇺🇸

Home Depot Bank

How the ownership class actually does the math.

@jaelge

2 жыл бұрын

Whiner. Do you accept employment, ignorant of what they intend to pay you? And it´s not the employer's deductions but the government's. (ownership-class = working achievers, You = envious underachiever

@starvalkyrie

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaelge Bootlicker detected.

@parsatayebi7652

2 жыл бұрын

Don't sign the contract then

I would want that dollar. It's old and worth a lot now.

@boogit9979

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. Old tender doesnt magically get more valueable. Ive a 1937 hundred. Worth $100.

@kylelindberg7771

2 жыл бұрын

@@boogit9979 What is it from Canada or something? Abbot and Costello were American. American money from that time period is worth more than face value.

@boogit9979

2 жыл бұрын

@@kylelindberg7771 just a 1937 american $100 bill. I work in a store. Trust me. I know enough about values of old currency. Most bills arent too valuable from sheer age. Usually looking for coins or special notes. Not simply an old piece of tendered parchment

@kylelindberg7771

2 жыл бұрын

​@@boogit9979 I just did some research. There appears to not have been any $100 bills made in America in the year 1937. There was a series containing $100 bills minted in 1934, however. THOSE are worth face value if heavily circulated ($150 - $200 if crisp and sometimes more than $1,000 if uncirculated and graded.) While I mostly collect coins, I do have a series 1934 $1 silver certificate and those are worth more than face value ($5 - $12). But I still have a hard time believing that a bill from a year you can't even find on the internet would be worth face value.

@boogit9979

2 жыл бұрын

@@kylelindberg7771 Apologies. 1944. Went into the book to check. Its heavily worn. Worth face value. But kudos to research. Youre already smarter that 90% of internet users

I use this to explain to my grandchildren how The Canadian Government operates.

Genius

This reminds me of the tax man 🤔

Some people just deserved to get punched in the nose. Abbot was that person.

Classic. Like today with taxes and inflation!!!!!

What a rip!

Unfortunately this is exactly how most corporations are!!!!!

Abbott didn’t wanna pay him $1 a day ($365) cause Lou didn’t work 24hrs,half a day on Saturday, and no work on Sunday. Lou only worked 8hrs a day, but Bud took out $1 a day ($14) for his 2 week vacation 😂😂

Well in some way their math makes sense

@aradraugfea6755

2 жыл бұрын

That's kind of the joke. On some level, it makes sense. In fact, all the STEPS they're doing are correct, but they're doing them in the wrong order. With the correct order of operations, we have 7 hours a day, for 365-52 Sundays-26 Saturdays (That's 52 half saturdays)-13 Holidays. That's 7 hours a day for 274 days. 274/24=... real difficult math, we'll let my calculator do it. Multiply that number by 7 and we're looking at 79 dollars and 92 cents. Order of operations is IMPORTANT.

@bahiralilatif6639

2 жыл бұрын

@@aradraugfea6755 Why divide by 24 hrs, a day of work for him is 7 hours. He should get 1 dollar for every "day" he worked which is 274 dollars

@peterpeladon

2 жыл бұрын

@@bahiralilatif6639 This is context, and dropping the context is the other element that makes it funny.

(1 x 8 x 5 x 52) - (1 x 1 x 5 x 52) (Hours worked) (lunch break) Excluding holidays and that vacation, should be $1,820. Only left those out bc the holiday might have been on a weekend and the time of the vacation was specified. If anything he should *at least* have $1,775. But i do gotta admit, he was smooth with it.

@oscargill423

2 жыл бұрын

But they were charging by the day, not by the hour. If I'm not mistaken, those amounts should be reduced by a factor of 24. Still better than nothing.

@coalrocks

2 жыл бұрын

@@oscargill423 ah, forgot about the day/hour thing

@oscargill423

2 жыл бұрын

@@coalrocks So did Costello apparently... that's how good Abbott is at deceiving us

Classic

Classic.... like today with taxes and inflation!!!!!

But............................

This is humour :)

Can't feel sorry for Costello after the way he ripped off his landlord. (Karma)

Here it comes, 🤣🤣🤣

A joke then, but reality now

My dad used to love watching this . Reminds him of his old town in Palestine back in the days when it was still Palestine 😔

@aethertech

2 жыл бұрын

There's no such thing as Palestine.

@anotheryoutubeaccount5259

2 жыл бұрын

@@aethertech True

He get's 1 dollar for working 1 day, which is 8 hours, but that irrelevant. What matters is he worked those days, so he instantly is owed 287 (including Saturday what has been halved in value). He took 14 days off so now he is owed 273. Now he loses 1/8 of the dollar because of his 1 hour break. That means 1/8 of 273. That is -34 which means he is owed 239. He had 13 days in holidays so thats another -13. That means in total he is owed $226.

@cosmologicalturtle9528

2 жыл бұрын

Well, if he gets paid by the day and he’s allowed a lunch break in on his working days then he shouldn’t lose 1/8 of the dollar

@tonybarfridge4369

2 жыл бұрын

lunch breaks are not deducted, there is an extra hour worked. Saturdays are overtime, and public holidays must be paid. Pay is for hours worked, not for 24 divided by 3. He is deducting time which is not included in the pay day

@Official_Happy_

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonybarfridge4369 He clearly stated that he will take that 1 hour away, and for paid holidays I do not know about as I don't work, but even so, that is still the correct answer compared to people starting from $121

@tonybarfridge4369

2 жыл бұрын

@@Official_Happy_ nobody is paid $1 a day, and then take away 2/3. It was his scam

@parsatayebi7652

2 жыл бұрын

Haha that's funny how the math is so wrong. They should make a world-renown comedy skit out of it or something...

Wait ! We don't get pay in vacation back then ?

@nicholasimholte7359

Жыл бұрын

Or holidays apparently. And while we sleep too!