Review of- "Punch Drunks" 1934 Moe,Larry, and Curly
ViKiNgFB05
one one of the Bets Curly Shorts (A plumbing we will go and Cactus makes
perfect are two others)
Description- Moe is a boxing manager who is looking for new talent. Curly works
att a restuarant and goes bezerk whenever he hears the song "Pop goes the
weasel: Larry is a fiddler who plays the song.
Funny Lines:
*Larry comes in and talks to the owner of the restaurant, he takes off his hat
to reveal another one"
Larry- pardon me stranger, i'm a musician
Owner- so what?
Larry- well i thought if there was some music in here, it would increase
business
Owner- how much do you usually get
Larry- well i get 300, but for you i'll take 200
Owner- i'll give you a bowl of soup
Larry- i'll take it....
Owner- if your good
Larry(to himself) I hope the soup's good
*i have heard many people say that Larry dosen't get funny lines(not from this
message board though) but in this one he has some good ones*
another funny line is when Curly the waiter comes up to Moe and his boys after
they ordered hamburgers
Curly- I'm sorry gentlemen you can't have the hamburgers, the meats too fresh
Moe- that ain't the only fresh thing around here
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>message board
What cracks me up about Larry is how he would start cackling whenever any of
the boys was in a ridiculous situation.....like in "Heavenly Daze" when the
attorney gives them a sock filled with Shemp's "worldly possessions" and when
Moe takes the money out, he gets bitten by a set of dentures.......when he
pulls his hand out of the sock and sees the dentures stuck to Moe's hand, Larry
points to it and starts laughing.........Moe takes the dentures off his hand
and attachs them to Larry's nose and says ,"Laugh at that!"........
hehehe....still laughing..........
Laura
"You burnt my little bugle!" (another good one)
Ray Greenberg
>*i have heard many people say that Larry dosen't get funny lines(not from this
>message board though) but in this one he has some good ones*
What always stuck in my mind about that short as a kid was Larry doing
wind-sprints through the streets, hair flailing out behind him,
desperately looking for something to play "that weasel tune"!
Ray G.
Curly: "Well, it was like this, Judgee--"
Lawyer: "Please address the court as 'Your Honor'!
Curly: "Well, it was like this, My Honor--"
Lawyer: "YOUR Honor, not MY Honor!!"
Curly: "Why? Don't ya like him?"
--The Three Stooges "Disorder in the Court" (1936)
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>Lawyer: "Please address the court as 'Your Honor'!
>Curly: "Well, it was like this, My Honor--"
>Lawyer: "YOUR Honor, not MY Honor!!"
>Curly: "Why? Don't ya like him?"
>--The Three Stooges "Disorder in the Court" (1936)
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Laura
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John Spillane
Curly:"Nooooo....but I know all the word's..."
Judge:"He's asking you if you swear to tell the truth....."
Curly: "Truth is stranger than fiction....Judgee Wudgee--"
D. Kirkpatrick
vikin...@aol.com (ViKiNgFB05) wrote:
> *i have heard many people say that Larry dosen't get funny lines (not
from this
> message board though) but in this one he has some good ones*
Larry's part was that of link man and sometimes straight man. He was the
neutral territory between Moe and Curly.
He was only as dumb as Curly some of the time and only as smart as Moe
some of the time.
In a few later shorts with Shemp and Besser he had more lines and I
thought that he would have done well in his own shorts but his resemblance
to Leon Erol might have been too close for it to be a success.
DMK
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"Don't do that....it's a bad habit!"
Laura