WOMAN HATERS
(Episode 1): The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow
to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide
the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip. This story is done in rhyme which
detracts from the enjoyability. ]
PUNCH DRUNKS
(Episode 2): Moe is a boxing promoter looking for a good fighter. Curly
is a mild-mannered waiter who goes crazy whenever he hears "Pop Goes the
Weasel". Larry is a violinist recruited to play the tune. Curly becomes a great
fighter and gets a championship match. Things look bad when Larry's violin is smashed, but
everything turns out fine when Larry delivers the music by driving a truck through the
arena wall.
MEN IN BLACK
(Episode 3): The stooges become doctors at a large hospital where they
disrupt patients and staff alike. The title is a play on "Men in White", a
popular film of the time. Nominated for "Best Short Subject" in 1934. ]
THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS
(Episode 4): The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three
Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they
blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.
HORSES COLLARS
(Episode 5): The stooges are private detectives in the old west trying
to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU from the
villains wallet and then from a safe meet with problems until Curly, who goes berserk
whenever he sees a mouse, knocks out all the bad guys.
RESTLESS KNIGHTS
(Episode 6): Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal
blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but are sentenced
to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the evil prime minister. The stooges
escape, free the queen, and end up knocking each other out.
POP GOES THE EASEL
(Episode 7): The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they
flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to
hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay
throwing fight ends the film.
UNCIVIL WARRIORS
(Episode 8): Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north.
They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable
information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back
to their northern headquarters.
PARDON MY SCOTCH
(Episode 9): The stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a
potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. The stooges impersonate
Scotsmen at party to fool the prospective buyer. Their usual antics disrupt the party,
ending when a barrel of their "scotch" explodes and floods the whole house.
HOI POLLOI
(Episode 10): A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into
gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society
party. The stooges new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly
degenerates. By the end, the other guests have adopted stooge-like behavior and the
stooges leave as gentlemen.
THREE LITTLE BEERS
(Episode 11): The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they
learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice.
They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced to escape
in their beer truck, more havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down
a steep hill.
ANTS IN THE PANTRY
(Episode 12): The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by
planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must
pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the
party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to
join the guests on a fox hunt.
MOVIE MANIACS
(Episode 13): The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the
movie business ("There must be a couple a hundred guys in Hollywood who don't know
anything about making movies, three more ain't gonna make any difference".) They
sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new executives who were due to
arrive. After taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast towalk off,
Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curly as the leading man and lady. When the
real executives send a telegram explaining why they haven't arrived, the stooges must
leave on the run.
HALF-SHOT SHOOTERS
(Episode 14): The stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and
promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the
army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various
tricks on them, and when the stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge,
and a smoke stack, he blows them up.
DISORDER IN THE COURT
(Episode 15): The stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a
dancer at a nightclub where they are musicians, is accused of murder. The stooges manage
to disrupt the proceedings but save the day when they discover the real murderer's
identity.
A PAIN IN THE PULLMAN
(Episode 16): The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an
engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of
the other passengers including the conductor and a big movie star. Eventually their antics
get out of hand and they are literally tossed off the train.
FALSE ALARMS
(Episode 17): The stooges are firemen who are constantly getting in
trouble, they've been warned that one more incident will cost them their jobs. Curly
sneaks out anyway to visit his girlfriend. She has two friends who need dates, but the
only way Curly can get Moe and Larry out of the station is to pull a fire alarm. The
firetruck leaves without Moe and Larry, so they steal the captains new car to make it to
the call first. They manage to get Curly and get back to the station, but in doing so
wreck the car and must leave on the run.
WHOOPS I'M AN INDIAN
(Episode 18): Set in the old west, the stooges are crooked gamblers
gypping the resident of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape into the
woods. To elude the sheriff they disguise themselves as Indians. Their plan works until
Curly, dressed as a squaw, is forced to marry a local tough guy. The stooges are unmasked
and wind up in the hoosegow.
SLIPPERY SILKS
(Episode 19): The stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress
boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture.
During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream
puff fight ensues.
GRIPS, GRUNTS AND GROANS
(Episode 20): The stooges become trainers of "Bustoff", a
champion wrestler. The big boss has a lot of money bet on Bustoff and orders the boys to
take good care of him. Instead they accidentally knock him out and Curly must disguises
himself as Bustoff and wrestle in his place. The match doesn't go very well until Curly
smells "Wild Hyacinth" perfume on a lady fan at ringside. This drives him crazy
and he knocks out his opponent and half the people in the stadium.
DIZZY DOCTORS
(Episode 21): The stooges get a job selling "Brighto", what
they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover
Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more
trouble and must leave on the run when the head of hospital turns out to be the owner of
the car they ruined.
THREE DUMB CLUCKS
(Episode 22): The stooges escape from jail when they learn their father,
who has just become rich, is planning to leave their mother and marry a young girl. Curly
is mistaken for the stooges father (he plays both parts) and marries the girl instead.
When they learn that she is working with gangsters who plan to kill their father for his
money, they escape and take their father with them.
GOOFS AND SADDLES
(Episode 23): Set in the old west, the stooges are spies for US Calvary;
"Buffalo Bilious", "Wild Bill Hiccup" and "Just Plain Bill".
Sent by General "Muster" to catch a gang of cattle rustlers, they wind up in a
saloon where the boss of the gang hangs out. The boys disguise themselves as gamblers and
get into a card game with the villain, but must flee when their identities are discovered.
They hole up in a cabin, fighting off the bad guys, until the calvary arrives.
BACK TO THE WOODS
(Episode 24): Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals
who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that
the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting
grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians.
They escape and another wild chase ensues.
CASH AND CARRY
(Episode 25): The stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in
their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boys operation they buy a phony
treasure map from a con man. Thinking the treasure is buried beneath an old house, the
boys start digging and wind up in a US treasury vault where they are promptly arrested.
The president (FDR) gives them amnesty and arranges for the boy's operation.
PLAYING THE PONIES
(Episode 26): The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for
"Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili
pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water. The boys enter Thunderbolt in a
big race. With jockey Larry feeding Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a
motorcycle leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race.
THE SITTER-DOWNERS
(Episode 27): The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when
their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The strike wins them
fame and they receive numerous gifts including a lot and a prefabricated house. They win
the strike and get married, but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built.
The boys have some problems with the construction, especially since Curly burned up the
plans. The eventually finish the house, a monstrosity that collapses when one post is
accidentally moved.
TERMITES OF 1938
(Episode 28): The stooges are pest exterminators, mistakenly hired by a
rich lady looking for an escort to a fancy society party. The stooges wreck the fancy
mansion where the party is taking place and befuddle the guest of honor, an English Lord.
WEE WEE MONSIEUR
(Episode 29): The stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord
comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the French Foreign
Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard captain Gorgonzola from the
natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves as harem girls
to infiltrate the chieftains hideout and rescue him.
TASSELS IN THE AIR
(Episode 30): The stooges are janitors in an office building. They
stencil the wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe for
"Omay", a famous decorator (the real Omay gets "Janitor, keep out"
painted on his door.) She hires the boys to redecorate her house, which they proceed to
ruin. More trouble ensues when the real Omay shows up. Adding to the chaos is the fact
that Curly goes crazy whenever he sees tassels.
HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND DUMB
(Episode 31): Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move
into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they
systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax
deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows
who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers
conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out what the jackpot is really
worth, the boys get conked with champagne bottles.
THREE MISSING LINKS
(Episode 32): The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After
wrecking the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie. Curly plays a
gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive natives. On location in Africa, the stooges have a
confrontation with a witch doctor from whom Curly buys some "love candy" with
hopes of attracting the films leading lady. When a female gorilla disrupts the movie set,
Curly eats some of the candy and chases after her.
VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY
(Episode 33): The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage
to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The stooges
steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at "Mildew", a women's college
where the three professors are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their
place on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the stooges try to convince a rich
woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics programs is more important. Their
athletics demonstration comes to an explosive 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.]
MUTTS TO YOU
(Episode 34): The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a
doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. When they read in the paper the
baby is believed to have been kidnapped, they disguise Curly as a the baby's mother and
try to sneak past the local cop. They are caught, but when the baby's parents show up and
realize what happened, the result is a happy ending.
FLAT FOOT STOOGES
(Episode 35): The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses
horses to pull the engines. A salesman who wants to sell the chief some modern equipment
plants gun powder in one of the engines. The chiefs daughter catches him and after a chase
both are knocked unconscious. When a fire starts, the stooges respond to the alarm, but
don't realize its their firehouse that's burning! Somehow they manage to arrive in time to
save the girl, and the villain gets his just desserts.
THREE LITTLE SEW AND SEWS
(Episode 36): The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop.
When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party
with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two
spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The
boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's
reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come.
WE WANT OUR MUMMY
(Episode 37): The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king
Rootin-Tootin for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb
where they are harassed by some bad guys after the same objective. The villains, who have
kidnapped a professor from the museum, want the jewels buried inside the mummy. When Curly
accidentally destroys the mummy, Moe and Larry wrap him in bandages to fool the bad guys.
They manage to rescue the professor and retrieve the real mummy of Rootin-Tootin who turns
out to have been a midget.
A DUCKING THEY DID GO
(Episode 38): The stooges are tricked by some con men into selling
memberships to a phony duck hunting club. To the amazement of the con men, they sell all
the memberships to the police department. When the bad guys skip town, the stooges are
stuck at a duck-less lake with a lodge full of cops and plenty of trouble ahead. Moe and
Larry stall the cops with duck decoys while Curly searches for some real ducks. The boys
think their troubles are solved when Curly returns with a whole flock, but it turns out
the ducks belong to local farmer and the boys leave in a hail of buckshot. [ Ending from
"A Pain in the Pullman". ]
YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA
(Episode 39): Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters
in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a
crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting
in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancees father, who owes
money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their
loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into
the Sheriff's office.
SAVED BY THE BELLE
(Episode 40): The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a
tropical country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to the natives
they are arrested when they receive a telegram instructing them to "get rid of
present wardrobe" and an official thinks they are planning to assassinate president
Ward Robey. With the help of Rita, a beautiful revolutionary, the boys escape a firing
squad, and are sent on a mission to deliver important plans to the revolutionary leader.
When they deliver a rolled up calendar by mistake, they are once again heading for a
firing squad but are spared when Rita arrives with the real plans.
CALLING ALL CURS
(Episode 41): The stooges run a pet hospital and get an important
patient, Garcon, a rich ladies poodle. When dognappers posing as reporters steal the
poodle, the boys are in a tough spot. First they try to fool their client by disguising a
mutt as the poodle. When that doesn't work, they use the mutt as a bloodhound to track
down the crooks. When they discover the bad guys hideout, Curly defeats them in a fight
and they find Garcon, only to discover that "he" has had a litter of puppies.
OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE
(Episode 42): The stooges are tramps looking for handouts. Although the
boys are down and out, Curly seems to get everything he wishes for. After some trouble
with a farmer, the boys come across an abandoned car, one of Curly's wishes. The car
actually belongs to some con men who have just gypped the widow Jenkins out of her land.
The boys winds up at the Mrs. Jenkins house just in time for a free meal. To repay Mrs.
Jenkins the boys try to fix her well and instead unleash an oil geyser. Learning that Mrs.
Jenkins has been swindled, the boys go to retrieve the deed before it can be recorded.
They find the bad guys and after a wild fight recover the deed. The boys return the deed
to Mrs. Jenkins and marry her daughters; April, May and June.
THREE SAPPY PEOPLE
(Episode 43): The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the
psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his
impetuous young wife who is always running of for submarine rides and the like. The boys
ruin a dinner party at their clients mansion but their antics so amuse his wife the she is
cured and the stooges are paid off handsomely.
YOU NATZY SPY
(Episode 44): In this satire of the Nazis the stooges are paperhangers
in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the king, they decide to
make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes
Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshall and Larry becomes Minister of propaganda. After
successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of
office by a mob and eaten by lions.
ROCKIN THROUGH THE ROCKIES
(Episode 45): The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show
west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend
with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each
other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing
west.
A PLUMBING WE WILL GO
(Episode 46): To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are
hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion. They wind up crossing the electrical system with
the plumbing and generally ruin the place. One memorable scene has the lady of the house
tuning into a television broadcast from Niagara Falls as a torrent of water pours from the
set. To escape the wrath of the homeowners the stooges escape through a magicians trap
door.
FROM NURSE TO WORSE
(Episode 47): The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on
insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a
leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the
insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try
to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital.
They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street,
where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.
NUTTY BUT NICE
(Episode 48): The stooges are singing waiters who are enlisted by a
doctor to try and cheer up a little girl. It seems that the girl's father is a banker who
was kidnapped with $300,000 worth of bonds. Failing to cheer up the girl, the stooges go
out looking for the father and by a series of coincidences wind up in the bad guys
hideout. The villains return and after a wild fight the boys free the missing man.
HOW HIGH IS UP
(Episode 49): The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who
live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the
unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and
accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their
ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the building and they must
parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss.
NO CENSUS, NO FEELING
(Episode 50): The stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a
fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge
game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by
everyone, resulting in puckered lips and shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the
census at a football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up in the
middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the other players in pursuit.
CUCKOO CAVALIERS
(Episode 51): The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new
business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are
some chorus girls from a local night club. After the stooges completely ruin the girl's
hair, and their manager finds out, the boys must leave on the run.
BOOBS IN ARMS
(Episode 52): The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly
inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers.
In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and
bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must
rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get
shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell.
SO LONG MR. CHUMPS
(Episode 53): The stooges are street cleaners who find some valuable
bonds and return them to their owner. The man is so grateful that he offers them a big
reward if they can find an honest man with executive ability. Their search leads them to a
woman who's fiancee is honest, but he's in jail. The boys decide to commit a crime so they
can go behind bars to find him. In prison the boys locate the man and help him escape,
only to find out that their benefactor is a con man and on the way himself to the slammer.
DUTIFUL BUT DUMB
(Episode 54): The stooges are photographers for Whack magazine ("If
it's a good picture it's out of Whack") who, after messing up an assignment, are sent
to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. In Vulgaria the penalty
for taking pictures in is death, and the boys soon wind up in front of a firing squad.
Curly's last request is a giant cigar and by the time he's done smoking it all the
soldiers are asleep and the stooges make their escape.
ALL THE WORLDS A STOOGE
(Episode 55): The stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after
Moe impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the run, they are
hired by a millionaire to pose as children. It seems the man's wife wants to adopt some
refugees to impress her society friends. Moe is Johnny, Curly is Frankie and Larry is
Mabel. Everything goes fairly well as the lady shows off the stooges to her friends, but
they finally irritate her husband so much that he goes after them with an ax.
I'LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN
(Episode 56): A follow up to "You Nazty Spy", the stooges have
taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field
Marshall and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The stooges are planning with their allies
to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's
daughter gets into their headquarters and plants a bomb which Curly detonates. All ends
well as the king regains control of the country and the stooges wind up as trophies on the
wall.
AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE
(Episode 57): The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a
house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to
bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the
boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is
that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake
explodes and the man realizes who they are, they must leave in a hurry.
IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE
(Episode 58): The stooges are convicts about to be executed for some
murders they didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into marrying
three rich girls who need husbands to collect a legacy. At the last minute the real
murderers confess and the stooges are pardoned. The girls are now stuck with the stooges
so they plot to get rid of them by making them become gentlemen. The girl's lawyer
convinces them to throw a big party in the hope that the stooges will humiliate them and
they can get a divorce. The boys do just that as the party degenerates into a wild pie
fight. But the girls decide to keep the stooges and give their lawyer the boot. [ Dance
teacher footage from "Hoi Polloi" ]
SOME MORE OF SAMOA
(Episode 59): The stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich
old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the
tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the
natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The stooges
escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with their
prize.
LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD
(Episode 60): The stooges decide to get some easy money by having Curly
slip on a bar of soap in a hotel lobby so they can sue the owner. Curly slips as planned
but the hotel turns out to be run by an old lady who is about to lose her lease to the
evil landlord. The stooges decide to help her fix up the place and start by beating up the
landlord and stealing his watch. After their usual antics in renovating the place, the
hotel is ready for the grand re-opening. The stooges put on a big show with a famous
critic in attendance. Their corny act goes over poorly until Curly accidentally puts on a
magicians coat and becomes a sensation and the place is a success.
CACTUS MAKES PERFECT
(Episode 61): The stooges are living with their mother who persuades
them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony
deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with
Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked
miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get
bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
WHAT'S THE MATADOR
(Episode 62): The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in
Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita
they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When
they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At
the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and
Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the
ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero. [ I never understood
how the bull costume could have fit in that suitcase. ]
MATRI-PHONY
(Episode 63): The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign
of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be
brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with
the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the
palace where the stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the
emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to
escape.
THREE SMART SAPS
(Episode 64): The stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison
warden. When they learn that some crooks have taken over the prison and their prospective
father-in-law has been locked up, they decide to go undercover to rescue him. The stooges
sneak into the prison where they find a casino with a fancy party in progress. After
swiping some formal attire, they crash the party and get candid camera evidence to expose
the crooked goings-on. With the crooks behind bars once again, the stooges are able to get
married and all ends well.
EVEN AS I.O.U
(Episode 65): A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant
lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into
the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their
winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily
when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt!
SOCK-A-BYE-BABY
(Episode 66): The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their
doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic
and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing them
by motorcycle. It all ends happily with the baby reunited with its parents and the stooges
running off disguised as bushes.
THEY STOOGE TO CONGA
(Episode 67): The stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the
doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage
to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink
an enemy submarine by remote control. [ One of the most violent of all the shorts,
especially the scene where Curly spikes Moe in the eye. The stooges manage a maximum of
destruction in the shortest time. ]
DIZZY DETECTIVES
(Episode 68): The stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A
mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr. Dill, the head of
the citizens league, threatening the police chief's job. The boys go on the case and pose
as night watchmen at an antiques store. They confront the crook, who turns out to be a
real gorilla owned by Dill. After defeating Dill and some other bad guys in a wild fight,
the gorilla drinks some nitroglycerin and blows up. [ The carpentry scenes are taken from
"Pardon My Scotch". ]
SPOOK LOUDER
(Episode 69): The stooges are salesman selling a weight reducing
machine. They have no luck until they show up at the house of an eccentric inventor where
they are hired as caretakers. When the scientist goes to Washington to demonstrate his
death-ray machine to the government, the boys are left to guard his house and must contend
with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower.
BACK FROM THE FRONT
(Episode 70): Set in WW II, the stooges are the only survivors of an
American ship sunk by an enemy torpedo. Adrift on a raft, they come upon a German
battleship and by various means, such as Moe disguising himself as Hitler, and Curly and
Larry as Goering and Goebbels, manage to capture the enemy ship.
THREE LITTLE TWERPS
(Episode 71): The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but
discover that instead of money, their pay is tickets to the show. When trying to scalp
their tickets gets them in trouble, they hide out backstage where Curly has an encounter
with a bearded lady and Moe and Larry hide in a horse suit. When they're caught, the
circus manager gives them a choice of going to jail or joining the circus. What they don't
know is that they are to be targets for the Zulu spear thrower. When Curly hits the spear
thrower with one of his own spears, the boys are on the run once again.
HIGHER THAN A KITE
(Episode 72): The stooges are auto mechanics working for the R.A.F. in
England. After wrecking an officers car they need a place to hide, but their choice, a
sewer pipe, turns out to a bomb which is dropped on the enemy. Finding themselves behind
enemy lines, Moe and Curly disguise as German officers and Larry dresses as a seductive
fraulein. While general Bommel chases after Larry, Moe and Curly steal the secret plans
from the high command.
I CAN HARDLY WAIT
(Episode 73): The stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting
to sleep when Curly gets a toothache. Moe and Larry try various ways to remove the
offending tooth, but nothing works so they take Curly to the dentist. While Moe gets in
the chair to show Curly how easy its going to be, the dentist enters and pulls Moe's tooth
by mistake. Curly then wakes up and realizes its all been a dream and a punch to the mouth
from Moe dislodges the tooth.
DIZZY PILOTS
(Episode 74): The stooges are the Wrong brothers, three inventors trying
to finish building an airplane they can sell to the army and thereby avoid the draft. When
their plane, the "Buzzard", turns out to be a flop, the boys are drafted into
the army where they have trouble with a tough drill sergeant. [ The army footage is taken
from "Boobs in Arms" ]
PHONY EXPRESS
(Episode 75): Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted
for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine peddlers show, they arrive in Peaceful Gulch where
a picture has been printed declaring them to be three famous lawmen coming to clean up the
town. Assigned to guard the bank, the boys have the local gang scared at first, but when
the gang learns who the stooges really are, they rob the bank. The boys go in pursuit,
find the bad guy's hideout, subdue the bandits and recover the money.
A GEM OF A JAM
(Episode 76): The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors
Harts, Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention after their boss
has been wounded in a shoot out with the cops. Mistaken for doctors, the boys are forced
to operate on the wounded crook, but instead they accidentally dump him out the window
into a passing police car. The rest of the gang chases them into a store room filled with
dummies where the cops finally catch the bad guys.
CRASH GOES THE HASH
(Episode 77): The stooges are hired as reporters and their first
assignment is to get a picture of a visiting prince who is planning to marry a local
socialite. The boys disguise as servants and infiltrate a party being in thrown in the
honor of the prince. The stooges ruin the party, but save the day as they expose the
prince as crook who is planning to rob the house. Their boss is so grateful for the expose
that he gives the boys a bonus and the rich lady decides to marry Curly!
BUSY BUDDIES
(Episode 78): The stooges run a small restaurant, and must come up with
some quick money to pay off a pie dealer who's wares they ruined. They enter Curly in a
milking contest at the county fair, but his technique leaves something to be desired, and
he quickly falls behind the champ. Moe and try to help by putting on a cow suit and
pouring milk from a concealed bottle, but when their cheating is exposed, they must leave
on the run.
THE YOKES ON ME
(Episode 79): Rejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to
"do their bit" by becoming farmers. After paying $1000 and throwing in their
car, the boys are owners of a run down farm, which lacks any livestock. After capturing an
escaped ostrich, they decide to carve jack-o- lanterns for profit and then must contend
with some Japanese who have escaped from a relocation center. The stooges become heroes by
capturing the escapees, with the help of explosive eggs laid by the ostrich who had
swallowed some blasting powder. [ This short is rarely seen on broadcast TV because of its
obvious WW II racial overtones. ]
IDLE ROOMERS
(Episode 80): The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when
a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The
stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the
wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up
caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky.
GENTS WITHOUT CENTS
(Episode 81): The stooges are three small time actors looking for a job.
They meet three girl dancers in the situation and get a small part in a big producers show
at the shipyard. When the rest of the cast doesn't show up, the stooges and the girls must
put on the whole show themselves. The show is a hit and the stooges marry the girls and
head to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. [ Their act at the shipyard contains the
classic "Niagara Falls" bit; "Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by
inch..." ]
NO DOUGH BOYS
(Episode 82): The stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for their job
as magazine models. On their lunch break they go into a restaurant with their Japanese
uniforms on causing the proprietor to mistake them for the real thing, and a chase ensues.
The boys fall through a trap door, and into a nest of Nazi spies where they are mistaken
for "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki", three Japanese saboteurs. The
stooges try to act the part, including demonstrating acrobatics and jiu-jitsu to their
hosts. When the real "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki" show up, the
boys are exposed and impostors, but after a wild fight manage to capture all the Axis
spies.
THREE PESTS IN A MESS
(Episode 83): The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent
on their preposterous fly catching invention. When they learn they'll have to catch
100,000 flies to earn enough to get a patent, some crooks overhear and think the boys are
the $100,000 sweepstakes winners. When the crooks give chase, the stooges hide in a
sporting goods store where Curly shoots a dummy, which they mistake for a real person. The
boys decide to bury the "body" in a pet cemetery, but the cemetery owner arrives
from a costume party with his partners, all dressed as spooks, and they proceed to scare
the devil out of the stooges.
BOOBY DUPES
(Episode 84): The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out
the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a
"new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks
in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into
and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered
rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.
IDIOTS DELUXE
(Episode 85): Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax.
Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the
woods they confronted a bear which Curly and Larry stunned, and thinking it was dead,
threw it in the back of their car, where it came awake, tossed Moe out and drove the car
into a tree. The judge finds Moe not guilty and Moe promptly goes after Larry and Curly
again with the ax.
IF A BODY MEETS A BODY
(Episode 86): Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich
uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will. They
arrive on a dark and stormy night only to find that the lawyer has been murdered and the
will and the body have disappeared. All the relatives must stay in the spooky house while
the police investigate and the stooges are given the bedroom where the uncle was murdered.
After a series of misadventures with a walking skull and the uncle's body, which keeps
turning up in strange places, the stooges unmask the butler and maid as the killers and
recover the will. Then they learn that Curly has only been left sixty seven cents.
MICRO-PHONIES
(Episode 87): The stooges are working in a radio station where a pretty
girl has just made 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 Mrs. Bixby's "Krispy Krunchy" radio program. After a run-in with a pompous
violinist, the boys find the record and Curly starts mimicking to it, dressed as a women.
Mrs. Bixby witnesses their performance and is impressed enough to hire "Senorita
Cucaracha" (Curly) and Senors "Mucho" and "Gusto" (Moe and Larry)
for her radio program. The boys show up in their disguises to "sing" at a Mrs.
Bixby's party but run into trouble when Moe smashes the record over Curly's head. The real
singer tries to help by singing from behind a curtain while Curly mimics, but she is
discovered and the stooges exit to a hail of phonograph records..
BEER BARREL POLECATS
(Episode 88): The stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get
tossed in jail when Curly sells some to a cop. Their minor indiscretion turns into a forty
year sentence when a keg of beer Curly has hidden under his coat explodes while the boys
are being photographed. In prison the stooges get into more trouble with the warden and
wind on the rockpile when they try to escape. Released as old men with long gray beards,
the first thing Curly wants is a bottle of beer. [ A pretty good short, but only because
of heavy use of footage from "In the Sweet Pie and Pie" and "Goodbye Mr.
Chumps". ]
A BIRD IN THE HEAD
(Episode 89): The stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of
Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking for a brain to use in his experiments. The
professor wants to put a human brain into a gorilla but has trouble finding a brain small
enough, which leads him to select Curly (for obvious reasons) as the perfect donor. The
stooges manage to foil the madman with the help of the Gorilla who befriends Curly
UNCIVIL WARBIRDS
(Episode 90): The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly
changing uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be loyal to the
south, but remain disguised as Union soldiers. Curly is detected as a spy, but Moe and
Larry prevent his execution. The boys escape with a secret map and marry their three
southern belles.
THE THREE TROUBLEDOERS
(Episode 91): Set in the old west, the stooges become marshalls in a
town with a high death rate for lawmen. The boys set out prevent a marriage between the
villain Blackie and the heroine Nell, who's father Blackie has kidnapped. The stooges
manage to defeat Blackie and his henchmen, but when Nell's father learns she promised to
marry Curly if he could save her, he decides death would be a preferable fate.
MONKEY BUSINESSMEN
(Episode 92): The stooges are bumbling electricians who decide to go
away for a rest after they are fired for their incompetence. The rest home they choose is
run by Dr. Mallard, a quack who gyps the patients for everything they've got. When the
boys discover the crooked goings on they escape, but not before Curly accidentally cures
another patient who rewards him with a thousand dollars.
THREE LOAN WOLVES
(Episode 93): Told in flash back, the stooges tell their son how he came
to have three fathers. The stooges, owners of a pawn shop, owed money to the gashouse
protection society, a bunch of loan sharks. To complicate matters, a lady leaves a baby in
the shop as part of a plan to sell a phony diamond and the stooges wind up caring for the
kid. The stooges manage to defeat the crooks and when they finish telling the story, the
kid goes off to find his real mother.
G.I. WANNA GO HOME
(Episode 94): The stooges are discharged from the army and go to see
their fiancees, but find they have been dispossessed and the wedding is off until they
find a home. The boys have trouble finding a vacant apartment so they set up housekeeping
in a vacant lot. Their housing problems seem to be solved until a farmer destroys their
new home with a tractor. The stooges then build a house of their own, but the girls aren't
impressed with the one room mansion and walk out on them.
RHYTHM AND WEEP
(Episode 95): The stooges are actors who can't seem to find a job, so
they decide to jump off a high building and end it all. On the roof top they meet three
girl dancers with the same idea. Before they can jump, they meet a millionaire Broadway
producer who hires them all for his next show. The rehearsal goes so well that he doubles
their salary, but it all comes to naught when they discover that the "producer"
is an escaped patient from Dr. Dippy's retreat.
THREE LITTLE PIRATES
(Episode 96): The stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on
Dead Man's Island where everyone is living in olden times. To escape from the governor,
they disguise Curly as a Maharaja and win permission to journey to their own country to
fetch presents. The governor is fooled, but the boys run into more trouble in the den of
Black Louie the pirate where Curly is forced into a knife throwing contest with Larry as
the target. Things look bad until a mis-thrown knife cuts the rope that holds the
chandelier and it crashes down on Black Louie's men. With the pirates defeated, Moe
decides to take over as ruler of the island.
HALF-WITS HOLIDAY
(Episode 97): A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn
the stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the
professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he
introduces the stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but
the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight. [ A remake of "Hoi Polloi"
with lots of footage from the original. Except for a cameo in "Hold That Lion",
this was Curly's last appearance in a stooge short. ]
FRIGHT NIGHT
(Episode 98): The stooges are managers of "Chopper", a beefy
boxer, and they bet their bank roll on his next fight. When a gangster tells them to have
Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys decide to play along. They try to
soften Chopper up by feeding him rich food and having him spend time with their friend
Kitty. The fight gets canceled when Kitty dumps Chopper for his opponent and the two
boxers engage in some pre-match fisticuffs that result in a broken hand for the opponent.
The stooges think they've put one over on the gangsters, only to have the bad guys corner
them in a deserted warehouse. Instead of being rubbed out, the boys capture the crooks and
get a reward.
OUT WEST
(Episode 99): McIntyre, Stanley Blystone, George Chesbro, Frank Ellis
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The
villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell.
The boys help the Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch the Cavalry. Somehow, the
stooges manage to defeat the bad guys before the Cavalry arrives.
HOLD THAT LION
(Episode 100): The stooges are gypped out of their inheritance by Icabob
Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but
not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. [ Curly Howard has a cameo
role as a snoring passenger. ]
BRIDELESS GROOM
(Episode 101): To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry
before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive
students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective
brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues.
Shemp marries before the deadline, but wishes he was still a free man.
SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS
(Episode 102): The stooges are tailors, and are heavily in debt to the
Skin & Flint finance company. When the boys read about the big reward for a fugitive
robber, they think it could be the answer to their problems. The bank robber conveniently
ducks into their shop and leaves a suit with a safe combination. After his girl friend
fails to retrieve it, the robber returns with gang and a wild fight ensues. The boys miss
out on the reward but wind up with the crook's bankroll and can pay their creditors.
ALL GUMMED UP
(Episode 103): The stooges run a drug store and are about to have their
lease taken away by the Flint, the mean old man who owns the place. When Flint kicks his
wife out for being old, the stooges try to help her by inventing a formula that makes old
people young. Their concoction turns the wife into a beautiful young woman, and Flint
offers the boys the store for free if they'll transform him as well. They agree, but after
he swallows the stuff he turns into an infant, and the boys leave on the run.
SHIVERING SHERLOCKS
(Episode 104): The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in
by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed but are now
the only ones who can identify the crooks. Meanwhile, their friend Gladys has inherited a
house in the country and the boys go with her to inspect it so she won't be gypped when
its sold. The house turns out to be the crook's hideout, and when they abduct Gladys, the
stooges must rescue her.
PARDON MY CLUTCH
(Episode 105): The stooge's friend Claude sells them his old lemon of a
car so they can take Shemp, who is sick with a toothache, camping. The car won't work and
the boys are apparently out a bundle, when a car collector happens on the scene and offers
to buy it at a premium. Claude backs out on the deal and gives the stooges their money
back, only to discover the "collector" is an escaped lunatic.
SQUARE HEADS OF THE ROUND TABLE
(Episode 106): Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges decide to help
their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. At night the
group sneaks into the castle to serenade Elaine, but pick the wrong window and are caught
by the King. Tossed in the dungeon, the boys escape with Cedric's help and manage to foil
the plans of the Black Prince who was plotting against the King. All turns out well when
the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
FIDDLERS THREE
(Episode 107): The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When
they ask the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees, but only after
Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician
who plans to marry the Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the
Princess, and it's up to the stooges to foil his plans and expose his evil doings.
HEAVENLY DAZE
(Episode 108): Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms
Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the
other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip
cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's
headed for the fires below anyway. But no, its only a dream and Shemp set the bed on fire
while smoking in bed.
HOT SCOTS
(Episode 109): The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard,
thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they learn that
detectives are need to guard a Scottish castle where valuables have been disappearing,
they masquerades as Scotsmen to get the job. After a spooky night in the castle, the boys
expose the servants as the crooks.
I'M A MONKEY'S UNCLE
(Episode 110): Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must
have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life.
When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie",
"Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting
tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.
MUMMIES DUMMIES
(Episode 111): Set in ancient Egypt, the stooges run a used chariot lot
where they unload defective chariots on unsuspecting customers. When they gyp the head of
the palace guard, they're brought to the palace to be executed, but instead become royal
chamberlains after curing the King's toothache. When they recover some tax money stolen by
a corrupt official, the King rewards them with marriage to his daughter. After getting a
look at the ugly crone, Moe and Larry select Shemp to be the groom.
CRIME ON THEIR HANDS
(Episode 112): The stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office.
When an anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide
to become reporters and go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally
swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The crooks want to cut the
diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
THE GHOST TALKS
(Episode 113): The stooges are movers for an express company and on a
rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old
house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Peeping Tom, who has no intention of leaving.
The ghost foils the stooges attempts to take the armor, until Lady Godiva shows up and the
two ride off together.
WHO DONE IT?
(Episode 114): The stooges are private detectives looking for a missing
millionaire. They wander around the millionaire's spooky mansion confronting various
crooks and a dangerous dame. The stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty
shovel") and find the missing man.
HOCUS POCUS
(Episode 115): The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary
who is confined to wheelchair. What they don't is that Mary is only faking her disability
to swindle the insurance company. When the boys witness a hypnotist, "The Great
Svengarlic", doing his act on the street, they think he might be able to hypnotize
Mary so she can walk. Instead, they become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into
walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and
realize their predicament, they fall into a window, startling Mary, who jumps from her
wheelchair just as the insurance adjuster is about to hand her a check.
FUELIN AROUND
(Episode 116): The stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a
scientist, Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for
the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia
where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a
concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor
and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret
formula to fuel a jeep.
MALICE IN THE PALACE
(Episode 117): Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant,
the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the
thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the
stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving
them the diamond.
VAGABOND LOAFERS
(Episode 118): The stooges are the "Day and Night" plumbers.
Called out to a fancy mansion where a society party is going on, they cross the electrical
and water systems and generally ruin the place. Despite their incompetent plumbing, they
save the day by recovering a painting stolen by a pair of thieves masquerading as party
guests.
DUNKED IN THE DEEP
(Episode 119): The stooges are tricked into becoming stowaways by their
neighbor "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the
high seas, they discover that their friend has concealed some stolen microfilm in
watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and
recover the microfilm.
PUNCHY COW PUNCHERS
(Episode 120): Set in the old west, the stooges are three soldiers
assigned to go undercover and spy on an outlaw gang that's terrorizing a nearby town. The
bad guys have the Arizona Kid locked up, so the boys set about rescuing him with the help
of beautiful Nell, his girl. They free the kid, and he rides to summon help. The stooges,
with the help of Nell, manage to subdue the bad guys before the kid arriveswith the
cavalry.
HUGS AND MUGS
(Episode 121): The stooges run a furniture store and come into
possession of a stolen pearl necklace. Three crooked dames convince the boys that the
necklace is theirs, and when the real thieves arrive, the stooges fight to defend the
girl's property. The stooges defeat the bad guys and the girls decide to go honest and
return the necklace to its rightful owner.
DOPEY DICKS
(Episode 122): The stooges become detectives and go to the aid of girl
in the clutches of a mad scientist. The boys arrive at a spooky mansion where the madman
is building a mechanical man that needs a human head. After declining the opportunity to
supply a stooge-head for the experiment, they find the girl and escape, only to wind up in
a car driven by the headless robot.
LOVE AT FIRST BITE
(Episode 123): The stooges reminisce about the girls they met overseas
while in the military. As they wait for the girls' ship to arrive, they get drunk and
Shemp winds up asleep with his feet in a tub of cement. After sobering up, they free Shemp
with a dynamite blast that lands them at the dock where their sweethearts are waiting.
SELF MADE MAIDS
(Episode 124): The stooges are artists who want to marry their models;
"Moella", "Larraine", and "Shempetta". The girls' father
doesn't approve, so the stooges tickle him into submission.
THREE HAMS ON RYE
(Episode 125): The stooges are stage hands who also have small parts in
a big play. They quickly get on the bad side of the producer. First they fail to prevent a
famous critic from sneaking into the audience. Then Shemp accidentally adds a pot holder
into a cake they bake as a prop. During the play the stooges (as southern gentlemen) and
the rest of the cast spit up feathers during what was supposed to be a serious scene. The
critic thinks it's a hilarious satire and the boys are redeemed.
STUDIO STOOPS
(Episode 126): The stooges are hired by a movie studio as publicity men.
Their first assignment is to get publicity for Dolly Devore, a pretty starlet. They fake a
kidnapping, but the cops won't believe their story. Then the girl is really kidnapped and
the stooges must come to the rescue. Shemp winds up hanging out a tenth story window on an
extending telephone.
SLAP HAPPY SLEUTHS
(Episode 127): The stooges are investigators for the Onion Oil company.
The company's service stations are being robbed by a gang of crooks, so the boys pose as
gas station attendants to capture the bad guys.
A SNITCH IN TIME
(Episode 128): The stooges are carpenters who are re-staining some
furniture they've delivered to a boarding house. The plot gets complicated when the boys
confront some crooks who are hiding out there. They defeat the bad guys with the help of
the varnished furniture which sticks the head crook to a chair.
THREE ARABIAN NUTS
(Episode 129): The stooges are delivering some Arabian antiques, which
include a magic lamp complete with genie. Three Arabian bad guys are after the magic lamp,
but the stooges defeat them once they get the "genius", (as Shemp calls the
genie) on their side.
BABY SITTERS' JITTERS
(Episode 130): The stooges are facing eviction and decide to raise some
money by becoming baby-sitters. Their first client is a women separated from her husband,
who entrusts her son "Junior" to the boys' care. When The husband steals the
baby, the stooges set out to find their missing charge and return him to his mother. The
boys confront the husband and find Junior, and in the process the estranged couple is
re-united.
DON'T THROW THAT KNIFE
(Episode 131): The stooges become census takers and wind up in the
apartment of a lady whose husband is both jealous and a knife thrower. When the husband
arrives home, the boys try to hide, but are discovered, and after dodging some knives,
leave on the run.
SCRAMBLED BRAINS
(Episode 132): Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His
worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe and Larry come to
take him home from the sanitarium, they discover he's become engaged to Nora. On the way
to Nora's apartment for the wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises
to get even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding Nora waiting for
her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be the man they just fought with.
MERRY MAVERICKS
(Episode 133): Set in the old west, the stooges are mistaken for lawmen
and manage to capture a gang of crooks. The boys then get the job of guarding some money
in an old house reputed to be haunted by the ghost of an Indian Chief. The crooks escape
and go after the money disguised as ghosts, but Shemp, disguised as the Indian Chief,
manages to knock them out.
THE TOOTH WILL OUT
(Episode 134): The stooges graduate from dental school and go out west
to open a practice. Everything goes well until Shemp "cures" an outlaw's
toothache from the instructions in a carpentry book, and the boys must leave on the run.
HU LA LA
(Episode 135): The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company
to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The
boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor who wants to add their heads to his
collection. The stooges defeat the witch doctor with hand grenades they swipe from a
multi-armed idol, and get on with the dancing lessons.
THE PEST MAN WINS
(Episode 136): The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business
by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but
must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight
ensues.
A MISSED FORTUNE
(Episode 137): Shemp wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges
move into the Hotel Costa Plente where they live it up and wreck their fancy suite. While
they wait for the prize money to arrive, the boys are pursued by three gold-digging dames
after their winnings. When the check arrives however, it's only for $4.85 after tax
deductions. [ Basically a remake of "Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb". ]
LISTEN JUDGE
(Episode 138): The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge
on a charge of chicken stealing. They escape from the courtroom and wind up getting hired
in the judges' house after their antics attempting to fix the doorbell cause the servants
to quit. The boys are discovered when the cake they bakes explodes all over a political
supporter of the judge and he loses his chance for re-election.
CORNY CASANOVAS
(Episode 139): The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to
the same girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of them and
then abandon them. When all three show up at her house at the same time, a wild fight
ensues, as each stooge accuses the others of making time with "his" girl. The
stooges knock each other senseless and the girl escapes with their rings.
HE COOKED HIS GOOSE
(Episode 140): Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at
the same time trying to steal Shemp's fiancee. When Moe's become suspicious, Larry
attempts to frame Shemp as the boyfriend. He gets Shemp a job as a door to door pajama
salesman and sends him to Moe's apartment, and then tells both Moe and Shemp's fiancee to
go there and catch him in the act. Larry's plan backfires when Shemp catches him and lets
Moe deliver some punishment. [ A departure from the regular format. The stooges work as
seperate characters and Larry has the main role. ]
GENTS IN A JAM
(Episode 141): Shemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes to visit the stooges who
are broke and about to evicted. The boys convince their landlady Mrs. McGruder not to toss
them out as Shemp is set to inherit a fortune. The boys also have trouble with a circus
strongman after Shemp accidentally rips off his wife's dress. Uncle Phineas gets in the
middle of the fight, and Mrs. McGruder ends it by knocking out the strongman. It turns out
that Uncle Phineas and the landlady were childhood sweethearts and he marries her, leaving
the stooges out of the bucks once again.
THREE DARK HORSES
(Episode 142): A campaign boss is looking for three delegates to the
presidential convention, delegates that are too stupid to discover that his candidate,
Hammond Egger, is a crook. Enter the stooges as janitors sent to clean the man's office.
After some of their antics, the boy's suitability for the job is apparent and they're
hired. The stooges go to the convention, but double cross their boss and vote for another
candidate, Abel Lamb Stewer. When the boss and his muscle man come looking for revenge,
the boys defeat them in a wild fight.
CUCKOO ON A CHOO-CHOO
(Episode 143): Larry and Shemp are living in a stolen railroad car.
Larry wants to marry his girlfriend, but she won't consent until Shemp marries her sister.
Shemp however, is constantly drunk and in love with "Carry", an imaginary giant
canary. Moe is an investigator from the railroad, sent to discover how the car was stolen
from a moving train. Moe is also in love with Shemp's girl. Shemp winds up with both
women, but still prefers his imaginary canary. [ One of the strangest stooge shorts. Larry
does a good impression of Marlon Brando. ]
UP IN DAISY'S PENTHOUSE
(Episode 144): The stooges escape from jail to prevent their newly rich
dad from marrying Daisy, a gold-digger after his money. Shemp looks like dad, so he
impersonates him and marries Daisy. What the stooges don't know is that Daisy is in
cahoots with some crooks, and they plan to bump off her new husband. The boys foil the
crook's plan and take Pa home to Ma. [ A remake of "Three Dumb Clucks", with
Shemp, instead of Curly, playing both father and son. ]
BOOTY AND THE BEAST
(Episode 145): The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a
safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were
unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go
after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and
recover the booty. [ Lots of footage from "Hold that Lion", including Curly's
cameo appearance. ]
LOOSE LOOT
(Episode 146): The stooges are willed a lot of dough from a rich uncle,
but the executor of the estate, Icabob Slipp, is a crook who absconds with the money. The
stooges trail him to a a theater where they engage in a wild chase and ultimately recover
their inheritance. [ The opening scenes are taken from "Hold that Lion". ]
TRICKY DICKS
(Episode 147): The stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer.
They unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian organ grinder, among other suspects, and then
catch the bad guy after a gun fight that nearly destroys the police station.
SPOOKS
(Episode 148): The stooges are private detectives hired to find a
missing girl. The boys disguise as pie salesmen and end up wandering around a mad
scientist's mansion, trying to find the girl. The boys confront a gorilla and various
other bad guys, before rescuing the girl. [ One of two stooge shorts filmed in 3D. ]
PARDON MY BACKFIRE
(Episode 149): The stooges are auto mechanics who need money so they can
marry their girls. When some escaped convicts pull into their garage, the boys manage to
capture them and use the reward money to marry their sweethearts. [ One of two stooge
shorts filmed in 3D. ]
RIP SEW AND STICH
(Episode 150): The stooges run a tailor shop and need money to pay their
creditors. A bank robber leaves his coat in the shop with a combination to a safe. When
the crook comes back to retrieve the coat, the stooges capture him and get his bankroll. [
A remake of "Sing a Song of Six Pants". ]
BUBBLE TROUBLE
(Episode 151): The stooges are pharmacists who invent a fountain of
youth formula that can turn old people young. They turn an old lady into a beautiful young
woman, but when her husband takes the formula it turns him into a gorilla. [ A remake of
"All Gummed Up", with lots of reused footage. ]
GOOF ON THE ROOF
(Episode 152): The stooges are entrusted with taking care of their
friends house while he goes off to get married. At first they only wreck the place a
little bit, but when they try to install a television antenna, total destruction ensues.
When their friend returns with his bride, she's so shocked she walks out on him.
INCOME TAX SAPPY
(Episode 153): Tax cheats Moe, Larry and Shemp decide they're so good at
cheating the government, that they start a business as crooked tax advisors. They become
rich, but an undercover agent from the IRS gets the goods on them, and its off to jail for
the stooges.
MUSTY MUSKETEERS
(Episode 154): Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their
sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The
princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become
ruler of the country. The stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician
and his henchmen in a sword fight. [ A remake of "Fiddlers Three". ]
PALS AND GALS
(Episode 155): The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon
run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has
Nell's sisters locked up, and its up to the stooges to rescue them and save the day. [ A
remake of "Out West", with Nell's sisters, instead of the Arizona Kid, being
locked up in the cellar. ]
KNUTZY KNIGHTS
(Episode 156): Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges help their friend
Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. The only problem is that
Elaine is promised to the Black Prince who is plotting to take over the kingdom. The
stooges manage to foil the plot and the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine. [ A
remake of "Square Heads of the Round Table". ]
SHOT IN THE FRONTIER
(Episode 157): Set in the old west, the stooges must defend their honor
against the Noonan brothers, three desperadoes who want to marry the same girls the
stooges are courting.
SCOTCHED IN SCOTLAND
(Episode 158): Would be detectives, the stooges get a job guarding a
Scotch castle while the owner is away. The servants are crooks intent on robbing the
castle of its valuables. Though they do their best to frighten the boys off, the stooges
prevail and expose the crooked goings-on. [ A remake of "Hot Scots". ]
FLING IN THE RING
(Episode 159): The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a
beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big
Mike", their boss, tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the
boys try to soften up Chopper so he'll lose. The fight gets canceled and the stooges have
to contend with an angry Big Mike and his goons. [ A remake of "Fright Night". ]
OF CASH AND HASH
(Episode 160): The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in
by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed and go back
to their jobs in a Cafe. When one of the robbers comes into the Cafe, the boys recognize
him and along with their friend Gladys trail him to a spooky house in the country where
the crooks are hiding out. The bad guys abduct Gladys and the stooges must rescue her. [ A
remake of "Shivering Sherlocks".]
GYPPED IN THE PENTHOUSE
(Episode 161): Larry and Shemp reminisce about their experiences with
Jean, a diamond crazy gold digger each of them was gypped by. After telling their stories,
they have a run in with Moe, who is now married to the same women. When Jean shows up,
they deliver some stooge-style revenge.
BEDLAM IN PARADISE
(Episode 162): Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms
Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the
other two stooges, who are in league with the devil, from selling a phony invention (a
fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and
Larry' plans and makes it through the pearly gates. [ A remake of "Heavenly Daze
".]
STONE AGE ROMEOS
(Episode 163): The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a
museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting
to show some stone age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum
curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the stooges talking about how
they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen. [ The stone age footage is
reused from "I'm a Monkey's Uncle". ]
WHAM BAM SLAM
(Episode 164): Shemp is a sick man with a bad case of nerves. The
stooge's friend Claude, a self-taught healer, tries to cure Shemp with various home-made
remedies. When nothing seems to work, Claude suggests they buy his old lemon of a car so
they can take Shemp on a trip to the country. The car won't start, and the trip never gets
off the ground, but not to worry, Shemp is cured by all the excitement. [ A remake of
"Pardon my Backfire".]
HOT ICE
(Episode 165): The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard,
thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they
accidentally see a memo about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to go after the
crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden
in a bowl of candy. The bad guys want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with
the help of a friendly gorilla. [ A remake of "Crime on Their Hands", with
Scotland Yard footage from "Hot Scots". ]
BLUNDER BOYS
(Episode 166): The stooges go to criminology school and graduate with
the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down
a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a woman. The stooges track
the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through their hands after a wild chase. The stooges are
booted off the force and wind up as ditch diggers.
HUSBANDS BEWARE
(Episode 167): To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry
before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive
students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective
brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues.
Shemp marries his student before the deadline, and then finds out that there is no
inheritance. Moe and Larry have tricked him into marriage as revenge for their marrying
his shrewish sisters. [ A remake of "Brideless Groom".]
CREEPS
(Episode 168): The stooges are movers for an express company and on a
rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old
house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Sir Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The
ghost foils the stooges attempts to take the armor, and is about to skewer them with a
sword when it's revealed that the stooges were only telling a bedtime story to their
"sons" (also played by the stooges.) [ A remake of "The Ghost Talks".]
FLAGPOLE JITTERS
(Episode 169): The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary
who is confined to wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money
for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The stooges become
subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the
ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a
window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's
operation. [ A remake of "Hocus Pocus".]
FOR CRIMIN OUT LOUD
(Episode 170): The stooges are private detectives hired to protect a
rich politician. After the man disappears, the boys wander around his spooky mansion
confronting various villains and a dangerous dame. The stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp
uses his "trusty shovel") and find the missing man. [ A remake of "Who Done
it?". This was the last short with new footage of Shemp. ]
RUMPUS IN THE HAREM
(Episode 171): Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant,
the boys need money to pay their fiancee's taxes, or the girls will be sold as slaves.
Some crooks come into their restaurant and convince the boys to recover the stolen Rootin
Tootin diamond. The stooges decide to return the diamond to the government and get the
reward money. They learn that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel.
They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the
ruler into giving them the diamond. [ A remake of "Malice in the Palace". Joe
Palma (face hidden) stands in for Shemp. ]
HOT STUFF
(Episode 172): The stooges are government agent entrusted with
protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for
the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia
where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a
concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor
and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret
formula to fuel a jeep. [ A remake of "Fuelin Around". Joe Palma (face hidden)
stands in for Shemp. ]
SCHEMING SCHEMERS
(Episode 173): The stooges are three incompetent plumbers who foul up
the plumbing in a fancy mansion where a society party is going on. They manage to catch a
couple of thieves masquerading as guests before the whole party degenerates into a pie
fight. [ A remake of "Vagabond Loafers", with footage from "A Plumbing we
will go" and "Half-Wits Holiday". Joe Palma (face hidden) stands in for
Shemp. ]
COMMOTION ON THE OCEAN
(Episode 174): The stooges are would-be reporters, who are tricked into
becoming stowaways by "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a
freighter on the high seas, they discover that Borscht has concealed some stolen microfilm
in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and
recover the microfilm. [ A remake of "Dunked in the Deep". Joe Palma (face
hidden) stands in for Shemp. ]
HOOFS AND GOOFS
(Episode 175): Joe dreams that the stooge's sister Birdie has died and
been reincarnated as a horse. The stooges take Birdie home but must conceal her from the
snoopy landlord. They succeed, but more complications ensue when Birdie gives birth to a
colt. Joe wakes up to suffer some abuse from the real Birdie (Moe in drag), when he tells
her he dreamed she was a horse.
MUSCLE UP A LITTLE CLOSER
(Episode 176): Joe is engaged but can't get married until he recovers
the engagement ring which has disappeared. The stooges suspect the ring was stolen by
Elmo, a beefy bully, who works at the same factory they do. They confront Elmo in the
company gym, but he's too tough for them. Fortunately Joe's girl is even tougher, and she
gets Elmo to confess and return the ring.
A MERRY MIX-UP
(Episode 177): The stooges appear in triplicate as three sets of
triplets who were separated a long time ago. Their reunion causes confusion and troubles
for various wives and sweethearts, but it all works out in the end.
SPACE SHIP SAPPY
(Episode 178): An eccentric scientist tricks the stooges into joining
himself and his daughter on an expedition to Venus. On Venus, the boys go exploring and
encounter some cannibalistic amazons who plan to devour them. The stooges escape and take
off in the spaceship which goes wildly out of control. As the ship is about to crash, the
scene changes to the annual meeting of the Liars Club, where the stooges win the prize as
the biggest liars in the world.
GUNS A-POPPIN
(Episode 179): Told in flashback, Moe is on trial for assaulting Larry
and Joe. It seems that Moe was in debt and suffering a nervous breakdown so Larry and Joe
took him to the country for rest and relaxation. After a marauding bear ruined the peace
and quiet, their cabin became the scene of a shoot-out between the sheriff and an escaped
outlaw. The boys captured the bad guy, and the reward would have paid Moe's debts, but the
crook escaped and Moe went after Larry and Joe with an ax. [ A partial remake of
"Idiots Deluxe". ]
HORSING AROUND
(Episode 180): A sequel (sort of) to "Hoofs and Goofs", The
stooges are taking care of their sister Birdie who has been reincarnated as a horse. When
they learn that her mate "Schnapps", a famous circus horse, is about to be
destroyed, they got to the circus grounds to rescue him. The stooges are successful, and
Birdie and Schnapps are reunited.
RUSTY ROMEOS
(Episode 181): The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to
the same girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of them and
then abandon them. When all three show up at her house at the same time, a wild fight
ensues, as each stooge accuses the others of making time with "his" girl. The
gold-digger gets it in the end (literally) with tacks shot from a repeating rifle.
OUTER SPACE JITTERS
(Episode 182): The stooges accompany professor Jones on an expedition to
Venus, where they discover that the Venusians are planning to conquer the earth with an
army of zombies. When the boys learn that they're going to be turned into zombies, they
escape. The scene changes to the stooges apartment where we learn they are just telling a
bedtime story to their kids (also played by the stooges) while they wait for the baby
sitter to arrive. When the baby sitter shows up, she looks like one of the zombies and the
boys exit in a hurry. [ Dan Blocker of "Bonanza" fame plays a zombie. ]
QUIZ WHIZ
(Episode 183): Joe wins a contest and is promptly fleeced out of his
winnings by some con men. When the stooges go to recover his money, the bad guys convince
them that they can get rich by posing as children and becoming the wards of a millionaire.
The boys go along with the plan, not realizing that the "millionaire" and his
pretty niece are in on the scam and are planning to knock them off. The stooges foil the
plan and recover Joe's money.
FIFI BLOWS HER TOP
(Episode 184): The stooges reminisce about their wartime romances in
Europe. After they finish their tales, they discover that Joe's girl Fifi, whom he left
behind in Paris, has moved in next door. The only problem is that she's now married, with
a very jealous husband. The husband turns out to be a real cad, and when Fifi overhears
him tell about his plans to find a new wife, she clobbers him and goes back to Joe. [ Some
reused footage from "Love at First Bite". ]
PIES AND GUYS
(Episode 185): A professor attempts to win a bet by turning the stooges
into gentlemen. After some lessons in etiquette, the boys make their society debut at a
fancy party. They soon revert to their old habits and a wild pie fight ensues. [ A remake
of "Half-Wits Holiday. ]
SWEET AND HOT
(Episode 186): Nightclub performer Larry wants Joe and his sister Tiny
to join the act. The only problem is that Tiny is afraid to sing in front of people. They
take her to a psychiatrist (Moe) who cures her, and the act is a success.
FLYING SAUCER DAFFY
(Episode 187): Joe accidentally takes a picture of a paper plate which
Moe and Larry submit to a magazine as an authentic picture of a flying saucer. Moe and
Larry collect a big prize, but when the picture is proven to be phony, they're hauled off
to Jail. Joe then gets a picture of a real spaceship and this time he gets the fame and
fortune, while Moe and Larry wind up in a sanitarium.
OILS WELL THAT ENDS WELL
(Episode 188): The stooges need money for their father's operation, so
they head for the country to prospect for uranium. Instead of uranium, they discover oil
on their father's property and all their troubles are solved. [ Oil gusher footage from
"Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise". ]
TRIPLE CROSSED
(Episode 189): Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at
the same time trying to steal Joe's fiancee. When Moe's become suspicious, Larry attempts
to frame Joe as the boyfriend. Larry's plan backfires when Joe catches him and lets Moe
deliver some punishment. [ A remake of "He Cooked His Goose". ]
SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS
(Episode 190): Stranded in Mexico, the stooges need a job and a pretty
actress friend gets them an engagement at the Plaza de Toros. When they accidentally
switch suitcases with that of their friend, they must sneak into her house to retrieve
their own and are confronted by her jealous husband who vows to kill them if he sees them
again. At the arena where they perform a comedy bullfight (Joe is the matador, Moe and
Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the
ring. Joe knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero. [ A remake of
"What's the Matador". ]