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Lunkhead
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(5/22/02 1:54 am)
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What's your favorite 'Poor Moe' scene?
Mine is the rubber suit bit from "Dizzy Pilots". Hysterically funny seeing Moe turned into a zeppelin.
"Oh! I'm floating. I'm floating away!"
stoogefan65
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(5/22/02 9:14 am)
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For me, it is "Idiots Deluxe."
Curly,.."Poor Moe !!"
Larry,.."Oh woe is Moe !!"
Moe,..."Oh WOE is YOU !!"
Larry,.."WHOA, MOE !!"
Gets me everytime !!!
stoogefan65
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(5/23/02 4:02 pm)
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I can't remember the name of the short, but it starts w/the boys as Airplane "mechanics" in England, I think. Anyway, at one point, Moe gets his head stuck in a rather large piece of pipe, and Curly and Larry put him through all kinds of torture, ( using a crowbar, trying to twist it off, trying to heat the pipe so Moe will slip out, etc ), trying to free him. "Poor Moe" applies to those situations !!
...."What's cookin' !!".......
Lunkhead
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(5/23/02 10:11 pm)
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"It's Me!!!"
Those are good examples. My brain can't remember the name of that short either, but those scenes are super funny. Remember when they finally got his head out, it had the screw mark all the way around his face from the twisting.
stoogefan65
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(5/24/02 10:26 am)
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Yeah, the "twist marks" on Moe's face are pretty funny. I think the boys end up inside a "blockbuster" that winds up being dropped on the "bad guys" at the short's end. Another short where Moe takes pretty good abuse is "The Sitterdowners." After Moe get his finger stuck in the water faucet, Larry lets him have it pretty good.
Moe,..."Get the Dynamite. I knew we'd have to use it for something."
Curly,..."HEY !! You're not gonna BLAST ?"
Moe,...."What would YOU DO?"
Curly,..."I'd blast !"
Megaloman
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(5/24/02 11:19 am)
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Moe usually deserved what he got, simply cause he dished out so much more retribution to the boys the rest of the time.
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stoogefan65
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(5/26/02 6:26 am)
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Other shorts were Moe get clobbered are "Cactus Makes Perfect", ( at the bottom of "The Lost Mine" ), and "Cash & Carry", ( at the bottom of the hole they were digging).
Moe,.."What's that?"
Larry,."That's an eye."
Moe,.."Yeah,..an eye for an eye !!" (Pokes Larry in his eyes.
Curly,."And a tooth for a tooth?"
Moe,.."Certainly !!" (Slaps Curly.)
Lunkhead
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(5/26/02 10:30 am)
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How about the Shemp short where Moe swallows the tacks? Can't remember the name of that one either. But the sound Moe makes with his tongue after he swallows them kills me every time.
stoogefan65
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(5/28/02 5:41 pm)
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Yeah. That was "Corny Casanovas", I think. The one where the boys all have the same girlfriend, Connie Cezan. Another short where Moe gets in pretty good is "A Stitch In Time", where the boys are "Miss Sutter's" carpenters. Remember when Moe gets his eye glued shut, and Shemp attempts to open it with a hammer and chisel !!
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It's a pure PLEASURE to see a Stooge board NOT populated by nitpicking Stooge nerds! Seeing so many comments on the order of, "I can't remember the name of this short - ahhh, t'hell with it!"....well, it does my heart good.
Lunkhead
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(7/12/02 5:14 pm)
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Hopefully I've layed down a loose atmosphere here. As much as I love the stooges and all the classic monsters/comedy, etc, I gotta admit I'm not a super-expert. I thought I knew tons about The Outer Limits til I read some posts in a Yahoo OL group. Yeeshh. Those people would run circles around me. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate and respect all the knowledge and info out there, but we can still have fun with this stuff despite varying levels of ignoramacy. (Having said all this, I shoulda remembered "Corny Casanovas", Nyuk, nyuk.)
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stoogefan65
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(7/13/02 8:50 am)
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Moe also get pulled through wall or two in various shorts. I think "They Stooge To Conga" and "Listen , Judge !!" are two examples .
...."I'll MURDER SOMEBODY !!!.......
....."A GOPHER !!!............
Megaloman
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(7/13/02 8:09 pm)
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Perhaps we could institute a poll over here as well...
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Lunkhead
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(7/13/02 8:32 pm)
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Those scenes are great and super-funny. Seems to be the height of numskullery to keep pullin hard enough and long enough to actually drag a poor soul through a wall.
"Hey. This gopher looks like Moe!"
How about the notorious climbing spike in Moe's eye? Man alive!! Really felt for him there. Definitely a Poor Moe moment.
Speaking of "Listen, Judge", there's a Shemp moment that tickles my funny bone everytime. When they short out the light bulb in his ear via the screwdriver, Shemp's bellow always puts me on the floor. It sounds so sincere and pathetic. Shemp's yells always crack me up, but that one especially.
stoogefan65
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(7/14/02 9:19 am)
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Yeah,..that scene is a hoot !! I also always laugh at Shemp as the chef.
Shemp,..."Separate two eggs." (Move two eggs apart)
Shemp,..(continuing ),...."Put 'em in the turkey. Any dope would know that !!"
"The Galloping Gourmet" had nothing on Shemp !!!
Megaloman
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(7/15/02 3:46 pm)
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Yeah, but Curly did the egg separating thing first!
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stoogefan65
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(7/15/02 6:10 pm)
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Yeah, Curly's chef in "An Ache In Every Stake" was also super. I enjoy both Curly's and Shemp's comic styles in that bit. Curly's bit was a bit more involved,..i.e.,.."Shaving the Ice",...but that's a great thing about the boys. They continually use routines again and again in the shorts,...but you still laugh.
Curly,..."Hey, mister. Did you have a pink tie on? No?,...Well,..here's your lip !!!"
BeAStooge
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(9/10/02 10:07 am)
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< Yeah, but Curly did the egg separating thing first! >
Nope. The cooking gags were first performed by a stooge, namely Shemp Howard, in the Vitaphone comedy "A Peach of a Pair" (1934). The director of "Peach" was Hal Roach veteran Lloyd French; French wrote the screenplay for "An Ache in Every Stake" (1941) and recycled those gags for Curly.
Megaloman
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(9/10/02 1:44 pm)
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OK, he did it in a Stooge short first? Neither of them were probably the first to do it anyway!
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(9/11/02 7:40 pm)
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I would think a lot of gags from vaudeville made there way into many films. Brent, do you know if Lloyd French actually wrote the eggs bit or if he got it from an early live act?
That's probably another whole topic - which routines came from vaudeville and were redone in shorts. I enjoy both the Stooges and Abbott & Costello's versions of "Niagra Falls" for instance. I believe that came from vaudeville, but who originally wrote it? This has probably been covered before on other boards, but Brent, any ideas on who authored "Niagra Falls"?
Megaloman
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(9/11/02 7:45 pm)
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NIAGRA FALLS?!?!
Slowly I turned, step by step...
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