Abbott and Costello Meet the Boxed Set, Vol. 4 Disc 1

One beef I have with Netflix is the way that they handle boxed sets. Specifically, they rent the disks to you one at a time, but they only describe them to you as a whole. They won't tell you what is on each disk. You can try to go to other websites to figure out what is on each disk, but sometimes Netflix doesn't have the standard set.

Case in point: The Best of Abbott and Costello: Vol. 4: Disc 1, 1953. Try to guess what is on this disk. The Best of collection has any number of volumes, each with any number of disks, each with one or more sides. I took a stab at choosing this one. It had Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, and claimed to have Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy on the flipside - but it was a one sided disk.

The problem is pretty much moot, because, hey, it's Abbott and Costello. What difference does it make? Jekyll and Hyde is set in London, with Bud and Lou as American police training with the London force. There's a cute suffragette subplot, and Karloff plays Jekyll/Hyde. In Keystone Kops, we get a Mack Sennett cameo, some real Keystone Kops and old-timer Roscoe Ates (Soapy Jones).

I guess these aren't really the best of Abbott and Costello - more like the rest of Abbott and Costello, but we cracked up anyway. I've read that Jerry Garcia loved Abbott and Costello, because Lou was always seeing things that nobody else believed in. We all know how that feels (don't we?).

In conclusion, no complaints.