Dunkfeather telling a reporter how he solved a mysterious case. Spook Louder(1943): The short opens with Prof. Trivia: Notable Firsts – Curly’s metallic sounding teeth chatter and Curly shaking water off like a dog. It turns out King Rutentuten was a dwarf. The mummy they thought was Rutentuten was really his wife, Queen HotsyTotsy. When they find the tomb, the boys encounter crooks who are also after the mummy. The boys hail a taxi at the cost of $2,198.55 to Cairo. We Want Our Mummy (1939): The Stooges are detectives hired by a museum curator to find the kidnapped Professor Tuttle and the mummy of King Rutentuten. Trivia: Some often used Stooge slapstick firsts: the nose bonks Moe delivers in the opening sequence, and two Stooges opening the door to a beast after the third stooge has knocked but runs away in fear. But then, a real gorilla appears and confusion reigns. The crew heads off to the jungle to film the picture, with Curly as a gorilla. When Curly impersonates a chicken with its head cut off, Botswaddle hires him (and the other Stooges) for his new movie. Three Missing Links (1938): The Stooges are janitors, cleaning up the office of movie producer B. Trivia: This is the first short where all three of The Boys are married. Maybe not so scary, but the scene where they hijack the Hospital PA system gives us a great bit with a trio of skulls. They enter the Superintendant’s office to make a sale, but the Super is the same man whose car’s paint job was ruined. 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. The Boys have tricks and treats in store for us with these classic short films where they tangle with ghosts, goblins, gorillas, mummies, werewolves and other sorts of scary characters.ĭizzy Doctors (1937): The Stooges are lazy good-for-nothing husbands at home, inept salesman in the street, and misfit fugitives in a hospital. The Halloween season is the time to spook and delight with things that go nyuk in the night.
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