Topic: Grips, Grunts, and Groans (1937)

[Paul Pain]

Seems being a Southerner and a Stoogephile is unusual...

[MrsMorganMorgan]

Seems being a Southerner and a Stoogephile is unusual...

We can be oddballs together since I'm the female Stooge fan....

[Dr. Hugo Gansamacher]

Seems being a Southerner and a Stoogephile is unusual...

Well, as theah's no othah place around the place, ah reckon this must be the place, ah reckon! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk! 

[MrsMorganMorgan]

Well, as theah's no othah place around the place, ah reckon this must be the place, ah reckon! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk! 

Way down south in New York City The cotton grows on the trees so pretty On the trees On the trees In the South South Brooklyn!

[Lefty]

Hey; why live in the city if you can live somewhere worse? I live in Camden County; an armpit of the US and a blot on the butt of mankind!

Are you casting asparagus on Bucks County?  Well, there is Bristol, and Morrisville, and Doylestown Burro.

I thought the city of Camden itself was the armpit, not Camden County as a whole (hole?).  I've never had a problem in Cherry Hill.  Of course, there is the Tacony-Baloney Bridge which opened up early this morning to let a boat shoot a torpedo at Pennsauken.   

[metaldams]

I live in Northern Delaware, and I've been to plenty of concerts in Camden.  Can't think of a more ideal setting for a Slayer show.

[MrsMorganMorgan]

Are you casting asparagus on Bucks County?  Well, there is Bristol, and Morrisville, and Doylestown Burro.

I thought the city of Camden itself was the armpit, not Camden County as a whole (hole?).  I've never had a problem in Cherry Hill.  Of course, there is the Tacony-Baloney Bridge which opened up early this morning to let a boat shoot a torpedo at Pennsauken.   

I live down the White Horse Pike; not in Camden but I did attend Rutgers there before the waterfront became "cute". It was kill or be killed down there; I once assaulted back a thug who tried to assault me IN a college building. Several decades after that my mom bought a house in that simmering POS city and me and sibs had to get her out of there; another story for another day but that city is a huge stinking piece of sh*t and no amount of Enterprise Zone bucks or waterfront cute-ifying will fix it. I live down the WHP in an area that is now seeing its super fair share of Section 8 and government housing encroachment; big druggy apt complexes and lots of drugs and murder. So yeah; my town is in competition with Camden!

[Paul Pain]

I had some druggies for classmates, and I'm in Florida!

[shemps#1]

One of their best shorts, that about sums it up. 10/10

[Woe-ee-Woe-Woe80]

I know a lot of stooge fans seem to have rave about what a great episode "Grips" is, unfortunately for me it was never one of the shorts I was wild about, there were some amusing moments in this short but that was about it, I always thought 1937 was one of the weaker years of the Stooge shorts considering how great the stooge shorts were from late 1935-36 and again from 1939-42

I give this short a 6/10

[Percy Pomeroy]

Love this one. 9/10.

My favorite thing about Grips, Grunts and Groans is that it showed just how dangerous it would be to befriend the Stooges. The Stooge's have a certain charisma, so who wouldn't want to hang out with them? They seem harmless enough, right.

[Dr. Mabuse]

"If I'm gonna get beat up, I wanna get paid for it."

A partial reworking of the immortal "Punch Drunks" (1934), this Preston Black/Jack White short has plenty of wild energy along with some nice interaction between Curly and Larry. The wrestling climax is hysterical — one of the great Stooge endings. "Grips, Grunts and Groans" may lack the iconic stature of "Punch Drunks," but it's damn funny and moves at a faster pace. 

9/10

[Daddy Dewdrop]

Another solid short from start to finish.  Curly's energy is something to behold.

I rank this #36 overall.