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The Team Stooge members have cataloged 326 different routines that the Stooges used more than once in their feature films and short subjects. In the list below, you will find descriptions of the routines and the episodes where the Stooges used them. Click on the routine name to show or hide the description and list of episodes.
Unconscious enemy as a puppet |
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After the Stooges knock out an enemy (played by Cy Schindell) who is sitting down, the Stooges maniupulate the unconscious enemy like a puppet from a curtain behind where he''s sitting and carry on a conversation with another enemy sitting next to him.
Used in: MATRI-PHONY · FRIGHT NIGHT · FLING IN THE RING
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Uncooperative object |
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Undertaker, skeleton, and devil costumes |
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Unknowlingly lighting a dynamite stick or bomb |
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A Stooge is waving an unlit dynamite stick or bomb around to scare away villians. However, he unknowlingly holds the bomb close to a candle light, lighting the fuse of the bomb or dynamite. The villians back away fearfully and the Stooge think it''s his taunting that''s driving the villians away.
Used in: SPOOK LOUDER · OUT WEST
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Untied shoe gag |
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When Curly is boxing with an opponent, Curly tells the opponent that his shoe is untied. When the opponent looks down at his shoe, Curly gives him a punch in the jaw. The backfires for Curly because the opponent shows no signs of pain from the punch, then he punches Curly back even harder.
Used in: PUNCH DRUNKS · GRIPS, GRUNTS, AND GROANS
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Uses Three Watches to Tell the Time |
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Moe wonders what time it is, and a Stooge pulls up his sleeve revealing three wristwatches ...
Moe: Say, what''s the idea of the three watches?
Stooge: That''s how I tell the time. You see, (points at first watch) this watch runs 15 minutes fast every two hours. (points at watch at other end) This watch runs 10 minutes slow every four hours. The watch in the middle is broken, stopped dead at two o''clock. I add the time from the fast watch to the slow watch and divide by the two in the middle.
Moe: Well, what time is it now?
Stooge: (pulls pocket watch from pocket) 3:15 ...
Used in: DUTIFUL BUT DUMB · RHYTHM AND WEEP · STUDIO STOOPS
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Using a bottom lip as a bottle top opener |
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Using a meat grinder as a machine gun |
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Using Shemp to knock a door down |
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Using suspenders as a slingshot |
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