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Production InformationTitle: Three Smart SapsStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 64Release Date: July 30, 1942Running Time: 16:40 “Stand aside. Let a guy that can knock, nick knock, n’yuk n’yuk n’yuk!” Short Take Wedding plans for The Three Stooges are cut short when the father of their fiancees is wrongly jailed, and the inmates take over the prison where he was the warden. Moe…

Production InformationTitle: Matri-PhonyStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 63Release Date: July 2, 1942Running Time: 17:10 “Oh, food! Vitamins A, B, C, D, E, F, Gee I like food!” Short Take In Matri-Phony, The Three Stooges live in “Ancient Erysipelas,” (parody of Ancient Rome) where they run Ye Olde Pottery Shop. The powerful Emperor Octopus Grabus (Vernon Dent) is in search of a new…

Production InformationTitle: Cactus Makes PerfectStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 61Release Date: February 26, 1942Running Time: 17:18 “I’m gonna change my socks. What an experience!”(Curly) Short Take The Three Stooges’ 61st film short, Cactus Makes Perfect opens with The Stooges’ mother (played by male actor Monte Collins) attempting to wake up her three boys without success. “Get out of bed you lazy loafers!”…

Production InformationTitle: Loco Boy Makes GoodStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 60Release Date: January 8, 1942Running Time: 17:24 “They hit me with a tomatah.” “A tomato?” “Yeah, a cowardly tomatah… one that hits ‘ya and runs.”(Curly & Vernon Dent) Short Take After being thrown out of their apartment, the Stooges try a new scam to gain some money: find a hotel, slip on…

Production InformationTitle: In the Sweet Pie and PieStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 58Release Date: October 16, 1941Running Time: 17:25 “I’m too young to die… too young and too handsome… uuunnnggghhh! Well, I’m too young.” Short Take Three rich heiresses must marry before midnight to collect their inheritance. However, their Navy fiancees have to ship out to Hawaii. Their lawyer arranges for them…

Production InformationTitle: An Ache in Every StakeStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 57Release Date: August 22, 1941Running Time: 18:05 “Take the gas pipe.” …”Not you! The cake! I’ll kill you later… poisonally!”(Moe) Short Take  In An Ache in Every Stake, a quintessential fan favorite, The Three Stooges are icemen that have fallen asleep in their delivery wagon. Their horse wakes them up.…

Production InformationTitle: I’ll Never Heil AgainStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 56Release Date: July 11, 1941Running Time: 18:09 “The characters in this picture are all fictitious. Anyone resembling them is better off dead.” Short Take The Stooges hold the same positions they held in You Natzy Spy! and are still ruling the country of Moronica. The three cabinet ministers (Vernon Dent, Lynton Brent, and…

Production InformationTitle: Dutiful But DumbStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 54Release Date: March 21, 1941Running Time: 16:47 “I can’t find the negative.” “What about the positive?” “I’m positive about the negative, but a little negative about the positive.” “Oh, negative eh?” “No, I’m positive the negative is in the developer.” “Your brains need developing!” – (Larry, Moe and Curly) Dutiful But Dumb Short…

Production InformationTitle: So Long, Mr. ChumpsStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 53Release Date: February 7, 1941Running Time: 17:32 “You, with that iron head of yours…! Now, I’m liable to pay for another hammer.”(Moe) Short Take  The Stooges are inept but honest street cleaners. When they come across an envelope filled with oil bonds in the trash, they return them to their owner, B.O. Davis…

Production InformationTitle: From Nurse To WorseStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 49Release Date: August 23, 1940Running Time: 16:43 “This is my favorite dollar. I raised it from a cent!” Short Take The Three Stooges are painters who run into their old friend Jerry, an insurance salesman (Lynton Brent). He promises them that if they take out a policy on Curly proving that he…