My Wife's Relations
"He won't last a week in this family."
"Papa! Shut your eyes and see what I married!"—Kate, introducing her husband
A series of misunderstandings involving a taffy pull, a postman, a broken window, and a monolingual Polish judge leaves Buster Keaton married to Kate, a large, irate Irishwoman whose family thinks he's rich.
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Tropes used in My Wife's Relations include:
- Accidental Marriage
- Amusing Injuries
- Art Imitates Art: Buster's father-in-law reinforces his proletariat cred by looking at a small-scale reproduction of the Venus de Milo and asking, "Who broke the arms off that monument?"
- Boisterous Bruiser: All of Kate's brothers.
- Chase Scene
- Crash Into Hello: Subverted, in that it does not result in love, though it does lead to marriage.
- Disaster Dominoes
- Double Take
- Dragged by the Collar
- Dynamic Entry
- Finagle's Law
- Forgotten Trope: Buster boards a train for Reno, signaling his intention to get a divorce.
- Fun with Foreign Languages: Buster and Kate think they're in court because of a broken window. The judge thinks he's conducting a wedding.
- Improvised Weapon
- Literal Ass-Kicking
- Lottery Ticket: Actually, a letter announcing an inheritance.
- Meal Ticket: What Kate and her family think she's married.
- Mistaken Identity: Buster's wife and in-laws believe that he has inherited $100,000 on the basis of a misdirected letter.
- Murphy's Bed: Various, including a Bear Trap Bed.
- Nouveau Riche
- Oireland: Ancestral land of the wife's family.
- Pepper Sneeze
- Punched Across the Room: The photographer is shoved across one room, then sent across a second and out the door with a kick in the ass.
- The Roaring Twenties: Kate's family makes home brew, though it's unclear if they do so because of Prohibition or because they're Oirish.
- Slapstick
- Sweet Tooth
- Take That: Possibly directed at Keaton's real-life in-laws, the Talmadges.
- Tap on the Head
- Team Shot: Subverted. The family poses for a group portrait, but Buster keeps getting pushed out of frame.
- Wake Up Fighting
- Working Class People Are Morons
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