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Injuries on the set of Three Stooges shorts

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Shemp:
I was watching Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise last night (and as usual laughing to tears as if it were my first time seeing it) and there was a scene where a flame shoots out of a oil pipe right in front of their faces, which seemed to have at least some danger to the gag.... but it made me remember all the other gags I've seen involving what I'm sure were real flames:  Moe's rear on fire, Shemp's rear on fire, Larry accidentally turning to Moe's direction with what is almost a flame thrower (and of course burning his rear), etc.  I'm sure there are many others that I can't remember.  How in the world is it that they apparently never got burned by these pyro-technics? 

Mark The Shark:
Moe tells this story in his autobiography:

I remember once when the prop man concocted a smorgasbord of gook: chocolate, whipped cream, asbestos chips, linseed oil, ketchup, and other unknown goodies. I was supposed to fall face down in a vat of something or other with Curly dropping right on top of me. As luck would have it, I forgot to close my eyes. Curly had me buried under that goo for about eight seconds. When I came up, nostrils and eyes full of that brutal concoction, they needed the studio doctor and a nurse to bring me back to normal...something I haven't been for years.

Now, I think I know the Stooge shorts pretty well, but I have no idea what scene this would have been. Anyone?

GreenCanaries:

--- Quote from: Mark The Shark on September 25, 2020, 07:51:38 PM ---Moe tells this story in his autobiography:

I remember once when the prop man concocted a smorgasbord of gook: chocolate, whipped cream, asbestos chips, linseed oil, ketchup, and other unknown goodies. I was supposed to fall face down in a vat of something or other with Curly dropping right on top of me. As luck would have it, I forgot to close my eyes. Curly had me buried under that goo for about eight seconds. When I came up, nostrils and eyes full of that brutal concoction, they needed the studio doctor and a nurse to bring me back to normal...something I haven't been for years.

Now, I think I know the Stooge shorts pretty well, but I have no idea what scene this would have been. Anyone?

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My first guess would be the end of the tent-pitching scene in THREE MISSING LINKS. Can anyone think of any other possible examples?

metaldams:

--- Quote from: GreenCanaries on September 25, 2020, 08:08:45 PM ---My first guess would be the end of the tent-pitching scene in THREE MISSING LINKS. Can anyone think of any other possible examples?

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I think OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE may be the one.  The oil may be what Moe is referring to, but THREE MISSING LINKS is also a good guess with the mud.

GreenCanaries:

--- Quote from: metaldams on September 25, 2020, 09:41:07 PM ---I think OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE may be the one.  The oil may be what Moe is referring to, but THREE MISSING LINKS is also a good guess with the mud.

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I do remember hearing about Moe having a problem with goop in his eyes on that short (and a similar incident later on with soot in THE THREE TROUBLEDOERS), but note that in this anecdote, Moe specifically mentions Curly being on top of him and thus pressing him into the goop, as he is in that final shot of the tent scene in LINKS. Unless I'm forgetting something, I don't recall such a moment in OILY?

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