In this box comedy, the Stooges run the Pip Boys Tailor Shop. They receive a bill for tailoring equipment, which will be repossessed if the bill is not paid. They hear on their radio that a robber named Terry Hargen is on the loose and a large reward is offered for his capture. Shemp thinks they should catch Hargen, collect the reward and pay their bill. Later on, the Stooges do meet up with Hargen and his henchmen. The boys thwart the bad guys, but a cop gets the reward. They manage to find money in Hargen's coat pocket and pay their debts off. 1947 Remade as RIP, SEW AND STITCH (1953), with stock footage.
The Stooges have no clue that they are dating the same woman, who is using them to get engagement rings from all three. The boys arrive at her house separately, and each give her a ring. While taking a look around the house Moe & Larry spot each other and catch Joe snuggling with "their" girl. A fight ensues, and Moe and Larry beat each other senseless. But Joe gets the upperhand, with help from a little invention the Stooges came up with. 1957
The Stooges are "Day and Night Plumbers," hired by the Norfleets, a rich married couple, to fix the plumbing in their basement while a social party is going on their mansion. The boys wreck the house with the plumbing: Shemp destroys the bathroom by flooding it, then drilling a hole through the floor, and later, Moe and Shemp connect the water pipes with the electrical pipes. Mr. and Mrs. Allen, two of the Norfleet's party guests, steal the Norfleet's Van Brocklin painting behind everyone's back. When the Norfleets notice their painting is missing, the Allens try to make their getaway, but the Stooges interfere and capture them. At the end, the painting is returned to the grateful Norfleets. 1949 A reworking of A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940). Remade as SCHEMING SCHEMERS (1956), with stock footage.
Two professors take a page from George Bernard Shaw and settle a behaviorism dispute on heredity vs. environment by trying to reform three slovenly, crass handymen (played, of course, by the Stooges). A several-million-dollar bet is made, and Quackenbush sets to training his three Lizas. Several months pass, and the newborn gentlemen attend a dinner party. They behave themselves for about two minutes. The short is capped off by a horrendous pie fight. Good line: "Why, you act as if the sword of Damocles was hanging over your head!" 1958
The Stooges are electricians who are fired after messing up a job. They decide to go away for a long rest and check into Doc Mallard's Rest Home and Clinic. The Stooges soon learn that Doc Mallard is a quack and his clinic is designed to gyp people out of their money. The boys escape from the mad doctor and cure a man's bum foot in the process, resulting in a $1,000 reward. 1946 Curly's condition was so bad during production that Moe had to coach him line by line. Kenneth MacDonald's first appearance in a Stooge short
To keep Red Morgan and his gang from stealing the mine payroll, the bank president and local newspaper editor fake a story that three famous lawmen are coming to clean up the town, using a "wanted for vagrancy" leaflet featuring Moe, Larry and Shemp. The three arrive in town looking for a job cleaning the saloon, and bumbling circumstances turn against Red and his henchmen, who are soon subdued by the "three famous lawmen." A crooked Sheriff frees the Morgan gang from jail, and they follow the newly deputized Stooges to the old Horton place, supposedly haunted by a headless Indian, and now the new hiding place for the payroll. Posing as ghosts, the crooks begin stalking our heroes. 1951 A reworking of PHONY EXPRESS (1943).
It starts in a courtroom where Moe is charged of Intent to Commit Mayhem. As Moe describes what happened, the scene changes to The Original Two-Man Quartet (Larry and Joe) playing loudly, and Moe can't handle the noise. To calm down Moe's nerves they decide to go on a hunting trip. But Wild Bill Hookup is on the loose, the Sheriff is on his trail, and the Stooges are caught in the middle! 1957
Wedding plans for the Three Stooges are cut short when the father of their brides is wrongly jailed. Moe comes up with a plan for them to get into jail and bust the father out. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to get arrested, they end up walking through the front door of the county jail. To get the future father-in-law's job back as warden and expose the criminals, the Stooges go undercover as gentlemen at the gangster's dinner party to take pictures as evidence. The lengthy rumba dance provides plenty of time for Moe to shoot the photos, while Curly creates a diversion by exposing various undergarments. 1942
It is only after their nuptials that Moe, Larry & Shemp discover that the Noonan brothers had taken a liking to the wives during the Stooges' recent absence, and vowed to kill our heroes if the weddings occurred. After the Justice of the Peace leaves, the Stooges are stalked by the Noonan brothers, engaging in a slapstick gun battle, and in the end, a fist fight 1954
Larry, Moe and Joe are one of three sets of triplets born one year apart. They finally meet up with each other after several years, causing their brothers' wives to become confused. The Stooges soon get chased away by a waiter with a meat cleaver. 1957
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