 There is a scene where Bud Abbott (qv) and Lou Costello (qv) are  talking in their tent and Joe Besser (qv) dashes into the tent,  grabs a glass of water and dashes out again. He repeats this several  times until Abbott stops him and asks why hes so thirsty. Besser  replies that hes not thirsty, its that his tent is on fire. That  was based on an incident in Costellos childhood, when he  accidentally set some clothes in his bedroom on fire. His father was  in the living room, which was between the kitchen and Costellos  bedroom. Costello, not wanting to let his father know that he had  set his room on fire, dashed back and forth between the kitchen and  his bedroom with glasses of water until his father finally asked  what he was doing, whereupon he was forced to tell what he had done.