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Production InformationTitle: Beer Barrel PolecatsStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 88Release Date: January 10, 1946Running Time: 17:21 “We all put the yeast in!”(Moe, Larry, and Curly) Short Take Unable to purchase a bottle of beer due to Prohibition (despite it being repealed 13 years ago), the Stooges opt to brew some of the stuff themselves. The recipe that they use calls for three small cubes…

Production InformationTitle: Idiots DeluxeStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 85Release Date: July 20, 1945Running Time: 17:28 “If there’s anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it’s baloney and whipped cream — and we haven’t got any!” Short Take Moe is on trial for assaulting Larry and Curly. Moe appeals to the judge (Vernon Dent), claiming he is a sick man who was…

Production InformationTitle: Booby DupesStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 84Release Date: March 17, 1945Running Time: 17:02 “Hey, Harry James.” “Aww, I’m not that good.” “You said it!” (whap!)(Moe & Larry) Booby Dupes Short Take The Stooges are fish peddlers (similar to their roles in Cookoo Cavaliers) who decide to cut out the middleman by catching the fish themselves. They then go about purchasing fishermen…

Production InformationTitle: Three Pests In A messStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 83Release Date: January 19, 1942Running Time: 15:19 They tried to drown me… As a matter of fact they did! – Christine McIntyre as secretary Short Take The Stooges are trying to get a patent on their rather unusual fly-catching device, but they calculate that they need to catch 100,000 flies to…

Production InformationStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 82Release Date: November 24, 1944Running Time: 16.54 “Read that sign!” “Hey, you, no smokin’!” “Well?” “It says you, not me! N’yuk, n’yuk, n’yuk!”(Moe & Curly) Short Take A “war years” short. We open on the boys dressed as Japanese soldiers for an advertising photo shoot. Sent out to lunch in uniform by…

Production InformationTitle: Idle RoomersStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 80Release Date: July 16, 1944Running Time: 16:49 Music hath charm. – Curly Short Take In this ‘scare comedy,’ The Three Stooges are bellhops at Hotel Snazzy Plaza and pound each other in order to get some face time with an attractive woman (the lovely Christine McIntyre, in her debut appearance with the team). Unfortunately,…

Production InformationTitle: Busy Buddies Studio: ColumbiaShort Number: 78Release Date: March 18, 1943Running Time: 16:42 “Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?”(Curly) Busy Buddies Short Take  The Stooges operate the Jive Cafe and are enduring significant debt. They reluctantly take a second job hanging posters (à la Three Little Twirps), earning a penny for each poster hung. Moe takes notice of one particular…

Production InformationTitle: Crash Goes The Hash Studio: ColumbiaShort Number: 77Release Date: February 5, 1944Running Time: 17:36 “Are you good with stews?” “Coitainly, he’s always half-stewed.”(Bud Jamison & Curly) Short Take In The The Three Stooges short film, Crash Goes The Hash, Fuller Bull (Vernon Dent), the head of the ailing Daily News, confronts the reporters he hired for not…

Production InformationTitle: Back From the FrontStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 70Release Date: May 28, 1943Running Time: 17:41 “If we’re discovered, we’re lost!” “You’re crazy… if we’re discovered, we’re FOUND!” Short Take Back From The Front is the fifth Three Stooges’ World War II film. The Boys join the war effort by enlisting in the Merchant Marines. While aboard ship, Inky, Winky, and Dinky…

Production InformationTitle: Even As IOUStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 65Release Date: September 18, 1942Running Time: 15:37 “Give me Ripley! Yeah, believe it or not!” Short Take A destitute mother and child move into The Stooge’s vacant lot home and The Boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long…