The Stooges come home after several months of unsuccessful prospecting only to find that a young, crippled boy and his older sister have moved into their City Dump shack. The Stooges attempt to invest the boy's operation money by buying a house that is supposed to contain Captain Kidd's treasure, but when they attempt to dig it up they break into the US Treasury instead! 1937
The Stooges are hobos who get thrown off a freight train and chased out of the railroad yard. They hide in the "Hangover Athletic Club," where Curly gets hired as a sparring partner. Ivan Bustoff, wrestling World Champion, takes a shine to the Stooges, and his manager hires them to keep on eye on Bustoff and make sure he doesn't drink. When Ivan gets plastered (and the Stooges knock him cold with dumbells), Moe sends out Curly disguised as Bustoff. Curly finally wins the match, when he goes berserk from smelling "Wild Hyacinth" perfume. 1937
Larry is a pet store dealer having an affair with Moe's wife, and trying to romance Joe's fiancee. After both become suspicious, Larry comes up with a plan to put himself in the clear, and frame Joe as a philanderer. The plan backfires, Joe kicks Larry into Moe's apartment, where Moe discovers the real rat. The Stooges play separate characters in this short and Larry has the main role. 1959 A remake of HE COOKED HIS GOOSE (1952), with some stock footage. In the sequence where Moe shoots a gun up the chimney, stock footage with Shemp's voice is used.
The Stooges are hired as detectives to protect John Goodrich from the Phantom Gang. Before they arrive, Goodrich is snatched by the Goon, a member of the Gang. The Stooges then arrive and search the house. They find Goodrich and have a fight against the Gang, knocking them all out. A remake, with stock footage, of WHO DONE IT? (1949). This is the last episode containing new footage of Shemp, most notably the opening sequences set at their detective agency ("Miracle Detective Agency - If We Solve Your Crime, It's a Miracle!"). Shemp passed away a few months after production. 1956
The Stooges are dim-witted firemen who spend all their time covering up their mistakes so they can impress their girlfriends by being in uniform. Curly sneaks out of the firehouse while on duty and joins the girls. They want him to get the other two to come over, so Curly trips the nearest fire alarm. The fire truck leaves Moe and Larry behind because they have accidentally locked themselves in a janitor's closet. They then take the Captain's car and try to beat the truck to the fire, ultimately wrecking the car. 1936
Curly wins a radio contest for $50,000 and the Stooges move into the Costa Plente hotel. They wreck havoc by destroying a very valuable bed and a $5000 vase. After the stooges receive their letter from the Coffin Nail Cigarette Company, they discover that after all the taxes they have only won $4.85. 1938
A depressed Joe is sulking about a lost love, Fifi, who he planned to marry years ago. The Stooges discover that Fifi has moved into the apartment across the hall and has locked herself out of her apartment. She also has a jealous husband who is a first class heel. Typical Stooge antics result in ruining Fifi's dress, and dressing her in a pair of pajamas is an invitation for her husband to enter the scene. Hiding her from disaster, Fifi overhears her hubbie's plans to divorce her, and slapstick mayhem ensues. 1958
The Stooges' 10-year engagement to their fiancees has reached the end of their future father-in-law's patience. He gives them one week to earn enough money to marry his daughters, or they'll be promised to the three plumbers down the street. So Moe, Larry & Shemp promise to keep their garage open night and day if necessary. The garage's first new customers are three gangsters, and the leader's moll, who've wrecked their car escaping from the police. Assuming that the Stooges have made a overtures to the moll, the hoods decide to 'silence' our heroes. 1953
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.
The Stooges are singing waiters, whose silly antics inspire two doctors worried about little Betty Williams, whose father was kidnapped. Dressed as three little girls, complete with balloons and giant lollipops, the Stooges visit the girl in the hospital, but even they can't bring her around. The boys volunteer to find Mr. Williams (he's 5 ft. 10 inches tall in his stocking feet, has a tattoo on his shoulder, and yodels like this: Yodel-aydee-aydee-odalay-eeoo.) When they find him, they're chased by the crooks to the basement of the building where they have a final battle in pitch darkness. The Stooges emerge victorious and reunite Williams and his cured, healthy little girl. 1940
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