Hi,
I was wondering what the first short was that everyone saw (if you remember!). I was introduced to the stooges in 1982 when my dad used to tape them off TV. Over the weekend i was watching the first tape that i had and the first episode on it was Three Arabian Nuts. It set the scene for all the others but when i think of the first time i saw them, it was Shemp! - probably a rarity for a lot of people.
So, what was the first one for others?
This question is kind of related to the recent thread on "how did you get into the Stooges?"
If you grew up in the U.S. and you're of a certain age (let's say, over 35), the Stooges were
always on TV, so it's really impossible to remember which short you saw first.
Just the other night, I visited an old high school friend of mine; I hadn't seen him in a while, and we watched "Micro-Phonies" and "Uncivil Warriors." He hadn't watched the Stooges in a long time, but he still remembered all of the funniest lines in both shorts— he was cracking up a second or two
before every one!
The scene in "Uncivil Warriors" where the boys are eating the cake with the potholder baked into it and then blowing feathers out of their mouths had him rolling on the floor, and I'm sure he'd seen it dozens of times as a kid. Anything
that funny never, ever loses its comic edge!
The baby boomers like Rob and the late boomers like me were really lucky to have grown up with the Stooges and with the classic Warner Brothers and Max Fleischer Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons available at the flip of a switch! I feel sorry for today's youngsters who don't have that luxury— which was free, besides. Nowadays, if you want
any of those, you have to buy a VHS tape or a DVD.