In my childhood, when the stooges first hit the small screen ( I'll nail it down to 1960, I don't think I was watching, or at least not watching sentiently, in 1959 ), WNAC-TV in Boston was running three Stooges episodes every weekday morning before school. I think that they ran them uncut, didn't even edit them for commercials, God bless 'em, but I also think that they for whatever reason clipped off the beginning of No Dough Boys to the extent that they edited out the first minute that established that the stooges were heavily-made-up photographer's models doing a shoot. That and Curly's comment later to Moe: " speak for yourself, John " ( John? His name is Moe! ) and the fight with the diner owner, was, given the missing opening minute, disorienting to Little Chief Apumtagribonitz. Moe's saying "he thinks we're Japs" was not, unfortunately, a light-bulb moment. It was years before I saw the actual opening and exorcised that childhood dilemma. I don't think the cut would have been done by a squeamish editor at WNAC, since they regularly ran Stooge To Conga and Yoke's On Me in their entirety.
In any case, even before I sorted all this out, I thought this was a very funny outing. The acrobatic act was great, and I think a lot of it ( the easy stuff ) was done by the stooges themselves. Larry's great here.
