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General Category => Just for fun => Topic started by: Typhon on September 14, 2018, 09:40:20 AM
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A while back I was going to put up a thread/poll about the Stooges, but I didn't know if everyone was familiar with them. I am sure the guys here in the U.S. are. I have always been a big fan, and have seen every one of their 190 film shorts at least 50 times each, no lie.
So I ask those in Europe, Australia and even Canada, could you let me know how familiar you are with the Three Stooges.
To those in the U.S., did you numskulls watch them as much as I did? :)
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Not that familiar with their comedy, but I have seen one or two short films by them. My dad liked them a lot when he was young, so it is through him that I became familiar with their comedy.
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Not too familiar actually. I ofcourse know who they are and I've seen a clip here and a clip there but I had no idea they had done 190 shorts!
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I am a Stoogeologist. :)
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I love their stuff. Shemp is my favorite of the bunch, which I bet is where we're going to butt heads on this subject. :smug:
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^^^^^^
Thud!
That sound was my jaw hitting the floor. Shemp is my favorite also. 8)
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^^^^^^
Thud!
That sound was my jaw hitting the floor. Shemp is my favorite also. 8)
Folks, Typhon and I just agreed. I think I need to take the forums down for maintenance... :lol:
Well, just goes to show there's always an area to build up common interests.
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So, back to Shemp... my favorite short with him is the one where he is giving voice lessons to the tall blonde that CAN. NOT. SING. and then has to get married in order to inherit. Emil Sitka doing his "Hold hands, you lovebirds!" is one of my all-time favorite lines.
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So, back to Shemp... my favorite short with him is the one where he is giving voice lessons to the tall blonde that CAN. NOT. SING. and then has to get married in order to inherit. Emil Sitka doing his "Hold hands, you lovebirds!" is one of my all-time favorite lines.
Good choice. :pub: That one is called Brideless Groom. The line I love is when the tall blonde is leaving after her lesson and Shemp says, "Gargle with old razor blades." :)) Here is the link. Check it out gentlemen.
https://www.threestooges.com/1947/09/11/brideless-groom/ (https://www.threestooges.com/1947/09/11/brideless-groom/)
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Then there's the one where they help the poor waitress (Christine McIntyre) go through the old haunted house. The big goon guy in it always scared the bejabers out of me when I was a kid.
The razor blades line was classic, as was "This dreamboat's sailin'! TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!"
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Can't say I'm any sort of fan or anything but from what I did watch of them i liked them. I seem to remember the shorts occasionally being on before the main feature movie at the cimema for a period of time in my earliest recollections of going to the movies.
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Can't say I'm any sort of fan or anything but from what I did watch of them i liked them. I seem to remember the shorts occasionally being on before the main feature movie at the cimema for a period of time in my earliest recollections of going to the movies.
That is correct. Most of the shorts were made before broadcast television existed. 1 or 2 would be shown prier to a feature movie in theaters. That's why the shorts are such an odd length (16 to 25 minutes). When they hit the television airwaves, the Stooges popularity took off here in the states.
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Then there's the one where they help the poor waitress (Christine McIntyre) go through the old haunted house. The big goon guy in it always scared the bejabers out of me when I was a kid.
The razor blades line was classic, as was "This dreamboat's sailin'! TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!"
I think you are describing Shivering Sherlocks. Another great choice.
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Here in Dallas, we had a kids' show called Slam Bang Theater. It ran for a number of years in the 6am-7am slot and would show a Stooges short, another comedian's short subject, then a second Stooges. If I got my Lucky Charms during the commercials, I didn't miss a minute of action.
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Seein' as there's no other place around the place I reckon this must be the place I reckon.
Always loved the Stooges. Laughed my ass off watching Brideless Groom. Those women at the end were HOT! I think the AMC channel still runs them. Never liked Curly Joe or Joe Besser.
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Seein' as there's no other place around the place I reckon this must be the place I reckon.
:)) A true Stooge if I ever heard one.
I feel a bit sad for the members around the world who did not have exposure to the Stooges while growing up. Guess you can't really miss things you never had to begin with.
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As for Curly Joe and Joe Besser, those were both the Stooges utilized when Shemp passed away and there weren't any more family members left.
Joe Besser was a real riot on his own or as a guest alongside other solo comics, so it was thought he'd work out with Larry and Moe. He did not. It was more like The Two Stooges and Joe.
Curly Joe was the one added to carry on with the act when everyone was getting on in years but still needed money. He knew how to hit softly and that was important when doing physical comedy at their age. But he wasn't for generating new material.
One name that had come up as a replacement for Shemp was Emil Sitka, who I think really should have gotten the call. He's a hilarious character actor and would have been great as a victim of Moe and Larry's incompetence.
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One name that had come up as a replacement for Shemp was Emil Sitka, who I think really should have gotten the call. He's a hilarious character actor and would have been great as a victim of Moe and Larry's incompetence.
When Larry became ill, Moe contacted Emil Sitka to replace him. Just before the start of a real project, Moe died.
(http://www.emilsitka.com/images/477_FifthSet_still_magazines.jpg)
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Yeah, if he had been picked up instead of Besser in the 50s, I think the act would have been better off. I should look up why they went with Besser in the first place...
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Yeah, if he had been picked up instead of Besser in the 50s, I think the act would have been better off. I should look up why they went with Besser in the first place...
They probably wanted somebody rotund. :D
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Since it is football season, check out Three Little Pigskins. You will see a very young Lucille Ball in this one.
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Folks, Typhon and I just agreed.
:kramer:
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I know, Billy... and I agreed with him on a few other threads, I think I should see a doctor.
Yeah, if he had been picked up instead of Besser in the 50s, I think the act would have been better off. I should look up why they went with Besser in the first place...
They probably wanted somebody rotund. :D
So I had some time yesterday and looked this up. Moe and Larry wanted to go on as the Two Stooges and Columbia execs said no way. They picked Besser for three reasons:
1. He was signed to Columbia
2. He was a pretty popular comic
3. He was signed to Columbia
Besser himself was good friends with Shemp, they having done the character actor circuit at Columbia. His contract actually gave him more money than Larry or Moe and he also had a clause in it where he wouldn't be hit very hard or very often. Larry was a real trooper, though, and said that he'd take the slaps.
They were very professional together, even though their chemistry didn't work out.
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At some point Larry actually developed a callous on part of his face from so many slaps.
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Yeah, imagine *that* as a work-related injury!
I think it beats almost getting roasted alive, which nearly happened to Curly.
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When one is faced with a question like this, the answer is to Stooge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwmU343eBu0
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I've never been a Stooge fan, although I can remember laughing my head off at a few of their skits. Along the same lines of "comedians before my time", I never much got into Abbott and Costello either. But holy crap, Laurel and Hardy along with W.C. Fields seemed endlessly hilarious. The Marx Bros had some stellar moments for me as well.
Tangentially, I just received - today! - a 7" action figure of Iggy Pop in the mail. The caricature is not from his Stooges days, though. More modern. I don't collect such things, but there has been a running gag in my office the past two weeks concerning Iggy, so come Monday Iggy is going to work with me :)
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Lol...
Or, to be thread-appropriate:
Nyuk nyuk nyuk... :smug: