> Somewhere, back behind the cobwebs of
my brain, I remember a movie in which
someone used gun powder instead of baking
powder. The results were explosive, naturally,
but that is as far I my memory goes. It must
have been Buster Keaton, or Laurel and
Hardy, or Lou Costella, or The Three Stooges,
because who else would do a thing like that?
Gilligan hadn't been invented yet.

Sounds like the Three Stooges to me.
Although It's not the gunpowder episode, it
brings to mind the one where they start out as
ice delivery men, get mistaken for chefs, and
end up baking a birthday cake for the guy they
accidentally dropped an ice chest on earlier in
the day...

Gri"and of course they used natural gas to
inflate the cake after it sunk, so it exploded
when the guy blew out his candles"shny