Can't say I'm a fan, but my brother, two years older than me, is a stone knucklehead. What always got me rolling my eyes, is how the theme song in the shorts, was always so long, as if stalling for time until the credits finally ended. "Keep playing - there's still more credits-!" Also, to a young 'Boomer born in '56, the pacing was always so slow and deliberate. Which was odd, considering how much faster-paced the Little Rascals/Our Gang always seemed by comparison.
One of my favorite Shemp roles is as Sinbad the Sailor in "Arabian Nights." He plays him as a total bulls**tter. Plus you get to see him in Technicolor.
Just saw this thread. I have loved the Three Stooges since I was a little kid. I discovered them via TV - Channel 38 in Boston and then Channel 9- WWOR had them too.. No one in my family watched it so it was just me randomly finding them. I had all the books on them Moe's autobiography, Curly's biography, The Three Stooges Scrapbook, etc. I just started recently go through the DVDs again and finally watched the 5 MGM shorts via YouTube. Glad they ditched Ted Healy. My favorites are: Men In Black A Plumbing We Will Go Brideless Groom Hoi Polloi
All great shorts. Mine are: Who Done It? Boobs in Arms I Can Hardly Wait Dizzy Pilots Three Arabian Nuts
One of my favorite Stooges stories involves Aerosmith, who when they were practicing in Commonwealth Avenue in Boston in their early days, would always break practice at 4:30 each afternoon and rush back to their apartment to watch them on Channel 38. Also, when I was visiting friends in LA in the early 1990s, I was taken to the sound stage in the old Columbia Pictures lot where the Stooges shorts were shot. Apparently, they had to shoot at night since the "more important" movies were shot in the daytime.
They're airing a handful of Stooges shorts on MeTV every Saturday night before Svengoolie. When I was a 7th grader, this would have been my idea of heaven.
There are more of those with other tv shows on YouTube (not three stooges though) There’s Star Trek and Star Wars A-Team ones and this Magnum P.I. one among others:
Awww, they were a staple on kids’ TV in The ’70s too! Not an aficionado, but love the odd short. BUT – I will say this – the behavior of that director to Curly’s massive 1946 stroke was abominible. Finish that pie fight scene instead of getting him to the hospital? WOW.
Terry Adams of NRBQ is a HUGE fan of The Three Stooges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyOSVSng_tg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdeAYVhpNp8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPo5JmHlrow
My parrot whistles and "waah-waah"'s parts of the Stooges theme, and does woob-woob-woob, nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.
dr graves- how did you find the patient in room 73? dr. larry fine- up the chandelier gr graves- what did you do for him ? dr. curley howard- nothin' !! what did he ever do for us?
It's been a while since I even attempted a video. As soon as she sees that anyone is paying attention to her, she clams up. I may have to set something up where I'm recording when nobody's around.
https://youtu.be/7pE5Y-kheOc?t=882 <== Curly sings a little bit here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOQziuYs1Wo&t=38s <== A little bit gets played here
They did get him to the hospital. Moe and Larry stayed behind to finish the scene without him. Curly is absent from the pie fight.
