I'm a Marx Brothers man, myself, never cared much for the Stooges, since TV was saturated with their films when I was a kid. Even as a nine year old, I considered them to be lowbrow.
This is a pretty good one, though, and appropriate for a lazy Sunday morning. The Stooges in their prime.
There's no shame in liking the Stooges. And since when didn't lowbrow work? And who does it better than the Stooges? Jerry Lewis was a "genius", the Stooges a footnote. The Stooges used the tools of filmmaking far better than the Marxes, they WERE geniuses.
OK the Stooges made a lot of films and their product has been diluted. Some shine and love them for the stand-alone art they are.
I do love "Disorder in the Court" but not the best example of their vision, if you will. It's a stage act and less reliant on the uniqueness of film. Not a single scene of Moe's neck being stretched three feet, c'mon.
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They were definitely professionals. In “Pardon My Scotch” Moe fell off a table, fractured 3 ribs and suffered a concussion. He continued the scene as if nothing happened.
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"Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard.." The Stooges were at their zaniest in the early days, such as Disorder in the Court. Another good one; Men in Black, from 1934.
I have these and quite a few others on DVD. ETA: Very interesting tidbit on this one...it was nominated for an Academy Award. That's right, those knuckleheads could have gotten an Oscar!
The intro music to their sketches is pure classic gold.
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Mention of the Three Stooges almost always leads me to think of this:
I have found the stooges to be most effective at being funny when viewed for only a few seconds at a time, like one second even. As long as they are the right few seconds.
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The OP is one of the three shorts that are in the public domain. (The other two are Sing a Song of Six Pants and Brideless Groom, which is why you can find these in "bargain bin" DVDs.) Punch Drunks is in the National Film Registry.
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Saturday matinees at the theater. Mom would send my brother and I there most Saturdays with a dollar. Enough to get us in and some popcorn or candy. We would always get a couple Stooges shorts before the feature which oftentimes was Ma and Pa Kettle or maybe Abbott and Costello. The one show that I couldn't stand as a kid and still can't was the Lone Ranger. I always thought if you can't recognize who that is behind that little mask you are stupid! Same with Batman. And who couldn't figure out Clark Kent was Superman in the first second you looked at him?
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