I'm doing some film research on the Three Stooges cartoons from 1965,
and have been trying to track down a specific episode (and trying to buy it as well)
Of the 156 NEW 3 STOOGES cartoons, 155 were released on VHS by Embassy Home Entertainment in the mid-1980s, sourced from very good quality 16mm prints. These videos are long out-of-print, but used copies regularly show up on eBay and Amazon.comAuctions.
Rhino attempted releasing the series to DVD a few years ago, but after two discs with 32 episodes, and disappointing sales, they canceled future DVD plans.
The Embassy and Rhino videos, and episodes on each, are listed here on the "Videography" page (the link is on your left).
The title I'm looking for is one of the stranger ones from the series.
I believe the Stooges are housepainters who befriend a little boy who, whenever he hears the word 'Bad' turns into a crazy monster, and whenever he hears the word 'Good' turns back into an angelic little boy. This terrorizes the Stooges, and I remember the little boy's voice as being especially peculiar.
Most of the toon titles and plots are a blur in my recollections. I have all 156 toons in my library, but I rarely look at them and with only a few exceptions, I can't recall titles or match titles with plots.
However, there was a handful of toons featuring "Badman," a costumed super-villain patterned after Batman, who plagued the Stooges in their jobs of cops, babysitters, etc.. There were approx. five "Badman" episodes. I can't recall the 'housepainters' episode you're asking about.
The voice of Badman's alter ego, the little boy, sounds strange because it was done by Margaret Kerry. Margaret did all of the female and juvenile voices for these Stooges toons. She also appeared in several of the live-action segments: the mother in "Sunbathers" and "Barbers," the receptionist in "Electricians," the housewife in "Decorators," and Emil's wife in "Waiters." Margaret's husband, Dick Brown, was the executive producer of THE NEW 3 STOOGES.
