The stooges need to pay the rent so they decide to pay off the rent by becoming baby sitters. Their first job is to baby sit for a troubled mother who just broke up with her husband. After some of their antics, they fall asleep. The mother comes home and sees that the baby is gone and sends the boys to her husband's apartment. After the stooges have a little trouble with the ex-husband, the mother arrives and the couple are reunited. 1951
The Chief of Detectives gives Moe, Larry and Shemp 24 hours to solve the murder of Slug McGurk. They question a witness, an Italian organ grinder with a British accent, but he runs away when they mention a murder. A frustrated actor named Gilbraith Q. Tiddlewadder (better known as Chopper) tries to confess as a publicity stunt, but the real killer shows up, outraged at not getting credit, and starts shooting up the police station.
Vagrants Moe, Larry & Shemp are suspected in an armored car robbery. Gladys Harmon vouches for the Stooges' claim that they work at her Elite Cafe diner, and then gives them jobs at same. Gladys receives an offer on her family's old estate, and believing that she might be gypped, the Stooges accompany her to "look the joint over." Hiding out at the old mansion are the real armored car robbers, and Gladys and the Stooges are soon on the run from the crooks and their knife-wielding henchman Angel. 1948
Foreign spy Bortch has stolen some secret government documents and hidden them in watermelons. He has the Stooges bring them to a ship where he will leave the country. When they arrive at the pier, the spy has locked them aboard the ship. The Stooges later find the melons as well as the stolen documents. They defeat Bortch, with plans to turn him over to the police. 1949
Moe reads in the newspaper that Curly is the missing heir to his rich uncle Bob O. Link's estate. The Stooges go to the mansion, only to find out that Prof. Bob O. Link didn't die, he was murdered! And both his body and the will are missing. The boys have to spend the night in the spooky old house and solve the mystery. 1945
The Stooges are out-of-work hoofers with a pet monkey act who get a chance at a show if they can make it to the train on time. In a rush to evade paying rent, the boys board the train. The monkey gets loose and wreaks havoc on the train, becoming a pain in the neck for Johnson, the show's manager, and the show's star, Paul Pain. The boys also cause a panic in the sleeping car looking for the monkey, and end up being thrown off the train. 1936
The Stooges are small-time actors and stage hands. They are told by by their boss to keep out a notorious drama critic who has been trashing the company's shows. The Stooges disguise themselves so well that Moe and Shemp mistake Larry for the critic, and they whale the tar out of him before discovering their mistake. Of course the critic enters in the meantime. But the Stooges save the day, when an errant potholder cooked into a cake for the play's climatic scene causes them to cough up feathers and make it a comedy hit!
The Stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist, Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Because of his curly hair, Larry is mistaken for the professor, and the Stooges are kidnapped in his place, and taken to the State of Anemia. They're ordered to produce the new rocket fuel or face the firing squad. The Stooges stall for time and start mixing anything they can find in an attempt to make a phoney rocket fuel, but their ruse is revealed when the real professor and his daughter are captured and brought to Anemia. The Stooges' formula comes to their rescue, though, when they use it to burn a hole in the floor and escape! 1949
At The Woman Haters Club, Larry and Shemp exchange stories of their disastrous encounters with a golddigger, who turns out to be the same woman. Jane became engaged to Larry, only to dump him when Moe shows up with a larger diamond ring. Shemp is a good samaritan, who winds up in Jane's apartment after a good deed, and chased by her husband Moe when he returns home early... "He was on a business trip. That's separated, isn't it?!" Drowning their sorrows in beer, Shemp & Larry are introduced by fellow club member Charlie, to the WH's newest recruit. Of course it's Moe, and slapstick mayhem ensues! 1955
, Larry, and Shemp decide that they are natural born tax experts and decide to start a business that helps other people cheat on their income tax. Their scheme doesn't last long, when it turns out that one of their customers is an undercover agent for the income tax department! After a chase, the IRS takes the stooges to jail. 1954
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