Funniest scene or episode?
C Bali
Was curious on what everyone believes to be the funniest episode or
scene.
I think the one scene where they are plumbers and they re-wire the
house they are hired to work on and then water ends up spitting up
from everywhere including the kitchen where the black chef in his
attempt to get out of the kitchen ends up falling on ass several
times, Bwahahahahaha!
Female Fan Candy
"Your dream boat is sailing! Wooooo! Wooooo!"
Marcus Ner
>Was curious on what everyone believes to be the funniest episode or
scene.<
That's a tough question, given the huge number of classic shorts and scenes
they've done. I'll probably give a different answer every other day. "Three
Dark Horses" is one of my biggest favorites, and a great scene is Moe and
Shemp's phone booth scene from "Brideless Groom."
Marcus Ner
Paul Raymond Wellspeak
>Was curious on what everyone believes to be the funniest episode or
> scene.
I am not sure what the name of the episode is but the one with the
references to Niagara Fall (slowly I turned, step by step ...). It is
great watching the Stooges do performances, not just be Stooges. Not that
that's bad.
How about funniest "move".
I like the chase scenes where everyone is running back and forth across
hallways and then one of them (usually Curly or Shemp) just casually walks
by in a funny mannor. Of course a good old eyepoke never fails.
Paul
Candy
In that same episode of "Brideless Groom", the scene where the wedding
ring falls into the piano and Shemp gets all tangled up in the piano
wires is hysterically funny.
marc...@aol.com (Marcus Ner) wrote:
>>Was curious on what everyone believes to be the funniest episode or
>scene.<
>
Card53
My top five, in no particular order. All Curlys. Apologies to Shemp lovers.
We Want Our Mummy
Violent is the Word for Curly
In the Sweet Pie and Pie
All the World's a Stooge
You Natzy Spy (and its sequel, I'll Never Heil Again)
John L
Wooter
Paul Raymond Wellspeak wrote:
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> >Was curious on what everyone believes to be the funniest episode or
> > scene.
>
> references to Niagara Fall (slowly I turned, step by step ...). It is
> great watching the Stooges do performances, not just be Stooges. Not that
> that's bad.
>
> How about funniest "move".
>
> I like the chase scenes where everyone is running back and forth across
> hallways and then one of them (usually Curly or Shemp) just casually walks
> by in a funny mannor. Of course a good old eyepoke never fails.
>
> Paul
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In "Crime on their hands"-boys are leaving room, phone rings, Shemp ans:
"Hello....Yes!...Yes!...Yes!.....No...No"(hangs up)
Moe: "what is it?"
Shemp: "wrong number" Classic slap!
ItsMeCubby
Oh man....MANY MANY to choose from. I wish I were better at episode names,
but....
1) Moe in the barrel. They're using a crowbar to get him out.
2) When they're in the South, and Moe points to the stripes on his uniform, and
when Curly looks, he gets slapped by Moe's other hand. MAJOR (no pun intended)
misdirection slap. Kills me dead.
3) Like many, the FIRST thing that made me laugh by the Stooges was the fist
thing I saw (or remembered). The boys were fishing in iceholes (make your own
joke here), and everytime Moe pulled on his line, Curly would go forward, and
vice versa. Of course, they were oblivious of each other. Finally, Curly
calls Larry to help pull his line. We see Moe go flying headfirst into his
icehole, and finally come out of Curly's, soaked. Larry and Curly ad lib "a
whopper", etc. They end up pulling Moe out of their icehole, headfirst.
CURLY: "Hey! This fish looks like Moe!" LARRY: "It IS Moe!" (slap slap)
(I know of two other times they've done this. Both times, they pull Moe
through a wall while pulling on electrical wiring. CURLY: "Hey! This termite
looks like Moe!" and....CURLY: "Oh-h-h. A termite with dandruff!" [plaster
from the wall].)
Well, you asked.
RICH
T P Waechter
My favorite is How High Is Up" where Curly steps in the grease while
riviting.
Scott Lucas
Here are a few of my favorite scenes or exchanges. They're all "you had
to be there" ones I guess, but they never fail to get a laugh when I see
them.
1) Moe [spying Larry with a fishing pole]: "Goin' fishing?"
Larry: Yeah.
Moe: You got worms?
Larry: Yeah, but I'm still goin'.
[gotta love those intestinal parasite jokes!]
2) The one where Moe has a bad case of the "noives." Moe with a table
full of pills next to him and a large white cloth
tied around his head. Cut to scene of cat walking across a carpet and
Moe yelling "Quit all that stomping!!" Of course, it is that precise
moment that Larry and Curly decide to practice their unbelievably noisy
"Original Two-man Quartet" routine. Slide flys off Curly's trombone and
wraps itself around Moe's neck.
3). Larry is ironing pants when Moe comes over to have an argument with
him. Larry puts down the iron on the pants and comes around to get in
Moe's face. Billows of smoke come from the iron behind them and Larry stops
and says "I smell something awful!" Moe's reply is, "Yeah, well you don't
have to brag about it!"
[There's another exchange just like this where Moe says "that's what
I've been trying to tell you. Why don't you use cologne?" etc.]
4). "Hi Lorna, how ya doin'?"
5). The one where Curly is slowly starting to climb up the telephone
poll until Moe lights the blowtorch under him, sending him zipping up it.
6). The all-time sight gag classic where they all rush to the firepole.
Larry, with a triumphant grin, realizes he beat Moe to the pole and
starts to slide down only to have Moe grab him and pull him back up by
the hair (to an accompanying slide-whistle sound). Larry's face is
hilarious when he's hauled back up!
Just a few!
Scott
SaxonCow
>>>Was curious on what everyone believes to be the funniest episode or
>>scene.<
This is tough, but fun!
to Curly in Disorder in the Court-
"take off your hat....raise your right hand...TAKE OFF YOUR HAT!"
trying to get the sweater off Curly "Were you wearing a pink bow tie? ....You
cut his ear off!"
Moe after hitting Shemp with a poster brush full of glue, apoligizes.
Shemp complains again, and Moe says "I said I was sorry...so Shut Up!" and
proceeds to smack him again.
As a matter of fact, anytime you hear Moe say the words
"oh, think nothing of it" or "accidents happen", or anything close to that, you
can be sure someone is about to get pummeled. In the same manner, anytime Moe
has anything either sharp, hard, and painful looking, looks at it, and says
"pretty good, pretty good", you can be sure he is about to use it on either
Shemp, Larry, or Curly. I love the Stooges, and have for 30 years, I never ever
get tired of them. I can't think of anything else I could watch literally 100+
times, and still laugh just as hard. (Sorry for the long read)
Don P.
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->Was curious on what everyone believes to be the funniest episode or
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"One, Two, Three, Dip! One, Two, Three, Dip! Now, can you do it?"
(Classic Curly line here):
"It ain't the dippin', it's the countin' that's got me!"
The whole 90 seconds (?) slap-fest between Moe and Curly that follows leaves
me rolling on the floor!
C Bali
Ever see the one where Curly is holding a large block of ice with
these super large tongs? By the time he climbs the 20 or so steps up
to deliver the large block of ice to the home customer, he arrives at
the top of the steps with a mere ice cube in these super large tongs,
hehehehe
Female Fan, Candy
"Your dreamboat is sailing, Wooooo! Wooooo!"
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>>Was curious on what everyone believes to be the funniest episode or
>> scene.
>
>
SaxonCow
>My favorite is How High Is Up" where Curly steps in the grease while
>riviting.
That reminds me of the part when Larry gets caught cooking hot dogs, instead of
rivets, so he throws the rivet to Curly, who thinks its a hot dog and chews it.
"Say this weenie's kinda tough" to which Moe says "It's a rivet!" and bonks him
on the head with it.
Hal Erickson
I've said it before, I'll say it again...DUTIFUL BUT DUMB is the
Stooges' all-time funniest picture. The bit with the "elephant trunk"
camera at the beginning...the fragmentary photo stuck to Curly's
face...the CAM ERAS PROHI BITED sign...the huge stogie...Curly's
improvised radio program and "Calling All Cars" bulletin...and, of
course, l'affaire de la oyster stew.
My favorite "Moe" line, however, is in IDIOTS DELUXE. "If there's
anything I like better than honey 'n' ketchup, it's baloney 'n'
whipped cream...and we haven't got any."
--Hal E.
SaxonCow
>My favorite "Moe" line, however, is in IDIOTS DELUXE. "If there's
>anything I like better than honey 'n' ketchup, it's baloney 'n'
>whipped cream...and we haven't got any."
I annoy my family with that line at least every other day. Any time I like any
particular food, I use it (substituting honey & ketchup of course). It drives
everyone nuts!
JOHN BAX
act...@airmail.net (C Bali) wrote:
>Ever see the one where Curly is holding a large block of ice with
>these super large tongs? By the time he climbs the 20 or so steps up
>to deliver the large block of ice to the home customer, he arrives at
>the top of the steps with a mere ice cube in these super large tongs,
>hehehehe
>Female Fan, Candy
>"Your dreamboat is sailing, Wooooo! Wooooo!"
>>At the beginning of that short,when they see how high the stairs are, Curly starts with "Giddiy up, Giddiy up" to the horses.
Joe and Kim Tkacik
I too agree that this episode is one of the best.... I also think the one
where they get the treasure map that leads them to a house next to the gold
storage. Classical remark to Larry "get out of the way do you want to get
hurt?" Then Moe slams him in the head with the sledge hammer.... I have
loads of the "shorts" from different TV stations over the years. They (The
Stooges) where great....
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Gizbab
I've got to agree, "Disorder in the Court" is my favorite. The part where Curly
get sworn in (putting his hat on, trying to place his hand on the Bible, and
holding the cane) and finishing it off by tipping over in the chair as he
finally ends the whole mess is the best!
Ron Przygodzki (woob woob woob)
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Kurt Kruse
This is one of my two personal fovorites. The other scene which never fails
to reduce me to tears is from "Dizzy Pilots". When Curly and Larry lasso
a 2x4 instead of Moe (who is coated with rubber & floating at the ceiling
like a balloon), Curly slaps the 2x4 and says, "Speak to me! Come on, Moe,
speak to me! . . . That ain't Moe!" Then about 30 seconds later, Moe floats
up through a skylight, so Curly grabs a rifle and takes aim. Larry stops
him, saying, "You idiot! Don't you know any better than to use a rifle? You
might miss him! Here, use the shotgun!"
Kruser
Crooner
With such a loooong thread, I'd thought my fav short
would have been mentioned already. It wasn't! Till now.
The all time, chock-full-of-laughs short PUNCH DRUNKS.
That's when Curly knocks out anybody whenever he hears
the song POP GOES THE WEISEL. So they put him in a
boxing ring & he pummels all opponents as long as Larry
could play the tune on his violin.
The ruse works well until the violin breaks,
then Larry has to go all across town to find a
replacement; as Curly is now the one getting beat
and is struggling for dear life.
The sight of Larry returning (at increased speed)
down the street with a radio playing the tune is hysterical.
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my favorite line is when Moe fell thru the floor, to the next floor
below.
Larry helps him up and Moe slaps him.
Larry: What's you sore about? You only fell 15 feet!!
jeff
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John Patrick Riley
Crooner wrote:
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> With such a loooong thread, I'd thought my fav short
> would have been mentioned already. It wasn't! Till now.
>
> The all time, chock-full-of-laughs short PUNCH DRUNKS.
>
> That's when Curly knocks out anybody whenever he hears
> the song POP GOES THE WEISEL. So they put him in a
> boxing ring & he pummels all opponents as long as Larry
> could play the tune on his violin.
>
> The ruse works well until the violin breaks,
> then Larry has to go all across town to find a
> replacement; as Curly is now the one getting beat
> and is struggling for dear life.
>
> The sight of Larry returning (at increased speed)
> down the street with a radio playing the tune is hysterical.
>
That's an early one! Always loved it. I like to refer to that one as the
'Boxer Short' ! :) -John
Vivian Wong
Any pie-fight scenes!
Mr. Vince
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- Scott Lucas <slu...@acpub.duke.edu> writes:
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:>Larry is ironing pants when Moe comes over to have an argument with
:>Moe's face. Billows of smoke come from the iron behind them and Larry stops
:>and says "I smell something awful!" Moe's reply is, "Yeah, well you don't
:>have to brag about it!"
I don't remember the name of the short, but Moe, Larry and Shemp are working
in a cleaner's. They find some money and start looking through the rest of
clothes in the shop. They find a jacket with the initials T.H. on the inside-
left behind by the criminal Terry Hartigan(?).
The the Stooges start guessing what the initials mean:
Shemp: "Teddy Hoosevelt?"
Larry: "I got it, I got it. Thomas Hedison."
Vince
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lst...@webtv.net
I laugh the hardest at the one where shemp is under the bed that the
island girl is sitting on, trying to not let on to her headhunter
boyfriend that Shemp is under there. Meanwhile a baby crocodile crawls
up shemps pants leg and he turns around just in time to see the adult
crocodile that has followed its young. Pure irony and great fun
Tied for favorite is the one where Curly is trying to shoot the
duck and the duck keeps squirting water [ more than any duck could
possibly hold ] in his face, and eventually bites him on the nose. A
beautiful thing.
ItsMeCubby
Re: The post before this one. Those stairs are a good 17 second walk from my
front door!!!
SPANK
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> >Was curious on what everyone believes to be the funniest episode or
> >scene.
> >
> >I think the one scene where they are plumbers and they re-wire the
> >house they are hired to work on and then water ends up spitting up
> >from everywhere including the kitchen where the black chef in his
> >attempt to get out of the kitchen ends up falling on ass several
> >times, Bwahahahahaha!
> >
> >Female Fan Candy
> >
> >"Your dream boat is sailing! Wooooo! Wooooo!"
scene you mention above is great,but my all time fav. is Curly in the
bathtub With about 100 yards of pipe (fixing the leak)---kills me every
time :)
Scott Lucas
Another favorite scene I forgot to mention is the one where they are
forced to operate on that wounded gangster, but accidently drop him out
the second story window. You don't see what they do until the other
gangsters, getting impatient, come into the operating room. They see a
body with a sheet over it on the operating table and pull back the sheet
to expose the doctor's demonstration skeleton lying on the table. With a
horrified look on his face, one of the gangsters exclaims, "They picked
him clean!"
I found that one very disturbing as a kid. If David Cronenberg ever
directs a Stooges remake, it'll be that one!
PeaBoy2
Aren't there several plumbing shorts? My favorite is "Spook Louder"-one of
many haunted house epics the boys did. Check it out, it's a classic. Who
threw the pie?
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lst...@webtv.net
Another classic scene is where Curly is eating the clam chowder and the
clams keep eating the crackers.
Volfan
so many, and all include Curly.
after having to stand in for cooks at a dinner social, Curly is
summoned to shave the ice. Leave it to Curly to lather up the
block of ice and use the straight razor on it. The funny part,
when he begins to talk to the block of ice. the way he asks,
"so are you married or happy," still makes me laugh.
the one where they become three refugees. scene im reminded
of is when Curly coming down covered in limburger or something,
(dont recall exactly). He had slept with his feet out the window and
had a cold. He sits on a ladies lap, next to a guy, they have
a conversation, Curly then stating "I dont smell so good," referring
to his stopped up nose. the guy next to them, having been holding
his nose, replies, "you can say that again."
just a couple that come to me as i sit here
Collins Crapo
C Bali wrote:
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> Was curious on what everyone believes to be the funniest episode or
> scene.
The espisode I laugh at most nowadays is the "Pardon My Scotch":
1. The "Point to Your Right" routine; when Moe & Curly stand
face-to-face, "right" for one is "left" for the other! When Larry
points to his right--Curly: "See?" Moe slaps Curly & says, "Get busy,
come on! Where's the map? Over there!"
2. Once Curly saws the door open, Moe falls down to the lower level.
3. When the Stooges throw fruit into the opera singer's mouth.
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Collins Crapo
My favorite Stooges episode is "Pardon My Scotch," for the following
routines:
* "Point to the Right." When Moe & Curly stand face to face, right for
one is left for the other!
* After the door falls down on Moe & Curly saws the door open, Moe falls
to the lower level of the building.
* After the liquor entrepeneur drinks the stuff the Stooges made, his
hat flies off his head.
* The Stooges throw fruit into the opera singer's mouth.
* The keg of liquor explodes after Moe tries to pound the faucet into
it.
home...@csolve.net
The scene I love is where the boys are working in a restaurant. They
don't know there's a cat underneath the table, and every time the patron
sticks a fork into his meat, he rocks forward onto the cats tail, and
the cat meows. The patron thinks he's eating a cat!
Heather