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The Curly Years
Shorts: The Curly
Years (1934-1947)
(1934)
1. Woman Haters
Information: This short SUCKS! I hate to use that word, but there is no better way to describe this one. It's entirely a musical, and not a good one. Everything rhymes. Moe, Larry, and Curly do not go by their names. They hate women, which is something you will NEVER see in other Stooge shorts. They join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with females. Larry marries a girl anyway and tries to hide the fact from Moe and Curly while on a train trip. Pretty bad. This film could have easily killed the Stooges' career. I'm glad the second short set the pace for all their other films.
2. Punch Drunks
3. Men in Black
4. Three Little Pigskins
Information: Lucille Ball (as a blonde) has a credited and pretty substantial part as a gangster's girlfriend. The Stooges are mistaken for star football players by the gangster's girlfriends, then by the gangsters themselves. The head gangster is played by Walter Long, a "heavy" in the classic Laurel & Hardy movies.
(1935)
5. Horses Collars
Information: I like this one, but I've seen better. The Stooges are private detectives trying to get an IOU back from a notorious outlaw in order to save a beautiful blonde's ranch. Apparently, the show is set in then-present day, but they go to a saloon that looks like it comes straight out of the Old West. This is the first-ever Stooges short set in the Old West, which was a very popular recurring theme.
Notice in the early part of the short, where the bartender marks 117 on the chalkboard. Only a few seconds later, after the Three Stooges enter the room, the chalkboard mysteriously shows 115 again!
6. Restless Knights
7. Pop Goes the Easel
8. Uncivil Warriors
9. Pardon my Scotch
10. Hoi Polloi
Information: This is funny. Once again, the Stooges are in high society. A professor tries to make gentlemen out of the three garbagemen...and gets trashed! The short really picks up when the lady dance instructor gets a bee in her dress, and the Stooges imitate her "dance" movements.
11. Three Little Beers
Information: This is a good one...one of their best. The Stooges are beer delivery men who wind up at a golf tournament and create total havoc. The ending sequence, with the runaway beer barrels, is one of the most exciting Stooge moments to watch!
(1936)
12. Ants in the Pantry
13. Movie Maniacs
14. Half-Shot Shooters
15. Disorder in the Court
Information: I don't care if this IS one of the most common Stooges shows, thanks to public domain. It's still one of their best. The Stooges are witnesses in court, trying to clear a hot girl dancer of murder. They totally turn the courtroom upside down. And who doesn't love their musical number with the lovely girl dancer doing her thing?
16. A Pain in the Pullman
17. False Alarms
18. Whoops I'm an Indian
19. Slippery Silks
(1937)
20. Grips, Grunts and Groans
21. Dizzy Doctors
22. Three Dumb Clucks
23. Goofs and Saddles
24. Back to the Woods
25. Cash and Carry
26. Playing the Ponies
27. The Sitter-Downers
(1938)
28. Termites of 1938
29. Wee Wee Monsieur
30. Tassels in the Air
31. Healthy, Wealthy, and Dumb
32. Three Missing Links
33. Violent is the Word for Curly
34. Mutts to You
35. Flat Foot Stooges
36. Three Little Sew and Sews
(1939)
37. We Want Our Mummy
38. A Ducking They Did Go
39. Yes, We Have No Bonanza
40. Saved by the Belle
41. Calling All Curs
42. Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
43. Three Sappy People
(1940)
44. You Natzy Spy
45. Rockin' Through the Rockies
46. A Plumbing We Will Go
47. From Nurse to Worse
48. Nutty But Nice
49. How High is Up
50. No Census, No Feeling
51. Cuckoo Cavaliers
52. Boobs in Arms
(1934)
1. Woman Haters
Information: This short SUCKS! I hate to use that word, but there is no better way to describe this one. It's entirely a musical, and not a good one. Everything rhymes. Moe, Larry, and Curly do not go by their names. They hate women, which is something you will NEVER see in other Stooge shorts. They join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with females. Larry marries a girl anyway and tries to hide the fact from Moe and Curly while on a train trip. Pretty bad. This film could have easily killed the Stooges' career. I'm glad the second short set the pace for all their other films.
2. Punch Drunks
3. Men in Black
4. Three Little Pigskins
Information: Lucille Ball (as a blonde) has a credited and pretty substantial part as a gangster's girlfriend. The Stooges are mistaken for star football players by the gangster's girlfriends, then by the gangsters themselves. The head gangster is played by Walter Long, a "heavy" in the classic Laurel & Hardy movies.
(1935)
5. Horses Collars
Information: I like this one, but I've seen better. The Stooges are private detectives trying to get an IOU back from a notorious outlaw in order to save a beautiful blonde's ranch. Apparently, the show is set in then-present day, but they go to a saloon that looks like it comes straight out of the Old West. This is the first-ever Stooges short set in the Old West, which was a very popular recurring theme.
Notice in the early part of the short, where the bartender marks 117 on the chalkboard. Only a few seconds later, after the Three Stooges enter the room, the chalkboard mysteriously shows 115 again!
6. Restless Knights
7. Pop Goes the Easel
8. Uncivil Warriors
9. Pardon my Scotch
10. Hoi Polloi
Information: This is funny. Once again, the Stooges are in high society. A professor tries to make gentlemen out of the three garbagemen...and gets trashed! The short really picks up when the lady dance instructor gets a bee in her dress, and the Stooges imitate her "dance" movements.
11. Three Little Beers
Information: This is a good one...one of their best. The Stooges are beer delivery men who wind up at a golf tournament and create total havoc. The ending sequence, with the runaway beer barrels, is one of the most exciting Stooge moments to watch!
(1936)
12. Ants in the Pantry
13. Movie Maniacs
14. Half-Shot Shooters
15. Disorder in the Court
Information: I don't care if this IS one of the most common Stooges shows, thanks to public domain. It's still one of their best. The Stooges are witnesses in court, trying to clear a hot girl dancer of murder. They totally turn the courtroom upside down. And who doesn't love their musical number with the lovely girl dancer doing her thing?
16. A Pain in the Pullman
17. False Alarms
18. Whoops I'm an Indian
19. Slippery Silks
(1937)
20. Grips, Grunts and Groans
21. Dizzy Doctors
22. Three Dumb Clucks
23. Goofs and Saddles
24. Back to the Woods
25. Cash and Carry
26. Playing the Ponies
27. The Sitter-Downers
(1938)
28. Termites of 1938
29. Wee Wee Monsieur
30. Tassels in the Air
31. Healthy, Wealthy, and Dumb
32. Three Missing Links
33. Violent is the Word for Curly
34. Mutts to You
35. Flat Foot Stooges
36. Three Little Sew and Sews
(1939)
37. We Want Our Mummy
38. A Ducking They Did Go
39. Yes, We Have No Bonanza
40. Saved by the Belle
41. Calling All Curs
42. Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
43. Three Sappy People
(1940)
44. You Natzy Spy
45. Rockin' Through the Rockies
46. A Plumbing We Will Go
47. From Nurse to Worse
48. Nutty But Nice
49. How High is Up
50. No Census, No Feeling
51. Cuckoo Cavaliers
52. Boobs in Arms