Experience does count, after all.
It's very forced friction, and not amusing, and you keep wishing Rooney would belt the kid. Back in 1982, when both were struggling actors, Nathan Lane and Dana Carvey played roommates on the NBC sitcom One of the Boys. Mickey Rooney was a real colorful character, told us great stories. Carvey said Rooney rarely appeared on the set, apparently preferring to spend time at the race track. Carvey and Lane had to rehearse with Rooney's stand-in, and the day of taping, Rooney would show up and try to read his lines off cue cards.