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MEN IN BLACK (1934)
Transcribed by Victim of Circumstance
MEN IN BLACK (1934)

At Los Arms Hospital, three brainless interns - Doctors Howard, Fine and Howard - promise Dr. Graves, the hospital superintendent, that they will devote the rest of their lives to "duty and humanity!" They are instructed to rush to any room whenever "Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard" is heard over the loudspeaker. They use a variety of vehicles and animals to rush up and down the corridors. They end up shooting the loudspeaker that dies with a "Ohhh ... they got me!" Of course they run amok throughout the hospital, and finally operate on Dr. Graves himself to retrieve a safe combination that he accidentally swallowed during the excitement.



THREE LITTLE BEERS (1935)    New!
Transcribed by Xraffle
THREE LITTLE BEERS (1935)The Panther Brewing Company is having trouble making deliveries on time, so they hire three new delivery men (the Stooges). When they make a delivery to the local golf course, the boys decide to take some time out to practice for the company golf tournament, and then proceed to demolish the course.

HALF-SHOT SHOOTERS (1936)    New!
Transcribed by Stooge
HALF-SHOT SHOOTERS (1936)

WWI has ended and stooges have been discharged from the service, even though they've done absolutely nothing. When their sergeant discovers this, he beats them up badly, but the stooges have their revenge and beat him up. Years pass by and the guys become bums. They try to steal a meal from a well-to-do man who chases and catches them in front of a military recruiting station. When the boys ask for a job, he tells them to go into a nearby building and go to room 310. They sign up, but it turns out to be the army, and they're under their old sergeant's command again! They are assigned to train on a big gun at a naval base, and after messing up many times, they accidentally fire on the Admiral's flagship. The sergeant then blasts them away by firing a cannon at them.



PAIN IN THE PULLMAN, A (1936)    New!
Transcribed by Stooge
PAIN IN THE PULLMAN, A (1936)The Stooges are out-of-work hoofers with a pet monkey act who get a chance at a show if they can make it to the train on time. In a rush to evade paying rent, the boys board the train. The monkey gets loose and wreaks havoc on the train, becoming a pain in the neck for Johnson, the show's manager, and the show's star, Paul Pain. The boys also cause a panic in the sleeping car looking for the monkey, and end up being thrown off the train.


FALSE ALARMS (1936)
Transcribed by Giff me dat fill-em!
FALSE ALARMS (1936)

The Stooges are dim-witted firemen who spend all their time covering up their mistakes so they can impress their girlfriends by being in uniform. Curly sneaks out of the firehouse while on duty and joins the girls. They want him to get the other two to come over, so Curly trips the nearest fire alarm. The fire truck leaves Moe and Larry behind because they have accidentally locked themselves in a janitor's closet. They then take the Captain's car and try to beat the truck to the fire, ultimately wrecking the car.



GRIPS, GRUNTS, AND GROANS (1937)
Transcribed by Stooge
GRIPS, GRUNTS, AND GROANS (1937)The Stooges are hobos who get thrown off a freight train and chased out of the railroad yard. They hide in the "Hangover Athletic Club," where Curly gets hired as a sparring partner. Ivan Bustoff, wrestling World Champion, takes a shine to the Stooges, and his manager hires them to keep on eye on Bustoff and make sure he doesn't drink. When Ivan gets plastered (and the Stooges knock him cold with dumbells), Moe sends out Curly disguised as Bustoff. Curly finally wins the match, when he goes berserk from smelling "Wild Hyacinth" perfume.


THREE SAPPY PEOPLE (1939)
Transcribed by Victim of Circumstance
THREE SAPPY PEOPLE (1939)

Millionaire Rumsford has about had it with his wife Sheri's eccentric behavior. He calls the office of psychiatrists Ziller, Zeller and Zoller to help. The call is taken by the Stooges, who are actually phone repairmen. They assume the doctors' identities and try to cure Sheri at her society birthday party, while inciting a cream puff fight.



A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940)
Transcribed by Stooge
A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940)

This classic starts off with The Three Stooges in court, accused of stealing chickens from Mrs. Throttlebottom's chicken coop. Justice does not prevail, and the Stooges are found innocent. Now free, Moe, Larry, and Curly cause more mischief by fishing for their supper... in a fish tank in front of a pet store. They're caught by a police officer, and when hiding in Bilbo the Magician's magic box fails, they steal Casey the plumber's truck for a getaway. Stopping at a mansion, the butler comes out and tells the "plumbers" they are an hour late and need to get to work right away. Before they can explain they're not plumbers, the police officer who was chasing them appears, so they quickly inform the butler they are "the best plumbers to ever plumb a plum," rushing into the mansion before the officer catches them. Total mayhem ensues as the Stooges try to be good plumbers, but in lovable Stooge fashion, fail miserably.



NUTTY BUT NICE (1940)
Transcribed by Giff me dat fill-em!
NUTTY BUT NICE (1940)The Stooges are singing waiters, whose silly antics inspire two doctors worried about little Betty Williams, whose father was kidnapped. Dressed as three little girls, complete with balloons and giant lollipops, the Stooges visit the girl in the hospital, but even they can't bring her around. The boys volunteer to find Mr. Williams (he's 5 ft. 10 inches tall in his stocking feet, has a tattoo on his shoulder, and yodels like this: Yodel-aydee-aydee-odalay-eeoo.) When they find him, they're chased by the crooks to the basement of the building where they have a final battle in pitch darkness. The Stooges emerge victorious and reunite Williams and his cured, healthy little girl.


NO CENSUS, NO FEELING (1940)    New!
Transcribed by Moron4392
NO CENSUS, NO FEELING (1940)The Stooges, upon escaping from the police after another random act of vandalism, suddenly find themselves in employment as census takers. Making their rounds, they help out a bridge club where Curly has spiked the punch with alum (thinking it was sugar) and invade the field of a football game in progress.

BOOBS IN ARMS (1940)
Transcribed by Stooge
BOOBS IN ARMS (1940)

In this Stooge short, the boys are greeting card salesmen who try to help a wife by posing as her lovers. When her husband comes home, he sees the Stooges and chases them outside, where they hide in a line of people. Unfortunately for them, it's a line to sign up for the Army! To make matters worse, their commanding officer is the jealous husband who they ran away from. While in training, they march in the opposite direction than their supposed to, run away from the husband, hide in bayonett practice dummies, and their commanding officer does bayonett practice on them! Then, when their on the battlefield, they accidentally give themselves a dose of laughing gas and are captured by the enemy.



SO LONG, MR. CHUMPS (1941)    New!
Transcribed by Moron4392
SO LONG, MR. CHUMPS (1941)The boys get thrown into prison, in the hopes of finding convict # 41144, whom they believe to be "an honest man." Upon finding their man, they attempt to break out of prison by painting the prison uniforms to look like guard uniforms, expect they FORGET to paint the BACKS of the prison uniforms.

Alas, their escape attempt is foiled, and the short ends w/the boys hard at work on the rock pile, breaking rocks over Curly's head, no less !!



ACHE IN EVERY STAKE, AN (1941)    New!
Transcribed by Moron4392
ACHE IN EVERY STAKE, AN (1941)

The Stooges portray incredibly klutzy ice men who accidentally cause Mr. Lawrence (Vernon Dent) to smash not one but two birthday cakes. When they drive Mrs. Lawrence's cook and maid to quit, the Stooges volunteer to prepare the dinner, not knowing who her husband is!



IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE (1941)    New!
Transcribed by Stooge
IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE (1941)

Three rich heiresses must get married before Midnight to collect their inheritance, but their Navy fiancees have to ship out to Hawaii. Their lawyer arranges for them to marry three convicts about to be hanged - Moe, Larry and Curly! Unfortunately (for the girls), the Stooges are freed when the real killers are caught.



CACTUS MAKES PERFECT (1942)    New!
Transcribed by Stooge
CACTUS MAKES PERFECT (1942)Curly has invented a gold collar-button finder, and the Stooges immediately try their luck prospecting using their new invention. As they do so they run afoul of some grizzled desert rats, and discover the Lost Mine. After taking refuge in a ghost town hotel, they lock themselves and the gold in the safe, where the villainous prospectors immediately try to dynamite them out.

Synopsis provided by a fellow knucklehead, Ichabod Slipp




THEY STOOGE TO CONGA (1943)
Transcribed by Stooge
THEY STOOGE TO CONGA (1943)The Stooges are fix-it men who are employed to fix the doorbell in a house that belongs to a nest of German and Japanese spies. Moe, Larry and Curly proceed to destroy the walls of the house looking for the problem before moving outside. Curly is then sent up to fix the wires atop a telephone pole. While "fixing" the lines, Curly slides his chair towards the window of the spies' main control room and crash through the window inside. He discovers their sabotage plans and he, with Moe and Larry manage to sabotage the saboteurs and get the final drop on the spies.

Synopsis provided by a fellow knucklehead, Ichabod Slipp



DIZZY DETECTIVES (1943)    New!
Transcribed by Xraffle
DIZZY DETECTIVES (1943)

A mysterious Ape Man is committing burglaries, and Mr. Dill, the head of the Citizens League, is demanding action. Rookie cops Moe, Larry and Curly rush to the scene of the latest burglary, Gypsom Good Antiques, where they discover that the "Ape Man" is a real gorilla, and that Mr. Dill is behind the robberies.



SPOOK LOUDER (1943)
Transcribed by Stooge
SPOOK LOUDER (1943)

The short opens with Prof. J. O. Dunkfeather telling a reporter how he solved a mysterious case. The scene fades to the Stooges, who are three door-to-door peddlers trying to sell their "Miracle Reducing Machine." After several rejections and walking for miles, they come across the home of Mr. Graves, a mad scientist who has invented a new death ray ("It'll kill millions!"). Mr. Graves mistakes the Stooges for his new caretakers, and he leaves them to guard his home while he is in Washington. Three spies are out to steal Mr. Graves' plans, disguise themselves in Halloween costumes to scare the Stooges away, but some unseen hand keeps hurling pies at them. The Stooges end up confronting the spies, and Curly unintentionally blows them up with a bomb, at which point the Stooges are all hit with pies simultaneously. "Who threw those pies?!"



I CAN HARDLY WAIT (1943)
Transcribed by Stooge
I CAN HARDLY WAIT (1943)Moe, Larry and Curly are defense workers during WWII who come home from the job for a well deserved dinner. During their "rationed" meal Curly breaks his tooth eating a ham bone that Moe allocated to him in during an unfair meal allotment. The remainder of the episode consists of a "dream sequence" where Moe makes multiple attempts to pull the broken tooth. These efforts are predictably fruitless and simply irritate Curly even more. Eventually, Curly is forced to go to the dentist but gets the last laugh when the dentist pulls Moe''s tooth by mistake while Moe was sitting in the chair trying to reassure a terrified Curly. Ultimately, Curly awakes from his dream and his problem is rectified when Moe punches him in the jaw knocking out the damaged tooth and allowing the boys to get back to sleep.

Synopsis provided by a fellow knucklehead, Denis Tarpinian




DIZZY PILOTS (1943)
Transcribed by Stooge
DIZZY PILOTS (1943)The Stooges are the Wrong Brothers, working on their revolutionary airplane "The Buzzard," which they hope to sell to the Army & thus avoid the draft. When the Buzzard flops, the boys go into the service & have to deal with a fiery drill sergeant.

Synopsis provided by a fellow knucklehead, Shemp_Diesel 



IDIOTS DELUXE (1945)
Transcribed by Stooge
IDIOTS DELUXE (1945)

Moe is on trial for assault with intent to commit mayhem. Moe explains he is very sick and needs peace and quiet. This segues into a flashback where Moe is disturbed by Larry and Curly's "Original Two-Man Quartet" act. To help Moe relax, Larry and Curly take him on a hunting trip, which is ruined by a grizzly bear. Moe is then found not guilty and chases his roommates out of the courtroom with an axe.



WHERE THE PEST BEGINS (1945)
Transcribed by Moron4392
WHERE THE PEST BEGINS (1945)

Jonathan Bass (Tom Kennedy), an inventor working for the government, makes the mistake of his life. He moves next door to Shemp. Lazy, obtuse and obnoxious, Shemp plays the good neighbor by wrecking the Bass' garage, car and china... and somehow makes it look to Bass' wife (Christine McIntyre) that Jonathan is clumsily at fault. Bass' latest project is a new bomb for the Army, and it's only a matter of time before helpful Shemp turns up in the laboratory basement offering his assistance.



BEER BARREL POLECATS (1946)    New!
Transcribed by xraffle
BEER BARREL POLECATS (1946)

It is the middle of Prohibition and the Stooges are unable to buy beer. They decide to make their own and produce 185 bottles of beer. The boys are soon arrested for bootlegging. The warden finds out Curly has smuggled a keg of beer into the prison and the boys are sentenced to a long stretch. The Stooges are finally released after 40 years, but when Curly asks for a bottle of beer, he is thrown back into the warden's care by Moe and Larry.



BIRD IN THE HEAD, A (1946)    New!
Transcribed by xraffle
BIRD IN THE HEAD, A (1946)

Moe, Larry and Curly are three paperhangers who are out of a job after they wreck Mr. Beedle's apartment, but Prof. Panzer offers to take care of them for the rest of their lives. He wants to transplant Curly's brain into Igor, his gorilla!



G.I. WANNA HOME (1946)    Updated!
Transcribed by Stooge
G.I. WANNA HOME (1946)

The Stooges return home from the war, only to find their girlfriends dispossessed. They find no vacancies and turn a backyard into a home until a tractor plows over it. The Stooges are finally married and make a one room apartment their home.



FRIGHT NIGHT (1947)
Transcribed by Stooge
FRIGHT NIGHT (1947)Moe, Larry, and Shemp are fight trainers of Chopper who has a boxing match vs. Gorilla Watson. After a sparring session, a couple of gangsters sent by Big Mike tell the boys to have Chopper throw the fight or else. The Stooges try to soften up their fighter by feeding him rich desserts & not having him train, but that plan fails & Gorilla Watson breaks his hand on the night of the fight. Big Mike & his boys try to rub out the Stooges afterwards, but the Stooges prevail.

Synopsis provided by a fellow knucklehead, Shemp_Diesel 



HOLD THAT LION! (1947)
Transcribed by Stooge
HOLD THAT LION! (1947)

The Stooges' inheritance from their late Uncle Ambrose has been stolen by crooked investment broker Icabod Slipp. The boys go over to Slipp's office to subpoena him, but he beats each of them up, rips up their subpoenas and then takes off on a train with the boys' inheritance. The Stooges trail him to the train he's on, but before finding him, they accidentally let loose a lion on the train. Later on, the boys finally capture Slipp and get their inheritance money back from him.

Curly Howard, who had retired, makes a cameo in this film as a snoring passenger.



SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS (1947)
Transcribed by Moron4392
SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS (1947)

In this box comedy, the Stooges run the Pip Boys Tailor Shop. They receive a bill for tailoring equipment, which will be repossessed if the bill is not paid. They hear on their radio that a robber named Terry Hargen is on the loose and a large reward is offered for his capture. Shemp thinks they should catch Hargen, collect the reward and pay their bill. Later on, the Stooges do meet up with Hargen and his henchmen. The boys thwart the bad guys, but a cop gets the reward. They manage to find money in Hargen's coat pocket and pay their debts off.



PARDON MY CLUTCH (1948)
Transcribed by Stooge
PARDON MY CLUTCH (1948)

Shemp is sick, and the Stooges' "know-it-all" friend Claude recommends that they take Shemp on a camping trip. Of course, he sells them everything they need, including a car. The Stooges practice putting up the tent... in their living room. When they try to get the car ready for the trip, they discover it's a piece of junk, and have all kinds of problems, especially with the tires. But when an avid car collector turns up, Claude quickly pays the Stooges back so he can sell it to the collector for more money, only the "collector" turns out to be an escaped lunatic!



VAGABOND LOAFERS (1949)
Transcribed by Stooge
VAGABOND LOAFERS (1949)

The Stooges are "Day and Night Plumbers," hired by the Norfleets, a rich married couple, to fix the plumbing in their basement while a social party is going on their mansion. The boys wreck the house with the plumbing: Shemp destroys the bathroom by flooding it, then drilling a hole through the floor, and later, Moe and Shemp connect the water pipes with the electrical pipes. Mr. and Mrs. Allen, two of the Norfleet's party guests, steal the Norfleet's Van Brocklin painting behind everyone's back. When the Norfleets notice their painting is missing, the Allens try to make their getaway, but the Stooges interfere and capture them. At the end, the painting is returned to the grateful Norfleets.



LISTEN, JUDGE (1952)
Transcribed by Stooge
LISTEN, JUDGE (1952)

The Stooges are arrested for vagrancy, but the Judge releases them for lack of evidence. Working as door-to-door repairmen, the boys are hired to fix the wiring in a home. When the chef quits, they help out by making a disastorous birthday dinner for their employer, who turns out to be the Judge who released them!



CORNY CASANOVAS (1952)
Transcribed by Stooge
CORNY CASANOVAS (1952)The stooges have no clue they are dating the same woman, who is using them to get engagement rings from all three. The boys arrive at her house separately & each give her a ring. While taking a look around the house Moe & Larry spot each other and catch Shemp snuggling with "their" girl. A fight ensues, Moe and Larry beat each other senseless, and Shemp is rapped on the head with a fireplace shovel by his sweetheart who leaves them laying.

Synopsis provided by a fellow knucklehead, Shemp_Diesel 



GENTS IN A JAM (1952)
Transcribed by Stooge
GENTS IN A JAM (1952)

The Stooges are broke and about to be evicted when Shemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes for a visit. The boys plead with their landlady, Mrs. McGruder, to let them stay, and she relents when she realizes that Uncle Phineas is her long-lost love (although the Stooges don't know that.)

Meanwhile, the Stooges have to deal with their new neighbor, an extremely jealous strongman, who discovers his wife in their apartment without her skirt on, thanks to a clumsy Shemp in the kitchen.



THREE DARK HORSES (1952)
Transcribed by Stooge
THREE DARK HORSES (1952)

The Stooges are janitors asked to be delegates at the Presidential Convention to support Hammond Egger, who is really a crook. When the boys learn this, they change their mind and support Egger's opponent Abel Lamb Stewer, who wins the election.



CUCKOO ON A CHOO CHOO (1952)
Transcribed by Moron4392
CUCKOO ON A CHOO CHOO (1952)Larry and Shemp live in a stolen train car. Larry wants to marry his girlfriend but she won't marry him until Shemp marries her older sister. Shemp is constantly drunk and in love with an imaginary canary named Carrie. Moe is an inspector and he finds where the train is. Moe is in love with the older sister, so some competition goes on between Shemp and Moe. In the end both girls want to marry Shemp, but Shemp prefers his imaginary canary.

Synopsis provided by a fellow knucklehead, Michael Holme 




BOOTY AND THE BEAST (1953)    New!
Transcribed by xraffle
BOOTY AND THE BEAST (1953)

The Stooges think that they're helping a man who is locked out get back into his house, and then they help him open the safe. Of course the guy was really a burglar, and once the Stooges realize that they've helped a criminal, they set off in pursuit to clear their names. They track him to a train bound for Las Vegas, eventually catching up to him in the freight car.



TRICKY DICKS (1953)
Transcribed by Stooge
TRICKY DICKS (1953)

The Chief of Detectives gives Moe, Larry and Shemp 24 hours to solve the murder of Slug McGurk. They question a witness, an Italian organ grinder with a British accent, but he runs away when they mention a murder. A frustrated actor named Gilbraith Q. Tiddlewadder (better known as Chopper) tries to confess as a publicity stunt, but the real killer shows up, outraged at not getting credit, and starts shooting up the police station.



RIP, SEW, AND STITCH (1953)
Transcribed by Moron4392
RIP, SEW, AND STITCH (1953)Larry, Shemp, and Moe own a tailor shop that is in danger of losing all the equipment if they don't pay up the company that stocks the machines, so the stooges go after a bank bandit and his henchmen. In the end a wild fight goes on between the robber and his gang and the stooges, the stooges win the fight and collect the reward offered for the criminal's capture.

Synopsis provided by a fellow knucklehead, Stephen Holme 



BLUNDER BOYS (1955)
Transcribed by Stooge
BLUNDER BOYS (1955)After serving in the Army, the stooges decide to go to college and major in criminology. Graduating with the lowest possible honors, they receive their first case, stop a bandit called the Eel who is going to rob the Biltless Hotel. They go to the hotel but they fail to catch the criminal or retrieve the money he stole. As a result they are booted off the force and become ditch diggers.

Synopsis provided by a fellow knucklehead, Mike Holme



OIL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (1958)    Updated!
Transcribed by Moron4392
OIL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (1958)The Stooges learn in a letter that their father's life depends on an operation, but he doesn't have the money for it. He writes that his property has a uranium mine, and they're sure to strike it rich. So Moe, Larry & Joe head out to their father's cabin, while dealing with Joe's uncanny luck in wishes coming true. Finding no uranium, the Stooges still manage to create plenty of explosive mayhem. Deciding to call it quits, Joe's wishing ability comes through by turning up an oil strike on Papa's country homestead.

Synopsis provided by a fellow knucklehead, Michael Holme 



CURLY SHUFFLE, THE (1984)
Transcribed by Dunrobin

After the success of 1983's The Curly Shuffle by The Jump 'n the Saddle Band (and The Stone Country Band), Columbia produced this music video to accompany Jump's recording.

Film clips are taken from WOMAN HATERS (1934), PUNCH DRUNKS (1934), UNCIVIL WARRIORS (1935), PARDON MY SCOTCH (1935), THREE LITTLE BEERS (1935), MOVIE MANIACS (1936), DISORDER IN THE COURT (1936), CASH AND CARRY (1937), THREE MISSING LINKS (1938), HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND DUMB (1938), TASSELS IN THE AIR (1938), CALLING ALL CURS (1939), A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940), NO CENSUS NO FEELING (1940), AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE (1941), SOME MORE OF SAMOA (1941), DUTIFUL BUT DUMB (1941), DIZZY PILOTS (1943), A BIRD IN THE HEAD (1946), DOPEY DICKS (1950) and THE THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES (1962).




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