Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy formed one of cinema's most famous comedy partnerships, starring together in short films and features from the late 1920s through the 1940s. Hardy's line about another nice mess became shorthand for blaming Laurel for their latest disaster, and it stuck because it summed up almost every plot in a single weary complaint. Decades later, the line survives online as a reaction clip, reused in memes and videos whenever a well-meaning plan unravels into chaos.