Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Stooges-Owned Businesses (22)
A to Z Express Co.
Moving and Storage
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- CREEPS (1956)
- THE GHOST TALKS (1949)
Acme Exterminating Company
Pest exterminators. "If You Got 'Em, We'll Get 'Em"
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- TERMITES OF 1938 (1938)
Alert Detective Agency
Detectives hired by Mr. Goodrich to protect him.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- WHO DONE IT? (1949)
Cut Throat Drug Store
Pharmacy and general goods.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- ALL GUMMED UP (1947)
- BUBBLE TROUBLE (1953)
Day and Nite Plumbers
We Never Sleep
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- SCHEMING SCHEMERS (1956)
- VAGABOND LOAFERS (1949)
Fix-All Fixers, Ink.
General Handiwork Our Speshalty
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- THEY STOOGE TO CONGA (1943)
Hook, Line and Sinker
Fresh Fish San Diego Calif.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- COOKOO CAVALIERS (1940)
Jiffy Fixers
We Repare Enything -- It's done in a FLASH For Very Small CASH
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- LISTEN, JUDGE (1952)
Larry's Pet Shop
Larry - Your Pet Man
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- HE COOKED HIS GOOSE (1952)
- TRIPLE CROSSED (1959)
Madame de France
Fancy dress shop, left to the Stooges by their Uncle Pete.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- SLIPPERY SILKS (1936)
Miracle Detective Agency
Detectives. "If We Solve Your Crime It's a Miracle"
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- FOR CRIMIN' OUT LOUD (1956)
Pip Boys Lary Moe & Shemp
Unaccusstomed Tailors.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- RIP, SEW, AND STITCH (1953)
- SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS (1947)
Shangri-La Upholstering Co.
We Make Everything From Beds to Bustles
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- HUGS AND MUGS (1950)
Slap-Happy Gym
Training Quarters for "Chopper Kane"
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- FLING IN THE RING (1955)
Super Slueth Detective Agency
Divorce Evidence Manufactured to Your Order
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- SPOOKS! (1953)
Ye Olde Furniture Shoppe
Antiques Made While-U-Waite
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- A SNITCH IN TIME (1950)
Zero Ice & Coal Co.
Ice with Personality -- Coal with Oomph
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE (1941)
Miscellaneous Businesses (57)
A-1 Correspondence School of Detecting
The Stooges were graduates.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- HOT ICE (1955)
- THE HOT SCOTS (1948)
A.B. Cloud & Co.
Spaceship sales. "Distributors -- Sputnik G.i-8 -- New and Used Space Ships -- 200 Vapor Blvd., Zircon -- Phone: Bleep Bluep Blop"
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- FLYING SAUCER DAFFY (1958)
Acme Escort Bureau
The company Mrs. van Twitchett's maid was supposed to call.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- TERMITES OF 1938 (1938)
Acme Service Station
Gas station. Made the mistake of hiring the Stooges.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY (1938)
Amalgamated Association of Morons, Local 6-7/8
"We are Morons tried and true, and we'll do our yell for you, 'heee, heee, heee, heee, woo, woo, ha, ha, eeeb, eeeb, eeeb, yub, yub, yub, brub, brub, brub, youha, youha, youha, breeb, breeb, breeb, weeeb, weeeb, grub, grub, grub, brup, brup, brup."
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- HALF-WITS HOLIDAY (1947)
Bellevue Hospital
Specializing in Cerebrum Decapitations
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- FROM NURSE TO WORSE (1940)
Brighto Medical Company
Patent medicine manufacturer.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- DIZZY DOCTORS (1937)
Calamity Insurance Co.
Tight-fisted insurance company that's hard to scam.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- FLAGPOLE JITTERS (1956)
- HOKUS POKUS (1949)
Canvas Back Duck Club
Black & Doyle, Developers. Phony duck hunting club.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- A DUCKING THEY DID GO (1939)
Cheatham Investment Co.
I. Cheatham, President
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- THREE PESTS IN A MESS (1945)
Chisel Inn Hotel
Formerly "Ye Olde Pilgrim Hotel"
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD (1942)
Columbia Uniform Supply Company
Business located next door to The Doggy Pet Shop
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940)
Daily News
Est. 1890. (Hired the Stooges thinking they were reporters.)
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944)
Diggs, Graves, & Berry Undertakers
M. Balmer, Mgr.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- SHOT IN THE FRONTIER (1954)
Doctor Abdul's Medicine Show
Staring Abdul's Cactus Remedy
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- PHONY EXPRESS (1943)
The Doggy Pet Shop
Business located next door to the Columbia Uniform Supply Company
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940)
Double Deal's Five "D" Delight
Dice - Dames - Dancing - Drinking & Dunking
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- HORSES' COLLARS (1935)
Dr. Ba Loni Sulami, Medicine Man
Hours 2 To 5 Or By Appointment
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- THREE MISSING LINKS (1938)
Dr. D. Lerious
M.D., C.C.C., F.H.A., W.P.A., A.W.O.L. -- Colossal Insurance Examiner
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- FROM NURSE TO WORSE (1940)
Garden Theatre
Theater that rejected the Stooges' act, and later where the Stooges hung posters for the Great Svengarlic.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- FLAGPOLE JITTERS (1956)
- RHYTHM AND WEEP (1946)
Ginsberg, Rosenberg, Goldstein and O'Brien
Real Estate
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- G. I. WANNA HOME (1946)
Goldstein, Goldberg, Goldblatt and O'Brien
Booking Agents
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- A PAIN IN THE PULLMAN (1936)
Gypsom Good Antiques, Inc.
Antique store, the latest target of "the Ape Man" burglar.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- DIZZY DETECTIVES (1943)
Happy Haven Hotel
Rooms $1 a Month -- Free Showers When It Rains
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD (1942)
Kraft's College of Arts
Paint & Sketching -- Clay Modeling -- Sculpturing -- Commercial Art -- Scenic Design
Rooms 401 - 420 Inclusive
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- POP GOES THE EASEL (1935)
Lightning Pest Control Co.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- ANTS IN THE PANTRY (1936)
- PEST MAN WINS (1951)
Los Arms Hospital
Hospital where the Stooges become doctors ("Men in Black"), and also the name of the hospital where they try to sell Brighto ("Dizzy Doctors").
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- DIZZY DOCTORS (1937)
- MEN IN BLACK (1934)
Mildew College
Established 1865. They mistook the Stooges for the new professors they were expecting.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY (1938)
Miracle Home Builders, Inc.
"If You Buy a Home Like This, It's a Miracle"
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- EVEN AS IOU (1942)
Mlle. Zora - Mind Reader
She certainly knew what was on the Stooges' minds!
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- THEY STOOGE TO CONGA (1943)
Mrs. Hammond Eggerley's Theatrical Apartments
26 Rooms - 2 Bath Tubs Rates: $4.00 Per Week Up - Mostly Up
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- A PAIN IN THE PULLMAN (1936)
O'Brien's Kosher Restaurant
Soup, Salad, Entree Coffee - Desert "All This and Herring Too." - 40ยข
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- BOOBS IN ARMS (1940)
Old Holland Cheese
in FIVE DELICIOUS FLAVORS...
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- DUNKED IN THE DEEP (1949)
Old Panther
100% Proof - Bottled Yesterday
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- GYPPED IN THE PENTHOUSE (1955)
- LOVE AT FIRST BITE (1950)
- SHOT IN THE FRONTIER (1954)
- TRICKY DICKS (1953)
Onion Oil Co.
Established 1904 - I.M. Greecy, President
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- SLAPHAPPY SLEUTHS (1950)
Panther Brewing Co.
Home of Panther Pilsner Beer
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- THREE LITTLE BEERS (1935)
Rancho Golf Club
One of the most beautifully manicured courses in the country -- at least, it was before the Stooges got there. (It's a real course in Los Angeles, located across the road from Fox Studios.)
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- THREE LITTLE BEERS (1935)
Seabiscuit Food Corp.
"Seabiscuit Gives You An Appetite Like a Horse"
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- MUSCLE UP A LITTLE CLOSER (1957)
Slipp, Tripp & Skipp
Investment Brokers -- Trust Funds -- Estates
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- HOLD THAT LION! (1947)
- LOOSE LOOT (1953)
Squid McGuffey's Cafe
Waterfront dive bar, with rooms in the back suitable for nefarious goings on.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- CRIME ON THEIR HANDS (1948)
Star Cleaning & Pressing Co.
"We dye for you!" Daily Delivery
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944)
Star Drug Co.
Business that the Stooges run in and out of while selling Brighto. (This storefront appears a number of Columbia films and shorts.)
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- DIZZY DOCTORS (1937)
Super Terrific Productions
B.O. Botswaddle, President
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- THREE MISSING LINKS (1938)
Whack - The Illustrated Magazine
"If It's A Good Picture It's Out Of Whack"
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- DUTIFUL BUT DUMB (1941)
Wide Awake Detective School
20 Easy Lessons to Graduate We Furnish Jobs
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- SCOTCHED IN SCOTLAND (1954)
Ye Colonial Inn
Restaurant. Features the Hilarious Hash Slingers, "America's Gift to Indigestion"
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- NUTTY BUT NICE (1940)
Ye Olde Pilgrim Hotel
Hotel that has seen better days.
- Referenced or Appeared in:
- LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD (1942)
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