Editing Duck Soup (1933 film) (section)

===Other scenes and jokes===
The climactic production number ridicules war by comparing [[nationalism]] to a [[minstrel show]]. One segment is a variant on the old [[Spiritual (music)|Negro spiritual]] "[[All God's Chillun Got Wings (song)|All God's Chillun Got Wings]]":
<blockquote><poem>They got guns,
We got guns,
All God's chillun got guns!
I'm gonna walk all over the battlefield,
'Cause all God's chillun got guns!</poem></blockquote>
(The song makes a reprise in the 1937 Marx Brothers film ''[[A Day at the Races (film)|A Day at the Races]]'' as "[[All God's Chillun Got Rhythm]]" in the [[Lindy Hop]] production number.)

Another repeated gag involved Harpo, who drives a motorcycle with a sidecar, as a chauffeur, to transport Groucho. Twice, after Groucho gives the orders to Harpo, Harpo rides his motorcycle away, leaving Groucho stranded in the sidecar. Later, Groucho has Harpo sit in the sidecar, while Groucho gets on the motorcycle, the sidecar, with Harpo in it, rides off away, again, leaving Groucho stranded.

Shortly after, during the final battle scenes, "rightfully [...] called the funniest of all of cinema",<ref name="Griffin"/> Firefly can be seen wearing a different costume in almost every sequence until the end of the film, including [[American Civil War]] uniforms (first Union and then Confederate), a British palace guard uniform, a [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scout]] Scoutmaster's uniform, and even a [[Davy Crockett]] coonskin cap. Meanwhile, the exterior view of the building they are occupying changes appearance from a bunker to an old fort, etc. One of Firefly's generals assures him that he has "a man combing the countryside for volunteers." Sure enough, Pinky is wandering out on the front lines wearing a sandwich board sign reading, "Join the Army and see the Navy." Later, Chicolini volunteers Pinky to carry a message through enemy lines; Firefly tells him, "[...] and remember, while you're out there risking life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in here thinking what a sucker ''you'' are." Thomas Doherty has described this line as "sum[ming] up the [[World War I|Great War]] cynicism towards all things patriotic".<ref name="Doherty">Doherty, p. 194</ref>

The melodramatic exclamation "This means war!" certainly did not originate with ''Duck Soup'', but it is used several times in the film—at least twice by Trentino and once by Firefly<ref>[http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/d/duck-soup-script-transcript-marx.html Transcript of ''Duck Soup'']</ref>—and was repeated by Groucho in ''[[A Night at the Opera (film)|A Night at the Opera]]'' and ''[[A Day at the Races (film)|A Day at the Races]]''. Variations of this phrase later became a frequently used catch-phrase for [[Daffy Duck]] and [[Bugs Bunny]] in [[Warner Bros.]] cartoons.<ref>[[John Canemaker|Canemaker, John]].  ''The Boys from [[Termite Terrace]]''. A Camera Three Documentary, 1975. [[Warner Bros.]] [[cartoon]] [[animation director|director]] [[Chuck Jones]] admitted during this interview that he and his associates "borrowed" [[Bugs Bunny]]'s phrase, "Of course you know, this means war!", from Groucho Marx. Jones, a fan of the Marx Brothers, laughed, "We would steal from almost ''any'' source!"</ref>

In another scene, the film pokes fun at the [[Hays Code]]. Due to the code, a man and woman could not be shown in bed together. The camera begins the scene in a woman's bedroom, panning across the foot of the bed. A pair of men's shoes are shown on the floor, then a pair of women's shoes and then four [[horseshoe]]s. The camera cuts to a shot of the entire room: Pinky is sleeping in one bed with the horse, while the woman is in another bed.

The film's writers recycled a joke used in ''[[Horse Feathers]]'' in this dialogue with Chico:
<blockquote>Prosecutor: Chicolini, isn't it true you sold Freedonia's secret war code and plans?<br />Chicolini: Sure! I sold a code and two pairs o' plans!</blockquote>

The street vendor confrontations are also well-crafted pieces of [[physical comedy]]:<ref name="filmsite"/><ref name="Griffin"/> Chico and Harpo harass a lemonade seller (comedy film veteran [[Edgar Kennedy]]), egged on by his irritation that they have stolen his pitch.

First, there is a scene involving the knocking off, dropping, picking up and exchanging of hats. Later, Kennedy (a much larger man) steals bags of Harpo's peanuts, and Harpo responds by burning Kennedy's new straw boater hat; in return, Kennedy pushes over their peanut wagon. Harpo responds by stepping knee-deep into Kennedy's lemonade tank, where he imitates a stereotypical Italian grape-crushing peasant; this drives off Kennedy's waiting line of customers.

Just before the Mirror Scene is the Radio Scene. Harpo tries the combination to the safe on a box which proves to be a radio, and it starts blaring the break-up strain of John Philip Sousa's "[[Stars and Stripes Forever]]". The music continues despite frantic efforts to silence, and finally destroy, the radio, by throwing it out the window, shattering the glass.

Harpo often doffed his hat on-screen, but Chico very rarely removed his [[Tyrolean hat]], even when indoors. For a few seconds on-screen in the earlier scene, Chico's head is uncovered, revealing a wavy wig. Chico had already started going bald when the brothers appeared in their first Broadway production, ''[[I'll Say She Is]]'', in 1924. All of the Brothers' natural receding-hairline patterns were similar, but Harpo and Chico covered theirs with wigs (Groucho later sported an obvious [[toupee]] in the films ''[[At The Circus]]'' and ''[[Go West (1940 film)|Go West]]'').