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25 (Mostly) Essential Three Stooges Shorts
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Enter paperhanger Moe Hailstone and his two pals (Gallstone and Pebble), who are all in when it is explained to them that a dictator “makes speeches to the people promising them plenty, gives them nothing, then takes everything.” “You Nazty Spy” is the only Stooges short to inspire a sequel. In “Punch Drunks,” the Stooges’ second short, it’s the song “Pop Goes the Weasel.” In “Horses’ Collars”, it’s seeing a mouse (prompting the surreal catchphrase, “Moe, Larry, the cheese”), and in the wrestling comedy “Grips, Grunts and Groans,” it’s the smell of Wild Hyacinth perfume. After fouling up an assignment, inept photographers Moe, Larry, and Curly, here dubbed Click, Clack, and Cluck, are expendably dispatched to the Vulgarian Frontier (“Cameras Prohibited on Penalty of Death”) by their fed-up editor.
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