What's your favorite Three Stooges short?

[TheMightyFavog]

Personally, I like You Nazsty Spy! and I'll Never Heil Again, great spoof of the Axis powers. BTW, both these shorts were made before our entry into WWII. The fromer was made in 1940, the latter was made in 1941, a few months before Pearl Harbor.

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1. "A Plumbing We Will Go"

Curly: "Hey, no wonder the plumbing doesn't work, these pipes are all clogged up with wires!"

Moe: "Well, yank them outta there".

"You want water, just turn on anything; you'll get it"

"Punch Drunks"

(The one with "Pop-Goes-the-Weasel").

"Three Little Beers".

"I don't see any golfs"

[ronzo]

15. Yup.

The first one that came to mind was the plumber bit.
It's a classic.

[arwalden]

2. The One With The Bear In The Cabin In The Woods

I couldn't tell you the name of it though.

-- Allen

[arwalden]

3. Oh Wait! The One With Lots Of Creme Pies In The Face Was Funny Too.

-- Allen

[Devil Dog Dem]

4. Men in Black

"Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard."

[Kat45]

5. I also like the ones when Moe plays Hitler, along with

"A Plumbing We Will Go." And the one with the big pie fight when someone says, "You look like the sword of Damocles is hanging over your head," as a cream pie dangles precariously from the ceiling above.

Disclosure: I am one of the rarities, a woman who likes the Stooges. :-)

[madrchsod]

6. woman haters bit

and the one where they ran a clothing store

[StClone]

7. The haunted mansion

I'd like to see the short that was alluded to in a Seinfeld episode where the "baby dies and the boys are sentenced to the electric chair."

[Lefty48197]

8. B A Bay, B E Bee, B Bi bicky bi bee bi bo bicky bi bo bay bick bu

classic

[ikojo]

9. The one where they go

NIAGRA FALLS

Slowly I turn...step by step...inch by inch....

Considering that all Three Stooges were Jewish (original names Horowitz and Feinstein) it does not surprise me that they would want to spoof on Hitler.

Another woman for the Three Stooges

[TrogL]

17. Originally an Abbott and Costello routine

It doesn't make any sense with three people.

i love it anyway

[BiggJawn]

10. "Hassen ben Soba"

"Woof! Woof! MEOW!"

I wish more women liked the Stooges. My girlfriend would rather watch a Bush speech than the Stooges....

[mac56]

13. Why women hate the Stooges.

http://www.geocities.com/greggas/stooge.htm

There are two main reasons why women don't like the Stooges. First, women have an attenuated sense of the absurd; they see the world much more logically than do men. Men, like children, easily accept the farfetched notions upon which Stooge comedy is based, but women don't. Second, women disdain conflict, and the foundation upon which most Stooge comedies are built is - conflict! The Stooges inhabit a world where people express themselves loudly and directly: inhibition doesn't exist, and the preferred method for dealing with adversity is confrontation. Those who don't subscribe to this world-view - stuffy professors, refined aristocrats, society matrons, intellectuals and the like - pay a severe Stooge penalty, much to the delight of Stooge fans, who love to see the self-righteous get a good swift kick in the pants (or a pie in the face).

Let's face it: the Stooges are a guy's act, produced and written from a male perspective. One might even say that their films maintain a rather consistent point of view: that of the average working stiff beset by his woman, his boss, and society in general. For over five decades the Three Stooges were comedy underdogs, on-screen and off. But this doesn't disqualify them from serious consideration when evaluations of American comedy are made. The fact is, they're still making people laugh, and that's what they set out to do.

[mac56]

11. "Micro-Phonies"

The boys are working in a radio station when a pretty girl makes a recording of "Voices of Spring" under an assumed name. She wants to hide her singing career from her disapproving society parents while auditioning for the radio program hosted by Mrs. Bixby. The boys find the record and Curly (in drag!) starts mimicking to it. Mrs. Bixby witnesses their performance and hires "Senorita Cucaracha" and Senors "Mucho" and "Gusto" for her radio program. The boys show up in their disguises to "sing" at Mrs. Bixby's party but run into trouble when Moe smashes the record over Curly's head. Hilarity ensues.

Actually, I love the Stooges, and this is one of their best.

[camero]

12. Disorder in the Court

Especially the part where they try to get the parrot. :)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. "Moe Larry The Cheese!"

I don't remember the title of the short but I think it had a western setting. I just remember Curly going crazy when he saw a mouse and yelling "Moe Larry The Cheese!"

There was another funny episode I remember dealing with cheese. I don't recall its title either, but it had something to do with the boys trying to get adopted by a wealthy society matron and disguising themselves as children. Larry was dressed as a little girl. Curly had a chest cold and Larry smeared some Limburger cheese on it by mistake. I remember him trying to pick up a pretty girl at a reception who thought he was a cute kid, telling her "I don't smell too good" (talking about his head cold) and seeing the girl's expression. He stunk up the place before the episode ended with a massive pie fight at a society reception.

I also vaguely recall another episode where there was a bet, somewhat like in the Eddie Murphy/Dan Akroyd movie "Trading Places", where some rich men debate over the question of whether class, culture and success is determined by environmental factors or whether it depends on genetics. They choose the Stooges as a subject for a bet, to see if they can train them to become classy and successful individuals. It think the boys actually make us think they will have a complete makeover but something happens and it ends in a complete pie fight again at a high society affair. I wonder if "Trading Places" gave any credit to that Stooges episode.

There were so many others, including one where they bake a cake using an oven mit by mistake and begin coughing up feathers. Anyway, I recall so many good times watching the Stooges that I think I'll go to Amazon to see if they sell any old 3 Stooges DVDs.

[TrogL]

16. The one where they're plumbers

[thebigidea]

18. anything without Joe Besser

the daily showings of Stooge shorts on AMC during the 2001-2002 period was almost single-handedly responsible for not making me nuttier than I already am.

[VOX]

19. "Violent Is the Word for Curly"...

The Stooges are in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers -- three European professors. They steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at Mildew, a women's college where the three professors are expected. Mistaken for the real thing, the boys are now members of the faculty, where, in class, they sing the infamous "Alphabet Song." When the real professors finally show up, the stooges try to convince a wealthy woman (the schools benefactor), that an athletics program is vitally important. Their phys-ed demonstration comes to an abrupt end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin basketball.

The title is a play on "Valiant is the Word for Carrie", a popular film of the time.

[blindpig]

20. I'll never heil again

was that the one where Moe is Hitler, Curley is Goring and Larry is Ribbontrop(sp)? Excellent! "We want peace! A piece of this, a piece of that." My favorite. So famaliar.