Awesome / Abbott and Costello

• In Keep 'Em Flying, a cadet gets his parachute caught on a plane door while trying to make a jump. The boys' friend Jinx saves him by catching him in his biplane and severing the chute cords with his propeller.
• In Here Come the Co-Eds after blowing an already rigged basketball game and the chance to save Bixby College with it, Oliver (Costello's character) overhears the bookie they made a bet on the game with paying off the cheaters in the locker room and, in a rare moment of quick thinking, nabs the payoff money, pushes a row of lockers over onto the perpetrators and books it. The ensuing chase buys the boys enough time for the officials to find out the opposing team was a professional team masquerading as a college team, meaning the money is their rightful winnings and the school is saved.
• "Who's on First?" The sheer verbal dexterity of the routine (Jerry Seinfeld described it as being constructed like the Eiffel Tower), coupled with Bud and Lou's ability to run through it at lightning speed without flubbing a single line after god knows how much rehearsing, made it the most famous double act routine in history, and just as gut-bustingly hilarious as when it was first performed.
• Aside from the duo receiving the kudos, one episode in their show entitled "Getting a Job" has them being called out by the owner of Fields Employment Agency after acting like independent bigshots.
  Mr. Fields: You came into this office like a wild man, you criticized my business and the way I run my business, you knocked my furniture, you insulted my wife. My wife! (showing his wife's photo from his desk) You realize that's the woman I married? That's the woman I love. The day I married her, she ran third of... You see? Now you've got me insulting my own wife! Don't you know that a gentleman never insults anybody? The first essential of politeness is consideration of the feelings of others? Graciousness without condescension? That's the attribute devoutly to be wished. You don't have it! Now listen to me. The next time you come into a man's place of business, always knock before you enter; and when you do come in, take off your hat. TAKE IT OFF! And when you speak to a man, address him as "sir". Sir! S-I-R, "sir"! Another thing, politeness costs you nothing. If you can't say anything nice the way a man runs his business, DON'T say anything at all! Now, I want you two hoodlums to get out of my office, and don't you dare to come back until you learn to act like gentlemen!
• The duo's return to radio in November 4 1953 was a brutal real life example of this and a Tear Jerker. Lou, who had just recovered from a long bout of illness, promised his infant son, Lou Jr "Butch" Costello, he would hear him on the radio that day. While rehearsing, Lou was called back home. Butch had tragically drowned in the family pool. A heartbroken Lou wanted to keep his promise to Butch wherever he was now though, and made it back to the studio on time and finished the show near flawlessly. The audience laughed and applauded, none the wiser until Bud informed them of the terrible event when the show was over.

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