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The Important Cinema Club

#68 - The Three Stooges Love Each Other

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7577 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the career of the comedy legends THE THREE STOOGES through their shorts, features and big budget Hollywood retelling. Here's the list Stooges shorts that were watched for the episode, curated by Co-Host Will Sloan: Curly era: Punch Drunks An Ache in Every Stake Higher Than a Kite (for the scene where Moe gets his head stuck in a tube) A Plumbing We Will Go You Nazty Spy Violent is the Word for Curly Grips, Grunts and Groans How High is Up Shemp Era: Brideless Groom Self-Made Maids A Missed Fortune (not a classic, but a very typical Shemp effort) Curly-Joe era: The Outlaws is Coming The Important Cinema Club has a PATREON. You can join for five dollars a month and get a brand new exclusive episode every week! WWW.PATREON.COM/THEIMPORTANTCINEMACLUB

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0:00.0

Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

0:07.5

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today we're talking about something very

0:11.5

important. It's The Three Stooges. Curly Joe Derrita, Joe Basser, Ted Healy, they will all

0:18.2

be discussed. So the Three Stooges are a group of entertainers that are very

0:23.9

important in your life, aren't they will? Oh yeah. And yours too? Yeah. The Three Stooges were always

0:29.7

something that my dad found hilarious, which is something that you hear a lot when you bring up the topic

0:35.0

with people our age, right? Where they're like, oh yeah, my dad

0:38.0

love this. They were a huge boomer phenomenon on TV after school all the time. I don't know.

0:43.5

They were still on TV when I was a kid, and I think that's probably tapered off a little bit.

0:47.4

Yeah. I had a life where I would have to wake up at six in the morning and be driven to an entire

0:52.6

different town once a week to go to my mom's house

0:56.1

from my dad's place.

0:57.5

And that's when they would put the Three Stooges on on the cartoon network at like 6 a.m.

1:01.6

in the morning or Telethune to be its Canadian version.

1:05.9

My first exposure to the Three Stooges was with Shemp.

1:09.3

I got a cheap VHS tape at Toys R Us that had some of the later

1:13.9

Shemp era shorts. I believe they were musty musketeers, husbands beware, and wham-bam-slam.

1:20.7

If someone listening doesn't know who the Three Stooges are.

1:24.0

Oh, come on.

1:24.9

How would you describe them to someone?

1:26.7

Oh, they are a group of three

1:28.8

bizarre-looking vaudevillians who hit each other a lot. And what would you say to people who

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