'A Plumbing we will go.'
Followed closely by 'Disorder in the Court.'
My Top 10 favorite shorts are
"An Ache In Every Stake (1941)
"We Want Our Mummy" (1939)
"Hoi Polloi" (1935)
"Cash And Carry" (1937)
"Cactus Makes Perfect" (1942)
"Oily To Bed, Oily To Rise" (1939)
"How High Is Up" (1940)
"Slaphappy Sleuths" (1950)
"Scrambled Brains" (1951)
"Who Done It" (1949)
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Hoi Polloi
Brideless Groom
The Sitter Downers
Three Dumb Clucks
Micro-Phonies
Heavenly Daze
They Stooge To Conga
We Want Our Mummy
Grips, Grunts and Groans
If A Body Meets A Body
Three Little Pirates
A Plumbing We Will Go
These are the ones that stick out.
Nice to see someone who likes "If A Body Meets A Body", that was one of the first Stooge shorts I've ever seen and always have a lot of good memories watching this short, I think it's one of the most underrated Stooge shorts of the Curly era.
shareAbsolutely! I remember seeing that short during a "Three Stooges Fright Night" Halloween Special when I was a kid. I've loved it ever since. The short was made during Curly's ill years as a stooge. And while his timing can be a bit off in the short it's one of my favorites. It also has two of my favorite stooge bits ever.
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Butler: He was murdered in this room, on the very spot of which you're standing.
(Curly leaps into the air to a different spot in the room)
2.
(Moe leans against the wall, opening a secret door. Uncle Bobalink falls into Moe two times. Moe, thinking it's Larry or Curly gets frustrated. Moe then says "I see I'll have to take action." That line and his facial expression was so funny to me because of what happened right after that.
I also remember watching the "Three Stooges Fright Night" Halloween Special on TBS back in the early 1990s and have a lot of great memories watching it, I agree that Curly's timing can be a bit off but I thought the short had a lot of great moments, I especially loved the scene where Moe tells the butler "Thanks Dracula", I thought that scene was hilarious!
I also loved the scene where the Butler tells Curly that he was murdered on the very spot he was standing and Curly leaps into the air or when Uncle Bobalink falls into Moe twice and then gets scared when he realizes who it was, I also loved the ending scene when the Stooges go nuts over them getting $.67 from the will!
I remember my dad laughing out loud with "Thanks Dracula." It's definitely an underrated short. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks so.
shareThese are great examples. I wish I could find a good source for these shorts. The only ones that seem to be available are the four that are always sold in a bundle. I guess they went into Public Domain, because lots of distributors sell them. I think they are "Sing a Song of Six Pants", "Disorder in the Court" and a couple of others.
shareI believe you can get all of their 190 shorts on DVD, they were sold in stores when they were first released
shareA Plumbing We Will Go. The original with Curly, not the Shemp re-make.
The only thing what I liked about the Shemp remake of "A Plumbing We Will Go" is it had a better supporting cast and Moe's temper seems to be more beefed up than the original, what I didn't like about the remake is Moe barely punished Shemp in that short.
shareSpook Louder
Spooks
Disorder in the Court
I forget the name but the one where they're census takers
I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least its an ethos.
the one where they were census takers is "No Census, No Feeling" (1940), that is one of my favorite Stooge shorts, loved the scene with Curly drinking the alum
share No Census, No Feeling is the one you're after. And a favorite of mine as well. Lake Winnepesaukee!...
"Why you feather brains, I'll murder ya!"~ Moe Howard, circa 1938
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If I had to pick only one, it's No Dough, Boys. Hoo-yah!!
shareJust one? Gotta go with If a Body Meets a Body, gotta agree with the others about the 3 Stooges Fright Night marathon for Halloween, I miss that.
If we're doing top 10, in no particular order
1. If a Body Meets a Body
2. Three Pests in a Mess
3. Disorder in the Court
4. They Stooge to Conga
5. All the World's a Stooge
6. No Dough Boys
7. Goofs on the Roof
8. Hoi Polloi
9. Men in Black
10. Rhythm and Weep
Come to think of it, you'd have to do a top 20
11. I Can Hardly Wait
12. The Yoke's on me
13. Punch Drunks
14. Violent is the Word for Curly
15. We Want Our Mummy
16. Sing a Song of Six-Pants
17. Brideless Groom
18. The Micro-Phonies
19. Dizzy Detectives
20. The Sitter Downers
Nice to see someone who likes "Rhythm And Weep", I always thought that was one of the more underrated Curly films.
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