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Pithecanthropus:

--- Quote from: TXShemp on November 19, 2010, 11:43:04 PM ---Thats interesting. I've never seen that.

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You should check it out.  It's a great comedy of manners contrasting a  slightly airheaded heiress (Hepburn) with the introverted paleontologist (Grant) whom she's fallen for.  Also there's a leopard, the title character.  One of the traits sociologists have noted about the uppermost strata of the American and British class systems is that many of the people in them tend to be rather badly informed, presumably because when you have that much money you don't really need to know about things like science, math, or history.  At one point Hepburn's character, referring to a lost dinosaur fossil, says "It must be hundreds of years old!   Believe it or not, she reminds me a little bit of Curly in this movie.

Another good film with those two stars is The Philadelphia Story.   It's a little less stooge-like, but still a great film from around the same time.

MR77100:

--- Quote from: HELLOLARRY on January 09, 2007, 11:30:14 PM ---The station here in Chicago used to ban the following:

YOU NAZTY SPY
I'LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN
THEY STOOGE TO CONGA
BACK FROM THE FRONT
HIGHER THAN A KITE
THE YOKES ON ME
NO DOUGH BOYS
UNCIVIL WARBIRDS
THREE MISSING LINKS
SOME MORE OF SAMOA
HEAVENLY DAZE

There were many other shorts (Id say approximately 20-30) where they cut scenes out (scissors on the nose, drinking gas etc.) It wasn't until the early 80s when we got cable that I first saw these all uncut on WTBS out of Atlanta. They did show BACK FROM THE FRONT for some time but eventually pulled it out of rotation too.

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In 1991, I taped them off Fox 32 and many of the shorts you mentioned were either banned or chopped up. They would show an hour of Stooges from 11 A.M to noon and would show two full shorts, and about 10 minutes of another. That chopped up short would always be one that would have been banned otherwise. The chopped up shorts were
NO DOUGH BOYS
THE YOKE'S ON ME
THEY STOOGE TO CONGA
THREE MISSING LINKS
SOME MORE OF SOMOA

Other editing I noticed while taping these shorts during this time period:
-The black maid being cut out of TERMITES OF 1938, which lead to a plot hole later on.
-"JAP" being bleeped out of BOOBY DUPES twice
-"JAP" and "Jap spy" being cut out of SPOOK LOUDER
-"Japanese" being bleeped out of SOCK-A-BYE BABY
-Moe throwing the pen on Shemp's nose from SPOOKS! was cut.

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