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Which Stooge Short Had the Most Footage Reused In Later Shorts?
Dog Hambone:
In Bruce Campbell movies, they use the term "Fake Shemps" for an actor that stands in for one of the credited actors. The source of that term is, of course, the 4 Shempless Shemp shorts.
stooge1029:
--- Quote from: archiezappa on May 30, 2009, 02:22:04 PM ---The Stooges used their share of stock footage in many shorts. That whole deja vu thing keeps you thinking "I know I've seen this before." But they're not the only ones who have done this. My wife's favorite show is Friends. The long-running sitcom from NBC. They have several episodes which were called "clip shows" that use much stock footage from earlier episodes. I thought that was weird. However, I wonder if they got the idea from watching later episodes of The Three Stooges. I guess that, under the right circumstances, they could have used fake Rosses, Chandlers and Joeys. Or even Fake Monicas, Rachels and Phoebes.
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Well tons of tv shows do that. The Simpsons is one I can think of off hand, I think theyve had four or five clip shows in all. I dont think these tv shows got the idea to re use footage from the stooges but rather the writers needed one more episode to fill a season and decided to go the easy route.
QuinceHead:
I have a "reused footage" question...
And granted maybe nobody on here can here it, but here goes!
In the Stooges shorts with reused footage that have been released on DVD, does anyone know if Sony remastered the recycled footage for each and every time it was recycled, or did they just "drop in" the footage that had already been re-mastered?
For example -- the pie fight from Curly's last episode was reused in at least three other shorts, as far as I know. Did Sony remaster that footage three separate times, or did they just take the remastered footage from the original episode and replace the recycled footage with the remastered original??
Cheers,
JohnH
aka QuinceHead
Hammond Eggar:
--- Quote from: archiezappa on May 30, 2009, 02:22:04 PM ---The Stooges used their share of stock footage in many shorts. That whole deja vu thing keeps you thinking "I know I've seen this before." But they're not the only ones who have done this. My wife's favorite show is Friends. The long-running sitcom from NBC. They have several episodes which were called "clip shows" that use much stock footage from earlier episodes. I thought that was weird. However, I wonder if they got the idea from watching later episodes of The Three Stooges. I guess that, under the right circumstances, they could have used fake Rosses, Chandlers and Joeys. Or even Fake Monicas, Rachels and Phoebes.
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It's funny you should mention Friends. At one time, the "flashback episode" seemed to be pretty common on television, with shows such as The Jeffersons, The Cosby Show, Family Ties and Golden Girls all producing one or more of them. In most cases, these "flashbacks" were little more than clip shows. In the case of Friends, most of the "flashbacks episodes" were original. They were excuses to show the characters back in their high school/college days. The producers especially loved to feature "Fat Monica," with Courteney Cox in a fat suit. That said, the show did include some clip episodes, especially during the lead-up to Ross's London wedding in season four. The only thing more common in television than a "flashback episode," is the obligatory "amnesia episode." BTW, The Jeffersons had one, and it was Louise who suffered from it.
As for the Stooges, my guess as to the most re-used clip has to be from Half-Wits' Holiday. I'm referring of course, to the scene in which Moe throws a pie in the air and it sticks to the ceiling, eventually hitting Symona Boniface in the face. I've lost count as to how many times I've seen that clip. ::)
QuinceHead:
--- Quote from: Hammond Eggar on July 12, 2010, 06:32:38 PM ---As for the Stooges, my guess as to the most re-used clip has to be from Half-Wits' Holiday. I'm referring of course, to the scene in which Moe throws a pie in the air and it sticks to the ceiling, eventually hitting Symona Boniface in the face. I've lost count as to how many times I've seen that clip. ::)
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I believe that clip last shows up in Pies and Guys -- filmed some seven years after the poor woman had died from pancreatic cancer! [cry]
I'd like to think that her estate got payment/royalties for re-use of that footage -- or did things like that work differently for actors back then?? ???
For duty and humanity,
JohnH aka QuinceHead
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