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Worst Episode Opinion
Rich Finegan:
--- Quote from: Stooge-Adam on June 11, 2010, 08:56:07 PM ---I may be able to like "Scrambled Brains" on its own. Maybe viewing it with all the others in a big event, makes some of these shorts get lost in the shuffle. Had I just randomly chosen this short to watch, it might not have been as bad. But all I know is, I couldn't wait for it to be over.
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Definitely do give it another chance.
This short is very highly rated by most Stooges fans I know (and that's my opinion, too!)
The piano scene is great!
Blystone:
"Scrambled Brains" is one of my top two or three choices for the greatest of Shemp's shorts with the Stooges. Shemp as a total off-the-wall madman, having hallucinations, Moe and Larry aren't sure if he's sane enough to go home (he's not), now what could be funnier than that?
Maybe a late-career appearance by Vernon Dent?
[cool2]
hiramhorwitz:
--- Quote from: Blystone on June 12, 2010, 04:18:32 AM ---"Scrambled Brains" is one of my top two or three choices for the greatest of Shemp's shorts with the Stooges. Shemp as a total off-the-wall madman, having hallucinations, Moe and Larry aren't sure if he's sane enough to go home (he's not), now what could be funnier than that?
[cool2]
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Not to mention the appearance of silent film extra and Larry Fine's retirement home neighbor Babe London!
Stooge-Adam:
--- Quote from: Blystone on June 12, 2010, 04:18:32 AM ---"Scrambled Brains" is one of my top two or three choices for the greatest of Shemp's shorts with the Stooges. Shemp as a total off-the-wall madman, having hallucinations, Moe and Larry aren't sure if he's sane enough to go home (he's not), now what could be funnier than that?
Maybe a late-career appearance by Vernon Dent?
[cool2]
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Just so people here know what I like and dislike reguarding the Shemp shorts...
My Top Five BEST Shemp shorts are:
1. Fuelin' Around
2. Brideless Groom
3. Sing a Song of Six Pants
4. Goof on the Roof
5. Hula-La-La
My Top Five Worst Shemp shorts are: (I've just finished watching "Gypped in the Penthouse")
1. Scrambled Brains
2. Fiddler's Three
3. Cuckoo on a Choo Choo
4. Bubble Trouble
5. Musty Musketeers (not a surprise since it's a remake of Fiddler's Three)
Blystone:
There's really someone who doesn't like "Scrambled Brains?" That's understandable if you can't laugh at Shemp, and some people can't... to each their own. However, this is some great Stooging! How can you not crack up even at the supporting cast? Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent, and Babe London? Larry getting pelted on the head with eggs, in a phone booth?
Then there's Shemp's Boogie-Woogie, which is probably only funny to piano players— but it is funny.
[groucho]
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