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#28 - TERMITES OF 1938 (1938)

Postby Lunkhead on May 13th, 2007, 10:54 am

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Pest exterminators Moe, Larry and Curly are mistakenly hired as professional escorts to work a ritzy party. After they arrive, they first demonstrate proper table etiquette for the guests, and then replace the band to provide music for the occasion. They achieve this by pretending to play instruments while using a record player. A few mice turn up, so the boys go into action trying to rid the joint of the pests.

Some highlights are the early mouse catching scenes and Moe playing the bass fiddle with a saw. Larry has a great bit when they first see expensive silverware at the party. When asked, "What do you do with it?", Larry replies, "I'll show ya what to do with it" and starts putting some in his pocket. I also find it very funny when Larry and Curly think they've detected mice. They drill holes in the walls and Curly pumps exterminating liquid right into the face of a couple guests! :laugh1:

Overall, a fun short. It seems to run quick, though the dinner scene is a bit long. It's somewhat unusual that Moe deals out very little punishment.

"If a pie-eyed piper can call 'em out, I can sober." ~ :curly1:

"At your service day and night. We do the job and do it right. Aaaaacccmmmeee!!!" ~ :moe1: :larry1: :curly1:
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Postby Xenorama on May 13th, 2007, 6:58 pm

and here i was worried about the mice!

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Postby DangerkittyToTheRescue on May 17th, 2007, 7:38 am

Although I really didn't care for this short much, thats not to say that there isn't merit in watching it again. The dinner was so painfully slow for me, I couldn't wait for the mice to appear. This short did play true to the constant three stooges ideology that although they try, they never seem to fit in to society.

Isn't this the only short to have the stooges theme song playing in the short, (scene with mouse cannon)?

I'll have to go back and check out the credits, you know, see if we had a guest director or writer on this one. You seem to have a slowed down stooges short fashioned in a Laural and Hardy style. Anyone else see that too or am I off base?
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Postby Wilytank on May 18th, 2007, 3:27 pm

Funny stuff.
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Postby Lunkhead on May 22nd, 2007, 8:11 pm

Isn't this the only short to have the stooges theme song playing in the short, (scene with mouse cannon)?

I believe so.
I'll have to go back and check out the credits, you know, see if we had a guest director or writer on this one. You seem to have a slowed down stooges short fashioned in a Laural and Hardy style. Anyone else see that too or am I off base?

It does have a slower pace than most stooge shorts and the feel is different. Del Lord directed (not unusual), but the producer was Charley Chase (who was only involved in a few stooge efforts).
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Re: #28 - TERMITES OF 1938 (1938)

Postby DangerkittyToTheRescue on May 22nd, 2007, 10:01 pm

Lunkhead wrote:[img]

"If a pie-eyed piper can call 'em out, I can sober." ~ :curly1:


I just love that line and the other one from A ducking we will go.

Curly,,,,"If a piper can call ducks pie-eyed, I can sober."

I think I got that right, didn't I?

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Postby Xenorama on June 22nd, 2008, 10:19 pm

it looks even better, and funnier to see them in the new set.
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Postby moe-jo on June 23rd, 2008, 10:36 am

Lunkhead wrote:
Isn't this the only short to have the stooges theme song playing in the short, (scene with mouse cannon)?

I believe so.


Which theme song? Listen for the Mockingbird or Three Blind Mice?
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Re: #28 - TERMITES OF 1938 (1938)

Postby Steve on July 21st, 2008, 2:59 pm

I can't help but think of Three Sappy People when I watch Termites of 1938, both of which feature dinner table scenes using the "Comedy of Manners" routine. I prefer Three Sappy People with its madcap heiress (the lovely Lorna Gray), but for some reason, Bess Flowers comes off as *beautiful* here! Watch her scene on the telephone to illustrate this proud opinion of mine!
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Re: #28 - TERMITES OF 1938 (1938)

Postby bustoff on August 20th, 2009, 11:23 pm

I just love the scene when Moe puts Larry in the piano and the cats are coming from everywhere.
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Re: #28 - TERMITES OF 1938 (1938)

Postby Jimmy Finn on August 21st, 2009, 11:59 pm

bustoff wrote:I just love the scene when Moe puts Larry in the piano and the cats are coming from everywhere.


That scene is from "Ants in the Pantry [1936]".
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