Who can forget the short (You Nazty Spy!) in which Moe (as Hitler), Larry (as Goebbels) and Curly (as Goering) plotted how Moronica would take over the world?
Posted on 11/09/2015 1:54:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Ya gotta love the three watches gag...
Moe: Hey Curly, ya got the time?
[Curly rolls up his jacket cuff to reveal three wristwatches on his arm]
Moe: What’s the idea with the three watches?
Curly: That’s how I tell time!
Moe: Why do you need three watches to tell the time?
Curly [points to first watch]This one runs twenty minutes fast every two hours....[points to third watch]...this one runs ten minutes slow every four hours...[points to second watch]...this one’s broken and stopped at two o’clock.
Moe: How does that help you tell time?
Curly: I take the twenty minutes from this watch, subtract the ten minutes from this watch, and divide by the two in the middle!
Moe (slightly impressed); Okay, then: what time is it?
Curly [pulls out an enormous pocketwatch from his back pocket] Ohhh, three-fifteen! Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
[Moe, irritated, takes the pocketwatch and brains Curly with it.]
From item 4, those ersatz Stooges in “The Gift of Gab” (1934) aren’t too hot. That was a film that was long considered lost, with nary a print in Universal’s archive. Everyone wanted to see it because it had cameos by Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, as well as some rare musical numbers by Ruth Etting and Ethel Waters. But a print of the film finally did surface in recent years. It’s probably even on YouTube by now (although legally it likely shouldn’t). I have a bootleg disc of it. The film’s quality... eh.
This one caused me to spit my coke out when I was drinking:
(The boys won a radio contest and move into an expensive hotel suite. The manager is showing them the expensive furnishings)
Manager: This bed goes back to Louis the fourteenth.
Curly: That’s nothing, we had a bed go back to Sears Roebuck the third! nyuk nyuk nyuk
LOL!
It seems plausible that Larry's early stroke could be related to getting hit in the head so many times, which is pretty sad.
Larry -—> Curly
A running gag for the several years he trained there.
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Slowly I turned.........
I posted before I got to yours...truely a classic.
I think the kid who played young Moe did a masterful job.
My Dad took me to see the Three Stooges live in Newark NJ (early 60’s?). I remember them doing “Niagara Falls”, and the “Oh Maha! Aha!” bit.
On the way to the theater, we saw them walking down the street towards us, wearing long coats, but they went into a building before we encountered them. I can still recall Larry’s and Moe’s trademark scowls.
My other brush with Stooge fame: had to be hospitalized (4 years old or so?) the child in the next bed was the son of Officer Joe Bolton (who had a 3 Stooges show in the NYC area).
“When I nod my head, hit it with the hammer.”
Harold Lloyd lost his thumb and forefinger in his accident and used a prosthetic thumb & finger in later films.
Curly began having mini strokes in his late 30’s due to incredibly high, untreated blood pressure.
Some of his gags were ad-lib to cover his forgetting lines.
The stroke that finally rendered him unable to act occurred in his early to mid 40’s.
Curly ordering breakfast,"I'll have a rotten egg and some burnt toast!"
Moe with a double take, "what are you ordering that for?"
Curly, "I got a tape worm, that's good enough for him!"
And,
Curley, "I try to think but nothing happens!"
Curly began having mini strokes in his late 30’s due to incredibly high, untreated blood pressure.
Some of his gags were ad-lib to cover his forgetting lines.
The stroke that finally rendered him unable to act occurred in his early to mid 40’s.
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