Watch Three Stooges Collection 1940-1942

Name: Three Stooges Collection 1940-1942
Genre: Comedy
Released: January 1, 1940

1940
1 Season

The Three Stooges Collection 1940-1942, produced by Sony, are 23 comedy shorts completed by Moe Howard, Curly Howard, and Larry Fine. Popular shorts of note include, “A Plumbing We Will Go”, “Dutiful But Dumb”, and "Three Smart Saps." The Three Stooges became popular beginning in the 1930s for Columbia Pictures. In essence, Moe, Larry, and Curly are working in a number of different positions in each comedy short such as plumbers, soldiers, fish salesman, golfers, beer delivery drivers, and hobos. A typical episode finds the stooges attempting to make a living, yet ultimately finding their way into a predicament. Moe, the head stooge, pushes his domineering personality on Larry and Curly. There is a lot of slapping, eye poking, and head knocking throughout the episodes. In many episodes, the stooges, in a backwards manner, try their hardest to assist someone in their time of need. Of note, one will find that there are a number of actors that got their start in the stooges short films, including Lucille Ball.

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23. Sock-a-Bye Baby

The Stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing them by motorcycle. It all ends happily with the baby reunited with its parents and the Stooges running off disguised as bushes.

22. Even As IOU

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 shot that wins and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt!

21. Three Smart Saps

The Stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden. When they learn that some crooks have taken over the prison and their prospective father-in-law has been locked up, they decide to go undercover to rescue him. The Stooges sneak into the prison where they find a casino with a fancy party in progress. After swiping some formal attire, they crash the party and get candid camera evidence to expose the crooked goings-on. With the crooks behind bars once again, the Stooges are able to get married and all ends well.

20. Matri-Phony

The Stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful redheaded women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty redhead, seeks refuge with the Stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the Stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to escape.

19. What's the Matador?

The Stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.

18. Cactus Makes Perfect

The Stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.

17. Loco Boy Makes Good

The Stooges help a little old lady by transforming her rundown hotel into a posh nightclub. At show time, Curly gets the magician's coat by mistake.

16. Some More of Samoa

The Stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The Stooges escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator; sail off with their prize.

15. In the Sweet Pie and Pie

The Stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into marrying three rich girls who need husbands to collect a legacy. At the last minute the real murderers confess and the Stooges are pardoned. The girls are now stuck with the Stooges so they plot to get rid of them by making them become gentlemen. The girl's lawyer convinces them to throw a big party in the hope that the Stooges will humiliate them and they can get a divorce. The boys do just that as the party degenerates into a wild pie fight. But the girls decide to keep the Stooges and give their lawyer the boot.

14. An Ache in Every Stake

The Stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake explodes and the man realizes whom they are, they must leave in a hurry.

13. I'll Never Heil Again

A follow up to "You Natzy Spy", the Stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshall and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The Stooges are planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's daughter gets into their headquarters and plants a bomb, which Curly detonates. All ends well as the king regains control of the country and the Stooges wind up as trophies on the wall.

12. All the World's a Stooge

The Stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the run, they are hired by a millionaire to pose as children. It seems the man's wife wants to adopt some refugees to impress her society friends. Moe is Johnny, Curly is Frankie and Larry is Mabel. Everything goes fairly well as the lady shows off the Stooges to her friends, but they finally irritate her husband so much that he goes after them with an ax.

11. Dutiful But Dumb

The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine ("If it's a good picture it's out of Whack") who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. In Vulgaria the penalty for taking pictures in is death, and the boys soon wind up in front of a firing squad. Curly's last request is a giant cigar and by the time he's done smoking it all the soldiers are asleep and the Stooges make their escape.

10. So Long Mr. Chumps

So Long Mr. Chumps (1941): Larry, Moe and Curly are on a quest to find an honest man. And they finally find one - in jail!

9. Boobs in Arms

The Stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In boot camp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell.

8. Cookoo Cavaliers

The Stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local nightclub. After the Stooges completely ruin the girl's hair, and their manager finds out, the boys must leave on the run.

7. No Census, No Feeling

The Stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the other players in pursuit.

6. From Nurse to Worse

The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.

5. How High Is Up?

The Stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the building and they must parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss.

4. Nutty But Nice

The Stooges are singing waiters who are enlisted by a doctor to try and cheer up a little girl. It seems that the girl's father is a banker who was kidnapped with $300,000 worth of bonds. Failing to cheer up the girl, the Stooges go out looking for the father and by a series of coincidences wind up in the bad guys hideout. The villains return and after a wild fight the boys free the missing man.

3. A Plumbing We Will Go

To escape the police, the Stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion. They wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place. One memorable scene has the lady of the house tuning into a television broadcast from Niagara Falls as a torrent of water pours from the set. To escape the wrath of the homeowners the Stooges escape through a magician's trap door.

2. Rockin' Thru the Rockies

The Stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend with a snowstorm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west.

1. You Nazty Spy

In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are paperhangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the king, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshall and Larry becomes Minister of propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.

Description

Moe, the head stooge, pushes his domineering personality on Larry and Curly. There is a lot of slapping, eye poking, and head knocking throughout the episodes. In many episodes, the stooges, in a backwards manner, try their hardest to assist someone in their time of need. Of note, one will find that there are a number of actors that got their start in the stooges short films, including Lucille Ball.

Three Stooges Collection 1940-1942 is a series that is currently running and has 1 seasons (23 episodes). The series first aired on January 1, 1940.

Where to Watch Three Stooges Collection 1940-1942

Three Stooges Collection 1940-1942 is available for streaming on the Sony website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch Three Stooges Collection 1940-1942 on demand at Google Play.

Genres

Comedy
Channel

Sony

Premiere Date

January 1, 1940

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