While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. They decide to buy the station and try to run it themselves - but they aren't very good at it.


You should watch Gasoloons if you have twenty minutes to kill and you find the idea of incompetent people failing at basic manual labor funny. If you can't stand old-timey slapstick or the sound of scratchy 1930s audio, you are going to hate every second of this. It’s a 1936 short film, so it doesn't overstay its welc...


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"You should watch Gasoloons if you have twenty minutes to kill and you find the idea of incompetent people failing at basic manual labor funny. If you can't stand old-timey slapstick or the sound of scratchy 1930s audio, you are going to hate every second of this. It’s a 1936 short film, so it doesn't overstay its welcome. It gets right to the point: a car full of people who probably shouldn't be in charge of a goldfish decide to buy a gas station. The whole thing stars Edgar Kennedy. If you kn..."
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