Neighbors

When Mabel Normand and Sylvia Ashton collide on their bicycles, Sylvia takes Mabel's bike. This means that husbands Fred Mace and Charles Avery must fight a duel because that, apparently, is how the French settle every dispute.

Although most of Mack Sennett's comedy shorts at Biograph were milder situation comedies, every once in a while he would do one of the wilder farces that would be the regular production at Keystone. Even so, this is relatively mild, with most of the humor coming from the final gag about her the men actually settle disputes after a long chase.