But the trade off to the comedic balance being minorly improved is that the rest of the film suffers greatly, most notably that the Marx Brothers, while still the principal players, aren’t the focus of the story. The film splits its time more evenly between the Marx Brothers, so it doesn’t feel as dominated by Groucho’s rude one-liners, and there are more memorable scenes and gags-the contract scene brilliantly repeats a bad joke so many times, it eventually becomes amusing. While he meant it as a joke, Deacon actually could play the double bass, and showed up with one at the recording session, so May decided to use it, resulting in a very interesting skiffle feel.Compared to Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera is one step forward, but two steps back.
Throw It In: When he was writing "'39", Brian May asked John Deacon to play double bass on the recording. They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Some fans of the band's earlier albums, which tended more towards Heavy Mithril, were put off by the different genres of the new album, and Queen would rarely produce whole albums as heavy as their earlier work again, although the occasional track - "Tie Your Mother Down" or "Hammer To Fall" for example - would emerge. It ended up backfiring for the man horrifically as the band was smart enough to not specifically mention Sheffield by name in the lyrics, meaning all he did was publicly reveal who the track was actually about. Streisand Effect: Norman Sheffield, Queen's former band manager and the subject of "Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to.)" sued the band for defamation after hearing the song. Similarly Named Works: Apart from the album being named after the Marx Brothers film, the track "Love of My Life" shares the same title as a Frank Zappa song from Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1968), but is otherwise unrelated. Magnum Opus Dissonance: While they certainly agree that it's a very important album for them, the members themselves don't think it was their best album ever Brian May personally believes Queen II was their finest work. Freddie preferred the sound of the acoustic piano. Creator Backlash: Freddie Mercury was not pleased with the sound of the Wurlitzer electric piano, which John Deacon insisted on playing on "You're My Best Friend". Based on a Dream: "The Prophet's Song" was inspired by a nightmare about a great flood Brian May had while suffering from hepatitis. (They sent him a jacket with the album's coat of arms image embroidered on the back in response.) Approval of God: Groucho Marx (the only surviving member of the Marx Brothers from the film at the time of the album's release) got in touch with the band to tell them how much he liked it. 
It is unclear which of the myriad writers for this film was responsible for suggesting the now-famous bogus play idea. The basis of the plot floated around both Hollywood and Broadway for many years, before Mel Brooks filmed a version of the plot with The Producers. He explained that he didn't want a funny story but a good, simple plot that the Marx Brothers could use as a springboard for their comic ideas. Groucho loved the idea, but producer Irving Thalberg nixed it. But his plans are thwarted when the opera becomes a huge hit and he is left owing ten times what the show actually brings in. The backers he had soaked for ten times the production costs would assume they had lost their money, and Groucho could escape to South America with the sizable profits.
The plot featured Groucho as a producer plotting to stage the worst opera in history so that the show would close quickly. A rejected plot for the film circulated for more than three decades as a Broadway legend and popular backstage tale.
Irving Thalberg rejected the idea, however, and McGuinness became the first in a long string of screenwriters to be dismissed from the film.
The film's first screenwriter was James Kevin McGuinness who concocted a plot based on Harpo Marx being the world's greatest tenor, who never sings or speaks throughout the film. Driftwood: You call that nothing? How many men do you think are drawing a handsome salary these days?
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