The Three Stooges Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 1: Woman HatersThe Stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip. |
Episode 2 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 2: Punch DrunksMoe is a boxing promoter looking for a good fighter. Curly is a mild-mannered waiter who goes crazy whenever he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel". Larry is a violinist recruited to play the tune. Curly becomes a great fighter and gets a championship match. Things look bad when Larry's violin is smashed, but everything turns out fine when Larry delivers the music by driving a truck through the arena wall. |
Episode 3 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 3: Men in BlackThe Stooges become doctors at a large hospital where they disrupt patients and staff alike. [the title is a play on "Men in White", a popular film of the time. Nominated for "Best Short Subject" in 1934. |
Episode 4 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 4: Three Little PigskinsThe Stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll. |
Episode 5 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 5: Horses' CollarsThe Stooges are private detectives in the old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU from the villains wallet and then from a safe meet with problems until Curly, who goes berserk whenever he sees a mouse, knocks out all the bad guys. |
Episode 6 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 6: Restless KnightsSet in Medieval times, the Stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the evil prime minister. The Stooges escape, free the queen, and end up knocking each other out. |
Episode 7 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 7: Pop Goes the EaselThe Stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film. |
Episode 8 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 8: Uncivil WarriorsSet in the civil war, the Stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters. |
Episode 9 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 9: Pardon My ScotchThe Stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. The Stooges impersonate Scotsmen at party to fool the prospective buyer. Their usual antics disrupt the party, ending when a barrel of their "scotch" explodes and floods the whole house. |
Episode 10 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 10: Hoi PolloiA professor bets that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. The Stooges new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly degenerates. By the end, the other guests have adopted stooge-like behavior and the Stooges leave as gentlemen. |
Episode 11 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 11: Three Little BeersThe Stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a steep hill. |
Episode 12 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 12: Ants in the PantryThe Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt. |
Episode 13 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 13: Movie ManiacsThe Stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business ("there must be a couple a hundred guys in Hollywood who don't know anything about making movies, three more ain't gonna make any difference".) they sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. after taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast to walk off, Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curly as the leading man and lady. When the real executives send a telegram explaining why they haven't arrived, the Stooges must leave on the run. |
Episode 14 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 14: Half Shot ShootersThe Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the Stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up. |
Episode 15 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 16: A Pain in the PullmanThe Stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of the other passengers including the conductor and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and they are literally tossed off the train. |
Episode 16 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 15: Disorder in the CourtThe Stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer at a nightclub where they are musicians, is accused of murder. The Stooges manage to disrupt the proceedings but save the day when they discover the real murderer's identity. |
Episode 17 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 17: False AlarmsThe Stooges are firemen who are constantly getting in trouble, they've been warned that one more incident will cost them their jobs. Curly sneaks out anyway to visit his girlfriend. She has two friends who need dates, but the only way Curly can get Moe and Larry out of the station is to pull a fire alarm. The firetruck leaves without Moe and Larry, so they steal the captains new car to make it to the call first. They manage to get Curly and get back to the station, but in doing so wreck the car and must leave on the run. |
Episode 18 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 18: Whoops, I'm an Indian!Set in the old west, the Stooges are crooked gamblers gypping the resident of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape into the woods. To elude the sheriff they disguise themselves as Indians. Their plan works until Curly, dressed as a squaw, is forced to marry a local tough guy. The Stooges are unmasked and wind up in the hoosegow. |
Episode 19 - The Collection 1934-1936, Episode 19: Slippery SilksThe Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the Stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues. |
Episode 20 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 1: Grips, Grunts and GroansWhen the Stooges get a prizefighter drunk, Curly has no choice but to step in and take his place inside the ring. |
Episode 21 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 2: Dizzy DoctorsThe Stooges' wives have issued a warning: you snooze, you lost. So they get a job selling a miracle medicine, but it'll be a miracle if they sell it. |
Episode 22 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 3: 3 Dumb ClucksTheir father's plan to marry prompts the Stooges to break out of jail to save him from himself and, it turns out, from this intended dangerous posse. |
Episode 23 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 4: Back to the WoodsThe Stooges get sentenced to fifty-five years in a British jail but are instead sent to American to protect the colonists from the Indians. |
Episode 24 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 5: Goofs and SaddlesThe stakes are higher than ever when the Stooges ante up to play poker with General muster's nemesis, Longhorn Pete. |
Episode 25 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 6: Cash and CarryCon Men or Good Samaritans? Larry, Moe and Curly blast into the U.S. Treasury in order to get cash to help a poor girl's disabled brother. |
Episode 26 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 7: Playing the PoniesA horse is a Stooges, of course, of course. When the Stooges get saddled with a lame horse, they discover what will make him hot on the track: chili pepperinos! |
Episode 27 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 8: The Sitter DownersMarriage isn't all bliss as Larry, Moe and Curly find out when they set up house with Corabell, Florabell, and Dorabell. You could call them the Dumbbells. |
Episode 28 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 9: Termites of 1938The Stooges make pests of themselves at a high society party when a maid mistakenly phones their exterminator company instead of an escort service. |
Episode 29 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 10: Wee Wee MonsieurParis is for lovers, and for the Three Stooges, as struggling artists who paint themselves into a corner when they try to rescue a military captain from kidnappers. |
Episode 30 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 11: Tassels in the AirMoe pretends to be trendy interior designer Omay (Omay is Moe in pig latin) and he, Larry and Curly proceed to make an essmay of a socialite's home. |
Episode 31 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 12: Healthy, Wealthy and DumbWhen Curly wins $50,000 the Stooges start living the high life - until they get the lowdown on exactly how much they get after taxes. |
Episode 32 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 13: Violent Is the Word for CurlyIt's full service fun when three college professors are literally blown way by the Three Stooges when they stop at their filling station. |
Episode 33 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 14: Three Missing LinksLarry, Moe and Curly go on a location to Africa when Curly is cast as a gorilla, and there they come face to face with danger when they encounter a real gorilla on the set. |
Episode 34 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 15: Mutts to YouWhen the Stooges find a baby they take it back to their dog laundry business, but wind up in the dog house when they are accused of kidnapping the baby. |
Episode 35 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 16: Flat Foot StoogesMoe, Larry and Curly take care of the horses that draw the fire chief's trucks, but when a crooked fire truck salesman turns up the heat, they get fired up for action. |
Episode 36 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 17: Three Little Sew and SewsWorking as tailors on a navy ship puts the Stooges in a pressing situation after Curly wears the admiral's jacket to a party and is seduced by a spy. |
Episode 37 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 18: We Want Our MummyThe Stooges trek to Cairo to rescue a kidnapped professor and return a priceless mummy, a case that may take them awhile to wrap up. |
Episode 38 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 19: A Ducking They Did GoAfter recruiting the police chief, governor and mayor into what turns out to be a sham duck hunting club, the Stooges cleverly find a way to avoid jail. |
Episode 39 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 20: Yes, We Have No BonanzaGold prospectors Larry, Moe and Curly set out to make a better life for themselves and three waitresses, but get served more than they can swallow. |
Episode 40 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 21: Saved by the BelleWhen the Stooges are arrested for treason, a crime punishable by death in the kingdom of Valeska, they use a loudly slurping guard to help cover their noisy escape. |
Episode 41 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 22: Calling All CursVeterninarians Moe, Curly and Larry find their business going to the dogs when one of their prize patients is stolen and held for ransom. |
Episode 42 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 23: Oily to Bed, Oily to RiseThe Stooges fall in love with three beautiful girls whose widowed mother is robbed of the lease to her oil - oozing land. |
Episode 43 - The Collection 1937-1939, Episode 24: Three Sappy PeopleWhen phone repairmen Larry, Moe and Curly inadvertently answer a call meant for three psychiatrists, they try to cure a socialite of her wild behavior. |
Episode 44 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 1: You Nazty SpyIn this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are paperhangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the king, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshall and Larry becomes Minister of propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions. |
Episode 45 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 2: Rockin' Thru the RockiesThe Stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend with a snowstorm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west. |
Episode 46 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 3: A Plumbing We Will GoTo escape the police, the Stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion. They wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place. One memorable scene has the lady of the house tuning into a television broadcast from Niagara Falls as a torrent of water pours from the set. To escape the wrath of the homeowners the Stooges escape through a magician's trap door. |
Episode 47 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 4: Nutty but NiceThe Stooges are singing waiters who are enlisted by a doctor to try and cheer up a little girl. It seems that the girl's father is a banker who was kidnapped with $300,000 worth of bonds. Failing to cheer up the girl, the Stooges go out looking for the father and by a series of coincidences wind up in the bad guys hideout. The villains return and after a wild fight the boys free the missing man. |
Episode 48 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 5: How High Is Up?The Stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the building and they must parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss. |
Episode 49 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 6: From Nurse to WorseThe stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement. |
Episode 50 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 7: No Census, No FeelingThe Stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the other players in pursuit. |
Episode 51 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 8: Cookoo CavaliersThe Stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local nightclub. After the Stooges completely ruin the girl's hair, and their manager finds out, the boys must leave on the run. |
Episode 52 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 9: Boobs in ArmsThe Stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In boot camp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell. |
Episode 53 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 10: So Long Mr. ChumpsSo Long Mr. Chumps (1941): Larry, Moe and Curly are on a quest to find an honest man. And they finally find one - in jail! |
Episode 54 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 11: Dutiful but DumbThe Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine ("If it's a good picture it's out of Whack") who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. In Vulgaria the penalty for taking pictures in is death, and the boys soon wind up in front of a firing squad. Curly's last request is a giant cigar and by the time he's done smoking it all the soldiers are asleep and the Stooges make their escape. |
Episode 55 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 12: All the World's a StoogeThe Stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the run, they are hired by a millionaire to pose as children. It seems the man's wife wants to adopt some refugees to impress her society friends. Moe is Johnny, Curly is Frankie and Larry is Mabel. Everything goes fairly well as the lady shows off the Stooges to her friends, but they finally irritate her husband so much that he goes after them with an ax. |
Episode 56 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 13: I'll Never Heil AgainA follow up to "You Natzy Spy", the Stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshall and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The Stooges are planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's daughter gets into their headquarters and plants a bomb, which Curly detonates. All ends well as the king regains control of the country and the Stooges wind up as trophies on the wall. |
Episode 57 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 14: An Ache in Every StakeThe Stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake explodes and the man realizes whom they are, they must leave in a hurry. |
Episode 58 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 15: In the Sweet Pie and PieThe Stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into marrying three rich girls who need husbands to collect a legacy. At the last minute the real murderers confess and the Stooges are pardoned. The girls are now stuck with the Stooges so they plot to get rid of them by making them become gentlemen. The girl's lawyer convinces them to throw a big party in the hope that the Stooges will humiliate them and they can get a divorce. The boys do just that as the party degenerates into a wild pie fight. But the girls decide to keep the Stooges and give their lawyer the boot. |
Episode 59 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 16: Some More of SamoaThe Stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The Stooges escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator; sail off with their prize. |
Episode 60 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 17: Loco Boy Makes GoodThe Stooges help a little old lady by transforming her rundown hotel into a posh nightclub. At show time, Curly gets the magician's coat by mistake. |
Episode 61 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 18: Cactus Makes PerfectThe Stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks. |
Episode 62 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 19: What's the Matador?The Stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero. |
Episode 63 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 20: Matri-PhonyThe Stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful redheaded women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty redhead, seeks refuge with the Stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the Stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to escape. |
Episode 64 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 21: Three Smart SapsThe Stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden. When they learn that some crooks have taken over the prison and their prospective father-in-law has been locked up, they decide to go undercover to rescue him. The Stooges sneak into the prison where they find a casino with a fancy party in progress. After swiping some formal attire, they crash the party and get candid camera evidence to expose the crooked goings-on. With the crooks behind bars once again, the Stooges are able to get married and all ends well. |
Episode 65 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 22: Even as IOUA destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt! |
Episode 66 - The Collection 1940-1942, Episode 23: Sock-A-Bye BabyThe Stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing them by motorcycle. It all ends happily with the baby reunited with its parents and the Stooges running off disguised as bushes. |
Episode 67 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 1: They Stooge to CongaThe Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house, which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control. |
Episode 68 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 2: Dizzy DetectivesThe Stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr. Dill, the head of the citizens league, threatening the police chief's job. The boys go on the case and pose as night watchmen at an antiques store. They confront the crook, who turns out to be a real gorilla owned by Dill. After defeating Dill and some other bad guys in a wild fight, the gorilla drinks some nitroglycerin and blows up. |
Episode 69 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 3: Spook LouderThe Stooges are salesman selling a weight-reducing machine. They have no luck until they show up at the house of an eccentric inventor where they are hired as caretakers. When the scientist goes to Washington to demonstrate his death-ray machine to the government, the boys are left to guard his house and must contend with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower. |
Episode 70 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 4: Back from the FrontMoe, Larry and Curly become sailors and go to sea. And the Three Stooges as sailors are really something to see - and laugh about. When their ship is sunk by a nazi cruiser the boys are taken aboard by the enemy and in their own wild and zany way they end up - after some pretty funny and weird happenings, in capturing the entire ship. |
Episode 71 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 5: Three Little TwirpsThe Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their pay is tickets to the show. When trying to scalp their tickets gets them in trouble, they hide out backstage where Curly has an encounter with a bearded lady and Moe and Larry hide in a horse suit. When they're caught, the circus manager gives them a choice of going to jail or joining the circus. What they don't know is that they are to be targets for the Zulu spear thrower. When Curly hits the spear thrower with one of his own spears, the boys are on the run once again. |
Episode 72 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 6: Higher than a KiteThe Stooges are auto mechanics working for the R.A.F. in England. After wrecking an officers car they need a place to hide, but their choice, a sewer pipe, turns out to be a bomb, which is dropped on the enemy. Finding themselves behind enemy lines, Moe and Curly disguise themselves as German officers and Larry dresses as a seductive fraulein. While general Bommel chases after Larry, Moe and Curly steal the secret plans from the high command. |
Episode 73 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 7: I Can Hardly WaitThe Stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep when Curly gets a toothache. Moe and Larry try various ways to remove the offending tooth, but nothing works so they take Curly to the dentist. While Moe gets in the chair to show Curly how easy it's going to be, the dentist enters and pulls Moe's tooth by mistake. Curly then wakes up and realizes its all been a dream and a punch to the mouth from Moe dislodges the tooth. |
Episode 74 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 8: Dizzy PilotsThe Stooges are the Wrong brothers, three inventors trying to finish building an airplane they can sell to the army and thereby avoid the draft. When their plane, the "Buzzard", turns out to be a flop, the boys are drafted into the army where they have trouble with a tough drill sergeant. |
Episode 75 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 9: Phony ExpressA horse is a Stooges, of course, of course. When the Stooges get saddled with a lame horse, they discover what will make him hot on the track: chili pepperinos! |
Episode 76 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 10: A Gem of a JamThe Stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Harts, Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention after their boss has been wounded in a shoot out with the cops. Mistaken for doctors, the boys are forced to operate on the wounded crook, but instead they accidentally dump him out the window into a passing police car. The rest of the gang chases them into a storeroom filled with dummies where the cops finally catch the bad guys. |
Episode 77 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 11: Crash Goes the HashThe Stooges are hired as reporters and their first assignment is to get a picture of a visiting prince who is planning to marry a local socialite. The boys disguise as servants and infiltrate a party being in thrown in the honor of the prince. The Stooges ruin the party, but save the day as they expose the prince as crook who is planning to rob the house. Their boss is so grateful for the expose that he gives the boys a bonus and the rich lady decides to marry Curly! |
Episode 78 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 12: Busy BuddiesThe Stooges run a small restaurant, and must come up with some quick money to pay off a pie dealer whose wares they ruined. They enter Curly in a milking contest at the county fair, but his technique leaves something to be desired, and he quickly falls behind the champ. Moe and Larry try to help by putting on a cow suit and pouring milk from a concealed bottle, but when their cheating is exposed, they must leave on the run. |
Episode 79 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 13: The Yoke's on MeRejected by the armed services, the Stooges decide to "do their bit" by becoming farmers. After paying $1000 and throwing in their car, the boys are owners of a run down farm, which lacks any livestock. After capturing an escaped ostrich, they decide to carve jack-o- lanterns for profit and then must contend with some Japanese who have escaped from a relocation center. The Stooges become heroes by capturing the escapees, with the help of explosive eggs laid by the ostrich who had swallowed some blasting powder. |
Episode 80 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 14: Idle RoomersThe Stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The Stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the Stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky. |
Episode 81 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 15: Gents Without CentsThe Stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. They meet three girl dancers in the situation and get a small part in a big producers show at the shipyard. When the rest of the cast doesn't show up, the Stooges and the girls must put on the whole show themselves. The show is a hit and the Stooges marry the girls and head to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. |
Episode 82 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 16: No Dough BoysThe Stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for their job as magazine models. On their lunch break they go into a restaurant with their Japanese uniforms on causing the proprietor to mistake them for the real thing, and a chase ensues. The boys fall through a trap door, and into a nest of Nazi spies where they are mistaken for "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki", three Japanese saboteurs. The Stooges try to act the part, including demonstrating acrobatics and jiu-jitsu to their hosts. When the real "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki" show up, the boys are exposed and impostors, but after a wild fight manage to capture all the Axis spies. |
Episode 83 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 17: Three Pests in a MessThe Stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching invention. When they learn they'll have to catch 100,000 flies to earn enough to get a patent, some crooks overhear and think the boys are the $100,000 sweepstakes winners. When the crooks give chase, the Stooges hide in a sporting goods store where Curly shoots a dummy, which they mistake for a real person. The boys decide to bury the "body" in a pet cemetery, but the cemetery owner arrives from a costume party with his partners, all dressed as spooks, and they proceed to scare the devil out of the Stooges. |
Episode 84 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 18: Booby DupesThe Stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat, which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a rowboat, which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint-spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky. |
Episode 85 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 19: Idiots DeluxeMoe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the woods they confronted a bear, which Curly and Larry stunned, and thinking it was dead, threw it in the back of their car, where it came awake, tossed Moe out and drove the car into a tree. The judge finds Moe not guilty and Moe promptly goes after Larry and Curly again with the ax. |
Episode 86 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 20: If a Body Meets a BodyCurly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will. They arrive on a dark and stormy night only to find that the lawyer has been murdered and the will and the body have disappeared. All the relatives must stay in the spooky house while the police investigate and the Stooges are given the bedroom where the uncle was murdered. After a series of misadventures with a walking skull and the uncle's body, which keeps turning up in strange places, the Stooges unmask the butler and maid as the killers and recover the will. Then they learn that Curly has only been left sixty-seven cents. |
Episode 87 - The Collection 1943-1945, Episode 21: Micro-PhoniesThe Stooges are working in a radio station where a pretty girl has just made a recording of "Voices of Spring" under an assumed name. She wants to hide her singing career from her disapproving society parents while auditioning for Mrs. Bixby's "Krispy Krunchy" radio program. After a run-in with a pompous violinist, the boys find the record and Curly starts mimicking to it, dressed as a women. Mrs. Bixby witnesses their performance and is impressed enough to hire "Senorita Cucaracha" (Curly) and Senors "Mucho" and "Gusto" (Moe and Larry) for her radio program. The boys show up in their disguises to "sing" at a Mrs. Bixby's party but run into trouble when Moe smashes the record over Curly's head. The real singer tries to help by singing from behind a curtain while Curly mimics, but she is discovered and the Stooges exit to a hail of phonograph records. |
Episode 88 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 1: A Bird in the HeadThe Stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking for a brain to use in his experiments. The professor wants to put a human brain into a gorilla but has trouble finding a brain small enough, which leads him to select Curly (for obvious reasons) as the perfect donor. The Stooges manage to foil the madman with the help of the Gorilla who befriends Curly. |
Episode 89 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 2: All Gummed upThe Stooges run a drug store and are about to have their lease taken away by the Flint, the mean old man who owns the place. When Flint kicks his wife out for being old, the Stooges try to help her by inventing a formula that makes old people young. Their concoction turns the wife into a beautiful young woman, and Flint offers the boys the store for free if they'll transform him as well. They agree, but after he swallows the stuff he turns into an infant, and the boys leave on the run. |
Episode 90 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 3: Beer Barrel PolecatsThe Stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in jail when Curly sells some to a cop. Their minor indiscretion turns into a forty-year sentence when a keg of beer Curly has hidden under his coat explodes while the boys are being photographed. In prison the Stooges get into more trouble with the warden and wind on the rockpile when they try to escape. Released as old men with long gray beards, the first thing Curly wants is a bottle of beer. |
Episode 91 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 4: Fright Night (1947 Short)The Stooges are managers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on his next fight. When a gangster tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys decide to play along. They try to soften Chopper up by feeding him rich food and having him spend time with their friend Kitty. The fight gets canceled when Kitty dumps Chopper for his opponent and the two boxers engage in some pre-match fisticuffs that result in a broken hand for the opponent. The Stooges think they've put one over on the gangsters, only to have the bad guys corner them in a deserted warehouse. Instead of being rubbed out, the boys capture the crooks and get a reward. |
Episode 92 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 5: G.I. Wanna HomeThe Stooges are discharged from the army and go to see their fiancées, but find they have been dispossessed and the wedding is off until they find a home. The boys have trouble finding a vacant apartment so they set up housekeeping in a vacant lot. Their housing problems seem to be solved until a farmer destroys their new home with a tractor. The Stooges then build a house of their own, but the girls aren't impressed with the one room mansion and walk out on them. |
Episode 93 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 6: Half-Wits HolidayA professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight. |
Episode 94 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 7: Heavenly DazeHeavenly Daze (1948): A divine comedy classic! Shemp goes to Heaven but isn't allowed through the Pearly Gates until he can reform bad boys Larry and Moe. |
Episode 95 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 8: Hold That Lion!The Stooges are gypped out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. |
Episode 96 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 9: Squareheads of the Round TableSet in Elizabethan times, the Stooges decide to help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. At night the group sneaks into the castle to serenade Elaine, but pick the wrong window and are caught by the King. Tossed in the dungeon, the boys escape with Cedric's help and manage to foil the plans of the Black Prince who was plotting against the King. All turns out well when the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine. |
Episode 97 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 10: The Three TroubledoersSet in the old west, the Stooges become marshalls in a town with a high death rate for lawmen. The boys set out prevent a marriage between the villain Blackie and the heroine Nell, whose father Blackie has kidnapped. The Stooges manage to defeat Blackie and his henchmen, but when Nell's father learns she promised to marry Curly if he could save her, he decides death would be a preferable fate. |
Episode 98 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 11: Uncivil WarbirdsThe Stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be loyal to the south, but remain disguised as Union soldiers. Curly is detected as a spy, but Moe and Larry prevent his execution. The boys escape with a secret map and marry their three southern belles. |
Episode 99 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 12: Brideless GroomTo inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp marries before the deadline, but wishes he was still a free man. |
Episode 100 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 13: Crime on Their HandsThe Stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office. When an anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to become reporters and go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond, which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The crooks want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla. |
Episode 101 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 14: Fiddlers ThreeThe Stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees, but only after Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry the Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the Princess, and it's up to the Stooges to foil his plans and expose his evil doings. |
Episode 102 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 15: The Hot ScotsThe Stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they learn that detectives are needed to guard a Scottish castle where valuables have been disappearing, they masquerades as Scotsmen to get the job. After a spooky night in the castle, the boys expose the servants as the crooks. |
Episode 103 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 16: I'm a Monkey's UncleI'm a Monkey's Uncle - The Stooges are three cavemen casting eyes upon the cavewomen Aggie, Maggie,and Baggie. Things go wonderfully for the Jurassic hunks until they meet the ex-boyfriends of the girls. |
Episode 104 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 17: Monkey BusinessmenThe Stooges are bumbling electricians who decide to go away for a rest after they are fired for their incompetence. The rest home they choose is run by Dr. Mallard, a quack who gyps the patients for everything they've got. When the boys discover the crooked goings on they escape, but not before Curly accidentally cures another patient who rewards him with a thousand dollars. |
Episode 105 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 18: Mummy's DummiesSet in ancient Egypt, the Stooges run a used chariot lot where they unload defective chariots on unsuspecting customers. When they gyp the head of the palace guard, they're brought to the palace to be executed, but instead become royal chamberlains after curing the King's toothache. When they recover some tax money stolen by a corrupt official, the King rewards them with marriage to his daughter. After getting a look at the ugly crone, Moe and Larry select Shemp to be the groom. |
Episode 106 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 19: Out WestOut West (1947): The wild west will never be the same again! The Stooges turn a frontier upside down in this wild, wild comedy gem! |
Episode 107 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 20: Pardon My ClutchThe stooge's friend Claude sells them his old lemon of a car so they can take Shemp, who is sick with a toothache, camping. The car won't work and the boys are apparently out a bundle, when a car collector happens on the scene and offers to buy it at a premium. Claude backs out on the deal and gives the Stooges their money back, only to discover the "collector" is an escaped lunatic. |
Episode 108 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 21: Rhythm and WeepRhythm and Weep (1946): Unsuccessful musicians Moe, Larry and Curly decide to end it all by jumpingfrom a skyscrapper, where they meet three unsuccessful dancers - and a strange man "afflicted with millions." |
Episode 109 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 22: Shivering SherlocksThe Stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed but are now the only ones who can identify the crooks. Meanwhile, their friend Gladys has inherited a house in the country and the boys go with her to inspect it so she won't be gypped when it's sold. The house turns out to be the crook's hideout, and when they abduct Gladys, the Stooges must rescue her. |
Episode 110 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 23: Sing a Song of Six PantsThe Stooges are tailors, and are heavily in debt to the Skin & Flint finance company. When the boys read about the big reward for a fugitive robber, they think it could be the answer to their problems. The bank robber conveniently ducks into their shop and leaves a suit with a safe combination. After his girl friend fails to retrieve it, the robber returns with gang and a wild fight ensues. The boys miss out on the reward but wind up with the crook's bankroll and can pay their creditors. |
Episode 111 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 24: Three Little PiratesThe Stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on Dead Man's Island where everyone is living in olden times. To escape from the governor, they disguise Curly as a Maharaja and win permission to journey to their own country to fetch presents. The governor is fooled, but the boys run into more trouble in the den of Black Louie the pirate where Curly is forced into a knife-throwing contest with Larry as the target. Things look bad until a mis-thrown knife cuts the rope that holds the chandelier and it crashes down on Black Louie's men. With the pirates defeated, Moe decides to take over as ruler of the island. |
Episode 112 - The Collection 1946–1948, Episode 25: Three Loan WolvesTold in flash back, the Stooges tell their son how he came to have three fathers. The Stooges, owners of a pawnshop, owed money to the gashouse protection society, a bunch of loan sharks. To complicate matters, a lady leaves a baby in the shop as part of a plan to sell a phony diamond and the Stooges wind up caring for the kid. The Stooges manage to defeat the crooks and when they finish telling the story, the kid goes off to find his real mother. |
Episode 113 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 1: The Ghost TalksThe Stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Peeping Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the Stooges attempts to take the armor, until Lady Godiva shows up and the two ride off together. |
Episode 114 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 2: Fuelin' AroundThe Stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist, Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The Stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep. |
Episode 115 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 3: Hokus PokusThe Stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair. What they don't is that Mary is only faking her disability to swindle the insurance company. When the boys witness a hypnotist, "the Great Svengarlic", doing his act on the street, they think he might be able to hypnotize Mary so she can walk. Instead, they become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament, they fall into a window, startling Mary, who jumps from her wheelchair just as the insurance adjuster is about to hand her a check. |
Episode 116 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 4: Love at First BiteThe Stooges reminisce about the girls they met overseas while in the military. As they wait for the girls' ship to arrive, they get drunk and Shemp winds up asleep with his feet in a tub of cement. After sobering up, they free Shemp with a dynamite blast that lands them at the dock where their sweethearts are waiting. |
Episode 117 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 5: Malice in the PalaceSet in a desert land where the Stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond. |
Episode 118 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 6: Who Done It? (1949 Short)The Stooges are private detectives looking for a missing millionaire. They wander around the millionaire's spooky mansion confronting various crooks and a dangerous dame. The Stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and find the missing man. |
Episode 119 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 7: Baby Sitter JittersThe Stooges are facing eviction and decide to raise some money by becoming baby-sitters. Their first client is a women separated from her husband, who entrusts her son "Junior" to the boys' care. When the husband steals the baby, the Stooges set out to find their missing charge and return him to his mother. The boys confront the husband and find Junior, and in the process the estranged couple is re-united. |
Episode 120 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 8: Don't Throw That KnifeThe Stooges become census takers and wind up in the apartment of a lady whose husband is both jealous and a knife thrower. When the husband arrives home, the boys try to hide, but are discovered, and after dodging some knives, leave on the run. |
Episode 121 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 9: Dopey DicksDopey Dicks (1949): It's mindless fun at its best when the Stooges meet a mad scientist in search of a human brain for his headless mechanical man. |
Episode 122 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 10: Dunked in the DeepThe Stooges are tricked into becoming stowaways by their neighbor "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, they discover that their friend has concealed some stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm. |
Episode 123 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 11: Hugs and MugsThe Stooges run a furniture store and come into possession of a stolen pearl necklace. Three crooked dames convince the boys that the necklace is theirs, and when the real thieves arrive, the Stooges fight to defend the girl's property. The Stooges defeat the bad guys and the girls decide to go honest and return the necklace to its rightful owner. |
Episode 124 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 12: Hula-La-LaThe Stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor who wants to add their heads to his collection. The Stooges defeat the witch doctor with hand grenades they swipe from a multi-armed idol, and get on with the dancing lessons. |
Episode 125 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 13: Merry MavericksSet in the old west, the Stooges are mistaken for lawmen and manage to capture a gang of crooks. The boys then get the job of guarding some money in an old house reputed to be haunted by the ghost of an Indian Chief. The crooks escape and go after the money disguised as ghosts, but Shemp, disguised as the Indian Chief, manages to knock them out. |
Episode 126 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 14: Pest Man WinsThe Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight ensues. [Basically a remake of "Ants in the Pantry".] |
Episode 127 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 15: Punchy CowpunchersSet in the old west, the Stooges are three soldiers assigned to go undercover and spy on an outlaw gang that's terrorizing a nearby town. The bad guys have the Arizona Kid locked up, so the boys set about rescuing him with the help of beautiful Nell, his girl. They free the kid, and he rides to summon help. The Stooges, with the help of Nell, manage to subdue the bad guys before the kid arrives with the cavalry. |
Episode 128 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 16: Scrambled BrainsShemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover he's become engaged to Nora. On the way to Nora's apartment for the wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises to get even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding Nora waiting for her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be the man they just fought with. |
Episode 129 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 17: Self Made MaidsThe Stooges are artists who want to marry their models; "Moella", "Larraine", and "Shempetta". The girls' father doesn't approve, so the Stooges tickle him into submission. |
Episode 130 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 18: Slaphappy SleuthsThe Stooges are investigators for the Onion Oil Company. The company's service stations are being robbed by a gang of crooks, so the boys pose as gas station attendants to capture the bad guys. |
Episode 131 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 19: A Snitch in TimeThe Stooges are carpenters who are re-staining some furniture they've delivered to a boarding house. The plot gets complicated when the boys confront some crooks who are hiding out there. They defeat the bad guys with the help of the varnished furniture, which sticks the head crook to a chair. |
Episode 132 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 20: Studio StoopsThe Stooges are hired by a movie studio as publicity men. Their first assignment is to get publicity for Dolly Devore, a pretty starlet. They fake a kidnapping, but the cops won't believe their story. Then the girl is really kidnapped and the Stooges must come to the rescue. Shemp winds up hanging out a tenth story window on an extending telephone. |
Episode 133 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 21: Three Arabian NutsThree Arabian Nuts (1951): As owners of a storage company, the Stooges give customers an inferiority complex about their valuables. But when Shemp finds a lamp and conjures up a genie, it's not the irate customers they're worried about, it's the Arabian thieves who've come for the lamp. |
Episode 134 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 22: Three Hams on RyeThe Stooges are stagehands who also have small parts in a big play. They quickly get on the bad side of the producer. First they fail to prevent a famous critic from sneaking into the audience. Then Shemp accidentally adds a potholder into a cake they bake as a prop. During the play the Stooges (as southern gentlemen) and the rest of the cast spit up feathers during what was supposed to be a serious scene. The critic thinks it's a hilarious satire and the boys are redeemed. |
Episode 135 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 23: The Tooth Will OutThe Stooges graduate from dental school and go out west to open a practice. Everything goes well until Shemp "cures" an outlaw's toothache from the instructions in a carpentry book, and the boys must leave on the run. |
Episode 136 - The Collection 1949–1951, Episode 24: Vagabond LoafersVagabond Loafers (1949): The Stooges unleash a flood of laughter as plumbers hired to fix the leakypipes during a pompous high society party. |
Episode 137 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 1: Corny CasanovasCORNY CASANOVAS (1952): Love is in the air for these laughable Lotharios. The Stooges all romance the same gold-digging gal with hilarious results. |
Episode 138 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 2: Cuckoo on a Choo ChooLarry and Shemp are living in a stolen railroad car. Larry wants to marry his girlfriend, but she won't consent until Shemp marries her sister. Shemp however, is constantly drunk and in love with "Carry", an imaginary giant canary. Moe is an investigator from the railroad, sent to discover how the car was stolen from a moving train. Moe is also in love with Shemp's girl. Shemp winds up with both women, but still prefers his imaginary canary. |
Episode 139 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 3: Gents in a JamShemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes to visit the Stooges who are broke and about to be evicted. The boys convince their landlady Mrs. McGruder not to toss them out as Shemp is set to inherit a fortune. The boys also have trouble with a circus strongman after Shemp accidentally rips off his wife's dress. Uncle Phineas gets in the middle of the fight, and Mrs. McGruder ends it by knocking out the strongman. It turns out that Uncle Phineas and the landlady were childhood sweethearts and he marries her, leaving the Stooges out of the bucks once again. |
Episode 140 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 4: He Cooked His GooseLarry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time trying to steal Shemp's fiancee. When Moe becomes suspicious, Larry attempts to frame Shemp as the boyfriend. He gets Shemp a job as a door-to-door pajama salesman and sends him to Moe's apartment, and then tells both Moe and Shemp's fiancee to go there and catch him in the act. Larry's plan backfires when Shemp catches him and lets Moe deliver some punishment. |
Episode 141 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 5: Listen, JudgeListen Judge (1952): Comedy is now in session! The Stooges are on their worst behavior in this wacky tale of law and disorder. |
Episode 142 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 6: A Missed FortuneShemp wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the Stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente where they live it up and wreck their fancy suite. While they wait for the prize money to arrive, the boys are pursued by three gold-digging dames after their winnings. When the check arrives however, it's only for $4.85 after tax deductions. (Basically a remake of "Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb".) |
Episode 143 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 7: Three Dark HorsesThe Stooges escape from jail to prevent their newly rich dad from marrying Daisy, a gold-digger after his money. Shemp looks like dad, so he impersonates him and marries Daisy. What the Stooges don't know is that Daisy is in cahoots with some crooks, and they plan to bump off her new husband. The boys foil the crook's plan and take Pa home to Ma. |
Episode 144 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 8: Booty and the BeastThe Stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the Stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Las Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty. |
Episode 145 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 9: Bubble TroubleThe Stooges are pharmacists who invent a fountain of youth formula that can turn old people young. They turn an old lady into a beautiful young woman, but when her husband takes the formula it turns him into a gorilla. |
Episode 146 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 10: Goof on the RoofThe Stooges are entrusted with taking care of their friend's house while he goes off to get married. At first they only wreck the place a little bit, but when they try to install a television antenna, total destruction ensues. When their friend returns with his bride, she's so shocked she walks out on him. |
Episode 147 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 11: Income Tax SappyTax cheats Moe, Larry and Shemp decide they're so good at cheating the government, that they start a business as crooked tax advisors. They become rich, but an undercover agent from the IRS gets the goods on them, and it's off to jail for the Stooges. |
Episode 148 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 12: Knutzy KnightsSet in Elizabethan times, the Stooges help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. The only problem is that Elaine is promised to the Black Prince who is plotting to take over the kingdom. The Stooges manage to foil the plot and the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine. |
Episode 149 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 13: Loose LootThe Stooges are willed a lot of dough from a rich uncle, but the executor of the estate, Icabob Slipp, is a crook who absconds with the money. The Stooges trail him to a theater where they engage in a wild chase and ultimately recover their inheritance. (The opening scenes are taken from "Hold that Lion".) |
Episode 150 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 14: Musty MusketeersSet in the middle ages, the Stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The Stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his henchmen in a sword fight. |
Episode 151 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 15: Pals and GalsThe Stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has Nell's sisters locked up, and its up to the Stooges to rescue them and save the day. |
Episode 152 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 16: Pardon My BackfireThe Stooges are auto mechanics who need money so they can marry their girls. When some escaped convicts pull into their garage, the boys manage to capture them and use the reward money to marry their sweethearts. |
Episode 153 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 17: Rip, Sew and StitchThe Stooges run a tailor shop and need money to pay their creditors. A bank robber leaves his coat in the shop with a combination to a safe. When the crook comes back to retrieve the coat, the Stooges capture him and get his bankroll. |
Episode 154 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 18: Scotched in ScotlandWould be detectives, the Stooges get a job guarding a Scotch castle while the owner is away. The servants are crooks intent on robbing the castle of its valuables. Though they do their best to frighten the boys off, the Stooges prevail and expose the crooked goings-on. |
Episode 155 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 19: Shot in the FrontierSet in the old west, the Stooges must defend their honor against the Noonan brothers, three desperadoes who want to marry the same girls the Stooges are courting. |
Episode 156 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 20: SpooksThe Stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. The boys disguise as pie salesmen and end up wandering around a mad scientist's mansion, trying to find the girl. The boys confront a gorilla and various other bad guys, before rescuing the girl. |
Episode 157 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 21: Tricky DicksThe Stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer. They unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian organ grinder, among other suspects, and then catch the bad guy after a gunfight that nearly destroys the police station. |
Episode 158 - The Collection 1952–1954, Episode 22: Up in Daisy's PenthouseThe Stooges escape from jail to prevent their newly rich dad from marrying Daisy, a gold-digger after his money. Shemp looks like dad, so he impersonates him and marries Daisy. What the Stooges don't know is that Daisy is in cahoots with some crooks, and they plan to bump off her new husband. The boys foil the crook's plan and take Pa home to Ma. |
Episode 159 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 1: Bedlam in ParadiseShemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two Stooges, who are in league with the devil, from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry' plans and makes it through the pearly gates. |
Episode 160 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 2: Blunder BoysThe Stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a woman. The Stooges track the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through their hands after a wild chase. The Stooges are booted off the force and wind up as ditch diggers. |
Episode 161 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 3: Commotion on the OceanThe Stooges are would-be reporters, who are tricked into becoming stowaways by "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, they discover that Borscht has concealed some stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm. |
Episode 162 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 4: CreepsThe Stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Sir Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the Stooges attempts to take the armor, and is about to skewer them with a sword when it's revealed that the Stooges were only telling a bedtime story to their "sons" (also played by the Stooges.) |
Episode 163 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 5: Flagpole JittersThe Stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to a wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The Stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's operation. [A remake of "Hocus Pocus".] |
Episode 164 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 6: For Crimin' Out LoudThe Stooges are private detectives hired to protect a rich politician. After the man disappears, the boys wander around his spooky mansion confronting various villains and a dangerous dame. The Stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and find the missing man. |
Episode 165 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 7: Guns a Poppin!Told in flashback, Moe is on trial for assaulting Larry and Joe. It seems that Moe was in debt and suffering a nervous breakdown so Larry and Joe took him to the country for rest and relaxation. After a marauding bear ruined the peace and quiet, their cabin became the scene of a shoot-out between the sheriff and an escaped outlaw. The boys captured the bad guy, and the reward would have paid Moe's debts, but the crook escaped and Moe went after Larry and Joe with an ax. [ A partial remake of "Idiots Deluxe".] |
Episode 166 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 8: Gypped in the PenthouseLarry and Shemp reminisce about their experiences with Jean, a diamond crazy gold digger each of them was gypped by. After telling their stories, they have a run in with Moe, who is now married to the same women. When Jean shows up, they deliver some stooge-style revenge. |
Episode 167 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 9: Hoofs and GoofsJoe dreams that the stooge's sister Birdie has died and been reincarnated as a horse. The Stooges take Birdie home but must conceal her from the snoopy landlord. They succeed, but more complications ensue when Birdie gives birth to a colt. Joe wakes up to suffer some abuse from the real Birdie (Moe in drag), when he tells her he dreamed she was a horse. |
Episode 168 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 10: Horsing AroundA sequel (sort of) to "Hoofs and Goofs", the Stooges are taking care of their sister Birdie who has been reincarnated as a horse. When they learn that her mate "Schnapps", a famous circus horse, is about to be destroyed, they got to the circus grounds to rescue him. The Stooges are successful, and Birdie and Schnapps are reunited. |
Episode 169 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 11: Hot IceThe Stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they accidentally see a memo about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond, which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The bad guys want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla. |
Episode 170 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 12: Hot StuffThe Stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The Stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep. |
Episode 171 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 13: Husbands BewareTo inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp marries his student before the deadline, and then finds out that there is no inheritance. Moe and Larry have tricked him into marriage as revenge for their marrying his shrewish sisters. [A remake of "Brideless Groom".] |
Episode 172 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 14: A Merry Mix-UpThe Stooges appear in triplicate as three sets of triplets who were separated a long time ago. Their reunion causes confusion and troubles for various wives and sweethearts, but it all works out in the end. |
Episode 173 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 15: Muscle up a Little CloserJoe is engaged but can't get married until he recovers the engagement ring which has disappeared. The Stooges suspect the ring was stolen by Elmo, a beefy bully, who works at the same factory they do. They confront Elmo in the company gym, but he's too tough for them. Fortunately Joe's girl is even tougher, and she gets Elmo to confess and return the ring. |
Episode 174 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 16: Of Cash and HashThe Stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed and go back to their jobs in a Cafe. When one of the robbers comes into the Cafe, the boys recognize him and along with their friend Gladys trail him to a spooky house in the country where the crooks are hiding out. The bad guys abduct Gladys and the Stooges must rescue her. (A remake of "Shivering Sherlocks".) |
Episode 175 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 17: Outer Space JittersThe Stooges accompany professor Jones on an expedition to Venus, where they discover that the Venusians are planning to conquer the earth with an army of zombies. When the boys learn that they're going to be turned into zombies, they escape. The scene changes to the Stooges apartment where we learn they are just telling a bedtime story to their kids (also played by the Stooges) while they wait for the baby sitter to arrive. When the baby sitter shows up, she looks like one of the zombies and the boys exit in a hurry. |
Episode 176 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 18: Rumpus in the HaremSet in a desert land where the Stooges run a restaurant, the boys need money to pay their fiancee's taxes, or the girls will be sold as slaves. Some crooks come into their restaurant and convince the boys to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond. The Stooges decide to return the diamond to the government and get the reward money. They learn that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond. |
Episode 177 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 19 Rusty RomeosThe Stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of them and then abandon them. When all three show up at her house at the same time, a wild fight ensues, as each stooge accuses the others of making time with "his" girl. The gold-digger gets it in the end (literally) with tacks shot from a repeating rifle. (A remake of "Corny Casanovas".) |
Episode 178 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 20: Scheming SchemersThe Stooges are three incompetent plumbers who foul up the plumbing in a fancy mansion where a society party is going on. They manage to catch a couple of thieves masquerading as guests before the whole party degenerates into a pie fight. [A remake of "Vagabond Loafers", with footage from "A Plumbing we will go" and "Half-Wits Holiday". Joe Palma (face hidden) stands in for Shemp. |
Episode 179 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 21: Space Ship SappyAn eccentric scientist tricks the Stooges into joining himself and his daughter on an expedition to Venus. On Venus, the boys go exploring and encounter some cannibalistic amazons who plan to devour them. The Stooges escape and take off in the spaceship, which goes wildly out of control. As the ship is about to crash, the scene changes to the annual meeting of the Liars Club, where the Stooges win the prize as the biggest liars in the world. |
Episode 180 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 22: Fifi Blows Her TopThe Stooges reminisce about their wartime romances in Europe. After they finish their tales, they discover that Joe's girl Fifi, whom he left behind in Paris, has moved in next door. The only problem is that she's now married, with a very jealous husband. The husband turns out to be a real cad, and when Fifi overhears him tell about his plans to find a new wife, she clobbers him and goes back to Joe. |
Episode 181 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 22: Stone Age RomeosThe Stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some stone age Stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay the reward, until they overhear the Stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen. |
Episode 182 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 23: Wham-Bam-SlamShemp is a sick man with a bad case of nerves. The stooge's friend Claude, a self-taught healer, tries to cure Shemp with various home- made remedies. When nothing seems to work, Claude suggests they buy his old lemon of a car so they can take Shemp on a trip to the country. The car won't start, and the trip never gets off the ground, but not to worry, Shemp is cured by all the excitement. |
Episode 183 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 25: Fling in the RingThe Stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big Mike", their boss, tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys try to soften up Chopper so he'll lose. The fight gets canceled and the Stooges have to contend with an angry Big Mike and his goons. |
Episode 184 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 26: Flying Saucer DaffyJoe accidentally takes a picture of a paper plate, which Moe and Larry submit to a magazine as an authentic picture of a flying saucer. Moe and Larry collect a big prize, but when the picture is proven to be phony, they're hauled off to Jail. Joe then gets a picture of a real spaceship and this time he gets the fame and fortune, while Moe and Larry wind up in a sanitarium. |
Episode 185 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 27: Oil's Well That Ends WellThe Stooges need money for their father's operation, so they head for the country to prospect for uranium. Instead of uranium, they discover oil on their father's property and all their troubles are solved. |
Episode 186 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 28: Pies and GuysA professor attempts to win a bet by turning the Stooges into gentlemen. After some lessons in etiquette, the boys make their society debut at a fancy party. They soon revert to their old habits and a wild pie fight ensues. |
Episode 187 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 29: Quiz WhizzJoe wins a contest and is promptly fleeced out of his winnings by some con men. When the Stooges go to recover his money, the bad guys convince them that they can get rich by posing as children and becoming the wards of a millionaire. The boys go along with the plan, not realizing that the "millionaire" and his pretty niece are in on the scam and are planning to knock them off. The Stooges foil the plan and recover Joe's money. |
Episode 188 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 30: Sappy Bull FightersStranded in Mexico, the Stooges need a job and a pretty actress friend gets them an engagement at the Plaza de Toros. When they accidentally switch suitcases with that of their friend, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their own and are confronted by her jealous husband who vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the arena where they perform a comedy bullfight (Joe is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Joe knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero. |
Episode 189 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 31: Sweet and HotNightclub performer Larry wants Joe and his sister Tiny to join the act. The only problem is that Tiny is afraid to sing in front of people. They take her to a psychiatrist (Moe) who cures her, and the act is a success. |
Episode 190 - The Collection 1955–1959, Episode 32: Triple CrossedLarry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time trying to steal Joe's fiancee. When Moe becomes suspicious, Larry attempts to frame Joe as the boyfriend. Larry's plan backfires when Joe catches him and lets Moe deliver some punishment. |
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