The Stooges are stone-age cavemen, trying to cope with primitive life. They have to fight for their women Aggie, Maggie and Baggie, when some rival cavemen try to steal them back from the Stooges. 1948
Remade as STONE AGE ROMEOS (1955), with stock footage.
Moe, Larry and Curly are defense workers during WWII who come home from the job for a well deserved dinner. During their "rationed" meal Curly breaks his tooth eating a ham bone that Moe allocated to him in during an unfair meal allotment. The remainder of the episode consists of a "dream sequence" where Moe makes multiple attempts to pull the broken tooth. These efforts are predictably fruitless and simply irritate Curly even more. Eventually, Curly is forced to go to the dentist but gets the last laugh when the dentist pulls Moe's tooth by mistake while Moe was sitting in the chair trying to reassure a terrified Curly. Ultimately, Curly awakes from his dream and his problem is rectified when Moe punches him in the jaw knocking out the damaged tooth and allowing the boys to get back to sleep. 1943
Although the Stooges' sister, Birdie, has been dead more than a year, Joe will not let her memory fade. He studies reincarnation, thinking someday Birdie might return. While walking the streets, Joe hears Birdie's voice coming from a horse. The Stooges are delighted to find their reincarnated sister and take her home to celebrate. They spend the rest of the time hiding her from their landlord (Mr. Dinkelspiel). The key gag is that she makes uncles out of the Stooges.
1957
Moe and Larry marry Shemp's plump sisters, and discover to their horror after the vows that the girls are a couple of battle axes. The new bridegrooms vow revenge on Shemp for introducing them. Shemp is a music teacher who discovers that he has to marry a woman within 7 hours to receive $500,000 from his dead Uncle's will. After some searching, the Stooges finally find an ugly crone, one of Shemp's students. Several of Shemp's old girlfriends, golddiggers all, arrive at the Justice of the Peace's office, wrecking havoc in an attempt to marry Shemp for his money. But Shemp marries the crone, just under the deadline, and then discovers that there is no dead Uncle or will, and that everything was Moe's and Larry's revenge. 1956
The Stooges have been taking care of Mary, their invalid downstairs neighbor who is confined to a wheelchair after an accident. What they don't know is that Mary is faking her injuries for the insurance money. The boys have jobs hanging posters at the theatre, where they run into The Great Svengarlic. They try to talk him into curing Mary, but instead they are hypnotized by him, and he instructs them to go out on a flagpole and dance, many stories above the street. They come to when Svengarlic is knocked out by a bicyclist, and find themselves clinging to the flagpole for dear life. When the flagpole breaks they crash through the window of the insurance adjustor, causing Mary jump to her feet and revealing her fraud. 1949
Remade as FLAGPOLE JITTERS (1956), with stock footage
Two high society professors argue over which influence molds gentlemen. One claims environment is the keystone to social distinction, the other asserts that heredity is the backbone of social life. They pick on nearby trash men (the Stooges) to prove their theory. After spending months in training, the Stooges attend an elegant dinner party, ultimately disproving BOTH professors' theories. 1935
The Stooges' inheritance from their late Uncle Ambrose has been stolen by crooked investment broker Icabod Slipp. The boys go over to Slipp's office to subpoena him, but he beats each of them up, rips up their subpoenas and then takes off on a train with the boys' inheritance. The Stooges trail him to the train he's on, but before finding him, they accidentally let loose a lion on the train. Later on, the boys finally capture Slipp and get their inheritance money back from him.
Curly Howard, who had retired, makes a cameo in this film as a snoring passenger. 1947
This episode is a continuation of HOOFS AND GOOFS (1957).
The Stooges apartment is a little crowded, but they do their best to raise the baby colt and search for sister Birdie's mate, a circus horse named Schnapps. The Stooges read in the paper that Schnapps has been injured, and may have to be destoyed. Knowing this would crush their sister, they set out to the circus to save him. As usual they almost screw it up, but in the end ,the old guy that's supposed to shoot Schnapps can't see well and misses the mark. Birdie and Schnapps end up back together, and the only thing that was really wrong with Schnapps was that he missed Birdie.
1957
The Stooges are hired by the Detective Hadyn Zeke to go out West and help his client, Nell Higginbottom regain the I.O.U. her father was tricked into signing. The boys get into several scrapes in the process, but fortunately Curly goes insane whenever he sees a mouse, and only a mouthful of cheese will settle him down... "Moe, Larry ... the cheese!" 1935
The Stooges apply for experienced men at Scotland Yard, but wind up as gardeners instead. They stumble across a note about a case involving a stolen diamond, and take the case to prove themselves. While investigating in a dockside saloon dive, Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond, and the crooks plan to cut it out of him. But a gorilla hidden in the saloon, imported from Africa, escapes from his cage and changes the thieves' plans. 1955
The Stooges are secret agents, their mission is to protect Professor Sneed from kidnapping by foreign agents after his rocket fuel formula. They disguise as carpet layers and go to Sneed's house, but Larry is mistaken for Professor Sneed and kidnapped along with Moe and Shemp. They pretend that Larry is Prof. Sneed, and accidentally succeed in making a rocket fuel. But just as they're about to be freed, the real professor shows up and the Stooges are confined to a room, the Professor and his daughter locked in a dungeon, and all sentenced to death. 1956
After a prison stretch for jewel robbery, three beautiful women search for a pearl necklace the police never found. Unfortunately for them, the warehouse where they hid it sold the pearls for back storage fees to three furniture repairman, Moe, Larry & Shemp. The girls follow the Stooges to their shop, and pretend to flirt with them as a distraction, so they can search the shop for the necklace. But the molls' gangster ex-boyfriends are hot on their trail, and slapstick mayhem ensues when the Stooges come to the girls' defense.
1950
B. O. Pictures' president Mr. Baines wants to use the island of Rarabonga for his next musical extravaganza, but the natives don't know how to dance! So he sends studio choreographers Moe, Larry and Shemp to the south Pacific island as dance teachers. Unfortunately, the natives are head hunters under the control of witch doctor Varanu. On the run for their lives, the Stooges receive help from the King's daughter Luana, and attempt to gain the upper hand with a box of left-over World War II gernades guarded by a living three-armed totem idol. 1951
Curly wins a radio contest for $50,000 and the Stooges move into the Costa Plente hotel. They wreck havoc by destroying a very valuable bed and a $5000 vase. After the stooges receive their letter from the Coffin Nail Cigarette Company, they discover that after all the taxes they have only won $4.85. 1938
WWI has ended and stooges have been discharged from the service, even though they've done absolutely nothing. When their sergeant discovers this, he beats them up badly, but the stooges have their revenge and beat him up. Years pass by and the guys become bums. They try to steal a meal from a well-to-do man who chases and catches them in front of a military recruiting station. When the boys ask for a job, he tells them to go into a nearby building and go to room 310. They sign up, but it turns out to be the army, and they're under their old sergeant's command again! They are assigned to train on a big gun at a naval base, and after messing up many times, they accidentally fire on the Admiral's flagship. The sergeant then blasts them away by firing a cannon at them. 1936
Two professors take a page from George Bernard Shaw and settle a behaviorism dispute on heredity vs. environment by trying to reform three slovenly, crass handymen, played, of course, by the Stooges. A several-thousand-dollar bet is made, and Prof. Quackenbush sets to training his three Lizas. Several months pass, and the newborn gentlemen attend a dinner party. They behave themselves for about two minutes. The short is capped off by a horrendous pie fight. Good line: "Why, you act as if the sword of Damacles was hanging over your head!"
This short, however, is marred by being Curly's last; he suffered a crippling stroke and was forced to retire. Shemp replaced him two months later in FRIGHT NIGHT. 1947
At The Woman Haters Club, Larry and Shemp exchange stories of their disastrous encounters with a golddigger, who turns out to be the same woman. Jane became engaged to Larry, only to dump him when Moe shows up with a larger diamond ring. Shemp is a good samaritan, who winds up in Jane's apartment after a good deed, and chased by her husband Moe when he returns home early... "He was on a business trip. That's separated, isn't it?!" Drowning their sorrows in beer, Shemp & Larry are introduced by fellow club member Charlie, to the WH's newest recruit. Of course it's Moe, and slapstick mayhem ensues! 1955
The Stooges are dim-witted firemen who spend all their time covering up their mistakes so they can impress their girlfriends by being in uniform. Curly sneaks out of the firehouse while on duty and joins the girls. They want him to get the other two to come over, so Curly trips the nearest fire alarm. The fire truck leaves Moe and Larry behind because they have accidentally locked themselves in a janitor's closet. They then take the Captain's car and try to beat the truck to the fire, ultimately wrecking the car. 1936
A depressed Joe is sulking about a lost love, Fifi, who he planned to marry years ago. The Stooges discover that Fifi has moved into the apartment across the hall and has locked herself out of her apartment. She also has a jealous husband who is a first class heel. Typical Stooge antics result in ruining Fifi's dress, and dressing her in a pair of pajamas is an invitation for her husband to enter the scene. Hiding her from disaster, Fifi overhears her hubbie's plans to divorce her, and slapstick mayhem ensues. 1958
The Stooges have been taking care of Mary, their downstairs neighbor who is confined to a wheelchair. The boys have jobs hanging posters at a theatre featuring The Great Svengarlic, a famous hypnotist. Svengarlic is also the leader of a gang of jewel thieves, who plan to rob an office building next door to the theatre. What Svengarlic needs are some dupes who will help him put on a public exhibition, distracting everyone from his gang's robbery. Enter the Stooges, who ask Svengarlic to cure Mary, but instead are hypnotized, and instructed to go out on a flagpole and dance many stories above the street. Svengarlic is knocked unconcious in an accident, and the Stooges awake to find themselves clinging to the flagpole for dear life. 1956
Boxer Chopper Kane's trainers Moe, Larry & Shemp receive instructions from their boss, Big Mike, to arrange for Chopper to lose the big championship fight... he's placed all his money on opponent Gorilla Watson. When Watson moves in on Kane's goil Kitty, Chopper vows to moider da bum, and the Stooges are left to face Big Mike's wrath. 1955
It's Joe's camera, the picnic was his idea, and the photograph he took of a blowing paper plate belongs to him. But lazy cousins Moe and Larry interpret the photo as a snapshot of a flying saucer, and use it to win $10,000 in a magazine's candid photo contest. The magazine, however, gets wise to the fraud and throws Moe and Larry in jail. Lonely, Joe returns to the woods hoping to get a picture of a real flying saucer, and reunite his family. 1958
The Stooges are hired as detectives to protect John Goodrich from the Phantom Gang. Before they arrive, Goodrich is snatched by the Goon, a member of the Gang. The Stooges then arrive and search the house. They find Goodrich and have a fight against the Gang, knocking them all out.
A remake, with stock footage, of WHO DONE IT? (1949).
This is the last episode containing new footage of Shemp, most notably the opening sequences set at their detective agency ("Miracle Detective Agency - If We Solve Your Crime, It's a Miracle!"). Shemp passed away a few months after production. 1956
Moe, Larry, and Shemp are fight trainers of Chopper who has a boxing match vs. Gorilla Watson. After a sparring session, a couple of gangsters sent by Big Mike tell the boys to have Chopper throw the fight or else. The Stooges try to soften up their fighter by feeding him rich desserts & not having him train, but that plan fails & Gorilla Watson breaks his hand on the night of the fight. Big Mike & his boys try to rub out the Stooges afterwards, but the Stooges prevail. 1947
The Stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist, Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Because of his curly hair, Larry is mistaken for the professor, and the Stooges are kidnapped in his place, and taken to the State of Anemia. They're ordered to produce the new rocket fuel or face the firing squad. The Stooges stall for time and start mixing anything they can find in an attempt to make a phoney rocket fuel, but their ruse is revealed when the real professor and his daughter are captured and brought to Anemia. The Stooges' formula comes to their rescue, though, when they use it to burn a hole in the floor and escape! 1949
The Stooges are broke and about to be evicted when Shemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes for a visit. The boys plead with their landlady, Mrs. McGruder, to let them stay, and she relents when she realizes that Uncle Phineas is her long-lost love (although the Stooges don't know that.)
Meanwhile, the Stooges have to deal with their new neighbor, an extremely jealous strongman, who discovers his wife in their apartment without her skirt on, thanks to a clumsy Shemp in the kitchen. 1952
The Stooges are hobos who get thrown off a freight train and chased out of the railroad yard. They hide in the "Hangover Athletic Club," where Curly gets hired as a sparring partner. Ivan Bustoff, wrestling World Champion, takes a shine to the Stooges, and his manager hires them to keep on eye on Bustoff and make sure he doesn't drink. When Ivan gets plastered (and the Stooges knock him cold with dumbells), Moe sends out Curly disguised as Bustoff. Curly finally wins the match, when he goes berserk from smelling "Wild Hyacinth" perfume. 1937
It starts in a courtroom where Moe is charged of Intent to Commit Mayhem. As Moe describes what happened, the scene changes to The Original Two-Man Quartet (Larry and Joe) playing loudly, and Moe can't handle the noise. To calm down Moe's nerves they decide to go on a hunting trip. But Wild Bill Hookup is on the loose, the Sheriff is on his trail, and the Stooges are caught in the middle! 1957
The Stooges are lazy good-for-nothings whose wives threaten to kick them out if they don't find work. They land a job as salesmen selling a snake oil called "Brighto". After harassing the citizens and even ruining a man's auto paint job, they make their way into the Los Arms Hospital and try their hand at selling Brighto to the patients. They then enter the Superintendant's office to try and make a sale, but the Super is the same man whose car's paint job was ruined, and the boys must beat a hasty retreat back home. 1937
Foreign spy Bortch has stolen some secret government documents and hidden them in watermelons. He has the Stooges bring them to a ship where he will leave the country. When they arrive at the pier, the spy has locked them aboard the ship. The Stooges later find the melons as well as the stolen documents. They defeat Bortch, with plans to turn him over to the police. 1949
While the Stooges are cleaning up a detective's office, a woman enters, claiming she is being followed. She later gets kidnapped and the Stooges snap into action. They soon enter the lab of a mad scientist, who wants a human head for his mechanical body. The scientist chooses the Stooges, who immediately escape with the kidnapped woman. 1950
Larry, Moe and Curly find an evicted woman and her daughter in financial trouble. They decide to helpher by betting the child's piggy bank on the horses. Two con men scam the boys out of the money when they buy a rundown horse named Seabiscuit. To boost his energy, Curly tries to blow a vitamin into the horse's puith, only to have it blown into his own mouth. He begins to act like a horse and Moe and Larry get him to a hospital where he bears a talking colt. 1942
The Stooges come home after several months of unsuccessful prospecting only to find that a young, crippled boy and his older sister have moved into their City Dump shack. The Stooges attempt to invest the boy's operation money by buying a house that is supposed to contain Captain Kidd's treasure, but when they attempt to dig it up they break into the US Treasury instead! 1937
Telling their sons a bedtime story, the Stooges weave a tall tale of themselves as moving men sent to a spooky old mansion on a rainy night to move some old furniture, including a suit of armor. The armor objects to leaving, however, as it is inhabited by the spirit of Sir Tom. Vowing to kill the Stooges if they try to remove him, the boys are soon on the run from the sword-wielding Tom. 1956
The stooges are mistaken for reporters and are hired to do a story on Prince Shaam for a $100 bonus. Larry and Curly pose as butlers while Moe is the cook. After some failed attempts to get a picture of Prince Shaam and his girlfriend the stooges really mess up on the delivery of the turkey and are fired. After trying to sneak for a picture one last time they find out that Prince Shaam and the head butler are crooks that are just trying to get the girlfriend's money. So the stooges take a picture of them and a wild fight goes on. The stooges win and are successful reporters. Plus, the girlfriend wants to marry Curly! 1944
The Stooges want to be reporters and they're looking for stolen secret atomic documents. They unintentionally become stowaways on a ship when they help their neighbor, Mr. Bortch, who has to leave the country. Trapped on board and hungry, Moe and Larry trick a woman passenger named Miss Emma Blake into leaving her table, but the "fish" they try to eat was a stuffed fish from a wall plaque. Bortch, a spy (Gene Roth), has hidden microfilm of the stolen documents in watermelons that he tricked the Stooges into bringing on board! 1956
Larry and Shemp live in a stolen train car. Larry wants to marry his girlfriend but she won't marry him until Shemp marries her older sister. Shemp is constantly drunk and in love with an imaginary canary named Carrie. Moe is an inspector and he finds where the train is. Moe is in love with the older sister, so some competition goes on between Shemp and Moe. In the end both girls want to marry Shemp, but Shemp prefers his imaginary canary. 1952
The Stooges sell fish and are getting no business, so they quit and look for another job. They want to work at a saloon, and they get an offer to run one in Mexico, so they dash down there. To their disappointment they discover they have bought a salon instead of a saloon. So the Stooges try their best on their first customers, four beautiful showgirls. They try to make them look good, but they fail, and it turns out to be a disaster and the stooges must leave on the run. 1940
The Stooges are janitors at the Daily Gazette who get a hot tip about the stolen Punjab diamond. Hoping to become real reporters, the boys hurry to where Dapper and his gang are hiding. While questioning Dapper's beautiful moll, Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond thinking it was a mint. Fortunately a gorilla in the next room gets loose, and saves Shemp from being carved up by Dapper. 1948
The Stooges are out-of-work hoofers with a pet monkey act who get a chance at a show if they can make it to the train on time. In a rush to evade paying rent, the boys board the train. The monkey gets loose and wreaks havoc on the train, becoming a pain in the neck for Johnson, the show's manager, and the show's star, Paul Pain. The boys also cause a panic in the sleeping car looking for the monkey, and end up being thrown off the train. 1936
In Heaven, Shemp is confronted at the Gates by the Devil and his temptress Helen Blazes (Sylvia Lewis). Angel Uncle Mortimer (Moe Howard, in a dual role) tells Shemp that he can redeem himself if he reforms Moe & Larry. The two remaining Stooges plan to use the money Shemp left them to sell a phony fountain pen invention ("It writes under whip cream!"), thanks to the Devil's advice. After haunting Moe and Larry and foiling their plan ("That beats the Devil!"), Shemp awakes and realizes it was all a dream, and set his bed on fire with a cigarette. 1955
The stooges need to pay the rent so they decide to pay off the rent by becoming baby sitters. Their first job is to baby sit for a troubled mother who just broke up with her husband. After some of their antics, they fall asleep. The mother comes home and sees that the baby is gone and sends the boys to her husband's apartment. After the stooges have a little trouble with the ex-husband, the mother arrives and the couple are reunited. 1951
The Stooges are merchant sailors whose ship is sunk by a Nazi sub. They managed to sneak on board a German freighter, and manage to knock out and capture all of the crew. They then disguise themselves as Hitler, Goering and Gobbels to fool the ship's officers. 1943
The Stooges are owners of the Cut Throat Drug Store, but their crabby old landlord, Amos Flint, wants them out after 10 years because he made a better deal with the Pinch Penny Market. Flint's wife shows up while he's telling the Stooges, and he dumps her because she's gotten old. The boys take her in, and Shemp gets the brilliant idea to invent a Fountain of Youth to make old people young again. And, beyond all expectation, they actually succeed, making Mrs. Flint back into a gorgeous young woman again! 1947
Remade as BUBBLE TROUBLE (1953), with stock footage.
The Stooges think that they're helping a man who is locked out get back into his house, and then they help him open the safe. Of course the guy was really a burglar, and once the Stooges realize that they've helped a criminal, they set off in pursuit to clear their names. They track him to a train bound for Las Vegas, eventually catching up to him in the freight car.
1953
Herman Mouser, the owner of the Lightning Exterminating Co. is behind on his bills, and is about to fire his three employees, the Stooges. The boys beg for one last chance, and Mouser sends the Stooges out with instructions of, "If they don't have ants, you GIVE them ants". The boys get the point, and sneak into a swanky party and bug the house with insects, reptiles and mice. The Stooges then appear at the door, and the butler, thinking that heaven has sent him a miracle dresses the Stooges as partygoers and sends them in. They manage to sabatoge the party when Curly puts a bag of cats into the piano, and Larry is thrown inside to retrieve them. When the host of the party feels like she is ruined, one of her guests rescues her by saying that the "entertainers" were the hit of the party, and suggests they come along on the foxhunt. Curly encounters and brings in what he thinks is his fox: a skunk. 1936
The boys are resturant owners. In an attempt to pay off their business debts, they take a job putting up posters. Noticing that the posters are advertising a cow milking contest that pays $100.00 to the winner, Moe and Larry decide that Curly is now in the contest. After attemping to get some practice in on a BULL, Curly faces the champ in the ring in a "milk-off." Their ruse of Moe and Larry inside a fake cow supplying Curly with milk is soon discovered, however, and the boys retreat amist a chorus of "Boo's." 1944