
Selected Short Subjects (From Spanky to The Three Stooges)
On March 19th, 1934, Moe, Larry and Curly completed their split from Ted Healy by signing their first contract with Columbia and became The Three Stooges, beginning what turned out to be a 25 year career making a total of 190 short subjects (and a promotional short) for the Studio.
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Title | Released | Featuring | Minutes | Avg. Rating | Description |
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WOMAN HATERS | 1934-05-05 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 19.33 | 6.78 | Three salesmen swear off women, but one of them has trouble keeping his promise. A musical novelty. |
PUNCH DRUNKS | 1934-07-13 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.50 | 9.05 | A meek waiter becomes a prizefighter whenever he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel." |
MEN IN BLACK | 1934-09-28 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.00 | 8.81 | Three newly created doctors create mayhem in a hospital, all "for duty and humanity!" |
THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS | 1934-12-08 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.50 | 8.89 | Three bums are mistaken for college football heroes and hired to play for a professional team. |
HORSES' COLLARS | 1935-01-10 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.20 | 9.06 | Detectives get sent out west to help a client get back the I.O.U. for her father's ranch. |
RESTLESS KNIGHTS | 1935-02-20 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.50 | 7.25 | Learning of their noble birth, the Stooges offer their swords to protect their young Queen. |
POP GOES THE EASEL | 1935-03-29 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.00 | 9.12 | Running from a cop who thinks they were shoplifting, the Stooges hide out in an art school posing as new students. |
UNCIVIL WARRIORS | 1935-04-26 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 19.50 | 8.88 | The Stooges are Union spies pretending to be Confederate officers - Duck, Dodge and Hyde. |
PARDON MY SCOTCH | 1935-08-01 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.75 | 9.36 | When the booze can't flow soon enough at the end of Prohibition, the Stooges come to the rescue with their own unique version of Scotch. |
HOI POLLOI | 1935-08-29 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.80 | 9.60 | Two professors make a bet whether three garbagemen can be made over into gentlemen. |
THREE LITTLE BEERS | 1935-11-28 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.50 | 9.80 | Hired to deliver beer, the Stooges end up destroying a golf course instead while practicing for their company's golf tournament. |
ANTS IN THE PANTRY | 1936-02-06 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.75 | 8.84 | In an effort to save their jobs, three exterminators spread pests throughout a house full of guests to drum up business. |
MOVIE MANIACS | 1936-02-20 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.00 | 9.39 | Three hobos travel in a boxcar full of furniture to Hollywood, where they get mistaken for studio executives and naturally cause havoc. |
HALF SHOT SHOOTERS | 1936-04-30 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.40 | 9.24 | Three out-of-work veterans get fooled into rejoining the Army and get assigned to their old sergeant from WWI, who still has a grudge against them. |
DISORDER IN THE COURT | 1936-05-30 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.50 | 9.36 | Three entertainers are called to testify for the defendent in a murder trial. Who killed Kirk Robbin? |
PAIN IN THE PULLMAN, A | 1936-06-27 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 19.83 | 9.17 | Three out of work vaudevillians finally get a chance - until they cause havoc on a train. |
FALSE ALARMS | 1936-08-16 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.70 | 8.98 | Three firemen - who only joined to impress their girlfriends - are in danger of losing their jobs due to their incompetence. |
WHOOPS, I'M AN INDIAN! | 1936-09-11 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.33 | 7.88 | Three con men in a frontier town flee from the sheriff and disguise themselves as Indians. |
SLIPPERY SILKS | 1936-12-27 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.25 | 9.25 | Three incompetent carpenter destroy a priceless Chinese cabinet, but while running away they learn that they've inherited a fancy dress shop. |
GRIPS, GRUNTS, AND GROANS | 1937-01-15 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.75 | 9.00 | Three bums are hired to help a wrestler named Bustoff train for a match, but they render him unconscious and Curly has to impersonate him in the ring. |
DIZZY DOCTORS | 1937-03-19 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.75 | 9.52 | Threatened by their wives to get a job or get out, the Stooges manage to land jobs selling Brighto - "Makes Old Bodies New!" |
3 DUMB CLUCKS | 1937-04-17 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.90 | 8.48 | The Stooges help their mother stop a gold-digger from marrying their father by tricking her into thinking Curly is her "Popsie-Wopsie". |
BACK TO THE WOODS | 1937-05-14 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 19.50 | 7.61 | The Stooges are vagrants sentenced to the colonies to protect the settlers, and run into trouble with the Indians when they go hunting. |
GOOFS AND SADDLES | 1937-07-02 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.25 | 9.04 | The Stooges are Army scouts sent undercover by Gen. Muster to track down cattle rustlers operating in the area. |
CASH AND CARRY | 1937-09-03 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.40 | 8.79 | Three bums return home from a prospecting trip only to find a crippled boy and his older sister living in their shack in the dump. |
PLAYING THE PONIES | 1937-10-15 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.20 | 8.51 | Sick and tired of the restaurant business, the Stooges trade their diner for what they think is a champion race horse. |
SURPRISE, SURPRISE | 1937-10-31 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 2.50 | 0.00 | Promotional film for the Pillsbury/Farina giveaway toy, The Three Stooges Moving Picture Machine. |
SITTER DOWNERS, THE | 1937-11-26 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 15.67 | 9.18 | After winning their sit-down strike to get married, three incompetents try to build a donated "Ready Cut" house, with disastrous results. |
TERMITES OF 1938 | 1938-01-07 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.75 | 8.95 | Three exterminators are mistakenly hired as escorts to a fancy dinner party in honor of Lord Wafflebottom. |
WEE WEE MONSIEUR | 1938-02-18 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.67 | 8.19 | Three artists in Paris run away from their landlord and accidentally join the French Foreign Legion thinking it's the same as the American Legion. |
TASSELS IN THE AIR | 1938-04-01 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.10 | 9.26 | Mistaken for famous interior decorators, a newly wealthy woman hires the Stooges to makeover her house to impress society peers. |
HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND DUMB | 1938-05-20 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.50 | 8.83 | Contest winner Curly moves into a swanky hotel with Moe and Larry, but three golddiggers and tax withholdings quickly burst their balloon. |
VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY | 1938-07-02 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.90 | 8.96 | Moe, Larry & Curly are mistaken for three professors at Mildew College and teach the coeds about athletics and Swingin' the Alphabet. |
THREE MISSING LINKS | 1938-07-29 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.20 | 8.03 | In Africa to film a movie, the Stooges run afoul of a gorilla and a witch doctor. |
MUTTS TO YOU | 1938-10-14 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.20 | 7.00 | Dog wash operators Moe, Larry & Curly mistakenly think a baby has been abandoned and find themselves accused of kidnapping. |
FLAT FOOT STOOGES | 1938-12-05 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 15.50 | 7.96 | Three firemen to the rescue when an unscrupulous salesman of motorized fire trucks sets their firehouse ablaze. |
THREE LITTLE SEW AND SEWS | 1939-01-06 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.00 | 9.06 | Three Navy tailors masquerade as officers and get mixed up with foreign spies out to steal a submarine. |
WE WANT OUR MUMMY | 1939-02-24 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.50 | 9.43 | Three bumbling detectives are hired to find a missing archaeologist and the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Rutentuten. |
A DUCKING THEY DID GO | 1939-04-07 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.33 | 8.53 | Moe, Larry and Curly sell duck club memberships to the mayor and police, unaware that the club is a scam. |
YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA | 1939-05-19 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.20 | 8.98 | While prospecting to raise money for their saloon singer girlfriends, the Stooges uncover stolen bank loot. |
SAVED BY THE BELLE | 1939-06-30 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.50 | 7.50 | Salesmen Stooges stranded in South America find themselves mixed up in a rebel coup against the government. |
CALLING ALL CURS | 1939-08-25 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.40 | 8.78 | Veterinarians Moe, Larry and Curly are victimized by dog-nappers who make off with an expensive show dog from their hospital. |
OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE | 1939-10-06 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.33 | 9.35 | Panhandler Stooges are assisted by the widow Jenkins and her daughters, and set out to find the trio of crooks that have swindled them of their farm. |
THREE SAPPY PEOPLE | 1939-12-01 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.40 | 9.42 | Posing as psychiatrists, the Stooges are hired by a rich man to cure his eccentric and childish wife at a fancy birthday party. |
YOU NAZTY SPY! | 1940-01-19 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.10 | 8.77 | A paperhanger and his two pals are made dictators of the Kingdom of Moronika in this lampoon of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. |
ROCKIN' THRU THE ROCKIES | 1940-03-08 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.40 | 8.56 | Lost in the Rockies with a covered wagon and a female vaudeville troupe, the Stooges run up against the cold and uninviting Indians. |
A PLUMBING WE WILL GO | 1940-04-19 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.67 | 9.60 | On the run from a cop, the Stooges are mistaken for plumbers and hired to "fix" a leak at a society mansion. |
NUTTY BUT NICE | 1940-06-14 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.90 | 8.29 | Moe, Larry & Curly help a young girl by finding her banker father, who has been kidnapped by crooks looking for bearer bonds. |
HOW HIGH IS UP? | 1940-07-26 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.50 | 9.51 | Tinker repairmen Moe, Larry & Curly go on the run from angry customers and sign up as construction riveters on a skyscraper. |
FROM NURSE TO WORSE | 1940-08-23 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.80 | 9.12 | Curly feigns insanity as part of an insurance scam but it backfires when he's taken to the hospital for a brain operation. |
NO CENSUS, NO FEELING | 1940-10-04 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.60 | 9.61 | Census taker Stooges invade a society party and a football game in search of their count. |
COOKOO CAVALIERS | 1940-11-15 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.50 | 8.98 | The Stooges head south of the border to open a saloon, only to find they've actually bought a beauty salon. |
BOOBS IN ARMS | 1940-12-27 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.00 | 9.51 | The Stooges join the Army to avoid a jealous husband only to discover he's their drill sergeant. On the battlefield, they're assigned to rescue him. |
SO LONG MR. CHUMPS | 1941-02-07 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.50 | 9.03 | Looking for the last, honest man, Moe, Larry & Curly find themselves searching for him in prison. |
DUTIFUL BUT DUMB | 1941-03-21 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.80 | 9.37 | Three photographers sent to Vulgaria for a picture of a new weapon discover cameras are prohibited by law, and go on the run from a firing squad. |
ALL THE WORLD'S A STOOGE | 1941-05-16 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.20 | 8.73 | A man hires the Stooges to pose as three war orphans to appease his flighty wife. |
I'LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN | 1941-07-11 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.25 | 8.84 | A sequel to YOU NAZTY SPY! continues to mock the Nazis as the Stooges of Moronica conspire with their Axle partners. |
ACHE IN EVERY STAKE, AN | 1941-08-22 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.20 | 9.44 | Three bumbling icemen substitute as cooks and waiters for a fancy birthday dinner party. |
IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE | 1941-10-16 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.50 | 9.63 | Three socialites marry the death row Stooges for an inheritance, only to have the boys found innocent and landed on their society doorstep. |
SOME MORE OF SAMOA | 1941-12-04 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.75 | 8.92 | Tree surgeons Moe, Larry and Curly head to the isle of Rhum Boogie to find a "mate" for a client's rare tree. |
LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD | 1942-01-08 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.50 | 9.34 | The Stooges help an elderly woman by turning her failing hotel into a swanky nightspot. |
CACTUS MAKES PERFECT | 1942-02-26 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.33 | 8.80 | Curly's gold-finding invention sends the boys west in search of a mine, and up against a couple claim jumpers. |
WHAT'S THE MATADOR? | 1942-04-23 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.40 | 8.18 | The Stooges take their comedy bullfighter act to Mexico, and run afoul of a jealous husband who thinks they're involved with his wife. |
MATRI-PHONY | 1942-07-02 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.20 | 8.27 | The Stooges help a young woman escape from the clutches of Octopus Grabbus by disguising Curly as the Roman emperor's intended. |
THREE SMART SAPS | 1942-07-30 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.75 | 9.07 | The boys break into jail to expose the convicts who have taken over the prison and turned it into a nightclub for crooks. |
EVEN AS IOU | 1942-09-18 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.00 | 7.74 | Moe, Larry & Curly head to the racetrack to raise money for a dispossessed woman and her young daughter. |
SOCK-A-BYE BABY | 1942-11-13 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.90 | 7.70 | After finding an abandoned baby on their doorstep, the Stooges mistakenly think they're implicated as kidnappers. |
THEY STOOGE TO CONGA | 1943-01-01 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 15.60 | 9.49 | Fix-it men Moe, Larry and Curly "repair" a house's doorbell and find the residence is infested with Axis spies. |
DIZZY DETECTIVES | 1943-02-05 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.60 | 8.94 | Three rookie cops investigate a series of robberies by the "Ape Man," and discover it actually is a gorilla trained by crooks. |
SPOOK LOUDER | 1943-04-02 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.10 | 8.33 | House-sitting for a government scientist, Moe, Larry and Curly find themselves stalked by Axis spies after an explosive invention. |
BACK FROM THE FRONT | 1943-05-28 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.80 | 9.26 | Three sailors from a torpedoed U.S. ship find refuge on a freighter, only to discover it's a disguised Nazi raider. |
THREE LITTLE TWIRPS | 1943-07-09 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 15.50 | 8.33 | The Three Stooges, ticket scalpers on the run from the authorities in a day at the circus. |
HIGHER THAN A KITE | 1943-07-30 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.50 | 9.08 | Larry, Moe & Curly find themselves accidentally dropped behind enemy lines, and set out to steal war plans from Nazi headquarters. |
I CAN HARDLY WAIT | 1943-08-13 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.50 | 9.05 | Moe and Larry fail at attempts to pull Curly's broken tooth, so they take him for a disastrous visit to the dentist. |
DIZZY PILOTS | 1943-09-24 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.80 | 9.34 | To avoid the draft, aviators Moe, Larry & Curly attempt to finish their revolutionary new airplane for the government. |
PHONY EXPRESS | 1943-11-18 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.20 | 8.17 | Mistaken for three famous western marshals, vagrants Moe, Larry and Curly try to protect a gold deposit from Red Morgan and his gang. |
GEM OF A JAM, A | 1943-12-30 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.50 | 7.70 | Janitors Moe, Larry & Curly are mistaken for doctors by three crooks and ordered to perform surgery on one. |
CRASH GOES THE HASH | 1944-02-05 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.60 | 9.52 | Newspaper reporters Moe, Larry & Curly masquerade as a cook and butlers to investigate a society engagement at a fancy dinner party. |
BUSY BUDDIES | 1944-03-18 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.75 | 7.74 | Failing diner owners Moe, Larry and Curly compete in a milking contest to earn the prize money and pay their debts. |
YOKE'S ON ME, THE | 1944-05-26 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.20 | 6.95 | 4-F Stooges become farmers for the war effort and encounter escapees from a relocation camp. |
IDLE ROOMERS | 1944-07-16 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.80 | 8.42 | Bumbling bellhops Moe, Larry and Curly encounter a vaudeville act's wolf man and accidentally set him free in their hotel. |
GENTS WITHOUT CENTS | 1944-09-22 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 19.00 | 9.06 | Struggling vaudevillian Stooges team up with three dancing beauties to put on a benefit show for wartime shipyard workers. |
NO DOUGH BOYS | 1944-11-24 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.90 | 8.56 | Made up as Japanese for a magazine photo shoot, the Stooges are mistaken for real Japs by a Nazi spy cell. |
THREE PESTS IN A MESS | 1945-01-19 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 15.33 | 8.58 | Mistaking a mannequin for someone they accidentally killed, the Stooges go to a pet cemetery to bury it. |
BOOBY DUPES | 1945-03-17 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.00 | 8.37 | Fish peddlers Moe, Larry and Curly buy their own broken-down fishing boat in a plan to eliminate the middle-man. |
IDIOTS DELUXE | 1945-07-20 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.50 | 9.06 | To help ailing Moe's nervous condition, Larry and Curly take him to the country for rest and run up against a loose bear. |
IF A BODY MEETS A BODY | 1945-08-30 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.20 | 7.59 | The Stooges head to a mansion for Curly's inheritance and become mixed up in murder and a stolen will. |
MICRO-PHONIES | 1945-11-15 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.80 | 9.34 | Masquerading Curly as an opera diva, the boys invade a society musicale party. |
BEER BARREL POLECATS | 1946-01-10 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.50 | 5.16 | Home brewers Moe, Larry and Curly wind up in prison for bootlegging beer, and find their stay extended by one mishap after another. |
BIRD IN THE HEAD, A | 1946-02-28 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.25 | 6.63 | Fired office decorators Moe, Larry and Curly find refuge with a mad scientist who wants to transplant Curly's brain into a gorilla. |
UNCIVIL WAR BIRDS | 1946-03-29 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.50 | 6.38 | Three southern gentlemen join the Civil War and are taken for spies by both the Union and Confederate armies. |
THREE TROUBLEDOERS, THE | 1946-04-25 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.20 | 5.72 | Newly appointed Sheriff Curly and his deputies Moe & Larry set out to stop Badlands Blackie from extorting Nell into marriage. |
MONKEY BUSINESSMEN | 1946-06-20 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.20 | 6.95 | FIred Stooges head for a rest resort and discover it's really a con to take its patients for everything they've got. |
THREE LOAN WOLVES | 1946-07-04 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 16.75 | 6.95 | The Stooges foster an abandoned baby, while dealing with gangsters running a protection racket. |
G. I. WANNA HOME | 1946-09-05 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 15.83 | 7.98 | The post-war housing shortage is spoofed, with the Stooges planning to set up housekeeping with their new wives in a furnished, empty lot. |
RHYTHM AND WEEP | 1946-10-03 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.75 | 6.07 | Fired from yet another theater gig, the Stooges meet up with three showgirls and a "wealthy" producer who wants to star them in his new show. |
THREE LITTLE PIRATES | 1946-12-05 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 18.00 | 7.98 | Shipwrecked on an island stuck in the 16th century, Moe, Larry & Curly escape execution and run into a den of pirates. |
HALF-WITS HOLIDAY | 1947-01-09 | Moe, Larry and Curly | 17.67 | 7.08 | Environment or heredity? A scientist tries to remake Moe, Larry and Curly into gentlemen and introduce them to high society at a swanky party. |
FRIGHT NIGHT | 1947-03-06 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 17.40 | 9.13 | The Stooges are trainers for the next heavyweight champ but local gangster Big Mike wants them to throw the fight. |
OUT WEST | 1947-04-24 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 17.60 | 8.39 | Out west for Shemp's health, the Stooges help a saloon girl save her boyfriend The Arizona Kid from Doc Barker and his gang of gunslingers. |
HOLD THAT LION! | 1947-07-17 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.60 | 9.45 | The boys' inheritance is stolen by a crooked investment broker, so they trail him to a train for a showdown where they accidentally free a lion in baggage. |
BRIDELESS GROOM | 1947-09-11 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.75 | 9.69 | Shemp only has a few hours to get married to earn an inheritance, bringing out a handful of golddigging ex-girlfriends. |
SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS | 1947-10-30 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 17.10 | 9.29 | Three tailors who are in danger of losing their business get mixed up with a fugitive gangster and hope to get the reward money for his capture. |
ALL GUMMED UP | 1947-12-18 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 18.25 | 8.13 | Pharmacists Moe, Larry and Shemp help their elderly landlady by inventing a fountain-of-youth potion. |
SHIVERING SHERLOCKS | 1948-01-08 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 17.40 | 8.42 | Three vagrants help a restaurant owner look over her family's estate before selling it, only to find crooks hiding out there. |
PARDON MY CLUTCH | 1948-02-26 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.50 | 8.65 | The boys and their wives plan a camping trip for Shemp's health, leading to their attempts of packing up an old jalopy. |
SQUAREHEADS OF THE ROUND TABLE | 1948-03-04 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 18.25 | 9.39 | Medieval troubadours try help the Princess and her blacksmith lover, and uncover a palace coup to kill the King. |
FIDDLERS THREE | 1948-05-06 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 17.25 | 8.46 | The king's three royal fiddlers come to the rescue when traitors kidnap the Princess Alicia. |
HOT SCOTS, THE | 1948-07-08 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 17.40 | 9.33 | Scotland yardmen (aka groundskeepers) take a job as detectives in an old Scottish castle to investigate a series of thefts. |
HEAVENLY DAZE | 1948-09-02 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.90 | 9.42 | To earn a spot in Heaven, ghostly Shemp returns to Earth to reform his cousins Moe and Larry. |
I'M A MONKEY'S UNCLE | 1948-10-07 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.10 | 9.11 | Three cavemen fight rivals for the affections of three cavegirls. |
MUMMY'S DUMMIES | 1948-11-04 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.00 | 9.34 | The Stooges are used chariot salesmen arrested for cheating the Pharaoh's chief guard, but are invested as chamberlains and uncover palace intrigue. |
CRIME ON THEIR HANDS | 1948-12-09 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 17.67 | 9.39 | Wannabe reporters Moe, Larry & Shemp intercept a hot tip and head to a wharf saloon to investigate crooks who've stolen the Punjab diamond. |
GHOST TALKS, THE | 1949-02-03 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.30 | 7.47 | Three moving men assigned to a spooky mansion befriend a ghost trapped in a suit of armor until the ghost of Lady Godiva can free him. |
WHO DONE IT? | 1949-03-03 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.67 | 9.70 | Detective Stooges investigate a wealthy man's disappearance and find themselves on the run from gangsters and their goon. |
HOKUS POKUS | 1949-05-05 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.30 | 8.90 | Moe, Larry & Shemp fall victim to an insurance scam, and a hypnotist who sends them out on a high-rise flagpole before he's accidentally knocked unconscious. |
FUELIN' AROUND | 1949-07-07 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.83 | 9.39 | Mistaken for rocket scientists, the boys are kidnapped by foreign operatives and ordered to make a new rocket fuel for that country. |
MALICE IN THE PALACE | 1949-09-01 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.20 | 9.03 | Restaurant owners Moe, Larry and Shemp seek reward money by recovering the stolen Rootin-Tootin diamond from the Emir of Schmow. |
VAGABOND LOAFERS | 1949-10-06 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.80 | 8.70 | Three plumbers create havoc in a fancy house, while becoming involved in a party guest's plan to steal an expensive painting. |
DUNKED IN THE DEEP | 1949-11-03 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.83 | 8.03 | Our three heroes help a deported neighbor, accidentally wind up as stowaways with him, and discover he's actually a spy who's stolen U.S. documents. |
PUNCHY COWPUNCHERS | 1950-01-05 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 17.25 | 8.90 | Three cavalry soldiers go undercover to stop the Killer Dillon gang from terrorizing the west. |
HUGS AND MUGS | 1950-02-02 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.00 | 8.19 | Three lady ex-cons invade the Stooges' upholstery shop to retrieve an expensive, stolen string of pearls. |
DOPEY DICKS | 1950-03-02 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.90 | 9.42 | A mad scientist plans to use one of the Stooges' heads to complete his mechanical man. |
LOVE AT FIRST BITE | 1950-05-04 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.00 | 8.38 | The Stooges relate stories of their wartime romances and "party too hearty" while preparing to welcome their fiancees. |
SELF MADE MAIDS | 1950-07-06 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.75 | 5.32 | Artists Moe, Larry & Shemp want to marry their girlfriends (the Stooges in drag) against the wishes of the girls' father (Moe). |
THREE HAMS ON RYE | 1950-09-07 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.75 | 9.03 | Stagehand Stooges as ham actors whose antics disrupt a southern drama and accidentally turn it into a hit comedy. |
STUDIO STOOPS | 1950-10-05 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.00 | 9.51 | Studio publicity men Moe, Larry & Shemp attempt to rescue a kidnapped starlet themselves when the police won't believe their story. |
SLAPHAPPY SLEUTHS | 1950-11-09 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.10 | 8.75 | A gasoline company hires the detective Stooges to investigate a series of robberies at its stations. |
SNITCH IN TIME, A | 1950-12-07 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.50 | 9.29 | Furniture makers Moe, Larry & Shemp's new job for a beautiful woman uncovers jewel thieves hiding out as her boarders. |
THREE ARABIAN NUTS | 1951-01-04 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.75 | 9.67 | Warehousemen handling a shipment of Arabian antiquities discover Aladdin's lamp, which is also sought by two murderous Arabs. |
BABY SITTERS JITTERS | 1951-02-01 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.20 | 7.83 | Moe, Larry and Shemp hire out as babysitters and get mixed up with a separated couple's custody fight over their son. |
DON'T THROW THAT KNIFE | 1951-05-03 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.80 | 7.91 | Moe, Larry & Shemp as census takers on the run after an insanely jealous husband finds them in his apartment with his wife. |
SCRAMBLED BRAINS | 1951-07-07 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.75 | 9.39 | Moe and Larry take Shemp home to recover from a nervous breakdown, and prepare him for marriage to his ugly nurse. |
MERRY MAVERICKS | 1951-09-06 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.75 | 7.25 | Three old west vagrants looking for work are mistaken for lawmen and hired to protect a mine payroll from Red Morgan and his gang. |
TOOTH WILL OUT, THE | 1951-10-04 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.00 | 8.67 | Dental school graduate Stooges head west to open a practice, and find a temperamental sheriff with a bad tooth and an itchy trigger finger. |
HULA-LA-LA | 1951-11-01 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.10 | 8.69 | The Stooges head to a South Pacific island to teach natives how to dance for a movie, but run up against a witch doctor and headhunters. |
PEST MAN WINS | 1951-12-06 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.00 | 9.18 | Door-to-door pest exterminators drum up business by infesting a fancy party with mice, ants and moths. |
MISSED FORTUNE, A | 1952-01-03 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.10 | 8.61 | Quiz show winner Shemp and his two partners take up residence in a fancy hotel where they meet three golddiggers and learn about tax withholdings. |
LISTEN, JUDGE | 1952-03-06 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 17.10 | 9.00 | The Stooges are bumbling door-to-door repairman who hire on as cooks and servers for a fancy birthday dinner party. |
CORNY CASANOVAS | 1952-05-01 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.33 | 9.21 | Moe, Larry and Shemp unknowingly wind up engaged to the same woman, a golddigger interested in nothing but collecting diamond rings. |
HE COOKED HIS GOOSE | 1952-07-03 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.60 | 8.03 | Two-timing Larry is carrying on with Moe's wife, and hoping to date Shemp's fiancee, so he plots to frame Shemp with Moe's wife. |
GENTS IN A JAM | 1952-09-04 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.25 | 9.57 | Moe, Larry & Shemp avoid eviction when Shemp's wealthy Uncle Phineas comes to visit, and run afoul of a neighboring showbiz strongman with a trigger temper. |
THREE DARK HORSES | 1952-10-16 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.60 | 8.89 | Janitor Stooges become involved in some crooks' plan to win a Presidential nomination. |
CUCKOO ON A CHOO CHOO | 1952-12-04 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.50 | 7.51 | Moe, Larry & Shemp encounter romance, booze and an imaginary canary in this double spoof of HARVEY and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. |
UP IN DAISY'S PENTHOUSE | 1953-02-05 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.60 | 7.89 | The boys set out to stop their father's marriage to a golddigger and run up against her gangster accomplices. |
BOOTY AND THE BEAST | 1953-03-05 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.90 | 7.10 | The Stooges are conned into helping a man burgle a house, so they trail him to a train in an attempt to clear themselves. |
LOOSE LOOT | 1953-04-02 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.90 | 9.27 | The Stooges trail an embezzler who's taken their inheritance money, and find him at a theater where a backstage chase begins. |
TRICKY DICKS | 1953-05-07 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.90 | 9.13 | Moe, Larry & Shemp as three police detectives given 24 hours to solve the murder of Slug McGurk, or lose their jobs. |
SPOOKS! | 1953-06-15 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.75 | 8.33 | Private eyes Moe, Larry & Shemp search for a missing woman in a spooky mansion, complete with a mad scientist and a gorilla. |
PARDON MY BACKFIRE | 1953-08-15 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.90 | 8.76 | Garage mechanics Moe, Larry & Shemp's customers are gangsters on the run from the police. |
RIP, SEW, AND STITCH | 1953-09-03 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.67 | 6.38 | Tailors Moe, Larry and Shemp decide to capture bank robber Terry Hargen and use the reward to save their shop from closure. |
BUBBLE TROUBLE | 1953-10-08 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.50 | 5.36 | Moe, Larry and Shemp as druggists who invent a youth potion for their elderly landlady, but it turns her husband into a very angry gorilla. |
GOOF ON THE ROOF | 1953-12-03 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.40 | 9.52 | As a wedding present to their housemate, the Stooges decide to install a TV set and aerial themselves, to disastrous results. |
INCOME TAX SAPPY | 1954-02-04 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.50 | 9.00 | After cheating on their own income taxes, the Stooges go into business as professional tax cheats. |
MUSTY MUSKETEERS | 1954-05-13 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.90 | 7.35 | King Cole's troubadours set out to rescue the kidnapped Princess Alicia from the clutches of Mergatroyd the Magician. |
PALS AND GALS | 1954-06-03 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.60 | 6.88 | Out west for Shemp's health, the Stooges help a saloon girl save her sisters from Doc Barker and his gang of gunslingers. |
KNUTZY KNIGHTS | 1954-09-02 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.40 | 6.88 | The Stooges help Cedric the blacksmith romance the Princess Elaine and stop a plot by the Black Prince to kill the King. |
SHOT IN THE FRONTIER | 1954-10-07 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.00 | 7.66 | A spoof of HIGH NOON finds the newlywed Stooges in a western showdown with the gang who had planned to marry the boys' wives. |
SCOTCHED IN SCOTLAND | 1954-11-04 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.00 | 7.36 | Detective school graduates Moe, Larry & Shemp head to Glenheather Castle in Scotland to investigate a series of thefts. |
FLING IN THE RING | 1955-01-06 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.30 | 5.64 | Three boxing trainers are ordered by their gangster boss to have the champ throw his next fight. |
OF CASH AND HASH | 1955-02-03 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.80 | 8.26 | Suspected of an armored car robbery, the Stooges trail one of the crooks to an old mansion and run up against the gang's cleaver-wielding henchman. |
GYPPED IN THE PENTHOUSE | 1955-03-10 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.00 | 8.07 | Woman Haters clubmen Shemp and Larry relate their woeful experiences with a golddigger, Moe's wife. |
BEDLAM IN PARADISE | 1955-04-14 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.90 | 8.34 | Deceased Shemp avoids the charms of devil Helen Blazes, and is allowed to return to Earth and reform Moe and Larry. |
STONE AGE ROMEOS | 1955-06-02 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.75 | 6.91 | Museum investigators Moe, Larry and Shemp head into a remote wilderness to find evidence that cavemen still exist. |
WHAM-BAM-SLAM! | 1955-09-01 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.90 | 5.75 | The Stooges and their wives plan a relaxing camping trip to help cure an ailing Shemp. |
HOT ICE | 1955-10-06 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.20 | 5.80 | Three gardeners at Scotland Yard attempt to earn their detective badges by tracking down the stolen Punjab diamond at a waterside dive. |
BLUNDER BOYS | 1955-11-03 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.90 | 9.26 | In a spoof of DRAGNET, veterans Moe, Larry and Shemp become detectives and are assigned to stop a thief known as the Eel. |
HUSBANDS BEWARE | 1956-01-05 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.83 | 7.40 | After marrying Shemp's brutish sisters, Moe and Larry retaliate by plotting to have their buddy marry one of his music students. |
CREEPS | 1956-02-02 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.67 | 6.07 | The Stooges' bedtime story to their sons recalls the time they were movers sent to a mansion and encountered a ghost trapped in a suit of armor. |
FLAGPOLE JITTERS | 1956-04-05 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.90 | 5.88 | Three theater workmen encounter a crooked hypnotist performer and his henchmen, who plan a jewel robbery in the next building. |
FOR CRIMIN' OUT LOUD | 1956-05-03 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.00 | 7.43 | Private detectives Moe, Larry and Shemp investigate the kidnapping of a wealthy man by the Phantom Gang and their goon henchman. |
RUMPUS IN THE HAREM | 1956-06-21 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.00 | 2.79 | To raise money to save their girlfriends from slavery, the Stooges go for reward money by retrieving the stolen Rootin-Tootin diamond. |
HOT STUFF | 1956-09-06 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.00 | 3.63 | Undercover agents Moe, Larry & Shemp are mistaken for rocket fuel scientists and kidnapped by spies from Anemia. |
SCHEMING SCHEMERS | 1956-10-04 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 15.90 | 4.80 | Plumbers Moe, Larry & Shemp are called to retrieve a lost ring at a ritzy house, and find themselves foiling a robbery. |
COMMOTION ON THE OCEAN | 1956-11-08 | Moe, Larry and Shemp | 16.60 | 3.83 | Three reporters find themselves as stowaways when they get mixed up with a foreign spy and stolen government documents. |
HOOFS AND GOOFS | 1957-01-31 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 15.50 | 2.55 | Moe, Larry and Joe meet their late sister Birdie, who's been reincarnated as a horse. And, she's about to give birth to a colt! |
MUSCLE UP A LITTLE CLOSER | 1957-02-28 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 16.83 | 3.32 | Moe, Larry and Joe confront the co-worker they suspect of stealing Joe's fiancee's engagement ring. |
MERRY MIX-UP, A | 1957-03-23 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 15.90 | 5.75 | Three sets of identical triplet brothers reunite by chance and confuse their wives, fiancees, themselves, and a bad-tempered restaurant waiter. |
SPACE SHIP SAPPY | 1957-04-18 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 16.30 | 5.80 | A scientist shanghais the Stooges on a rocket to Venus, where they come across a trio of amazon cannibals. |
GUNS A POPPIN! | 1957-06-13 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 16.50 | 3.40 | Joe and Larry take Moe on a country trip for his nervous condition, and become involved with a bear and an escaped convict. |
HORSING AROUND | 1957-09-12 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 15.50 | 0.74 | The Stooges' sister is reincarnated as a horse, and the group heads out to find and save her injured mate before he's destroyed. |
RUSTY ROMEOS | 1957-10-17 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 16.33 | 3.10 | Moe, Larry and Joe are each unknowingly engaged to the same golddigger. |
OUTER SPACE JITTERS | 1957-12-05 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 16.33 | 1.65 | A scientist and the Stooges travel to Venus and discover that the planet's inhabitants intend to invade the Earth with an army of zombies. |
QUIZ WHIZZ | 1958-02-13 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 15.40 | 5.83 | Joe's quiz show winnings are targeted by con men who send the Stooges into a den of murderers. |
FIFI BLOWS HER TOP | 1958-04-10 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 16.40 | 4.57 | The boys reminisce about their wartime romances. Joe is pleasantly shocked to find his love has moved next door, but she's married. |
PIES AND GUYS | 1958-06-12 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 16.33 | 3.50 | Two scientists argue "heredity vs. environment," and use the Stooges as subjects to prove their point in a bet. |
SWEET AND HOT | 1958-09-04 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 16.33 | 1.17 | Larry wants to turn Joe's sister into a nightclub star, but her stage fright first sends them to psychiatrist Moe for a cure. |
FLYING SAUCER DAFFY | 1958-10-09 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 16.20 | 3.77 | Moe and Larry fraudulently sell Joe's photo as proof of UFOs, so Joe heads out to find the real thing to keep them out of jail. |
OIL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL | 1958-12-04 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 16.20 | 6.26 | Moe, Larry and Joe head into the desert to prospect for uranium and strike it rich to pay for their father's operation. |
TRIPLE CROSSED | 1959-02-02 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 15.83 | 1.93 | Ladies man Larry plots to frame Joe for an affair with Moe's wife. |
SAPPY BULL FIGHTERS | 1959-06-04 | Moe, Larry and Joe | 15.25 | 2.03 | The Stooges are in Mexico with their comedy bullfight act, and become involved with a beautiful actress and her insanely jealous husband. |
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