The
STOOGEWORLD "Stooge Goofs" Page
The
Stooges on the set with Dudley Dickerson
This
stuff is intriguing to say the least if not less. I can't say that
I've had a chance to go back and guage the accuracy of some of these
accusations, but I can't wait to start researching it. This could
shed a whole new light on the way I watch the Stooges. I think that
some of the more obvious mistakes are what make the "Stooges"
the "Stooges". I enjoy some of the cheesy cuts, slurred
lines, improvisations, fake dummies, and stand-ins used in the stunts.
Those kinds of classical gags are what made the shorts so hilarious.
It allowed us to enjoy the shorts for what they truly were, a comical
masterpiece!
I would personally like
to take the time to give thanks to a fan named "Stooge",
the creator of most of this list. (You'll notice he has given credit
to Goofs that other people have submitted) To reach him, for questions
or comments, e-mail to stooge60540@yahoo.com.
Or just shoot him a message in the Message Board, he spends a lot
of time there.
So the next time you're
breaking out one of your favorite shorts, watch for these goofs. It's
interesting to think that in something so off-the-wall and goofy as
a Three Stooges short, you could actually find "Goof-ups"
that shouldn't be there. I remember seeing some of these goofs and
have a few of my own that I will add to the list. Feel free to do
the same. Simply email 'Stooge', and we'll keep the list updated as
necessary.
If you're into the Goofs
thing, I've found several websites that are dedicated strictly to
finding mistakes in movies. They've either gone unnoticed, or just
simply go left alone due to deadlines, but nevertheless, it is interesting
to look for them once you know they're there. Check out www.movie-mistakes.com,
and their sister site www.tv-mistakes.com.
-The StoogeWorld
Webdude
Stooge
Goofs last updated - 07/23/03
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Commotion on the Ocean
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Fifi Blows Her Top
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Gypped in the Penthouse
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Horsing Around
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Hot Ice
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A Merry Mix-Up
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A Missed Fortune
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Mummy's Dummies
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The Outlaws is Coming
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Snow White & 3 Stooges
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Soup to Nuts
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Space Ship Sappy
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Stone Age Romeos
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Three Hams on Rye
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3S-Around the World
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Three Stooges in Orbit
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WOMAN
HATERS (1934): 1) Moe's jacket
is buttoned in the part where the Stooges are fighting at the beginning,
but in the next shot, his jacket is unbuttoned. 2) When Larry is singing
to Marjorie White, in one part when he sings "And when I'm finished
with my grooming", Marjorie White almost sings it along with him when
she wasn't supposed to. 3) Right before the scene cuts to Curly doing
his funny walk down the hallway, Marjorie White looks like she's about
to say something (thanks to AJJ for this one). 4) Larry broke his
finger when tumbling out of the berth with the other Stooges. 5) In
the scene where Marjorie White is trying to hide Curly, she throws
her hat up to the top berth, but it accidentally falls back down and
she has to throw it up again. 6) When the camera pants over to Moe
and Curly as old men, you can see as shadow of a mircrophone in the
background. 7) At the end while Larry is singing "My life, my love,
my all", you can see Moe elbow Curly to let him know that another
hit is coming. 8) You can see a scar on Larry's nose throughout the
whole short.
PUNCH DRUNKS
(1934): 1) In the beginning
when the camera zooms into Moe while he's talking, his hands are empty,
but in the next shot, he has a fork in his hand. 2) You can hear the
sound effect of one of the mugs punching Curly before it even happens.
3) When Moe and Curly are helping Larry out of the water, Larry's
violin is floating on the water, but in the next shot, it's in his
hand. 4) The man who fell off the back of the truck when Larry drove
it off broke his arm. 5) When Larry has a radio on his head and crashes
into the wall, the radio is placed on his head differently than it
was in the previous shot. 6) At the end, we see various other scattered
across the ring next to Killer, but no explanation of how they got
there. 7) When Larry is running down a street, you can hear somebody
yelling in the background (probably the director).
MEN IN BLACK
(1934): 1) As the people are
clearing out of the hallway as Moe and Larry rush them out, it cuts
to the next shot, and all the people are gone suddenly. 2) When Moe
gets off the horse, he accidentally kicks Larry in the back. 3) After
the Stooges all say "My girl" at the same time, Larry looks at Moe,
but in the next shot, he's looking at Curly. 4) When Dr. Graves is
ordering the Stooges to go to room 81, Larry is standing still, right
beside Graves, then in the next shot, he's already halfway outside
the door. 5) When the janitor sees the Stooges rushing towards Dr.
Graves' office, he kindly shatters the glass on the door to let the
boys jump through. Moe and Larry jump through, but Curly instead begins
to open the doorknob like his usual brainless self, then there is
a sudden cut to the interior shot of the office and Curly is already
inside the room. 6) When Moe sees the doctor's stethoscope, he says
"Gimme that s...that thing there." It sounds like he almost said "stethoscope"
but remembered that he was actually just supposed to refer to it as
"that thing".
THREE LITTLE
PIGSKINS (1934): 1) When Pete
says to the lady, "Relax, we're all going to it", he has
his hand on her shoulder, but in the next shot, his hand is to his
side and he's facing away from her. 2) After Moe gets up from the
floor after the passer-by punched him, something falls from his jacket.
3) When the passer-by says to Curly, "I haven't got a dime, it's
the Depression with me," his lips don't move during the beginning
of that line. 4) When Larry is supposed to say "okay" as Moe keeps
barking him orders, he almost says "yeah" at first. 5) After Curly
says, "No I shoveled it" to the lady, the lady is looking
at him with a mean face, but she's smiling in the next shot. 6) A
sudden cut to Moe saying, "Boy, did I pick myself a double order
of skunk." 7) When the boys are spraying the girls with seltzer
waters, Phyllis Crane just stands there and takes it, but then she
realizes she's supposed to be laughing like the other girls. 8) When
the girls are blindfolding the Stooges, Moe says "Wait a minute n..."
then his line is cut off in the cut to the next shot. 9) When the
bad guy punched Larry in the jaw, Larry chipped a tooth. 10) Before
Moe gets punched out by Joe Stacks, we see Moe with a dazed look on
his face as if Stacks did something to him prior to the punch, but
we don't see it. 10) Curly broke his leg traveling down the dumbwatier.
11) After Curly and Larry tackle the referee, Larry says "How's that
Moe?" but his lips aren't moving. 12) When the referee turns to Moe
and asks "Oh, he did eh?" if you notice, Larry has his helmet off,
but in the next shot, Larry's helmet is on. 13) A sloppy cut to Moe
and Curly running with their arms together, with Larry behind them.
14) When the Stooges huddle by themselves, Moe is bent over with his
feet on the ground, but when the camera shows a closer shot of the
boys, Moe's knees are on the ground, then when it goes back to the
original shot, Moe's feet are on the ground again. 15) After the aforementioned
huddle, the boys get in position for the hike and the referee is standing
behind them, but he's not anywhere near the boys in the next shot.
16) You can see strings in the back of the boys' pants when their
being shot in the behind. 17) At the beginning of the football game
when the Stooges are passing the ball to each other over and over,
at one part, Larry throws the ball towards Curly and he's about to
catch it, then the camera cuts to the next shot and the ball goes
to Moe all of a sudden.
1935
HORSES
COLLARS (1935): 1) When the
Stooges are looking at the picture of the detective's wife, Curly
has a pipe in his right hand, but in the next shot it's in his left
hand. 2) How did the detective get a black eye? All Curly did was
push him to the wall. 3) After Decker shoots two people who won't
pay for their drinks, the bartender goes to a chalk board that says
"Decker: 115 - Opponents: 0" then he erases the "5" in 115 and puts
in a 7 making it 117. However, a while later in the film when the
boys asks the bartender for drink, the camera shows the bartender
and behind him, you'll notice on the chalkboard, the 117 is back to
115. 4) When Curly asks for the bottle, the bartender places the bottle
next to Curly, but in the next shot it's next to Moe. 5) When the
camera shows a close-up of Decker as the Stooges are dusting each
other off, he is looking at the boys, but in the next shot, he's looking
at Lobo. 6) When the Stooges bow down to Nell, Moe bops Curly on the
head, then it suddenly cuts to Larry holding his face in disgust,
and Moe looking at him with a mean look as if he hit him. One of the
most obvious goofs ever in a Stooge short. 7) Curly and Moe are staring
at the coin that Decker shot a hole through, then it cuts to the next
shot and Curly and Moe are suddenly looking at Decker. 8) When Moe
asks "Got a $5 gold piece?" Curly's shirt is unbuttoned,
but it's buttoned in the next shot. 9) When Nelle is talking to the
boys, she says "If you gentlemen don't get that I O U for me, I'll
lose my ranch and..." then it cuts to Larry trying to comfort her
and she it wiping her tears with a hanky, which she did not have in
the shot before. 10) After Larry says, "Don't let 'em go to your
head" to Curly, Moe looks at Larry, then in the next shot, he's
suddenly looking at Decker. 11) You can see the strings holding Moe
and Larry up when their being hung. 12) When the ropes that Larry
and Moe are tied to break, in the background you can see Decker with
a drum busted over his head, yet no explanation of how that happened.
13) After Decker says "Theives, huh?", you can hear an echo of that
line (thanks to Benny for this one). 14) In between Curly's line "Did
ya hear that tumbler click?" and Moe's response "Good work", there
is a strange mute in the soundtrack. 15) When Moe says "Take it easy,
Butterfingers" and pokes Curly in the eyes, it looks like he really
pokes his fingers into Curly's eyes as opposed to poking his eyebrows
like it's normally done, yet Curly showed no signs of pain. 16) When
the Stooges are put up on the table to be hanged, the ropes hang off
to the left of the scene. Then the camera shows Lobo looking over
his right shoulder as he ties the ends of the ropes to the banister
of the staircase which is to the right. Then we go back to the Stooges
and the ropes are hanging off to the left. Then a little later when
the camera shows a close-up of the banister breaking, it is again
to the right.
RESTLESS
KNIGHTS (1935): 1) At the beginning
when the boys show up from under the bed, Curly's hat looks like it's
going to fall off, but in the next shot it's on correctly. 2) When
Moe says "Okay, pop, spill the porridge", the boys have excited smiles
on their faces, but in the next shot, the boys have worried looks
on their faces. 3) In the part where the queen shows up and sits on
her throne, we see a man walking up to her with his hat on, but in
the next shot, he is already standing in front of her and his hat
is off. 4) After the guard tell the boys "The royal wrestlers await"
it cuts to the wrestlers and in the background, the Stooges are lying
down in front of the queen's throne which they weren't before. 5)
When the Stooges salute the queen, Larry almost forgets and salutes
a little too late. 6) A lot of strange cuts during the wrestling scene.
7) After the guard announces that the queen is missing, Moe and Curly
run down the stairs and they both trip. 8) After the boys escape their
execution, they stop running and if you notice, Moe is standing closest
to the left side of the screen, with Larry in the middle and Curly
on the right end, then the camera shows a hand from above dropping
a jug and when it goes back to the Stooges, Curly is to the left of
the camera and he is bending over for some reason. 9) When the Stooges
run inside the palace, they stop when they see the guards' shadows
and in the next shot, the Stooges are standing in different positions
and Moe is looking at Curly as if he said something. 10) When Curly
elbows Larry on the head, Larry holds his head in pain, but in the
next shot, his hands are suddenly on the ground. 11) When Curly goes
back to one of the guards to snap his finger at him, he accidentally
slips and falls on the ground.
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POP
GOES THE EASEL (1935): 1) After
the man says "I wouldn't worry about it. It still tastes the same",
he and Curly both look off screen strangely at something, but it cuts
to the next scene before we can see what they were looking at. 2)
When Moe is asking Larry and Curly if they found a job, Moe's tie
accidentally falls off. 3) When the Stooges are running through buckets,
Moe slips on the last bucket. 4) A cut in the picture when the Stooges
trip the cop with a broom. 5) A cut in the picture when Curly slaps
the french artist across the face. 6) After Moe says "The heel has
no sole" Curly lifts his leg and he knocks something down by accident.
7) When Larry asks "How are we gonna get outta here without ruinin'
this paint job?" if you notice, the door behind the Stooges is not
painted, then the camera shows the detective opening the door from
outside and when it shows the Stooges again, the door behind them
is suddenly painted. 8) After the detective wipes the paint off his
face, he starts looking for the Stooges and he almost slips on the
floor. 9) When the Stooges are dressed as women, Curly talks in a
femine voice, but when he introduces Larry as his sister, Crumette,
he accidentally speaks in his normal voice. 10) When Curly throws
a blob of clay, it cuts to the next shot and we see it hit the model.
Something must've been cut in between those two parts because the
model was right behind the Stooges when the clay was thrown, and Curly
didn't throw the clay toward the model...how'd it hit her? 11) After
the Stooges, while dressed as women, run away from the detective,
the camera shows a brief scene with Prof. Fuller speaking to a lady,
and when it goes back to the Stooges, they have their original artist
robes back on all of a sudden. 12) During the clay fight, a wet stain
on the front of Curly's artist robe suddenly appears, but we never
see anybody actually hit him there with clay. 13) When Curly comes
from behind the curtains dressed up as a woman, the detective has
a cigar in his mouth, but it's suddenly gone in the next shot. 14)
After the Stooges run across the freshly painted floor to get away
from the detective, they dash into a wardrobe but they don't leave
any wet paint footprints on the floor.
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UNCIVIL
WARRIORS (1935):
1) When the general asks the Stooges if they remember their names,
somebody chokes on their cigar smoke. 2) After Curly kisses the girl's
hand, Moe bops him on the head and he holds his head in pain, but
in the next shot, Curly's not holding his head. 3) Buttz begins to
fill the glasses, then the camera cuts to a quick close-up of Major
Filburt, and when it cuts back to the original shot, the glasses are
all filled suddenly. 4) Moe loses track of the baby's gender several
times. He goes from saying "He was walking down the railroad"
to "And I was with her." 5) After the Stooges jet out of
the house when their identies are revealed, you can see Major Filburt
running out of the house after them, then the camera shows the Stooges
running in the woods, and when it cuts back to the original shot,
Filburt runs out of the house again. 6) You can see a string pulling
the cannon when the soldiers lift it.
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PARDON MY SCOTCH
(1935): 1) You can see the string
that pulls the table in half when Moe falls off of it. 2) Moe broke
several ribs when doing the stunt in which he falls off the aforementioned
table. 3) After Moe yells "Get a saw" it suddenly cuts to
Curly with the saw in his hand (he couldn't have gotten it that fast)
and his hat is off which was one in the previous shot. 4) When the
boys are mixing the formula, it begins to bubble at first, then the
camera cuts to a closer shot of the formula and the bubbles are gone.
5) After the businessman takes a sip of his drink, his hat flies off
and he has a look of shock on his face and he begins to shake his
head, but in the next shot, he has the same look of shock on his face
again, then he shakes his head again. 6) When the Stooges arrive at
the party dressed as Scotsmen, in the background, one of the men blowing
the bagpipes accidentally drops the pipe in his mouth, but in the
next shot, it's back in his mouth. 7) When the Stooges are dancing
away, Larry's kilt accidentally falls down. He quickly pulls it up,
but in the next scene where the Stooges bump into each other, it falls
down again. 8) Was Larry supposed to fall flat on the floor like that
when the boys were carrying in the barrel of scotch? 9) Near the end
when the Stooges bring out their barrel of scotch, we see James C.
Morton's character yelling and everybody trying to calm him, but we
don't see what he's yelling about. 10) When the Stooges are talking
to Mr. Martin at the counter, Moe bops Curly in the head during one
part and after Curly runs his hand over his hat in anger, the top
of his hat sticks straight up in this weird way. Moe notices this
and almost starts laughing.
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HOI POLLOI
(1935): 1) When Moe is getting
all the cans dumped on him, he has his hat on, then the camera shows
Curly and Larry briefly and when it goes back to Moe, his hat is off.
2) When the two professors walk out of the restaurant, one of them
says that they'll call a taxi for them, but after they decide to reform
the Stooges, one of professors says, "There's my car, let's climb
into it"! 3) At the beginning of the table etiquette scene, the
professor says "Well, we'll uh..." then it suddenly cuts to Curly
pouring gravy on his potatoes. After Curly pours gravy on his potatoes,
he puts the gravy bowl down, but in the next shot, he's still pouring
gravy. 4) During the dancing scene, for some reason, Curly's double
has a head full of hair! 5) A sudden cut to Curly with his arm stuck
in the vase. 6) When Curly responds "Why soitenly not" to
Moe when asked if he took the champagne bottle, he almost says "soitenly"
at first. 7) After Curly sprays the lady with the champagne bottle,
the camera shows a close up of Moe and Curly and you can see Larry
in the background, then the camera shows another angle shot and Larry's
in a completely different position. 8) You can see the string tied
to the spring on Curly's behind. 9) When Professor Rich pokes the
man next to him in the eye, it cuts to the next shot and the man is
holding his face as if he was slapped but we don't see it.
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THREE LITTLE BEERS
(1935): 1) When Moe is raising
the beer barrel up to Curly on a rope, I think you can hear the director
shouting in the background. 2) When the truck stops at the golf course,
Curly's hat accidentally falls off. 3) A visible jump in the picture
before each Stooge holds a "press" button to the camera.
4) You can see a string on the hat top when it falls in the hole.
5) When Curly leans his golf club over the ball washer, it accidentally
falls down, but it's back up in the next shot. 6) When one of the
Italian men is yelling at Larry, at first, he has his hat on, but
it's off in the next shot. Likewise, there's a cut in the following
scene where the other Italian gardener is yelling at Moe. After Moe
says "The pieces are getting smaller, see?" the gardener
says "Yes" then it suddenly cuts to him yelling he's going
to call the police. 7) When the foreign gardners are complaining to
the cops about the Stooges, the camera cuts over to the Stooges and
they're over by the golf ball washer and they're helping Curly put
back on his clothes, but they weren't by the golf ball washer in the
previous shots, and Curly's clothes was already on. 8) When Curly
cries "Hey, we lost a barrel!!" the truck is still driving.
Then the camera cuts to a quick shot of the barrels running downhill,
and when it cuts back to the Stooges, the truck is suddenly stopped
and Moe and Larry are already out of the truck. 9) When the cop gets
knocked over by a barrel, he gets up from the ground, but in the next
shot, he's laying back down and he gets up again. 10) You can see
the string holding up Moe when he's standing on top of the barrel.
11) When we see the barrels rolling down the hill, they show a hill
looking down that looks like a one-way street. But in the next scene,
we see a wider street with train tracks down the middle. 12) When
the barrels are rolling down the hill, the cop directing traffic lifts
his leg up before he falls over. This is because the barrels were
being pulled by strings, and he was standing on a string.
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1936
ANTS IN THE PANTRY
(1936): 1) We see Moe place
the bear trap on the boss' chair when he's trying to talk the boss
into giving them another chance, and we expect the boss to sit down
and get his rare end caught in the bear trap, but we never see it
happen. 2) After Gawkins says "Come with me, Gentlemen", Moe and Larry
follow him, and Curly walks the other way. Before there's any explanation
of why Curly did that, it suddenly cuts to the next scene. 3) When
Moe is helping Larry in the piano, the camera shows a brief close-up
of Moe for some strange reason. In the close-up, Moe has a different
look on his face than in the shots before and after. 5) When the piano
starts to fall, Moe begins yelling but it's cut off in the cut to
the next shot. Also, you can see the string the pulls the piano when
it falls. 6) While Curly is trying to life the piano off of Moe, the
camera shows a close-up of Mrs. Burlap's friend and in the background,
you'll notice a man standing behind her with a looks of shock on his
face, but in the shots before and after, the man isn't standing anywhere
near the lady, and he's laughing. ,
you can see the stage hand that throws it.
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MOVIE MANIACS
(1936): 1) After Curly says
"Oh, I never get any rest" it cuts to another shot and if you notice,
Curly has his sleeve rolled up revealing three watches, but there's
no mention of it. 2) When the wheat cake hits the ceiling, you can
see the stage hand that throws it. 3) I think the leading man goofed
when he said "I dreamed of the day that we could fly away toge'er....together".
4) When Moe is saying "Swinehardt, pighardt, oxburn..." he says "Pighardt"
twice in a row, presumably because he forgot what to say after that.
5) After Moe says "We'll make it like that" he turns his head from
Swinehardt, but in the next shot, he's looking at Swinehardt. 6) When
Moe says "I'll direct the thing myself" Curly is standing next to
the leading lady, but in the next shot, he's standing next to the
leading man. Then when the leading man walks away, Curly is standing
next to Moe but in the next shot, he's standing behind Moe. After
that, it cuts to the assistant director walking away from Moe as if
he said something to her. 7) When Larry as the leading man says to
Curly (as the leading lady) "I have come for you", Curly is looking
at Larry and holds pliers up to Larry's nose as if he's going to do
something with it, but it suddenly cuts to the next shot and Curly
isn't holding pliers anymore. 8) After Moe says "Use your head" and
kicks Curly in the rare end, Curly begins panting as if he's going
to do something, but it cuts to the next scene before we see him do
it. 9) After the Stooges lock themselves in the lion pit, they put
their heads to the door to hear if anybody's coming and if you notice,
Larry has his hat off, but in the next shot, not only is Larry's hat
on, but he and Curly are standing in opposite places. 10) After Curly
says "You can't fire him, he quit!" and Moe slaps him, Swinehardt
turns around and you can see something fall out of his hat. 11) During
the kissing technique scene, when one of the ladies is about to kiss
Curly, she says "Oh, Mr. Howard!" But the Stooges were supposed to
be under false identities at the movie studio, so we don't see how
she knew Curly's real last name. 12) When Moe is telling Mr. Swinehardt
about kisses, at first, Larry's standing next to Moe, then in the
next shot, he's nowhere near Moe, then in the next shot, he's next
to Moe again, and so on...
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HALF SHOT SHOOTERS
(1936): 1) When the camera shows
the Stooges sleeping, Moe is in the middle faced skyward with Larry
and Curly on opposite sides facing him, but in the next shot, all
of the Stooges are faced towards the right. 2) After Moe pokes Curly
in the eyes, Moe turns away from him but in the next shot, he's still
looking at him. 3) When MacGillicuddy bonks Larry and Moe's heads
together, Larry's hat falls off, but in the next shot, Larry's hat
is back on. In the same scene, you can see Curly in the background
beginning to get up from the floor, but in the next shot, he's laying
down and he gets up again. 4) When Moe walks up to the donkey, you
can hear Moe laughing but he's not even laughing. 5) Where'd that
dog come from? We see the Stooges as bums by themselves, then it shows
Vernon Dent in the restaurant, and when it goes back to the Stooges,
they have a dog with them. 6) At the end of the scene with the Stooges
begging Vernon Dent for food through the window, we see mashed potatoes
splattered on the window, but no explanation of how it got there.
7) In the part where the Stooges try to catch the dog with the turkey
but fall flat on the ground, if you look in the window above the Stooges,
you can see a reflection of Vernon Dent who is standing off-screen
just looking at the Stooges, but he was supposed to still be in the
restaurant. 8) After the Stooges try to get the turkey from the dog
but end up landing flat on their faces, it cuts to Vernon Dent yelling
"Hey!" and there's a man behind him getting up from the floor yelling
"Hey, what's the idea?" as if Dent pushed him, but we don't see it.
9) After Curly says _Soitenly, what do you think we_re here for?_
to the man, Larry opens his mouth to say something, but it cuts to
the next shot before he speaks. 10) When the Stooges walk over to
the troft, Moe puts his hand in the troft and accidentally gets water
on his hand. You can see him shake it off afterwards. 11) When MacGillicuddy
orders the boys to stick their heads in the troft, Moe is standing
closest to the screen, with Larry in the middle and Curly on the end.
Then it shows a brief close-up of MacGillicuddy and when it goes back
to the Stooges, Larry is closest to the screen with Moe in the middle
and Curly on the end. 12) When the Stooges stick their head in the
water, MacGillicuddy sticks his gun in the water, but in the next
shot, he's still holding his gun, clicks it, then sticks it in the
water again. 13) When the Stooges are yelling after the Sgt. blasts
the gun, Larry yelling "I can't hear" is dubbed in and strange enough,
you can hear what Larry is really saying, even under the dubbing.
14) At the beginning of the scene in the general's office, the general
has something in his eye. 15) After Curly says "Upstairs in the front
room", the general begins to say something else but his dialogue is
deleted. 16) After the general says "Remember your place" it cuts
to Moe bonking Larry on the head as if he said something silly, but
we don't see it. 17) When Larry is closing the cannon door, he accidentally
crunches his fingers in it and yells "Ahh, my finger!!" 18) In one
of the parts where the Stooges fall backwards on the ground after
firing the cannon, you can hear Larry groan as if he hurt himself.
19) At the end when Curly asks "Maybe he's gonna take our picture",
Larry holds his hat as if he's going to take it off, but in the next
shot, it's already off. [After re-looking at this entry, this is probably
the number one Stooge short with the most bloopers in it]. 20) When
Moe and Larry are awakened by Sgt. MacGillicuddy, they jump up, grab
their rifles and shoot. Larry's rifle, however, doesn't fire. 21)
During the loving cups scene, when Moe asks "Wait a minute, where's
Larry?", his mouth isn't moving. 22) We see the Stooges cart in a
buggy with 3 cannon shells on it, but they shoot and hit a tower,
a house, a bridge, and the admiral's flagship. Where did they get
the fourth shell to fire at the flagship?
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DISORDER IN THE COURT
(1936): 1) At one point during
the "Take off your hat" routine, when Curly puts the hat back on his
head, it almost falls off. 2) When Gail reveals the skimpy bathing
suit she has on under her clothes, in the background, you can see
James C. Morton quickly looking at Gail then looking down, then looking
back up again in shock. The camera then shows a close up of Morton
and he does the whole double take all over again. 3) When Bud Jamison's
character asks "What were they arguing about?" off-screen,
Curly's hands are higher than they were in the previous shot. 4) You
can see the string that pulls the letter press handle. 5) A jump in
the picture right before Curly fires the gun above Larry's head. 6)
A jump in the picture when Larry pulls the gum off of Moe's nose.
7) When Larry cries, "Oh, my stradivarius!" his lips aren't
moving. 8) When Curly pulls the trigger of the gun, he's not supposed
to know that it's going to fire, but if you look at his face, you
can see him wincing in anticipation of the shot. 9) At the end, when
the photographer runs up to the Stooges and Gail Tempest, Gail is
standing beside the Stooges and she has her hat on. In the next shot,
she's suddenly standing behind the Stooges and her hat is gone.
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A PAIN IN THE PULLMAN
(1936): 1) When Paul Pain mutters,
"Get off of me!" to the monkey, his lips aren't moving.
2) When Curly cracks, "Oh, a baldheaded heartthrob," Pain's
roomate is laughing along with the Stooges, but she isn't laughing
in the next shot. 3) When Larry says "Hey, hock a chynick (?)
for me too, will ya," he's really saying something else. 4) A
jump in the picture when the landlady realizes the Stooges fooled
her. 5) When the Stooges knock the ladder from under the carpenter,
we hear him yell, "HEY! HEY!!!" but he's really saying something
else (probably obscenities!). 6) After Curly coughs up some crab bits,
the lady next to him breaks character and laughs for a moment. 7)
Curly accidentally backs into the wall after saying, "Oh, a cheapie,
huh?" 8) After Curly kisses the sleeping woman, she wakes up
and is about to slap Curly, but we don't see her slap Curly until
Johnson walks in. 9) When Curly says "I thought she wanted to
play post office," his lips aren't moving. 10) When Moe picks
up Larry from the floor by the hair, Larry looks like that really
hurt. Also, his shoe wasn't supposed to fall off like that, but he
made a good ad-lib ("What do you think I am a toe dancer?").
11) When the Stooges are about to be thrown off the train, you can
hear all of them yell, yet none of them are really yelling. 12) When
the Stooges are riding on the bulls at the end, you can see a moving
shadow in the bushes. 13) During the crab-eating scene, in real life,
Moe had some difficulty in getting himself to eat the crab pieces
(there's an explanation of why in Moe's autobiography). You can even
tell by looking at his facial expressions during the scene that he
didn't want to do it. 14) One of the times Larry is pulled down from
the berth, they use a stunt double for him and it's obvious by the
big part in the middle of the double's hair that he's not Larry. 15)
Curly cut his mouth in real life while chewing on one of the crab
pieces.
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FALSE ALARMS
(1936): 1) When Moe yells, "Must
be a fire!" he has soap in his hair, but when he steps out of
the shower, the soap is gone. 2) When Curly falls down the firepole,
they use a stuntman. The stuntman lands on top of Moe and his hat
falls off, but when Curly takes over the place of the stuntman in
the next shot, his hat is still on, then it falls back off again.
3) When Moe splashes the captain's suit with water, his suit is all
wet, but it's completely dry when the Stooges run up to him. 4) After
Moe punches Larry in the stomach to wake him up, Larry chokes on his
own breath for a second. 5) When Curly says, "The boithday cake!"
his lips don't move. 6) When Moe and Larry arrive in the captain's
car at the fire, Larry gets out of the car before Moe and asks Curly,
"What's the matter?" In the next shot, Moe gets out of the
car, and following him is Larry getting out of the car again!!! 7)
When Moe is helping the fat lady out of the car ("Help me with
this MIDGET, will ya?"), the fat lady accidentally kicks the
lady behind her in the jaw. 8) When the people in the fire station
run out of the place after the car crashes inside, the chief is amongst
those people, but in the next shot, he's suddenly in the firetruck,
yelling "That's my car!!" 9) After the Stooges push the
captain's car off the sidewalk, they fall over, and you can see that
they are in front of the Max Factor building, with the Remington Rand
building just behind them. In that shot there is no truck parked near
the sidewalk, however, when the captain's car drives into the truck,
you can see just shortly afterwards that the truck is in front of
the Rand building. Also the Stooges run forwards towards the truck
to shut the car in, even though just previously, they were actually
in front of the truck.
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WHOOPS, I'M AN INDIAN!
(1936): 1) A jump in the picture
when Curly fires his rifle underwater. 2) When Pierre tries to open
the door, his hand slips from the doorknob at first. 3) When the sherrif
says "Three sets of footprints, maybe they're in the cabin,"
his lips aren't moving. 4) When the lantern falls and smashes on Pierre's
head, he falls to the ground and his hat falls off, but his hat's
back on in the next shot. 5) The Stooges are silent when they walk
in the bar and say "How!" several times. 6) After Pierre
forces Moe and Larry to dance, it cuts to Curly and when it goes back
to other shot, Pierre is holding his face as if Moe or Larry hit him
but we don't see it. 7) As the camera dissolves to the beginning of
the wedding scene, we can see Curly at the end of saying something,
but we don't hear what he's saying or see the beginning of it.
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SLIPPERY SILKS
(1936): 1) When the camera first
shows Larry, he has four brushes in his mouth, but he only has two
brushes in his mouth in the next shot. 2) When the Stooges see the
cops headed towards their store, they all spread out and a wooden
board on the floor flies up and hits Larry on the leg. 3) After the
wooden plank hits Mr. Romani on the head, Larry is about to pick up
the board, then in the next shot, he's already in the back putting
the board away. 4) You can see a board in the seat of Curly's pants
when Moe and Larry are pulling the roofing nails out of his butt.
5) After Larry knocks the Chinese Cabinet in the air, it cuts to Moe
and Curly and Curly's holding his head as if he was hit by Moe, but
we don't see it. 6) You can see a string on the paint bucket when
Larry knocks it over. 7) A cut in the picture when Moe and Larry are
tackled to the ground. 8) When the boys walk in their gown shop, they
huddle, then walk up to the three ladies as if they're going to do
or say something to them, and Larry takes his hat off, but in the
next shot, the boys aren't doing anything to the girls and Larry's
hat is back on. 9) After Moe grabs Curly away by the "hair" Curly
walks away from Moe's grip and he looks like he's going to walk up
to the ladies, but it cuts to the next scene before we see what happens.
10) When Moe asks the lady what's wrong with her dress, the lady is
looking down, but in the next shot, she's looking at Moe. 11) You
can see the stagehand that throws the cream-puff at Mrs. Morgan. 12)
After Mr. Morgan yells "My cabinet!", he runs up to Moe and starts
choking him. Then there's an abrupt cut to Moe and Larry stepping
outside of the building. We don't see how Moe got away from Mr. Morgan.
13) When Larry says to Moe "Very artistic", his hands are in front
of him and he's holding scissors, but in the next shot, his hands
are suddenly behind him and Moe is now holding his pair of scissors.
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1937
GRIPS, GRUNTS AND GROANS
(1937): 1) After the boys get
up from the floor after ducking, Curly has a hard time standing back
up. 2) When the stooges are being chased by railroad detectives, they
round a corner and knock over a baby carriage. If you watch closely,
you can see that doubles were used for that scene. A thin Curly gives
it away. Larry's double runs funny too. (thanks to Larrysgirl for
this one) 3) When the stunt doubles for the Stooges crash into and
knock over a baby carriage, a big white box falls from the carriage,
but in the next shot when the Stooges take over the place of the stuntmen,
the box is gone. 4) When Moe and Larry were supposed to twist Curly's
ears at the same time, Moe almost forgot. 5) The managers walk into
the bar and find Bustoff drinking. One of them knocks the drink out
of Bustoff's hand and Bustoff forgets what he's supposed to do. He
stands up, looks around, freezes, and then the camera cuts and then
he pummels the guy (thanks to Sean for this one). 6) After Curly laughs
when Moe tickles his foot, it cuts to another shot and Curly's shoe
is already on. 7) Curly says "I don't know how to wrestle! He'll
kill me!" and Moe is standing a lot closer to Curly than he was
in the previous shot. 8) When Curly steps on the outside of the wrestling
ring, Moe puts a chair right next to Curly, but Curly knocks it over
as he walks away. 9) After Ironhead drops Curly on the ring when Moe
puts perfume on his face, Ironhead looks as if he's about to break
character and laugh. 10) After Moe touches Curly's "muscle", it cuts
to the next shot and Curly's shorts are suddenly on higher than they
were in the previous shot. 11) After the Stooges get up from the floor
after being splashed with water, Curly has a hard time keeping his
shorts from falling down.
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DIZZY DOCTORS
(1937): 1) When Curly is slicing
the bread, the first slice accidentally falls off the table. 2) After
the Stooges wake up and run over to their wives, in the next scene,
the Stooges' wives are standing in different positions. 3) A jump
in the picture when the Stooges are overhearing the boss asking for
salesmen. 4) When Larry begins wiping the cop's uniform, he has a
worried look on his face, but he's smiling in the next shot. 5) When
Vernon Dent's character yells "Police! Help!", he's standing
to the left of the Stooges, but in the next shot, he's standing to
the right of them. 6) When Curly is pulling out the patient's hair,
it cuts to the next shot, and Curly's standing to the side all of
a sudden and not doing anything. 7) When the boys are supposed to
skid to a halt in a corridor, if you look closely at the floor before
they do it, you'll see the black heel marks left by previous takes.
The takes were probably not used because one of them slipped and fell,
or perhaps actually ran into a supporting character (thanks to Jim
Sullivan for this observation). 8) When Dr. Arms (Vernon Dent) and
his two assistants fall over the stretcher, you can tell that the
man playing Dr. Arms in that shot is a stuntman, he looks nothing
like Vernon Dent, and that's not his voice, either. 9) When the boys
run up to the elevator, Moe puts his hand on the elevator door as
if he's going to open it, but in the next shot his hands are to his
side and the door opens by itself. 10) When Moe says to Harry Arms
"Hey, mister, polish your car with Brighto; makes old bodies new!",
Larry is digging in his right pocket, then in the next shot, he's
suddenly holding a bottle of Brighto in both of his hands. 11) When
the Stooges dash out of Harry Arms' (played by Vernon Dent) office
after he remembers them from earlier in the short, Arms yells to his
two assistants "Those are the birds who wrecked my car! Get 'em, boys!",
but that line was actually dubbed in by Jules White, the producer
of this short, and he sounded nothing like Vernon Dent's real voice.
12) When the Stooges crash through their window at the end, watch
the order as they run. First, when they begin running, Curly's first,
followed by Moe and Larry. Then it shows a shot of a window and the
boys still running, and Moe is suddenly first now. Then the camera
cuts over to the inside of the house, and we see Larry jumping into
the window first!
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3 DUMB CLUCKS
(1937): 1) When Moe is reading
the letter, he says "off that old oil land," but "old"
isn't in the letter. 2) You can see a pipe in Moe's sleeve that's
connected to the oiler where the oil comes out of. 3) When Moe and
Larry throw Curly through the wall, they use a dummy. However, for
some dumb reason, the dummy has a head full of hair! 4) Right before
Curly whacks the gate with the mallet, you can already see the gate
already slightly crack open. 5) When Curly was thrown down the elevator
shaft, he accidentally sliced his head open on a 2X4 plant that was
left in the shaft. He was hospitilized, and after recovering, a patch
of hair (!) was applied over Curly's wound so we wouldn't see it.
However, we can clearly see the patch of hair when Curly is in the
hatshop, and when Curly is running down the stairs and keeps barking
at the guard. 6) After Moe hits Curly on the head with a chisel, the
camera shows a close-up of Curly holding his head in pain, then his
eyes light up for some reason, then it cuts to the next shot and Moe
says "Yeah!" to Curly as if Curly said something.
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BACK TO THE WOODS
(1937): 1) When the judge slams
his gavel, the top accidentally breaks and flies off. 2) At the end
of the courtroom scene, Larry turns to say something to the judge,
but the scene fades out before he speaks. 3) When Larry slams his
rifle on the ground along with Moe, it was supposed to hit Curly's
foot but it missed. 4) When Moe, Larry and Curly take off their hats
and bow to Faith, Hope and Charity, only Moe and Curly bump heads,
but Larry acts like he was hit too (thanks to Larrysgirl for this
one). 5) When Curly is dancing, his shoe accidentally falls off. 6)
Moe's hat keeps falling off when the boys are doing their "about
face" routine, and it falls off again when the boys are backing
out of the door, chanting "A-Hunting We Will Go-eth." 7)
When Curly drops his rifle down and shoots down a turkey, the rifle
doesn't really hit Larry's foot (Larrysgirl). 8) When the stooges
are using a tree branch to throw objects at the indians, Moe says
to Curly about an object he (curly) brought over "Ahha, 'tis a hornet's
nest', but his lips don't move (Larrysgirl). 9) When Moe and Curly
club the indians who are dancing around the tree to which Larry is
bound, some of the indians land at Larry's feet, but in the next scene,
they've been moved to the side. (Larrygirl). 10) When Curly throws
the bucket at the Indians, the bottom of the bucket falls out when
it hits the ground. 11) The Stooges only dump hot coal down the pants
of three Indians, yet there are five Indians soaking in the water
afterwards. 12) After the camera shows the Indians in the lake, the
camera cuts back to the Stooges and Curly is holding his face as if
he was hit, but we don't see it. 13) When Moe hands the governor the
credential which says "Giveth them the works", Moe takes a peek at
it himself. So if he knew what the letter said, why did he smile at
Larry and Curly afterwards as if he knew nothing was wrong? 14) In
the canoe scene reused from WHOOPS I'M AN INDIAN, Moe's original line
to Curly, "C'mon, hurry up!" is redubbed in this version as "Make-
eth haste, quincehead!", but you can see that the new line doesn't
match his original lip movements correctly.
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GOOFS AND SADDLES
(1937): 1) When Curly says,
"I wonder if this is the place," the following gun shot
takes place too early, making it hard to hear Curly say "place"
2) You can see the string that pulls the mud out of Moe's ear. 3)
After Curly turns his hat and pants heavily, he begins to walk away,
but in the next shot, he's still standing right where he was. 4) When
the bullets fall into the meat grinder, there's a lot of meat coming
out of the grinder, but all the meat is suddenly gone in the next
shot when the bullets start firing out of the grinder. 5) During the
card game, Curly and Moe pass their two aces to each other. However,
after the first exchange, Moe opens his hand and discovers he has
only two aces: the ace of spades and the ace of clubs. Curly opens
his hand and discovers that he also only has two aces: the ace of
spades and the ace of clubs!
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CASH AND CARRY
(1937): 1) Curly's lips don't
move when he says, "It attacked me". 2) A cut to Moe saying,
"C'mon, General, we got bankin' to do!" 3) When Curly sees
the "x" on the pillar, there's a whole bunch of cobwebs
on Curly's head . They're all gone in the next shot. 4) When Curly
was supposed to hit Moe on back of the head with the shovel handle,
he missed at first. 5) Before the boys start digging into the dirt
with their hands, you can see the wall behind curly is spattered with
dirt. when larry and moe start digging, they begin throwing dirt into
curley's face, spattering the wall behind him. thus, it looks like
they already practiced the scene before and didn't clean off the wall.
[Compliments Christine Pellett] 6) When the cop yells "Get 'em out!"
after the Stooges drop the bags on his foot, it looks like Curly mouths
the same line.
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PLAYING THE PONIES
(1937): 1) Curly casts his fishing
line in the water then he puts one hand above the reel and one hand
below the reel, but in the next shot, both hands are above the reel.
2) The man asks the newsboy for the paper then he looks at it, and
in the next shot, the man has his hand on his chin all of a sudden.
3) When Curly takes a seat and begins to eat his "filet of soul"
meal, Moe and Larry look at him, but they're looking at the two customers
in the next shot. 3) After the swinging door hits Moe on the face,
Moe gets up from the floor and has tears rolling down his eyes as
if he was really hurt. 4) All of Larry's yells when he has the rake
caught up his behind is dubbed in. Listen carefully and you can hear
Larry's real yells under the dubbed soundtrack. 5) When one customer
is downing a whole pitcher of water after eating too many pepperinos,
you can see the hose that the water drains into below his elbow. 6)
When Moe yells to Larry "You're goin' the wrong way! Turn 'er around,
chucklehead!", he and Curly are looking to the right, but in the next
shot, they are looking to the left suddenly.
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THE SITTER DOWNERS
(1937): 1) When the boys first
give the flowers to their girls they are in this order, from front
to back: Moe, Larry, Curly. Then the scene cuts to the little dog
giving his girlfriend a rose in the doghouse. When the scene returns
to the Stooges, they've magically changed positions to Larry, Curly
and Moe from front to back! Sounds like we missed a "Switch! Hut,
hut, hut!" routine. [thanks to AJJ for this one]. 2) A cut in the
film when the dog gives a flower to his girlfriend. 3) Moe almost
cracks up when Curly is waving the banner in Mr. Bell's face. 4) Right
after Curly sits on the knitting needles, Moe and Larry come over
to help him, when he is grabbing Mr. Bell's ears in pain, you can
hear Joe Besser's voice dubbed in saying "Oooh, hey wait a minute".
[Thanks to Numskull for this one] 5) When the wives knock the Stooges
off of the pre-built house, they use stuntmen for the Stooges. After
crashing to the ground, the stuntmen get up from the floor, but in
the next shot where the Stooges take their places, they are still
lying on the ground then they get up again. 6) When Curly yells after
Moe accidentally drils through his foot, Moe looks up, but in the
next shot, Moe is looking down then he looks up again. 7) When Cora
Bell asks "Where's Curly?" she has her hand on Moe's shoulder,
but her hand isn't in the next shot. 8) When Curly falls out of the
tree, the board that was used to get him down is still standing up,
but it's lying down on the ground in the next shot. 9) When the Stooges
and their wives first arrive at the lot where their house is supposed
to be, there all sitting in the back of the truck. Then the camera
shows a brief close-up of a sign, and when it goes back to the Stooges
and their wives, all of them are out of the truck already except for
Moe. 10) Also, please delete the Joe Besser goof, because that wasn't
his voice, it was Moe's voice.
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TERMITES OF 1938
(1938): 1) You can tell that
Curly isn't really playing the flute because he doesn't even bring
it up to his lips. 2) You can see a string on the mouse when it's
coming out of the whole when Curly is playing the flute. 3) At the
end when the Stooges take off in their car, the passengers door opens
up by an accident. 4) When we first see the Stooges, Larry is helping
Moe set up a rope, but in the next shot, Larry's hands are to his
side. 5) During one part of the dinner scene, the guests are eating
their soup, then in the next shot, the butler is suddenly taking their
bowls away and giving them their next meal. 6) When the English lord
gets repellent sprayed in his face through the hole in the wall, he
cries, "What the" and at the same time, you can hear him
yelling "OOOOOOH!!!" in the background. 7) During the musical
scene, Curly breaks the flute in half, but in the next shot, the flute
is back together. 8) You can see water stains on Lord Wafflebottom
and the wall before he even gets sprayed with the repellent.
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WEE WEE MONSIEUR
(1938): 1) Right before Curly's
fishing hook grabs on to the back of a man's pants, you can see a
hole in the pants where the hook is trying to snag. 2) When Moe stands
on Curly's back to look through the window, a piece of his beard falls
off. 3) A cut in the film after the boys crash into the cell bars
and fall on the floor. 4) During the part where Curly gets hit on
the head continuously by Moe and Larry's rifles, right before the
first time Curly gets hit, Moe and Larry stop marching, followed by
Curly stopping, but in the next shot, Curly's still going, then he
stops again.
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TASSELS IN THE AIR
(1938): 1) When Bud Jamison
says "Maggie, do you realize..." he has a pipe in his mouth, but in
the next shot, the pipe is in his hand. 2) When Omay asks the Stooges,
"How is it possible to make so much noise painting?!" Larry
is looking at him, but he's loking at Moe and Curly in the next shot.
3) When Moe walks over to the boss, he's saying something but you
can't hear him due to the loud bucket noises. 4) After Moe tickles
Curly's chin with the paintbrush, he puts the brush down on the table,
and it falls back off. 5) After Larry asks "Hey, what about my hair?"
and Moe responds "I gave it back to you didn't I?" and slaps Larry,
you can hear someone laugh in the background. 6) There's a cut in
the picture when the buckets land on the Stooges heads at the end.
7) When Moe says his name then translates it into piglatin, he has
his hand backwards, then flips it frontwards. But when he's saying
Larry's name and translates it into piglatin, he does the hand flip
gesture backwards but Curly does it the right way. 8) Towards the
end, we see the butler with paint all over his face, yet we don't
see how it got there. 9) At the end when the Stooges jump on the boards
to make the paintbuckets launch in the air, it looks like Moe hurts
his foot or something because you can see him hop back off the board
with a painful expression right before the camera cuts away.
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FLAT FOOT STOOGES
(1938): 1) Right before Moe
is about to pull the string, his hat is on backward, but it's on frontwards
in the next shot. Also, he misses his cue and is about to pull the
string too early while Curly is still speaking. 2) Curly goofed up
his line by saying "The horses fall on the harness a....the harness
falls on the horses". Watch Moe's face when this happens. 3) Moe's
loses track of the horses gender several times in the bath scene and
refers to the horse as a "him" and "her". 4) Another
line is stuffed, up this time, Moe's "What do you expect a firemouse,
I mean, uh, firehouse mouse to smell like" 5) Moe's hat falls
off when he finally pulls the string, and you can see him clumsily
trying to catch it before it cuts to the next shot and he almost falls
off his chair. It's pretty funny. 6) Not sure if this was intentional
or not, but there is no writer credited in the opening. 7) When the
Stooges are gathering all the volunteers to help pull the fire engine,
you can hear a screaming voice in the background that sounds a lot
like the chief's daughter. But she was supposed to be unconscious
at the time, in the burning room upstairs.
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HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND
DUMB (1938):
1) When the camera shows a close-up of Moe eating the pancakes, his
hair looks different than it did in the shot before. 2) When Curly
opens his mouth for Moe to put the pliers in, Larry's hands are on
Curly's head, but they weren't in the shot before. 3) When Curly says
"It's a good thing it's time for the Coffin Nail Cigarette contest
or I... he's supposed to stop when the announcer on the radio starts
talking, but Curly stops too early. 4) As the camera is showing the
outside of the hotel, you can see a moving shadow in the background.
5) Something gets in Moe's eye when the champagne is coming out of
Curly's ears. 6) When Larry falls and sits on the spilled hot water,
he yells and you can also hear Moe yelling in the background for some
odd reason. It was probably an earlier yell from him dubbed in at
the wrong time. 7) When the Henry the VIII bed crashes apart, Moe
ends up on top of it, but in the next shot, he's suddenly under it.
8) When Curly is drinking from the champagne bottle, you can see that
the bottle is really empty.
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VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR
CURLY (1938):
1) When the boys rush out of the gas station with their equipment,
the three professors have food out, but they didn't in the scene before.
2) When Curly begins to sleep he has a smile on his face, but it's
gone in the next shot. 3) While Curly was hanging on a spit over the
roasting fire, he really suffered first-degree burns when the wind
blew the flames. 4) Moe's singing must've been dubbed in because after
he sings "Bicky Bye Bo Bu," he closes his mouth yet you
can still hear him singing. 5) After the lunch man says "luncheon
is served," look at the top left corner of the screen and you
can see a shadow of the boom mike moving. 6) The camera cuts over
to Curly too late after he spits the pickle juice as Mrs. Catsby.
7) After Mrs. Catsby leaves, the female student walks up to the man
and begins to says "Mother...", then her line abruptly gets cut off
as it dissolves to the next scene.
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THREE MISSING LINKS
(1938): 1) When the boys are
cleaning up the office, Moe closes the door and it accidentally hits
Larry in the behind. 2) When Moe thinks that Larry has sprayed water
on Moe, Larry's hat is on, then the camera briefly shows Curly, and
when it cuts back to Moe and Larry, Larry's hat is off. 3) After Curly
says, "Fired and hired in one day!" he looks offscreen at
something but it cuts to the next scene before we see what it is.
4) When Moe looks up to the tree to see the water that Curly's talking
about, his hat accidentally falls off.
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MUTTS TO YOU
(1938): 1) At the beginning
shot, the dalmatian's head is a distance away from the baby's crib,
but in the next shot, his nose is peering into the crib. 2) When Larry
fires the gun, watch the dalmatian. 3) When Curly first shows off
his mini-cash register his hands are to the side, but in the next
shot, his hands are under the cash register. 4) When Mr. Manning is
aksing his chauffeur where Mrs. Manning went, you can see a shadow
of the boom mike on the car. 5) When Larry begins drinking from the
glass of water, the water is white, but it's clear in the next shot.
6) When the gadget with all the gloves around it lowers, it accidentally
hits Mrs. Manning on the head. 7) As the dalmatian is being washed,
you can see Larry in the background looking off-camera at Moe and
moving his mouth, but you can't hear anything at first. Then when
we hear him say "Take it up!", it doesn't match his actual lip movements.
8) There's one part where the camera shows a close- up of Moe sniffing
the air and making a face where you can easily tell that he smells
the baby's diaper, but the bit abruptly ends right there and goes
to the next part, so there's no finish to the set-up.
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THREE LITTLE SEW AND
SEWS (1939):
1) When Curly is being pulled by the spring and he falls down and
hits his head on a table, you can hear somebody in the background
laughing. 2) After Curly gets pulled by the spring and lands back
on the cough, it cuts to Vernon Dent already laugh, but we don't see
him beginning to laugh. Also, Curly says to him "You're gettin' in
my hair!" but Dent didn't do anything to Curly before so why did Curly
get to pissed off at him? 3) After Larry accidentally knocks out Moe
instead of Gehrol, in the background, you can see Curly begin to get
up from the floor, but in the next shot, Curly is lying down on the
floor then he gets up again. 4) Look closely and you can see the string
that holds the bombs when they fly past Curly, and you can see the
strings holding the Stooges up at the end when they're shown as angels.
5) You can see a hole in the back of Moe's pants prior to him sitting
down on the curling iron. 6) When Curly says "...and beans!", it doesn't
match his actual mouth movement.
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WE WANT OUR MUMMY
(1939): 1) When the boys get
out of the taxi, the front seat is empty. What happened to the taxi
driver? 2) When Moe and Larry run around a corner, Moe almost slips.
3) When Curly falls on top of the mummy, the crown flies off, but
it's back on in the next shot. 4) When the alligator is crawling out
of the hole, the shot freezes for a few seconds. 5) When the alligator
bites Curly in the behind, Curly has a crown on his head, but it's
gone in the next shot. 6) At the end of the echo scene, Curly yells
something that sounds like "Shmalts!" twice, then he yells "Moe, Larry!".
Apparently, "Shmalts" was supposed to be "Moe", but I can't see how
"Moe" could come out sounding like that. 7) When Larry and Moe begin
wrapping Curly up as a mummy, they wrap his arms against the sides
of his body, but in the next scene when they're done wrapping up Curly,
both of his arms are free. 8) When the bad guys step on the rug and
fall through the hole, their yells sound remarkably just like the
Stooges!
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A DUCKING THEY DID GO
(1939): 1) After the boys screech
through the hallway floor, Moe slips and almost falls down. 2) In
the part where the Stooges are ripping off a man's clothing when they're
trying to convince him to buy a membership, we see his left sleeve
ripped off, but we don't see who ripped it off. 3) When Moe yells
at Larry for hitting the cop with the watermelon, Moe's holding the
rifle with his right and and Curly picks up his wooden duck and makes
like he's going to hit Larry with it. In the next shot, the rifle
is in Moe's left hand and Curly isn't holding the duck. 4) After Curly
says "My mind's a blank", it suddenly cuts to Moe saying "...you!"
5) Larry says "We can't hold out much longer, r..." then it suddenly
cuts to him saying "This is the last one". 6) After Moe accidentally
knocks Curly in the water, he asks "What are you doin' in swimmin'?"
and right in the middle of his line, some water sprays in his face.
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YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA
(1939): 1) Watch when Curly
first enters the saloon. After the shot when he says, "Hiya, Babe!",
you can see the shadow of the overhead microphone following Curly
in the upper left of the screen! [thanks to AJJ for this one] 2) When
Curly turns to his boss and asks him for one beer, the boss has a
cigar in his mouth, but it's gone in the next shot. 3) When Curly
throws a rock at Moe's head, Moe is holding a stick of dynamite in
one hand and a it match in the other, but in the next shot, the dynamite
stick is already lit and the match has disappeared. 4) When Larry
asks "What happened", and Moe responds "Nothin', yet", he extends
his arm to slap Larry and before we can see it happen, it cuts to
the explosion. 5) When Moe, Larry, and the three waitresses are singing
"She'll Be Comin' Around the Mountain", there's a noticeable jump
cut in the film right before Curly appears. 6) When the Stooges are
dancing together during the "She'll Be Comin' Around the Mountain"
musical, there's one part where Moe and Curly bump into each other
and afterwards, they stare at each other in a way that makes it look
like they were angry in real life, then they're both late on their
cue for when all 3 of the Stooges are supposed to clap their hands
on their knees to the music. 7) When Curly tosses a beer over to Larry,
it's in a see-through glass. But after Larry accidentally spills the
beer in Moe's face, the glass is now non-see through. 8) When Moe
puts the seltzer bottle on the counter, he accidentally sprays some
on his hand. 9) You can see a band-aid on Curly's left hand throughout
this short. 10) When Curly gets a pot stuck on his head, we are supposed
to believe that the Stooges are outside, but you can see a reflection
of studio lights on the pot.
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SAVED BY THE BELLE
(1939): 1) Did Curly mess up
when he said, "Don't you dare harm the feather in his bed, I
mean head"? 2) After Larry takes the hammer out of the pie, he
has a surprised look on his face, but in the next shot, he's smiling
and you can hear the end of a ringing noise. 3) Moe says "95% temper",
5% mental", Curly looks at Moe in confusion, but in the next shot,
he's looking elsewhere and he's smiling. 4) When the Stooges land
on the back of the horse at the end, Curly looks like he's about to
crack up. 5) As the Stooges arrive at Singapore Joe's camp, the parrot
cage, which is either strapped to or resting on the horse's back,
begins to fall off the horse, but the scene quickly jumps to the next
scene before we see the cage fall to the ground.
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CALLING ALL CURS
(1939): 1) A jump cut when Curly
is coughing up bubbles. 2) When the nurse is putting the mask on Moe,
she accidentally puts it over Moe's eyes. 3) You can see a shadow
moving on the wall when Curly is trying to pull a thorn out of Garcon
with pliers. 4) When Curly says "One little kitten lost it's mitten",
his lips aren't moving. 5) When Curly yells "I can't see, I can't
see" he's supposed to have his eyes closed, but his eyes are open,
then he remembers and quickly closes them. 6) After Moe hits Curly
on the head with a bone, the camera shows a close-up of a dog while
we hear Larry saying "Hey, leave him alone", and when the camera goes
back to the Stooges, Larry is holding his head in pain as if Moe hit
him, but we don't see it. 7) After Curly says "It's got dandruff",
Moe and Larry look back down, but in the next shot, they're both looking
at Curly. 8) When Curly kicks oen of the dog nappers, the dognapper
has his jacket on just one arm, but in the next shot, the dognapper
has his jacket all the way on. 9) When the Stooges are operating on
Garcon, why is Larry the only one wearing a mask? 10) When the Stooges
are searching outside for Garcon, why does Curly pronounce Garcon's
name incorrectly? He pronounced it correctly earlier in the film.
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OILY TO BED, OILY TO
RISE (1939):
1) You can see the foil in Moe's shirt when the saw hits him on the
stomach, which was put there to protect Moe from getting hurt. 2)
When Curly points out the car to Moe and Larry, the camera shows the
car and on the car, we can see a reflection of the Stooges running
towards it, but when the camera goes back to the Stooges, they're
still standing in the same place, then they run up to the car. 3)
When Moe got oil squirted into his face, he forgot to close his eyes
and the oil got inside his eyes. They had to get the first aid man
to pry his eyes open and take that crap out of his eyes. 4) After
Curly says "Oh, hit a woman would you?", it cuts to a shot
of the road, and when it cuts back to the original shot, the Stooges
and the swindlers have changed positions all of a sudden. 5) Near
the end when the Stooges are fighting over the steering wheel, Larry
has this smile on his face like he's going to break character, but
it's Moe's shoving him out the way that snaps him out of it. 6) When
the camera first shows the Stooges throwing wood into the bottom-less
wagon, you can see a chicken under there, frantically trying to get
away before it gets hurt. 7) During Curly's battle with the wagon
door, you can see the string attached to the door that was used to
pull it up. 8) As Curly is crawling to the opening of the wagon to
tell Moe and Larry to stop throwing the wood, you can see one wooden
log accidentally hit the side of his face right before the camera
cuts away. 9) When Moe tries to unclog the water pump with a crowbar,
the crowbar he uses looks a lot different from the crowbar used a
few seconds ago to twist off the pump head, but we were supposed to
believe they were the same one. 10) When the crowbar spins around
and is supposed to hit all 3 Stooges on the back of the head, it doesn't
hit Moe, yet he still reacts.
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THREE SAPPY PEOPLE
(1939): 1) A jump cut in the
picture when Curly crashes off-screen. 2) When they show Curly sitting
on a bucket with a board lying on his head, his hat is on correctly,
but when Moe and Larry walk up to him, Curly's hat is on sideways.
3) When Curly buzzes the lady with the razor, she almost laughs. 4)
After Moe sarcastically says "Yes, isn't he a scream?", the camera
cuts to another angle and Larry is holding his head as if he was hit,
but we don't see it happen. 5) The black tamale stains on Moe's face
keeps disappearing and reappearing during the cream puff fight.
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YOU NAZTY SPY!
(1940): 1) Larry walks with
a noticeable limp all throughout the short. I wonder what happened.
2) While Moe is scrubbing perfume on Curly's head, Larry is about
to tap Moe on the shoulder a little too early, but he realizes it
isn't time yet. 3) During the speech scene, the pattern of Moe's hair
changes in several shots. 4) When Moe is speaking in mock German,
Larry looks like he's going to crack up. 5) The country that the boys
take over is spelled "Moronika", but in a letter Moe gets from the
king, it's spelled "Moronica". It's also spelled that way in the sequel,
I'LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN (1941). 6) When the storm troopers are marching
way, one of them almost falls over backwards. 7) When Curly raises
his arm with the golf bag on it, the strap on the bag hits Larry on
the head. 8) Actress Lorna Gray almost laughs while watching the storm
troopers marching.
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ROCKIN' THRU THE ROCKIES
(1940): 1) When one of the ladies
says "Well, if there are any Indians around, they certainly know where
to find us", she stands in between Curly and Larry, but in the next
shot, she's standing in front of Moe and Curly. 2) When Moe says,
"Quiet, Airedale" to Curly, Moe's hat is off. Then the camera
shows a brief close-up of the Indian chief, and when it cuts back
to Moe and Curly, Moe's hat is on. 3) After the Indian chief says
"Not bad" he turns his head and headdress hits the other
Indian in the face. 4) Did Curly goof when he said, "A lizard"I
mean, a blizzard"? 5) When Moe, Larry and Curly fall through
the ice at various times, they are pulled out soaking wet. The next
time we see them, they are dry! [thanks to Larrysgirl for this one]
6) When the camera shows a close-up of the ice cubes falling into
the bucket, there are several noticeable jump cuts in the picture.
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A PLUMBING WE WILL GO
(1940): 1) After the cop kicks
Curly, Curly runs off-screen and begins to woo-woo, but it abruptly
gets cut off in the dissolve to the next scene. 2) Before Curly falls
down into the basement, Moe has no wrench in his hand, but in the
next shot when Curly falls into the basement, a wrench magically appears
in Moe's hand. 3) After Curly and Larry fall out from the back of
the plumber's truck and crash into the ground, Larry has the front
of his body faced towards Curly and Curly's hat falls off. Then the
camera cuts to a closer shot of them, and Larry suddenly has his back
to Curly and Curly's hat is back on. 4) When the Stooges first enter
the basement and run around in circles on the wet floor, Moe accidentally
slips and falls down, but quickly gets up from the floor like nothing
happened. 5) The bit where Larry says you use the strings on the straitjacket/girdle
to swing seemed awkwardly ad-libbed to me, and right when Moe's about
to hit Larry after his comment, he suddenly stops for no apparent
reason, probably because Larry didn't expect the hit. 6) Towards the
end of the short, when Curly returns to the bathroom that he was working
in earlier where he connected a maze of pipes together and cut a hole
through the floor, the maze of pipes are gone for some reason. The
maze of pipes should've been exactly where Curly left them before
he fell through the hole in the floor earlier.
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NUTTY BUT NICE
(1940): 1) After Moe smashes
the lollipop on Curly's head, the camera shows the little girl and
when it goes back to the Stooges, Moe is in the middle of saying something,
but we don't hear the beginning. 2) When the cop is dragging the man
with the beer away, the man slips on the beer on the ground. Also,
the cop's "c'mon" is played twice. 3) Right before the Stooges
crash the door open, somebody inside slightly opens the door for them.
4) When Curly takes the light bulb with him, the light obviously stays
on to long after Curly throws the bulb down. [thanks to kingMJA for
this one] 5) At the end when Curly tries to swipe some cream on Moe's
face, he misses the first time. Also, after Moe gets hit with the
cream, he closes his mouth, yet you can still hear him singing.
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HOW HIGH IS UP?
(1940): 1) A jump cut in the
picture when the fly is dangling around Curly's open mouth. 2) Larry
cracks up when Curly grunts (probably an ad-lib) "Don't mind
me! Don't mind me!" 3) When Moe is standing on the ledge of the
car to help pull Curly's sweater off, he accidentally falls off the
ledge but Larry catches him. You can hear Moe say "Thanks"
to Larry afterward. 4) When we see the rivet in Curly's sandwich,
we don't see any bite marks on it, yet we saw Curly taking bites out
of the rivet. 5) When Moe asks Larry "Ever hear of the V5?", Curly
is sitting straight up, but in the next shot, he's suddenly tilted
over sideways. 6) When the Stooges are first being raised on the I-
beam, as it gets towards the top of the camera angle you can see the
I-beam stop for a quick second right before the camera cuts to a closer
shot of the Stooges on the I-beam with it still moving.
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FROM NURSE TO WORSE
(1940): 1) When Moe grabs Larry
by the hair, the money accidentally falls out of his hair. It's back
in the next shot. 2) A change in Curly and Dr. Delirious' positions
after the doctor tells the assistants to prepare Curly for the operation.
3) When all the doctors are fighting to get the oxygen mask on Curly,
Larry has his wig on, but in the next shot, his wig is off. 4) The
sound effects of the cop being knocked down by the gurney were played
too early.
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NO CENSUS, NO FEELING
(1940): 1) When Curly puts the
grater back on the table, it falls right back off. 2) The football
in the back of Curly's shirt disappears with no explanation. 3) When
the Stooges crash into a fence there's people walking behind them,
but they're gone in the next shot. 4) Right before the football player
head-butts Curly to the ground, Moe trips over the football player's
foot. 5) Was Curly supposed to stab his hand with the ice cream cone
when he was trying to get it off his face? 6) When the camera shows
a shot of the crowd cheering, you can see confetti flying in the air,
but the game hasn't even finished yet. 7) When the foreign store owner
cries to the cop "Three tramps just wrecked my store!", the actor
playing the cop looked like he's almost going to laugh for a quick
second. 8) As Curly is telling the maid that he'll serve the punch
for her, you can see a moving shadow on the left corner of the screen.
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COOKOO CAVALIERS
(1940): 1) After Curly says,
"Tarpon monoxide" the camera cuts back to the dog, but he
is lying on the floor in a different position than he was in the previous
shot. 2) The hardened mud on the lady's face keeps changing from light
to dark in different shots. 3) When Curly accidentally sprays himself
with paint, he gets some over his eyes, but it's gone in the next
shot. 4) After the Stooges finally smash the hardened mud on the lady's
face, Curly has a round thing on the side of his head that wasn't
there before. 5) We see hair remover spilled on the dog, but we never
see the after results. 6) After Moe pinches Curly in the arm, the
camera cuts to the next shot and Moe and Curly are both in different
positions suddenly. 7) As the Stooges are putting the mud on Rosita's
face, Moe and Curly start arguing and hitting each other with mud.
It looks to me like that wasn't supposed to happen and Moe and Curly
were really angry at each other during filming. Also, notice that
Larry starts laughing out of character the first time Moe hits Curly,
and right as Moe's about to leave, Curly swipes some mud on his face
(and there's no sound effect for it, giving more evidence that this
probably wasn't supposed to happeen), then Moe turns back to Curly
giving him a mean stare, then it cuts to the next shot and Moe is
suddenly cutting Rosita's fingernails.
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BOOBS IN ARMS
(1940): 1) After Curly grunts
"Oh, a snobbess, eh?" to the lady, it suddenly cuts to the Stooges
looking down at the ground for some reason, and Larry's in a completely
different position. 2) When the Stooges greet themselves to the lady
at the door, you can tell the lady is trying to reach for her hanky
for when she begins crying. 3) When water sprays out of the lady's
ear, it's supposed to spray Curly and Moe on the face, but Moe had
to move his face closer because the water missed him entirely. 4)
When Curly puts the rifle over his right shoulder, it almost hits
the drill sergeant by accident. 5) When the drill sergeant is going
over the order of arms ("right shoulder arms! Left shoulder arms!"),
just prior to demonstrating the correct way to do it, you'll notice
Curly going into his pocket with his right hand. Just before the scene
cuts to another camera, Curly pulls an apple out of his pocket (obviously,
the gag was supposed to be that he would give the sergeant the apple,
like a schoolboy would to a teacher in trying to suck up to him).
[thanks to Jim Sullivan for this one] 6) When Curly comes out of the
bag to throw water on the sergeant, he has some water in his eye.
7) When the boys are woke up on the Battlefield, they line up to salute,
watch Larry he cant get his timing to match Moe & Curly. [thanks to
afan for this one] 8) During the laughing gas scene, we see Moe and
Curly laughing and pointing off-screen, then the camera shows Larry
inside of a hole in the ground, but we never see Larry fall inside
of it. 9) When the Stooges are walking in the enemy's office, Larry
trips over the rug. 10) When Larry brings the seltzer bottle over,
Curly looks at him, but he's looking at the lady in the next shot.
11) When the husband is chasing the Stooges through various doors,
you can see the door in the middle open even though nobody goes through
it. 12) After Curly says "I've been runnin' so long, I've worked up
an appetite!", there's a sudden mute in the audio for a few seconds.
13) When Curly says "Nothin' to do but live off the fat of the land",
his hat strap falls loose. 14) You can hear this weird sound on the
microphone for a few seconds during the part where they show the army
marching. 15) When the Stooges are in the bags, there's one part where
Moe spits water in Sgt. Dare's face. But we never saw the Sgt. spray
water in Moe's bag, so where'd Moe get the water from? 16) When Curly
first gets his head stuck in the cannon, his hands are to his side,
then in the next shot, his hands are suddenly on both sides of the
cannon. 17) When Curly first gets his head stuck in the cannon, they
accidentally play audio of Moe saying "Hey, waitaminnit!" too early.
18) When the general says a line in piglatin, his mouth doesn't move
for the first two words. 19) When the enemy general has that pointy
hat thing stuck in his behind, he run towards the window sill, then
the camera cuts over to Moe and Larry and we suddenly hear a thud
noise off-screen, as if the general jumped out the window. But he
couldn't have done it that fast without there being a quick cut in
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1941
SO LONG MR. CHUMPS
(1941): 1) The second time the
Stooges sweep their brooms toward each other, they're supposed to
collide, but if you pause the scene frame by frame, you'll notice
that their brooms accidentally miss each other at first, but in the
next shot, their brooms collide. 2) After Larry says, "That's a coincidence.
How'd you get under that paper?" Moe looks like he's going to say
something but it cuts to the next scene before he does. 3) Curly hits
Moe with his broom by accident, his hat almost falls off. 4) A jump
cut in the picture when Curly finally gets the flypaper off of his
hand. 5) When Gyp DePeople is pointing a gun at the Stooges, Curly
and Larry are standing in opposite positions than they were standing
in the previous shot. 6) While the bullet is shooting all around the
place, Curly is saying something but you can't hear due to the sound
effects. 7) When the boys are bowling, they take the balls off of
their chains, but later in the short, the balls are back on the chains
without any explanation. 8) A jump cut in the picture when the guard
takes a bite out of his sandwich. 9) The shot of Curly getting splattered
with a paintbrush when the boys are painting each other's uniforms
is accidentally played twice. 10) When the guard gets slapped by the
Stooges paintbrushes, he has on his hat, but when Curly walks up to
him, the guard's hat is off. 11) At the end when Curly says "I'm no
fool, nyuk, nyuk!" Larry looks like he's going to laugh. 12) When
the Stooges are walking down the sidewalk and notice a cop, in the
background, you can see a man about to walk down stairs, but when
the camera cuts over to a close-up of the Stooges, the man in the
background is suddenly gone from the flight of stairs. Then in the
next shot, the man is already at the bottom of the stairs. 13) After
the Stooges burst open the door of the police headquarters and knock
a cop down, Moe trips over him. 14) During one part of the rockpile
scene, you can see Larry in the background getting off a horse carriage,
but the horse begins moving again right before Larry can get off,
so he ad- libs "Whoa!" to the horse to stop it.
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DUTIFUL BUT DUMB
(1941): 1) When Moe is lighting
the giant cigar for Curly, Curly is holding the cigar with his left
hand, but it's in his right hand in the next shot. 2) When Moe and
Larry are saying, "Heave, ho" as Curly is trying to puff the cigar,
Moe looks like he's going to laugh. 3) Curly goofs when he says, "I
hear footprints." He meant to say "footsteps". 4) In
one part while Curly is playing the harmonica inside the radio, we
can see Curly take the harmonica out of his mouth yet the music still
plays. 5) A lot of film cuts in the oyster sequence. 6) When Curly
is firing a pistol at the oyster soup, he shoots a bottle and it falls
off the counter. But if Curly was using a real gun, wouldn't the bottle
have shattered instead of falling backwards? It's obvious that Curly
was using blanks. 7) The magazine is called "Whack", but once the
Stooges arrive in Vulgaria, the magazine is called "Focus" on their
cart. 8) You can see the wires that pull Moe and Larry's shorts off
when the invisible ray shoots them off. 9) Also, please delete the
goofs about Curly saying "I hear footprints" and Curly taking the
harmonica out of his mouth yet the music continues playing.
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ALL THE WORLD'S A STOOGE
(1941): 1) After Curly says
"Oh, jumpin' beans" somebody off-screen laughs. 2) You can see a band-aid
on Curly's leg. 3) As Larry and Curly are scrubbing the floor, the
camera cuts over to another shot and we suddenly hear the end of Curly's
groan but we never heard the beginning.
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I'LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN
(1941): 1) When Mr. Ix-Nay says
"May we be struck down on this spot", his lips aren't moving. 2) A
jump cut in the picture when Moe is shaving. 3) When Moe says, "We
must study this map very carefully," his lips aren't moving.
Same thing when Curly says, "I'll hit that 13 ball so hard, it'll
fly in a million pieces." 5) When Moe says, "Do you see clause
two," he accidentally knocks over something. 6) A jump cut in
the film when Curly throws the globe in the air. 7) They are all dancing
offbeat to the rumba music at first. 8) When the globe hits Chizzilini
on the head, his hair is all black, but it was all white in the scenes
before. Also, if the globe broke when Curly smashed it over Moe's
head, why didn't it break when Curly kicked it at Mussolini's head?
9) At the beginning, when the bugler raises his bugle, the fanfare
starts playing a few seconds before he actually starts blowing on
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AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE
(1941): 1) You can see where
the ice splits before Moe cracks it open. 2) In many scenes, they
use Styrofoam boxes as the ice blocks, but you can easily tell the
difference. 3) After Curly gives the lady an ice cube and says "Free
sample" the lady looks like she's going to throw the ice cube back
at Curly, but it cuts to the next scene before it happens. 4) The
shot of the man running down the stairs is played twice. This might
not be a mistake. Maybe they just wanted to make it seem like he was
running longer. 5) After Curly says, "What does blood smell like?"
he has a lot more "blood" on his face than he did in the
shot before. 6) When Curly is dragged out of the back of the ice truck,
the seat of his pants are obviously very thickly padded, and the 'ice'
is obviously plastic. Also, Larry is holding one of the ice block
halves in position until Moe hits it, then jumps out of its way when
it falls (by now, it's real) [thanks to Tom Holland for this one].
7) When Curly first bumps into Vernon Dent's character due to the
spring on his back, Dent looks up with mean expression on his face,
but in the next shot, he's looking down and smiling.
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IN THE SWEET PIE AND
PIE (1941):
1) When Moe says "No wedding kiss", he throws his hat down on the
ground, but that hat wasn't in his hand in the shot before. 2) You
can see the front door slightly pushed open before the boys burst
it open. 3) A jump cut in the film after Moe says, "Love thy
neighbor". 4) After the senator splattered a pie in Dorothy Appleby's
character's face, Moe comes over and says something stupid and everybody,
including Dorothy was supposed to throws pies at Moe. Dorothy was
about throw a pie but she couldn't see because of the pie on her face
so she put the pie down while everybody else hit Moe. 5) Moe says
"Listen w..." then he abruptly gets cut off as it cuts to him saying
"...we gotta get outta here!" 6) While the lion hunter (played by
Eddie Laughton) is telling his story, some pie drips into Laughton's
mouth and he trips over the word "wounded".
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SOME MORE OF SAMOA
(1941): 1) When Curly hikes
to the middle, the tree limb hits him in the face. 2) When Moe beats
Curly on the head with a hammer to shorten him back to normal size,
you can hear the jack in the background for a few seconds, which is
what they used in real life to lower Curly. 3) After the bag knocks
Moe on the ground, it cuts to the next shot and Moe's hat is in a
different place. 4) The apple in Curly's mouth changes from light
to dark in several shots. Also, how did Curly say "soup bone"
with that apple in his mouth? 5) When Curly is pivoting around in
front of the hut after getting away from the cook, he has flour on
the front of his shirt or hide or whatever it is. Then when Curly's
in the hut fighting with the spirit, he doesn't have flour on him.
Finally, when Curly comes out of the hut with the Puckerless Persimmon
Plant, he has flour on him again! [thanks to AJJ for this one] 6)
When the alligator is crawling over to Curly, you can see the tape
covering it's mouth. 7) After Moe uses his belt to open the alligator's
mouth and the natives chase the Stooges off, Moe's carrying his belt
as he leaves the scene, but he's suddenly wearing it when they reach
the boat.
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LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD
(1942): 1) As the scene dissolves
into the Stooges inside the hotel, we hear Moe saying "...start slippin',
we start suin'" but we don't hear the beginning of his line. 2) As
Curly tossed the soap on the floor, Moe was putting his hat on, then
in the next shot, the hat is in his hand again! [thanks to Sheila
Burns on this one] 3) When the Stooges each begin to lay a carpet
on the floor and roll one end of the carpet towards the wall, the
other end of each carpet is supposed to roll back to the boys and
hit them on their feet, but Larry's carpet stops rolling mid-way.
It's fixed in the next shot. 4) When Larry lies across all three of
the carpets, after a while, all three of the carpets become one! 5)
When Curly is pulling all those handkerchiefs out of his pocket, we
see Moe holding a rubber snake, but we never saw where he got it from.
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CACTUS MAKES PERFECT
(1942): 1) You can tell that
the Stooges are standing in front of a screen projector when the truck
behind them nearly knocks them over. 2) When the arrow stabs Vernon
Dent's character in the behind, he has a board in his pants. 3) When
Curly is flying in the air, there are visible strings holding him
up. 4) Moe's hair pattern changes during various close-ups of him
during the digging scene. 5) When the two claimjumpers run after the
Stooges, one of the claimjumpers (Ernie Adams) accidentally trips
over something and falls off-screen. That was hilarious. 6) Watch
when Vernon Dent and his crony are looking through the window. Curly
does an eye poke on Vernon and hits him clear at the top of his hat!
[thanks to AJJ for this one] 7) When Curly says, "What's all
this fuss about?!" at the end, Larry cracks up in the background.
8) We see the Stooges crawling out of the lost mine, but a little
earlier in the film, Moe broke the ladder leading down into the mine,
so how did the Stooges get out? 9) After the con-man says "I can sell
you the map to the lost mine", the camera cuts to a quick close-up
of Curly and the look on his face is different than the look on his
face in the shots before and after.
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WHAT'S THE MATADOR?
(1942): 1) When Moe pokes Larry
in the eyes after he says, "C'mon, we gotta get our wardrobe!"
Larry's eyes are really hurt afterward. 2) When Curly is running away
from Jose in the bedroom scene, he trips over something.
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MATRI-PHONY
(1942): 1) When the snake begins
to come out of the jar, it's head is peering out, but in the next
shot, half of the snake's body is out of the jar. 2) A cut when Larry
is yelling, "Oww! My ear! My ear!" 3) When Diana comes out
of the jar when she thinks she hears the signal, she quickly ducks
her head back in the jar. But in the next shot, she's still looking
out the jar and she sticks her head back in. 4) There's a sudden cut
to Moe and Larry trying to pull the cement off of the guard's behind.
5) When the camera shows a close up of the emperor in the scene where
he's introduced, he's squinting his eyes, but he isn't in the long
shots. 6) When Moe says, "You wanna get me in trouble? Easy,
buddy, easy!" his lips aren't moving. 7) When one of the guards
asks the knocked out guard if he saw the boys, you can see a hand
on the back of Schindell's collar, but none of the boys are holding
his neck yet. 8) After the guard asks "So you think they're three
nice guys, huh?" Curly's lips are moving but we don't hear anything.
9) Right when the emperor is about to kiss Curly, it suddenly cuts
to an earlier shot of Larry about to drink the poisoned wine, then
it suddenly goes back to the original shot. This was very sloppy of
the editors and confusing for the viewers. Why'd they do this? 10)
A cut in the film when the boys are shown hanging on the edges of
the spears. 11) When the Stooges are hanging upside down from the
guards' spears, you can clearly hear what appears to be director Harry
Edwards telling Larry "Larry, grab the....." Larry was the only one
who was not grabbing onto his guard's trousers, so once the yell was
heard off-screen, Larry quickly grabbed the pants. 12) When Moe puts
paste on the wall, the long shot shows him painting Curly's face,
but the close-up shows his face down and his head getting painted.
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THREE SMART SAPS
(1942): 1) Larry is about to
re-stitch Curly's split pant leg, then it cuts to the next shot, and
the split on Curly's pant leg looks different. 2) When Curly says,
"Can't you see I'm fallin' for ya?" his arms are on the
chair differently than they were in the previous shot. Also, it's
possible that the chair hitting his head after that line wasn't supposed
to happen. Watch him, he pauses for a while after it hits him. 3)
When Moe is tying the chain around Curly's waist, Curly's holding
one arm up, but in the next shot, he's holding up two arms, and in
the next shot, he's back to holding one arm up again. 4) At the beginning
when the Stooges are singing, Larry sings off-beat during one part.
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EVEN AS I O U
(1942): 1) You can see the string
that pulls the towel out of the horn. 2) When Curly yells after Seabasket
the Horse bites him in the butt, the horse gets frightened and jumps
suddenly.
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SOCK-A-BYE BABY
(1942): 1) When Larry puts the
bag of groceries down on the table, it knocks a book over. Moe puts
it back up, but then Larry knocks it down again afterwards! 2) After
Moe tells Curly that he's not scrubbing the celery correctly, it abruptly
cuts to Moe and Larry looking at hung-up pieces of celery in delight.
3) Watch Larry's face when Curly keeps handing Moe the scissors when
he asks for pins. 4) When Larry says to the baby, "Fit for an
airplane worker," Moe and Curly are in the background cutting
some slices of spaghetti, but when it cuts to a closer shot of them,
the spaghetti is suddenly gone. 5) The baby "burps" with
its mouth closed. 6) When Moe picks up the baby, he says "Lemme see
now" but his lips aren't moving. 7) When one of the cops get hit on
the head with an ironing board repeatedly, his groans-of-pain don't
match his actual mouth movements.
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THEY STOOGE TO CONGA
(1943): 1) When Larry lifts
the board sign he's wearing over his face to block Moe's punch, his
hat accidentally falls off. 2) A cut in the film when Moe is screwing
that tool (what is it?) on Curly's nose. 3) A jump in the film when
Curly's nose is being grinstoned. 4) A lot of film edits when Moe
is getting spiked in the eye, ear, head, etc. 5) When Curly (actually
a dummy) falls off the telephone pole and lands on Moe and Larry,
they fall down and Larry lands with the front of his body on the floor.
But in the next shot where Curly takes over in place of the dummy,
Larry has his back on the floor. 6) When Curly disconnects the wire
that's holding his telephone pole seat, you can immediately hear it
hit the floor, but Curly's supposed to be about 30 feet in the air.
7) When Curly hits Moe and Larry with a hammer, the lamp behind him
falls over. 8) A jump cut in the picture when Moe shoves the hammer
in Curly's mouth. 9) When the Stooges walk up to the maid standing
outside the door, Curly only has a toolbag in his left hand, but in
the next shot, a pipe is also in his left hand. 10) When Moe tries
to bite Curly's foot during the climbing spike scene, he misses at
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DIZZY DETECTIVES
(1943): 1) When Dill is complaining
to the commissioner, Curly is looking at Dill, but in the next shot,
Curly's looking at the commissioner. 2) When Curly sees that Larry
is getting beat up, he rushes up to help him and if you listen carefully,
you can hear somebody...well...listen yourself and you'll know what
I mean. 3) When Curly says, "Listen you!" to Moe, he holds his right
finger up to Moe and right before Moe bites it, Curly switches it
with this left finger. Why did he do this? 4) When Curly says "Hey,
I cut off my head, I'm dead" he's really saying something else. 5)
When Curly moves his leg to make like he's going to kick the mannequin,
he accidentally kicks Larry's hand. 6) After Moe bonks Larry and Curly's
heads together, there's this strange awkward pause, then Moe says
(and it sounds like he's ad- libbing) "Why....you...RAT!", and then
Curly and Larry bump Moe back and forth. It looks like there was a
line somewhere in there that got left out. 7) You can see the string
that pulls the cat's tail back and forth. 8) When Moe pushes Curly
back in the room where he heard the cat scream, Curly's hat accidentally
falls off and Moe ad-libs "Get that hat!" 9) When Curly is doing his
"chicken-with-his-head- cut-off" routine and crawls on his back towards
Moe and Larry, Larry is standing behind Moe, but in the next shot,
he's suddenly crouching down next to Moe. 10) After Curly kicks one
of the bad guys up in the air, the camera shows a close-up of the
bad guy on top of a moose-head and in the background, it sounds like
you can hear the sound of a heart pounding. 11) After the Ape Man
bursts inside of the room that the Stooges are in, Curly says "I've
had enough of him, too!" But he never said "I've had enough of..."
to anybody else prior that that line, so what was the "…him, too"?
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SPOOK LOUDER
(1943): 1) When the camera fades
into the opening scene, you can see the picture finishing dissolving
from a previous scene that must've been deleted, or added in later
into the film. 2) After Curly puts the "No Peddlers" sign on the lady's
house, Curly walks back and almost trips over a suitcase. 3) If you
turn the volume up real loud in the part where the Russian clock is
going "Yo ho ho ho" you can hear a cat meowing in the background.
That's presumably the same cat they showed walking on the piano keys.
Maybe the clock scared the cat. 4) You can see the string that pulls
the bird out of the clock. 5) When Curly shoots the boys hats off
the first time, Moe and Curly's hats get blown off at the same time,
but the sound effects make it seem like they got their hats shot off
one at a time. 6) Why was Moe's yell dubbed in for Curly after their
hats got shot off? 7) A change in Moe's hair pattern when Moe tells
Curly, "Be careful with that!" 8) A jump cut in the picture
when the spies peer from behind the bushes. 9) Again, why was Curly's
laugh dubbed in when the master spy got hit with a pie? 10) After
Prof. Dunkfeather says "The salesmen were in a conference..." the
scene wipes and we see the Stooges jumping as if they heard something
scary but we don't hear the mysterious laugh until a few seconds later.
11) After Moe gets his with a pie, he drops the club in his hand,
but in the next shot, he's still holding the club and he drops it
again. 12) Jump cuts in the picture when the plug is going in and
out of the socket. 13) When we see the balloon on Curly's back, the
face drawn on the balloon is missing a tooth, but when they showed
the balloon coming out of the trunk when Curly opened it, it had all
of it's teeth. 14) Yet again, why'd they dub in Moe's yell for Curly
when the balloon explodes and scared him? 15) When the thin lady slams
the door, the No Peddlers sign accidentally falls off the house.
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BACK FROM THE FRONT
(1943): 1) In the credits above
Jules White's name, it says "Produced and Directed" but it's missing
"by". 2) Moe must be a terrible kisser because his girlfriend looked
like she was trying to wipe it off or something after he kissed her.
3) When the dog's barking wakes up Dungen, we hear a cat meowing too,
but we never see the cat. 4) Jump cuts in the picture when Curly is
getting splashed with water through the porthole. 5) When the Stooges
are first shown on their mini-boat, Moe is looking through a pair
of binoculars, then the camera shows the dog paddling in the water
and when it shows the Stooges again, Moe's binoculars are gone. 6)
Larry says "There's the ship, anchors over there, se..." then his
line gets cut off in the next shot. 7) When the Stooges are knocking
out the German soldiers, they're keeping a tally, but there's no explanation
of how the second tally got there.
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THREE LITTLE TWIRPS
(1943): 1) While the boys are
putting up a billboard poster for a circus, their boss shows up. The
scene has him as if he just pulled up in his car. When he shuts the
car door it looks like he does so on his hand. This looks like it
really happened. But, if you look closer, the door does not shut all
the way afterwards. The camera cuts to the boys at the billboard and
then back to their boss, the circus owner by his car with the door
ajar. Notice the back seat of the car. Is that somebody sitting up?
Is somebody in the car? I can only reason that somebody was keeping
the door from shutting all the way. It may be a shadow on the other
side of the car [thanks to curlylk for this one]. 2) When Curly takes
off his jacket during the "Bearded Lady" scene, he has on a short
sleeved shirt with suspenders, but in the next scene where Curly and
Larry hide in a horse costume, Curly's wearing a long-sleeved shirt
with suspenders. But when the camera shows Curly and Larry inside
the horse costume, Curly is wearing a short sleeved shirt with no
suspenders. What the heck happened to his shirt? Why did it keep changing?
3) Did the old circus hand goof when he said, "Now I'll give you a
lesson you'll never remember"? Shouldn't he have said "forget" instead
of "remember"? 4) Curly's eye looks swollen after the old circus hand
faints. 5) When the rope ties around the Stooges' necks, it gets caught
on Curly's hat. 6) When Curly takes out the spear that's hanging above
his head, he accidentally takes his hat too, which is snagged on to
the spear. 7) You can see the strings holding Curly's stunt double
when he's walking on the tightrope. 8) When Mr. Herman arrives in
his car, he looks over at the Stooges and notices the big hole in
the middle of the poster they're hanging up, and he gets mad. Then
the camera shows the Stooges putting up a new poster fast, and when
Mr. Herman walks up a minute later, he looks at the new poster and
says "Looks pretty good boys!" But he just saw the previous poster
with the hole through it, so why is he happy all of a sudden? He must
have short-term memory! 9) When Curly is supposed to accidentally
hit Larry and Moe behind him with hammers, he clearly misses Larry
yet Larry still reacts as if he was hit. 10) When Curly is climbing
up the pole, you can hear the sultan laughing off-screen before he
actually starts laughing.
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HIGHER THAN A KITE
(1943): 1) A jump cut in the
picture when Kelly's car runs the Stooges over. 2) Right before the
engine blows soot in Moe's eyes, you can see Moe's eyes already blackened.
3) When Moe pokes Curly in the eyes, the sound effects men added in
a honking noise instead of a plunk. Either they thought that Moe crunched
Curly's nose instead of poked him the eye, or maybe they were still
using different variations of SFX for the eyepoke before they settled
on the ukulele plunk. 4) After Curly uses the forked end of the crowbar
to get Moe out of the pipe, Curly uses the other straight end of the
crowbar. Then the camera shows Moe yelling as the crowbar keeps hitting
him on the face, then it shows Curly and Larry yanking the crowbar,
and when it shows Moe again, the forked end of the crowbar is pressing
up against his face! Weren't they just using the other end of the
crowbar? 5) When Larry and Curly try to heat off the pipe on Moe's
head, Moe has his hands on the pipe, but in the next shot his hands
aren't on the pipe, then when it goes back to the original shot, Moe's
hands are on the pipe again. 6) When Curly and Larry twist Moe out
of the pipe, they twist him towards the right of the pipe, but when
the camera shows a close up of Moe's head in the pipe, he's being
turned towards the left all of a sudden. 7) When Larry says, "Maybe
they're droppin' the pipe in the ditch" Curly mouths that line.
8) When Larry "lifts" the car hood off of Curly's arms, you can see
the string that lifts it. 9) Curly is trying to bite open the hand
grenade, then it cuts to the next shot and the pin is suddenly pulled
out of the grenade. 10) When Vernon Dent comes riding into town on
his E-Cart, he accidentally elbows Dick Curtis...well...below his
belly. 11) When the Stooges land inside of the German house, Larry
climbs out of the hole and accidentally crushes Moe's face. Moe grunts,
"I'll moider you when I get out of this!" Then it cuts to
the next shot, and Moe is suddenly out of the hole before Larry. 12)
When Moe looks in the exhaust pipe, his hat is on. Then the camera
shows a quick shot of Curly stepping on the gas in the car, and when
it cuts back to Moe, his hat is suddenly gone. 13) When Kelly walks
up to the car, the window on the passenger's door is closed, but when
Kelly gets in the car, the window is suddenly open.
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I CAN HARDLY WAIT
(1943): 1) When Moe focuses
the flashlight on Larry, you can tell that the light is really a spotlight
in the background, especially since we can hear the spotlight in the
background click when it comes on. 2) When Moe and Curly are breaking
into the safe, Curly says "Hey" and in the next shot, Curly is rubbing
his face as if Moe hit him, but we don't see it. 3) When Moe is pretending
to play his bread like an accordion, Moe make a mean grin, but when
the camera shows a close-up of Moe, he's making a mean frown, then
when it goes back to the original shot, he's making a mean grin again.
4) When Larry yells to Curly, "Be quiet and go to sleep!"
he's really yelling something else. 5) When Larry says, "We gotta
get that tooth out or we'll never get to sleep", Moe hand is
on his chin but it wasn't in the previous shot. 6) When the dynamite
stick that Curly throws lands in Moe's pants, you can see a string
on his pants. 7) After Moe double-slaps Curly and Larry for yodeling,
Larry accidentally elbows the tea kettle and almost knocks it over.
8) When Moe tells Curly to clean the ham, you can see the ham is sort
of falling apart, but then after Curly washes it, it is obviously
not the same piece of ham. 9) At the beginning of Curly's dream, when
Curly falls out of the top of the bunk bed, the use stunt doubles
for all the Stooges. The Curly double is supposed to fall on Larry
and Moe's doubles and pull them to the floor, but you can see the
Moe double actually roll out of the bed before the Curly double reaches
him. 10) When Moe says "Lemme see" and looks in Curly's mouth, you
can see Larry behind Moe, climbing out of his bunk bed. Then the camera
cuts to a closer shot of Curly and Moe, and Larry is suddenly gone.
11) When Moe slaps Larry for his "How is he; pretty heavy?" comment,
Larry is standing next to Moe, but he's suddenly standing behind him
in the next shot. 12) When Moe drags Curly off-camera by a string
tied to his bad tooth, Curly is crouching forward and howling in pain,
but in the next shot, he's standing up straight and smiling. 13) When
Moe is about to push the door tied to Curly's tooth shut, the string
on Curly's tooth is straight, but in the next shot, it's suddenly
bent down in the middle. 14) After Curly cries "My sweet little, cute
little, adorable little, sweet little bushy-wushy tooth!", Moe almost
cracks up and he puts his hand over his mouth to hide his near-laughter.
15) After Curly throws the dynamite into Moe's pants, he cover his
face in anticipation of it going off, but he looks back too early
and it goes off while he's looking straight at it. 16) At the beginning
of the shot where Moe says to Curly, "You're a coward!", Curly is
pointing his left index finger at Moe, but he wasn't in the previous
shot. 17) As Dr. Yank approaches Moe's mouth to extract the tooth,
you can see Moe open his mouth by himself, but he was supposed to
be knocked out.
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DIZZY PILOTS
(1943): 1) A film cut in Curly's
position when Moe's fighting with him over the tub. 2) Many of Moe's
yells when he's floating in the air are obviously dubbed in. 3) After
Curly fires the shotgun in the air, he accidentally backs his elbow
into Larry's chest. Afterwards, they show a shot of Moe falling in
the well, and when it cuts back, Larry has a cigar in his mouth that
he didn't have before. 4) Curly gets something in his mouth when Larry
says, "Hey, you two guys goin' steady?" 5) Watch Curly throw
out the airplane's gearshift, while the trio is in mid-air. You will
hear it hit the studio floor. [thanks to Hammond Eggar for this one]
6) When reading the letter aloud at the beginning, Moe says "proved"
when the letter says "proven". 7) After Moe falls in the well, it
cuts to the next scene with the Stooges back in the garage and Moe's
wearing the same jumpsuit he wears at the beginning of the film. But
earlier in the film, Moe had the suit covered with melted rubber,
inflated with gas, and he left it floating mid- air after he got blown
out of it, so how'd he get back into the same suit? 8) When Moe tries
to strangle Curly after his "King's english" comment, he's supposed
to say "Shut up!" but Curly says it along with him for some reason.
9) When Moe gets lifted up by the propeller, you can see the string
that pulls him up. 10) When Larry hands Moe a cigar, it's in his left
hand at first, but it's in his right hand suddenly in the next shot.
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PHONY EXPRESS
(1943): 1) You can see the string
that pulls off the sheriff's toupee at the beginning. 2) When Moe
turns over while the sheriff is opening the bottle, Moe has water
all over him, but he hasn't gotten sprayed yet. 3) When Curly pulls
out a slingshot in place of a gun, you can hear somebody off-screen
laugh. 4) When Curly peers his head out of the stove, his eyes wander
around then he sees Red, then the camera shows a close-up of Curly
but his eyes are still wandering around and he sees Red again. 5)
You can see a band-aid on the back of Curly's neck during the film.
6) When Curly heads back to the shack after the bad guys get caught
in the hidden bear traps, you can see something hanging out of the
back of his pants. Then when he walks in the shack, there's nothing
on the back of his pants.
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A GEM OF A JAM
(1943): 1) After water sprays
out of Curly's mouth the first time and sprays Moe, you can hear this
strange noise, it most likely came from the source of water that sprayed
Moe. 2) When Moe takes the bit and sticks it in Curly's body hidden
under sheets (which is really a dummy) Moe cranks the bit too hard
and the sheet covering the body begins to twist and rip and the dummy
begins twisting and ripping too! Look at Larry's face while this happens.
3) When the cops return, there's a police car behind them, but it's
gone in the next shot. 4) Moe and Larry are backing towards each other
with Curly in the middle, a jump cut occurs in the picture and Moe
is in a different position.
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CRASH GOES THE HASH
(1944): 1) At the beginning,
Vernon Dent saying "They got the story" is played twice by an accident.
2) On the box of dog food, the product is called "Puppo Dog Biscuit",
but on the actual biscuit, "biscuit" is spelled "bisquit."
3) Moe pulls his nose out of the door before Curly can help him. 4)
When Larry accidentally tears Mrs. Van Bustle's dress off, he is holding
two glasses. When Mrs. Van Bustle runs back to reclaim her skirt,
Larry is covering his eyes, and the glasses are gone. [thanks to Nosehonk
for this one] 5) When the turkey jumps off the table, it accidentally
knocks down a dish. 4) When the Stooges catch the butler and the Prince
robbing the safe, Moe says "I got ya..." then 5 seconds later, he
continues "...with the goods and you're goin' to jail". I don't know
why there was a long pause in that line, unless Moe forgot what to
say. 6) When Curly says, "We're millionaires!" Mr. Bull
is looking up at him with a smile, but in the next shot, he's looking
down without a smile. 7.) If I'm not mistaken, I can see the rope
holding Curly before Symona Boniface lifts him up and kisses him.
8) During the fight scene, the shot where Curly kicks the butler in
the behind, then stomach-butts him is played in fast-motion for comedic
effects, but the audio of the butler's groans-of-pain are heard too
early before Curly even does anything to him.
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BUSY BUDDIES
(1944): 1) Before Curly coughs
up the feathers, you can see a few feathers flying around already,
as if they were left from a previous take. 2) A jump cut in the picture
when Curly checks to see if the egg is hard-boiled. 3) Curly's "nyaaaaah"
when Moe gets hit with the plaster is played twice. Also, his "nyaaaaah"
when seeing Moe with the egg on his eyes is also played twice. 4)
Curly hangs up a poster and after he looks at it, he asks, "What kind
of language is that" and Moe sets him straight by telling him "It's
upside down!" which it indeed is. However, when the camera shows a
close up of the poster, not only is it upside down, but it's backwards!
5) A jump cut when Curly removes the poster section of the billboard.
6) What happened to Curly's jacket when he's hanging on the telephone
pole? 7) You can see milk stains on the wall before Curly even squeezes
milk out of the glove. 8) A jump cut in the film before the stool
hits Curly on the head. 9) When the champion is spinning the "cow"
around, they show a close-up of Curly and the referee and they duck,
but in the next shot, they're not ducking. 10) When Curly (actually
a dummy) gets thrown over the fence the first time, you can see the
hand of the crew member that throws the dummy. 11) After the referee
points off-screen supposedly to Curly and yells "You're disqualified!",
Curly approaches him from a completely different location to argue
the ruling and the referee then turns the right way to face Curly.
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THE YOKE'S ON ME
(1944): 1) When Ma says, "I
told you not to let him wear pumps when he was a child," her
hand is on her chest, but it wasn't in the previous shot. 2) When
Moe says, "A gander! A gander! A goose's husband!" he's
looking at Curly, but he's looking away in the next shot. 3) Towards
the end of the film, we see Curly holding his eyes as if he was poked,
but we never see it. 4) Many of the dialogue at the end of the short
are dubbed in. 5) Curly flubs a line when he says "Hit me with that
and we'll be...all be even." He was supposed to say "Hit me with that
and we'll all be even."
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IDLE ROOMERS
(1944): 1) A quick change in
Moe's position when Larry tells Mrs. Leander that Moe will bring the
rest of her bags up later. 2) When Curly walks in the room carrying
Mrs. Leander, he's holder her arms differently than he was when he
first picked her up. 3) When Moe is yanking Curly to the room by the
nose with a hammer, Moe apparently through they were off-screen when
they really weren't, and you can see Moe release the hammer from Curly's
nose, when he was supposed to still be yanking Curly by the nose like
he's doing in the next shot. 4) Even after the wolfman takes the trombone
away from Curly, you can still hear the music playing for a few seconds.
5) When the wolfman bends the bars of his box, all but two "spring"
back into place after he squeezes through.
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GENTS WITHOUT CENTS
(1944): 1) Larry accidentally
splashes water in Curly's eyes during the bath scene. 2) After Moe
yells "Niagara Falls!" the second time, we hear Curly woo-wooing but
saying "Don't do that" at the same time. 3) During the "Niagara Falls"
bit, when Larry and Moe were supposed to say "Step by step" together,
Larry accidentally said "inch by inch" and he said it way too fast.
4) Moe says "It's that woman, I'll kill her..." then in the next shot,
we hear Moe say "...and him" but he's really saying something else.
5) You can see a shadow of the camera when it zooms into the banners
sticking out of the girls' rifles. 6) When the plaster is falling
from the ceiling, you can see Curly looking up to position himself
under the light fixture for when it falls and smashes on his head
in the next shot. 7) When Curly begins rotating his head as he watches
the record playing, both of his hands are to his side. Then the camera
shows a closer shot of him and his left hand is suddenly on the side
of the record player. Then when it goes back to a farther shot, both
of his hands are to his side again. 8) When Curly is supposed to say
"I couldn't help it; I slipped!", it sounds like he messes up and
says "sliched" instead of "slipped". 9) During the Niagara Falls play
on-stage, after the first time Moe beats up Curly, Curly says "Just
because I said 'Niagara Falls'...", but he never actually said "Niagara
Falls" before then. 10) As Larry is beating Curly up the first time
for saying "Niagara Falls", instead of saying "I grabbed him, I smashed
him...etc..." like Moe did when he was beating up Curly, Larry just
mumbles gibberish, possibly because he forgot exactly what to say.
11) When Moe is saying "He's riding! He's riding!", Larry is holding
his arms up. Then it cuts to the next shot and Larry's arms are suddenly
down.
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NO DOUGH BOYS
(1944): 1) Most of the photographer's
dialogue when he's talking on the phone is dubbed in. 2) When Curly
says, "Stop please" when the bird is tapping on his head,
his lips aren't moving. 3) When the boys are done with their acrobatic
act, Curly tries to stand up, but he accidentally falls back down.
4) During the water seltzer fight, Moe says "Serves you right!" and
Curly's supposed to give Moe the hand movement, but Curly forgets
what to do, so Moe repeats himself and half-way through Moe's line,
Curly remembers what he has to do. 5) When the Nazi spy first welcomes
himself to the boys, Larry's hat is on sideways. Then it's on frontward
in the next short. 6) When the camera shows a close-up of the Nazi
spy saying "We must not fail!" and his reaction after Curly says "Oh,
dames!", his hair suddenly looks different and combed back than it
does in all the other shots. 7) When Curly says something (that's
hard to understand) as the bird is tapping on his head, his lips aren't
moving. Likewise, when Moe stands on Curly's shoulders, Moe's mouth
isn't moving, but we hear him speaking something in mock Japanese.
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THREE PESTS IN A MESS
(1945): 1) In the scene where
Curly rips off the shirts, one shirt gets partially un-tucked. In
the next shot, the whole shirt is tucked in. [thanks to B. Bopper
for this one]. 2) The math is wrong. 10, 000 flies would give them
$100 dollars, not $100,000. [thanks to Metaladams for this one] 2)
When Curly says to the cop, "Just trash" his lips don't
move. 3) You can see a string that pulls the dead body out of the
hole. 4) When Curly kicks what he thinks is the dead body, his jacket
is un-buttoned, but in the next shot, it's buttoned.
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BOOBY DUPES
(1945): 1) You can see a stagehand
putting the microphone in the background at the beginning of the beach
scene. 2) When Curly's leg presses Moe's face in the sand, Moe ends
up getting a lot of sand in his eyes and mouth. 3) When Moe is supposed
to hit Larry and Curly on the head with the hammer, he accidentally
hit Larry in the eye with the hammer. 4) When the pole hits Moe on
the head, the steering wheel on the boat falls off. How was he able
to still steer the boat afterward? 5) When Curly picks up the anchor,
he accidentally knocks the fishing pole over with it, but in the next
shot, the pole is back where it was. 6) Moe throws the steering wheel
out of the boat, Curly is about to say "What are we gonna do now?!"
but Moe is speaking, so Curly quickly stops. 7) When Curly is swinging
the club at the pesky fish, he drops it in the lake, but afterwards,
the club is back in his hands with no explanation of how he got it
back. 8) When Curly begins drilling a second hole in the boat, he
accidentally turns the bit the wrong way at first. 9) When Larry says,
"We're gettin' someplace" Moe accidentally splashes water in Larry's
face, causing Larry to yell when he says "someplace". 10) After Larry
says, "It's a good thing I had a spare boat", Moe is supposed to respond
"What spare boat? With this guy on it?" but apparently he was too
busy helping Curly in the boat and about 10 seconds later, Moe finally
said his line. 11) After Moe says to Curly "Lettin' the water out?!
You're gonna sink us!", he grabs Curly by the neck and starts to say
something else, but Curly cuts him off. 12) During one part of the
fishing scene, Moe accidentally slips in the boat next to Larry, then
there's an awkward pause for a few seconds, followed by Moe ad-libbing
"Move down there!" to Larry.
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IDIOTS DE LUXE
(1945): 1) You can see a string
on the trombone slide when it lodges on Moe's neck. 2) We see Larry
telling Curly "Get busy there!" as if he did or said something, but
we don't see it. 3) Curly's muffled yells when Moe spills salt on
his tongue are played twice. 4) After Curly says "Waitin' for the
dressing and the cranberry sauce", Moe looks like he's going to squeeze
the duck's beak on Curly's nose, but it cuts to the next scene before
we see it happen. 5) You can see a string on the bear when he's sniffing
around the cabin. 6) After the opening credits fade out, the screen
stays black for some reason while we can still hear the audio from
the opening scene, then after a few seconds, the scene finally appears.
7) The judge refers to Moe during the courtroom scene as "Mr. Moe",
but shouldn't he have called him "Mr. Howard"? 8) When Curly plays
the trombone, he puts the slide out during the high notes and in during
the low notes. 9) During the part where Moe accuses Larry of eating
all the potatoes, above Larry's head, you can see markings on the
wall that appear to be chalk-marks a carpenter might make while constructing
the set. 10) When Moe throws the spaghetti at Curly, he has a string
of spaghetti in his hair, but it's suddenly gone in the next shot.
11) There's a jump cut in the picture when the bear crawls out the
window of the cabin. 12) When Moe says "Now I'm mad! It's either the
bear or me!", he has only his left hand on the rifle. Then the camera
cuts to a closer shot of the boys and Moe suddenly has both hands
on the rifle. Then when the camera goes back to a farther-away shot,
only Moe's right hand is on the rifle. 13) When Larry says "He'll
make a beautiful rug", Curly's pointing his right index finger at
the bear, but in the next shot, he's not pointing his finger anymore
all of a sudden.
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IF A BODY MEETS A BODY
(1945): 1) When the Stooges
sing "Let's go and get the moolah", Larry accidentally sings "Let's
go and get the dough" at first. 2) When the camera cuts a close-up
of Moe when Curly says "Nice soup from a nice juicy bone,"
the look on his face is different. 3) When the Stooges salute the
detective, Curly and Larry are supposed to hit Moe on the head, but
Larry accidentally hits Moe in the eye instead and you can see his
eye is swollen afterwards. 4) When the detective says "And they stole
the will", he's really saying something else. 4) The detective says
"Now..." then it cuts to him saying "That settles it!" 5) While Jerkington
is giving the people directions to their room, the detective says
to the boys "Well..." but he's really saying something else. 6) When
Moe says "Shaddap, you got nothin' to worry about, besides if he stabs
you in the head, he'll wreck his knife" he's really saying something
else. 7) If the parrot climbed into the skull on the skeleton and
flew away with it, then how did the skull get back on the skeleton?
8) Curly's lips don't move when he says, "Stand aside, I'll break
the door down." 9) After Curly says, "I wanna be ready in
case something happens," there's a cut and Moe and Larry have
different expressions on their face suddenly. 10) When Moe and Larry
don't believe when Curly says he saw a ghost, Moe says "A skeleton
with little feet, eh?", but Curly never described it as a skeleton
with little feet, so how would Moe know? 11) After Moe flicks the
match on the back of Curly's neck, Curly's late on his cue for when
he's supposed to "Ooh!" in pain. 12) After Curly accidentally knocks
out the detective with a chair, the camera shows a close- up of Larry
picking up the water vase and we hear Moe say "Are you alright, mister?
Sa..." then his line gets cut off, then he says "C'mon, c'mon, say
a few syllables!"
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MICRO-PHONIES
(1945): 1) In the recording
studio when Curly is lip-synching to "Voices of Spring" during one
part, Moe thinks it's time for him to pretend to play the flute but
it isn't time yet, and you can see Moe make a mean face at Curly when
he realizes. Then when it is time for Moe to pretend to play the flute,
he misses his cue and starts playing too late. 2) During when part
where Curly is lip-syncing "Sextet From Lucia", Moe closes his eyes
and puts his hand on his chin and looks like he forgets what he had
to do next. 3) At the end when Curly is lip-syncing to "Voices of
Spring" at the party, Moe and Larry are quietly cracking up together.
4) When Alice is explaining to her manager why she won't audition
for Mrs. Bixby in person, there's a noticeable jump cut towards the
end of her dialogue. (Though it should be mentioned that the portion
of this scene that re-appears in STOP, LOOK, AND LAUGH doesn't have
the jump cut in it) 5) During Moe's fake Gritto radio ad, when he's
supposed to say "Ottriga", he accidentally says "ga" twice in a row,
then kind of clears his throat afterwards in embarrassment. 6) Also,
please delete the goof about Moe putting his hand on his chin and
looking like he forgot what to do next.
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BEER BARREL POLECATS
(1946): 1) When Curly accidentally
spills hot water down Moe's pants, Larry gets some water stains on
his shirt, but they're gone in the next shot. 2) When Curly stomach-butts
Larry into the tub, Moe gets something in his eye. 3) When Moe asks
Larry "Burnt toast and a rotten egg?" at the same time, Curly begins
to say something, but he quickly stops. 4) When Curly walks out of
the jail cell, the barrel under his shirt looks smaller and different
than it did when he was in the cell. 5) When the guard says "I'll
hang you for this!" he gets something in his eye. 6) The shot of Moe
coming up from the floor with an ice cream cone on his nose is accidentally
played twice. 7) When the prisoner is telling Curly to sock him, Curly's
holding up a fist, which he wasn't in the shot before, and there are
suddenly more other prisoners watching in the background. 8) After
Moe tells Curly to go on and mop the floor, Curly grunts two different
ways at the same time. One of those grunts was dubbed in. 9) When
Curly sees the beer overflowing out of the pot, he yells "Hey, the
soup is boilin' over!" Why did he call it soup? 10) In the reused
footage from SO LONG MR. CHUMPS, the Stooges are trying to look for
convict 41144, but they cut out the explanation from the original
version of why they were even looking for him and there's no explanation
at all in the new footage either, leaving the viewers confused. 11)
In a reused scene from IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE and in a new scene
afterwards, the Stooges wear license plates that have the year 1942
on them. Made sense in PIE AND PIE when that short was actually released
around that time, but this short was released years after '42.
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A BIRD IN THE HEAD
(1946): 1) You can see Moe move
his foot away when Curly drops the wallpapers on his "foot". 2) When
Curly says, "The man liked my looks, nyuk, nyuk!" Moe looks like he's
going to laugh. 3) Curly mumbles through his "Have you got a
permit from the OPA?" line. 4) When Moe first gets his head caught
in between two ladder steps, his hat is on sideways. Then the camera
shows a brief shot of Larry and when it goes back to Moe, his had
it suddenly on the correct way.
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UNCIVIL WAR BIRDS
(1946): 1) Curly gets hay thrown
in his eyes in the scene where Moe and Larry are getting dressed.
2) When Curly says "Where's my cap", his lips aren't moving. 3) When
Curly blows his nose with the handkerchief, his fake sideburn accidentally
falls off. 4) You can see a string pulling the sled when Moe and Curly
are "pulling" it. 5) When Moe says "A toast" it cuts to the next shot
and they are all holding their drink up which they weren't in the
shot before. 6) After the boys spill their drinks down their wives
backs, the wives are all supposed to throw drinks in their husband's
faces, but Curly's wife didn't do that for some reason. When Moe's
wife throws the drink in his face, Moe has some in his eye. Then the
wives are supposed to strangle the boys, but Larry's wife hugs him
at first, then she remembers that she's supposed to strangle him.
7) After Moe and Larry tell Curly through the shack window to fake
his death during his execution, Curly says "I understand". Then they
show a small scene with the soldiers fighting over the ham, and when
it goes back to the Stooges, they replay Curly saying "I understand".
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THE THREE TROUBLEDOERS
(1946): 1) You can tell that
Curly didn't really shoot the balloon, because it would've instantly
exploded, not slowly deflate. 2) After Curly laughs when he shoots
the cracker, we see Curly from the back and he takes off his glasses,
but they're still on in the next shot. 3) Similar to OILY TO BED...,
when the bazooka fired soot into Moe's face, some soot went into his
eyes and he had to get the first aid man to pry his eyes open and
take chunks of the soot out of his eyes. 4) After the Stooges jump
the justice of peace, we are supposed to believe that Curly put on
the justice's clothes in less than a second. But if you notice, there's
a sudden jump in the picture before Curly comes out dressed as the
Justice, making it obvious that Curly didn't get dressed that fast.
5) When Moe and Larry are helping Curly out of the collar, Curly's
collar is on a lot looser than it was when the two bad guys put it
on him. 6) When Moe takes the crowbar out of Curly's collar, it accidentally
scratches Curly on the cheek. 7) When Moe is putting the firecracker
in Curly's collar, Moe says "Hold sti..." then his line gets cut off
in the cut to the next shot. 8) A cut to Curly saying, "Just
my luck. A dud."
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MONKEY BUSINESSMEN
(1946): 1) When Sam McGann walks
in the room, Moe and Larry drop two pipes on the Curly's head, then
in the next shot, one pipe is leaning on Curly's head, which it wasn't
before, and the pipe keeps disappearing and reappearing in different
shots. 2) Curly has a hard time keeping his pants from falling after
the breaks the exercise machine. 3) When Curly says "I picked?!!",
he says it so loud he blows Moe's hair to the side. 4) Why did they
dub in Bud Jamison's yell when Curly fell off the stretcher? 5) During
the first scene with the Stooges at Dr. Mallard's office, you can
see Moe elbowing Curly several times to cue him on when his next lines
are.
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THREE LOAN WOLVES
(1946): 1) When Larry says to
Butch McGee, "Here's your 25 berries," Moe's about to say
something but he stops. 2) Another short where the Stooges have trouble
keeping track of an infant's gender. They refer to it as "him"
and "her" throughout the whole short. 3) When Curly taps
the funnel into the jug of milk, the stove next to him holding a pot
tips over. 4) When Moe and Curly make faces to calm down the baby,
Curly tries to make the face where Moe and Curly get frightened by
each other's look earlier than it is supposed to happen. [thanks to
B. Bopper for pointing this one out] 5) After the little boy says
"Oh, so you just moved in on me, eh", it cuts to another shot and
the Stooges are holding their faces as if they were slapped, but we
don't see it. [BTW, some Stooge fans have said that they've seen a
version of the short where the little boy does triple slap the Stooges,
but Columbia Tri-Star video, which shows every Stooge short uncut,
has this short on video and it doesn't have the kid slapping the Stooges
on there. Neither do any of the other versions I've seen. Have you
seen this version?] 6) When Moe is supposed to ask Curly to open his
mouth and then to depress his lower jaw, Curly depresses his lower
jaw too early before Moe even asks him. 7) Early on in the fight scene,
we see Curly immediately beating up one of the three crooks and locking
him in a trunk, then the rest of the fight scene focuses on Larry
and Moe being beat up by the other two crooks, so why don't we see
Curly helping Larry and Moe afterwards? Obviously, the writers were
trying not to give Curly too much to do due to his illness, but they
should've at least explained what he was doing for the remainder of
the fight scene.
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G.I. WANNA HOME
(1946): 1) At the beginning
while Larry says "Oh boy, it sure feels good to be discharged at last",
Curly is about to say his line "Let's hitch a ride" too early, but
he quickly stops. 2) When Moe is brushing the dirt off of the turkey,
which fell on the ground, you can hear somebody off-screen coughing.
3) When Moe yells, "Hey, you'd better watch what you're doing"
the Stooges are standing in different positions than they were in
previous shots. 4) When Curly's double begins climbing up the pile
of furniture, he slips off of it by an accident. 5) When Curly is
stuffing the turkey with crackers, he says "something funny happened
to me", but his lips aren't moving. 6) After Moe's "egg shampoo",
he says "Well, that's that…" and you can hear someone in the background
laughing.
RHYTHM AND WEEP
(1946): 1) While Moe is fighting
with Curly to get his clothes off, in the background in between the
door hinges, you can see somebody changing their clothes.
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THREE LITTLE PIRATES
(1946): 1) When the Stooges
all together are supposed to say "Oh, the west wall" somebody says
"east wall" instead of west. I think it was Curly. 2) Rita brings
the Stooges in the governor's office, the governor is holding a fork
in his left hand, but when they show a close-up of him, the fork is
in his right hand, then it's back in his left hand in the next shot.
3) When Curly is about to put the lollipop in his mouth, the governor
is supposed to stop him by shouting "A ruby!!" but Curly stops way
before the governor even says anything. 4) When Curly falls upside-down
out of his chair, we hear him woo-wooing and nyaah-yaaaah-ing at the
same time. 5) Did anyone notice that during the knife throwing scene,
there's a shot of Larry showing *three* knives in the wall before
Black Louie had thrown the third knife? [thanks to Sir Moeington for
this one] 6) During the fight scene, when Curly is doing his turkey
gobble noise to the camera, his glasses fall off, twice. 7) We see
Curly put a golden bowl over his head but we never see what he uses
it for. 8) After Christine McIntyre smashes a glass over Black Louie's
head, Louie dazedly staggers around and accidentally knees Curly.
9) When Curly says "Because a hot stake is better than cold chop",
you can see Larry mouthing along some parts of that line.
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HALF-WITS HOLIDAY (1947):
1) A quick cut to Moe holding up the A.A.M. membership button. 2)
When Curly says, "I lost the combination, nyuk, nyuk!" Moe and Larry
are supposed to bonk Curly on the head and tons of silverware is supposed
to fly out of his suit, but if you look closely, a knife falls out
of Curly's suit before Moe and Larry even hit him. 3) When the Stooges
come from behind the drapes, Curly is holding his head as if Moe hit
him on the head, but we don't see it. 4) You can see the string pulling
down the pie from the ceiling. 5) A noticeable jump cut in the picture
at the beginning of the party scene.
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FRIGHT NIGHT
(1947): 1) When the camera shows
close-ups of Chopper while Shemp is getting tangled in the ring bars,
the looks on his face are different than they are in the shots before
and after. 2) Similar to the sloppy cut in MATRI-PHONY: Right after
Moose notices Moe, Moe yells and runs off-screen, then suddenly it
begins to replay the scene from earlier where Shemp and Big Mike are
sneaking past some boxes and end up bumping into each other. After
only 2 seconds, it cuts from the replayed scene to a new scene. 3)
You can see a shadow of some sort behind the paint can when a hole
is shot through it.
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OUT WEST
(1947): 1) A jump cut in the
picture after Barker says, "I saw it" worth millions."
2) When Shemp responds "Not yet we ain't" to Nelle's "You're
angels," his hair is neat and pushed back behind his ears, but
it's not in the shots before and after. 3) When Moe and Larry are
running from the bad guys in the chase scene, you can year Curly's
woo-woo's in the background, even though Shemp is the third Stooge
in this short!
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HOLD THAT LION!
(1947): 1) After Emil Sitka
says "The will is being probated", it cuts to a close-up of the Stooges
and Moe is looking at Larry who he wasn't in the shot before. 2) When
Shemp picks up the newspaper, the article about the Ambrose Rose estate
is upside down faced toward the camera, but in the next shot, the
article is right side up faced toward the camera. 3) After Emil Sitka
says, "You know I think he's trying to pull something crooked", it
cuts to the Stooges and Moe is looking at Shemp as if he said or did
something but we don't see it. 4) When Moe tries to bonk Larry on
the head with out looking at him, he accidentally hits Larry in the
eye. 5) You can see water stains on the wall before the fishbowl even
falls down. I guess this is a sign of rehearsal. 6) We're not supposed
to know that there's a glass between the lion and the Stooges when
they're in the box, but if you look carefully, you can see the Stooges
reflection in front of the lion. 7) Listen carefully when Dudley Dickerson
is hanging out the window. After his famous line "I'm loosin' ma mind",
there is laughing in the background. Could be the directors (or someone
else). [thanks to Stoogeaholic for this one]
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BRIDELESS GROOM
(1947): 1) When Moe and Shemp
are in the phone booth, their fists come flying out and hit Larry
in the face. It's obvious that there's no pane of glass in the door,
or else the glass would have shattered and gone all over the place.
But then, right after, we see Shemp with his face pressed up against
the glass in the same door.
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SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS
(1947): 1) You can see a string
pull the rolled up pants when Shemp is ironing them. 2) When Moe says
"What are you standin' around fo..." the line gets cut off in the
wipe to the next scene. 3) When Hargen's girlfriend sees him in his
underwear, she begins to laugh, but she isn_t in the next shot. 4)
After Shemp says, "I never ate a brown radish" Moe makes a mean face
like he's going to hit Shemp but it cuts to the next shot and Moe
is smiling. 5) We see Larry tie up one of the bad guys but we never
see how Larry knocked him out (unless it was the kick in the stomach
that knocked him out, which is unlikely). 6) When Shemp is being lifted
in the air by Hargen, he yells, but his yells get cut off in the cut
to the next shot. 7) When one of Hargen's henchmen is getting his
head steamed in a pants presser, many of his yells don't match his
actual mouth movements.
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ALL GUMMED UP
(1947): 1) After the excited
man knocks over another customer, the customer gets up from the floor,
then in the next shot, the customer is still lying on the floor, then
he gets up again. 2) When Moe begins mixing the chemicals in the boot,
Shemp's hair is messy, but it's pushed back in the next shot. 3) Shemp
swallows the jumping beans, he eeb-eeb-eeb's, then in the next shot,
he has some stuff on his lips which wasn't there before. 4) When Shemp
hands Moe the marshmallows, he's about to say his line "Has marshmallows
got pits?" but Moe is talking so Shemp quickly stops. 5) Actor Emil
Sitka screws up a line when he says "You haven't seen of me...the
last of me yet!" 6) When Moe and Larry are beating Shemp on the head
to help "bring out the idea in the back of his head", Moe takes a
hammer and hits Shemp on the head with it only once, but there's two
"bang" sound effects. 7) When Larry says to Moe "Lay that pestle down,
man!", you can see Moe mouthing that same line.
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1948
SHIVERING SHERLOCKS
(1948): 1) After Moe slaps Shemp
when he thinks he stole his cracker, Shemp briefly chokes on his food
before it cuts to the next shot. 2) You can see another hatchet mark
on the door right under where Angel digs his hatchet in the door.
That other mark is most likely a sign of rehearsal. 3) Near the end,
when Lefty and his assistant are chasing Larry and Moe, Lefty nearly
trips over the carpet. 4) When the cop comes in the diner, you can
clearly see his badge pinned to his chest, when he sits at the counter
its gone. [thanks to afan for this one] 5) When the hot bowl of soup
lands on Moe's back, you can see a chunk of dry ice fall off his back
as well, which was used to make the soup appear as if it were steaming
hot. 6) When the cop removed the spoon from the "coffee", it should've
been covered with paint.
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PARDON MY CLUTCH
(1948): 1) When Claude is yanking
Shemp by the wire on his tooth, it cuts to the next shot and Shemp
is walking differently than he was before. 2) When Shemp and Larry
are throwing suitcases in the car which slide out and hit Moe on the
head, the second suitcase didn't hit Moe when it was supposed to.
3) When Larry (actually a stunt double) is climbing up the pile of
luggage, one bag on the top almost falls off but Larry catches it.
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SQUAREHEADS OF THE ROUND
TABLE (1948):
1) When Shemp is about to nail Moe's hat to his head, Moe turns to
Shemp with an out-of-character smile on his face like he's going to
laugh. 2) Early in the film, the 2 guards played by Joe Palma and
Robert Stevens are clean-shaven, but later in the film, they have
moustaches and beards. 3) After Moe punches Shemp in the stomach through
his armor for his "We ain't got any 'presence'; the stores are all
closed!" line, Shemp waves his arms in pain, then it cuts to the next
shot and his arms are suddenly in a different position.
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FIDDLERS THREE
(1948): 1) When Shemp sprays
Moe in the face with the water from the bellows twice, he does it
backwards - he pulls the two handles apart on the bellows to make
the water squirt out and he pushes them together to suck air in. All
the other times the bellows are used, the handles are pushed together
to make water come out and pulled apart to suck air in. 2) Inside
the magician's box, we see Moe at the left side of the screen, with
Larry in the middle, and Shemp on the right of the screen. However,
when they burst out of the box, Shemp's on the left, Moe is in the
middle, and Larry's on the right.
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THE HOT SCOTS
(1948): 1) When the Stooges
say "Good morning" at the beginning, Shemp and Larry's eye-glasses
fall off. 2) When Shemp is fighting with who he think is Larry over
the blankets, Shemp tries to greab the blanket back to his side, but
he accidentally only grabs the sheet. 3) When the Stooges see Lorna
LaDoone running off with the valuables, the boys run after her but
they accidentally bump into the door and it closes on them. They are
shown breifly arguing and fighting before it cuts to the next shot.
This wasn't supposed to happen. 4) When Shemp and Larry hit the figure
under the blankets (not knowing that it’s Moe), Shemp’s hat is on
sideways, but in the next shot it’s on the right way.
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HEAVENLY DAZE
(1948): 1) When Shemp says,
"Gee whiz" after getting sprayed by the rain cloud, his
lips don't move. 2) When the pen was supposed to stab in Larry's forehead,
it really punctured his skin and left a bloody gash on his forehead.
Afterwards, Larry chased director Jules White around the set because
he said that Larry wouldn't get hurt doing the stunt! 3) When Moe
is digging in the sock for the money, Larry is rubbing his hands together,
but in the next shot, his hands are suddenly to his side.
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I'M A MONKEY'S UNCLE
(1948): 1) Moe's hair pattern
changes several times during the duck scene. 2) When the Stooges are
in bed and are all snoring on the bush at the same time, Larry snores
out of synch.
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CRIME ON THEIR HANDS
(1948): 1) After Harold the
Ape makes Shemp cough up the diamond, the camera shows Dapper and
Muscles quietly taking out their guns and getting ready to sneak up
on Harold, then it cuts to the next shot and Harold already has both
Dapper and Muscles in a grab-hold all of a sudden.
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THE GHOST TALKS
(1949): 1) When Shemp is trying
to close the umbrella, at first it is still open, then in the next
shot, it's partially closed. 2) When the armor first falls down, he
gets a HUGE dent in his chest plate. Next scene it's gone, then it's
back, then it's gone. [thanks to afan for this one] 3) When the armor
says "I swear I didn't do it purposely", Shemp is holding the cigarette
in his left hand but in the next shot, it's in his right hand. 4)
You can see the back of Shemp's shirt opening up before the frog even
jumps in it. 5) When the boys all run into the room with the chess-playing
skeletons, Shemp had a hat in his hand. Next scene it's gone. [afan]
6) After Moe gives Larry the head-stomach combination hit for thinking
he said "People have a right to talk, you know", Larry holds his head
in pain, then the camera cuts to the next shot and Larry's hands are
suddenly to his side.
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WHO DONE IT?
(1949): 1) When the boys are
shown tied up in their own office, they bang their heads against the
wall and a shield is supposed to fall and hit them all on the head.
It only hits Shemp and Moe and misses Larry. 2) When the butler says
to the Stooges, "Would you step in here, please?" the front
door behind them is closed, but it was open in the previous shot.
3) When the boys hide in the room, Larry points to a window and the
boys all rush toward it, then in the next shot, they're trying to
make a phone call. What happened to their attempt to leave through
the window? 4) When the boys are running from the murderers, Moe must've
hurt his leg or something because look at the way he runs. 5) During
the climactic gunfight near the end, when Emil Sitka tries to run,
he trips over someone's foot and hurts himself. 6) After Moe slaps
Shemp on the back of the head for peeking at Goodrich's niece through
the camera, it cuts to the next shot and Moe is suddenly gone. 7)
When Shemp goes through his wild reactions to being poisoned, during
several shots, actress Christine McIntyre looks like she's trying
not to laugh.
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HOKUS POKUS
(1949): 1) When Moe says to
Larry "Don't you use that tone of voice to me!" his voice fades a
little during that sentence. 2) When Shemp is shaving Moe's face,
Shemp accidentally drops the razor, but he ad-libs "Your face
is too sharp!" 3) When the boys are at Mary's apartment and Moe
tells Shemp to set up the breakfast table, Larry has something in
his eye. 4) When Shemp throws the table at the wall, his hair is messy,
but when he walks up to it, his hair is straight. 5) When the insurance
adjuster walks in and introduces himself, Shemp is about to say his
next line ("Oh, so you're the crook that's been...etc.") while Mary
is speaking, but he quickly stops. 6) When Shemp is putting Moe under
a hypnotism spell, Shemp has his hat on, then the camera shows a brief
close-up of Moe and when it shows Shemp again, his hat is off. 7)
We never see what Svengarlic hypnotizes Moe to do, but we notice that
Moe's hat is off in one shot, but it was on before. 8) When we see
a man on a bike crashing into Svengarlic, you'll notice that that's
really a double in Svengarlic's place. Well, that double isn't carrying
a microphone, which is what the real Svengarlic was doing before.
9) You can see that string that pulls the metal ball when it hits
the Stooges on the head. 10) Shemp flubs a line when he says "Everyone
knows that she...you owe her dough!" 11) When the Stooges are hanging
in mid-air from the flagpole, Larry's hands are both on the same side
of the pole in the close-ups of the Stooges, but in the long shots,
one of Larry's hands is on one side of the pole, while the other hand
is on the other side of the pole.
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FUELIN' AROUND
(1949): 1) Larry trips when
getting out of the car, and he hurts himself. 2) A sudden cut after
Moe says to Shemp, "Oh, you're much smarter. You're just an imbecile."
3) When the Stooges, the Professor, and the daughter bust out of the
jail cell, they quickly rush back in when the two guards run up to
them, and the two guards are right in front of the cell, but in the
next shot, they're a lot farther away from the cell than they were
in the previous shot.
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MALICE
IN THE PALACE (1949): 1)
The guard already has stuff on his face and chest even before Shemp
starts throwing fruit at him. 2) The shot of the guard accepting his
hat from Moe is inexplicably grainy, as if it was taken from another,
earlier short (not likely, as Shemp appears in the shot with his Santa
Claus suit). 3)
A noticeable jump cut in the picture right before Larry says "A thousand
pardons! It was unavoidable!" 4) When the cat "jumps" on the dog under
the table, it looks like the cat was actually being hoisted over to
the dog, involuntarily.
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VAGABOND LOAFERS
(1949): 1)
The Stooges' business is called "Day and Nite Plumbers", but when
Moe picks up the phone, he says "Nite and Day Plumbers". 2) Larry
saying alright then beginning to walk away after Moe tells him to
look for a valve is accidentally played twice. 3) This film is supposed
to take place at night, but the shots of Larry outside looking for
a valve is in daytime (that's because those shots were reused from
A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940). 4) After Kenneth MacDonald comes crashing
into the basement through a hole in the bathroom floor, Moe grabs
him and if you notice, MacDonald's shirt flap accidentally falls off.
5) When Larry scares Kenneth MacDonald, he has a lot more flour on
him than he did in the shot before. 6) One part of the ending theme
is accidentally played twice. 7) Mr. Norfleet is wearing a towel when
he leaves the bathroom, but as he leaves out the door, you can see
he's wearing shorts under the towel.
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DUNKED IN THE DEEP
(1949): 1) After Borscht fixes
the boys drinks, Shemp is about to say "Here's how" but Borscht says
something at the same time, so Shemp stops. 2) When the boat the first
time it is shown from the front, the scene is reversed! The spelling
of the name of the boat is backwards. [thanks to AJJ for this one]
3) When the Stooges are dusting each other off, it suddenly cuts to
Moe saying "Wait a minute!" but we don't see why. Also, him yelling,
"Wait a minute!" is played twice. 4) When the boat takes
off, Shemp rushes to the door and when he tries to open it, he accidentally
cuts his hand on the lock. Look at his face afterwards. 5) After Borscht
eats one of the metal disks thinking it's salami, his hands are empty,
but in the next shot, he has another metal disk in his hand. 6) When
Shemp says "Suckers! Let them sleep on hard boxes" his lips aren't
moving. 7) Right when Moe says "No wonder Borscht acted so mysteriously"
Shemp is about to say something, but he stops (yet again). 8) When
Shemp gets hit with the mud at the end, the mud splatters on the scenery
of the "sky" in the background as you look out the window. [AJJ] 9)
When Shemp is eeb-eeb-eeb-ing as his hat is flying in the air, it
doesn't match his actual mouth movement.
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PUNCHY COWPUNCHERS
(1950): 1) You can see the string
that pulls the horseshoes off of the handle. 2) When the two desperadoes
run after Larry but end up bumping into each other, one of them leans
onto a pile of crates and accidentally knocks it down, and it's back
up in the next scene. 3.) Watch at the beginning as Jock O'Mahoney
runs into the door and says, "Hurt my knee". Christine McIntyre has
this strange smile on her face, as if she's trying to suppress her
laughter.
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HUGS AND MUGS
(1950): 1) When Moe tries to
hit Larry on the head with scissors, he hits Larry's eye instead.
2) When Moe grabs Shemp by the hair, Shemp raises his hand in the
air and his finger hits Larry in the eye (again). 3) After the bad
guy punches his fist into the cage covering Shemp's head, the crunching
SFX come in too late. 4) After Christine McIntyre's character crunches
Moe's foot, Shemp walks up to her and his hair is messy, but in the
next shot, his hair is suddenly neat. 5) After Larry falls off the
bench and whacks his head on it, the camera cuts to the next shot
and his hat is suddenly on differently than it was in the shot before.
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DOPEY DICKS
(1950): 1) When Shemp tries
to open the doorknob and bumps his head on the door, he accidentally
hurts his eye. 2) When Shemp is fighting with the professor in the
bedroom, he calls out "Moe! Larry! MARY!" Sounds like Shemp either
meant to say Moe or Larry again, because there is no Mary in the short
(the name of Christine McIntyre's character is never actually said
in the short, and according to IMDB and Bill Telfer, her character's
name in the script was Louise).
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LOVE AT FIRST BITE
(1950): 1) Katrina slipped on
the wet floor during the dancing scene so why didn't she slip on the
wet floor when she was helping Moe up? 2) After Shemp bounces back
up off the floor and unintentionally punches Moe and Larry, something
jumps in the background. 2) When Moe has the gum stuck on his ear,
the camera cuts to a closer shot of him and suddenly, the gum is off
his ear and now stuck on his hands. 3) When the Stooges begin dusting
each other off, Shemp has his back to Moe, then the camera cuts over
to a closer shot of Moe and Shemp and Shemp is suddenly facing Moe.
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SELF MADE MAIDS
(1950): 1) When the Stooges
are skipping towards the door, Moe's heel accidentally slips and he
goes sliding into the next room and trips over a bed. Moe ended up
hitting his head on the bed leg and knocking self out. The next day,
he showed back up to work on crutches. 2) When Moe opens the door
and hits Shemp and Larry with it, Moe hurts is arm bumping into the
wall. 3) Similar to HOLD THAT LION!: when Moe tries to hit Larry on
the head without looking, he accidentally hits Larry in the eye. 4)
You can hear ringing noises in the background when the father is running
around in circles. 5) When Larraine says, "Just to you dear,"
she's (he's) really saying "Only to you dear."
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STUDIO STOOPS
(1950): 1) When the elevator
that Larry and Dapper Malone get into a fight inside opens, you can
see a waving shadow of some sort on the wall of the elevator, then
it's gone in the next shot (the director must've noticed the moving
shadow). 2) When Shemp throws sand in Louie's (played by Joe Palma)
face, Palma's reaction is delayed by a second. 3) Also, for the goof
about Larry and Dapper Malone fighting in the elevator, please change
the name "Dapper Malone" to "Dandy Dawson". I was thinking of Kenneth
MacDonald's character in CRIME ON THEIR HANDS when I originally put
that.
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SLAPHAPPY SLEUTHS (1950):
After Moe knocks the crook out with a pipe, Moe puts the pipe back
up on the shelf, but it falls down.
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A SNITCH IN TIME
(1950): 1) After the bird spits
in Shemp's eye, Shemp really can't see where he's going and he accidentally
bumps into Moe, knocking Moe into a paint can. 2) A cut when Larry
begins painting the table, in the next shot, it's painted more than
it was in the previous shot. 3) Was Moe supposed to trip over that
duffel bag when he was headed towards the drapes, and was Shemp supposed
to trip over it when he and Larry realized the robbers were right
behind them? 4) When Shemp throws the iron at Moe, you can see Moe
about to block. In the next shot, he's not trying to block it anymore.
5) For some strange reason, in the part where the cops open the door
on Shemp, they dubbed in Shemp's groans from SLAPHAPPY SLEUTHS. Why'd
they do that? It didn't even fit the scene. Some sort of dubbing error?
6) Please delete the goof about Shemp's groan when the cops open the
door on him.
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1951
THREE ARABIAN NUTS
(1950): 1) At the beginning,
when Moe tells Shemp to put the box up, he's standing with his side
facing Shemp, but in the next shot, the front of his body is facing
Shemp all of a sudden. 2) As Larry is walking around with the lamp,
in the room behind him, you can see the shadow of someone standing
still. It might've been Shemp, standing there and waiting for his
cue for when to come on camera a few seconds later. 3) When Moe is
yelling for help as he's running away from one of the Arabs, he yells
his own name by accident.
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BABY SITTERS JITTERS
(1951): 1) When the camera shows
a close-up of Moe when Shemp is putting a bib on the baby at the beginning,
Moe has a mean look on his face, but he's smiling in the shot after.
2) Was Junior supposed to squirt himself in the eye with his juice?
3) After the baby bites Larry's finger, Larry cries "Ya bit me" then
he looks off-screen in surprise but it cuts to the next scene before
we see that he was looking at. 4) After Shemp does the handstand the
second time, he gets up from the floor and you can see a clock sticking
out of his suit, but we weren't supposed to see it yet. 5) When it
cuts to Shemp peeking through the keyhole, the dust on his face, which
he had in the shot before, is gone. 6) When Shemp and the father are
fighting, the baby starts crying, but when Shemp walks up to the baby,
we still hear it crying even though it isn't anymore.
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DON'T THROW THAT KNIFE
(1951): 1) After Larry kicks
the husband on the floor, Larry steps on him and accidentally trips
off of him when getting off. 2) Right before Larry, inside the television
set, stabs the husband in the behind, in the background of the next
room, you can see a strange flash. 3) When the husband picks up the
"chair," it's obvious they used a real chair for that shot.
4) When Moe messes up Shemp's hair and makes it cover his eyes, Shemp
is supposed to say "Where is everybody???" but Moe says the line instead
for some reason, making it look weird.
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SCRAMBLED BRAINS
(1951): 1) After Moe tells Shemp
to keep on practicing the piano, it suddenly cuts to Shemp saying
"my own hands", and we don't even hear the beginning of
his sentence.
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MERRY MAVERICKS
(1951): 1) In the part where
Larry hides inside of a room, outside of the room, we hear Larry yelling
along with Moe and Shemp, but how could he if he's inside the room?
2) As Shemp begins his "little brother this high" routine, Moe is
holding his arms up (because a gun is pointed at the Stooges). Then
the camera cuts to a closer shot of the Stooges and Moe's arms are
suddenly to his side. Then the camera cuts back to a farther shot,
and Moe's arms are suddenly raised back up again.
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THE TOOTH WILL OUT
(1951): 1) When Shemp whispers,
"George Washington" to Moe and Larry, the dentistry boss
is looking at him, but he was looking elsewhere in the previous shot.
2) Larry walks in w/ Moe and Shemp and is wearing 3 hats. Look closely
when the cowboy tough guy walks in and you could see that there is
only one hat hanging on the perch. [thanks to Laura LVC for this one]
3) When Shemp says, "Okay, let's see what's next" and walks
over toward the table, he trips over something. 4) The second half
of this short was originally shot for MERRY MAVERICKS, but used for
this short instead. However, there's an error. In the first half which
is new, all the Stooges earn a dentistry diploma, but when the reused
footage comes in, Shemp is the only one who's the dentist, and he
even says that he payed 4 bits to get his diploma (which also did
not happen in the first half). 5) When the second patient (played
by Dick Curtis) is on the chair snoring, during one part, it looks
like Curtis is going to crack up because he has this smile on his
face while he's supposed to be pretending to be asleep.
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HULA-LA-LA
(1951): 1) When the Stooges
see Varulu's head collection, we hear Moe yelling yet his mouth doesn't
even move. 2) At the end when Shemp is dancing near the boiling pot,
he almost accidentally steps in the fire and burns himself, so he
moves away from the pot and continues dancing. That was hilarious.
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PEST MAN WINS
(1951): 1) The box of ants Moe
uses in the new footage doesn't match the box of ants used in the
recycled footage from ANTS IN THE PANTRY. 2) You can see a string
on the mouse that lands on Shemp's head.
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1952
LISTEN, JUDGE
(1952): 1) When Moe hits Larry
and Shemp with a stick of wood, Larry cuts his hand on something.
2) While Shemp is pounding flour on the turkey, you can hear somebody
laugh in the background. 3) When Shemp sprays icing on Moe's face,
we see Shemp and Larry jump and Larry isn't holding the cake down,
yet the cake doesn't float in the air.
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CORNY CASANOVAS
(1952): 1) After Moe pushes
Larry into the bed, we hear Larry say "Stupid ol' buzzard" but he's
really only saying "buzzard". 2) Similar to SLIPPERY SILKS (1936),
you can see a board in the backside of Moe's pants when Shemp and
Larry are pulling the tacks out of his behind. 3) When Moe says, "Ready,
Aim, Fire!", he's really saying something else. 4) Shemp tells
the lady to close her eyes, then he puts the ring on his finger, then
it cuts to Shemp bringing the lady over to the couch, but we never
see her open her eyes. 5) There must've a cut when Larry is hitting
Moe with the shovel repeatedly, since Larry slows down all of a sudden
only after a few hits. They probably cut some of Larry's hits out
to save time. 6) When Larry grumbles "Fix a bed...", his mouth isn't
moving at all. 7) When Moe hits Shemp on the head with the hammer,
the hammer looks completely different from the hammer used in the
shot before.
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HE COOKED HIS GOOSE
(1952): When Moe's wife is pulling
the Christmas chain lights out of Moe's mouth (after he accidentally
swallowed it), the scene looks convincing until you can see a bulb
coming from under Moe's neck when Moe's wife pulls it out.
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GENTS IN A JAM
(1952): 1) One of the middle
scenes shows Shemp pouring flour, milk and eggs together, but does
not show him whisking or beating them. He then causes the concoction
to fly across the room and land on Moe's head, and the very next scene
shows Moe wiping fully developed dough from his face. 2) When Moe
crashes off-camera after Shemp and Larry's attempt to free him from
the trunk, the camera cuts over to Moe with a pile of furniture on
him and after he groans, you can hear someone off-screen say "Boys!",
then Shemp and Larry run on camera. The "Boys!" was probably the director
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THREE DARK HORSES
(1952): 1) One part of the opening
theme song is accidentally played twice, causing the music to overlap
with the opening scene. 2) Did Moe goof when he said, "Vote for that
Ham...uh...Hammond Egger"? 2) Did anybody notice that Shemp left the
bathtub running? I'm guessing if he did it purposely, there was supposed
to be a gag later in the short about it, but there isn't. 3) When
Shemp pokes himself in the eye with the spoon the second time, some
coffee accidentally gets into his eye, but he makes a good ad-lib:
"I got a hot eye! I heard of hot feet, but never a hot eye!"
4) When Shemp and Larry applaud Moe during his nomination speech,
Shemp accidentally knocks over a coffee cup. 5) The confetti on Larry's
face disappears in the next shot. 6) After Larry says to Moe "A razor
blade", Larry does something with his hand but it cuts to the next
scene before we see what Larry was doing. 7) While Larry is stuffing
the turkey with crackers, Shemp messes up Moe's hair, but when they
see the turkey walking, Shemp's hair is neat all of a sudden.
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CUCKOO ON A CHOO CHOO
(1952): 1) When the Stooges
are fighting over the skunk, in one part, Shemp almost trips over
a seat, and you can hear Larry say, "Watch yourself." 2)
When Shemp says "Horrible but delicious", his lips aren't moving.
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UP IN DAISY'S PENTHOUSE
(1953): 1) You can see Moe prepare
to punch Larry and Shemp in the stomach when they ask him for the
money before it even happens. 2) After Moe gets the martini splashes
in his face, his hair is all messy and wet, but it's neat and dry
again in the next shot. 3) In one of the reused scenes from 3 DUMB
CLUCKS (1937), they accidentally leave in Curly's woo-woos. 4) In
another reused scene from 3 DUMB CLUCKS, we see the Stooges land on
their father, then after that a new scene is added in and there's
a path of cement right next to them, which wasn't in the shot before.
5) When Moe opens Pa's coat and a whole bunch of moth balls fall out,
you can hear someone laughing in the background.
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BOOTY AND THE BEAST
(1953): When Shemp is being
carried away by Moe and Larry, we can see his right leg when we weren't
supposed to yet.
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LOOSE LOOT
(1953): 1) When Larry is trying
to squeeze into the hay box, his shoe accidentally falls off. 2) When
the camera shows Moe while Shemp and Larry are beating up Slipp, we
hear Moe in the background saying "Outta my way", but his mouth is
not moving. 3) After Shemp throws the egg yolk on Slipp's face, Shemp
says something but we can't hear it because Slipp is grunting something
off-screen at the same time. 4) When Slipp grunts "If I ever get my
hands on you, you'll wish you've never been born!!", not only are
his lips not moving, but the words "wish you've" is played twice in
a row. 5) After Shemp chases Slipp off-screen with a sword, we hear
Shemp say "I'll fill ya full of hole..." then his line cuts off right
there and in the next shot, Shemp repeats his line fully: "I'll fill
ya full of holes like a Swiss cheese!" 6) When Tom Kennedy is about
to punch Larry, Moe blocks Larry's face with a shield and Kennedy
ends up punching the shield. Afterwards, Kennedy just stands there
for a few seconds before he realizes that he's supposed to be hurt,
then he suddenly holds his hand in pain.
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TRICKY DICKS (1953):
1) When Moe gets his tie shot off, he's wearing a jacket, but he wasn't
wearing it in the shots before and after. 2) You can see a string
on the monkey when it gets blown out of the trashcan. 3) The file
cabinet scene is reused from HOLD THAT LION. In the new footage, the
cabinets are supposed to be to the left, near B.A. Copper's door,
but in the reused footage, the Stooges look in the opposite direction
after a new shot of B.A. telling them he had the file all along.
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SPOOKS!
(1953): 1) On the sign on the
door, there's no apostrophe in "Don't". 2) When Moe is telling Shemp
to look through the window (so he can kick him inside the house),
Moe says "There's nothing in there to get scared..." then he stops
right there and forgets to say "...of". The editors obviously caught
this, because they dubbed in Moe saying "of" at the end of that sentence.
3) When Larry bops Shemp on the head, Larry hurts his hand. 4) Near
the end, when the camera shows Dr. Jekyll pointing a needle to the
camera (really pointing it to Shemp and Ms. Bopper), that is really
just an earlier shot where the doctor pointed the needle in Congo
the Gorilla's face. Reshowing that was unnecessary, especially since
in that shot he's wearing glasses, but he's not wearing glasses before
or after that scene. 5) Shemp's hair pattern changes after he says,
"There's something fishy going on here." 6) When Larry says
"The Door, open it Moe" his lips aren't moving.
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PARDON MY BACKFIRE
(1953): 1) You can clearly hear
the director giving instructions to the actors pushing the car into
the garage, telling them when to stop, and then saying, 'That's fine!"
[thanks to Jim Sullivan for this one] 2) You can see the string on
the bottle that Shemp throws at the crook.
RIP, SEW AND STITCH
(1953): There are shots of Shemp
with very mussed hair, followed closely with shots of him with his
hair slicked back neatly. Of course, RIP... is a re-make, and the
shots with neat hair are from the original, but there still should
have been someone watching out for the continuity. [thanks to Jim
Sullivan for this observation]
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BUBBLE TROUBLE
(1953): There are shots of Shemp
with very mussed hair, followed closely with shots of him with his
hair slicked back neatly. Of course, RIP... is a re-make, and the
shots with neat hair are from the original, but there still should
have been someone watching out for the continuity. [thanks to Jim
Sullivan for this observation]
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GOOF ON THE ROOF
(1953): 1) When Moe picks up
the phone receiver, the phone falls off the table. 2) When Shemp says,
"Where's Moe? Where'd Moe go?" his lips aren't moving during some
parts of that line. 3) A cut while Moe is reading Bill's letter, and
Shemp hair is suddenly neat, when it was sloppy in the previous scene.
4) When Shemp says "This cockeyed thing won't woik here, I'd better
nail it to the roof", his lips aren't moving. 5) When Shemp puts the
antenna in the corner on the roof, it tips over to the side by accident.
6) When Larry burns himself with the cigar, Shemp's hands are to his
side, but his hands are on his face in the next shot.
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INCOME TAX SAPPY
(1954): 1) After Shemp smashes
a bowling ball in half over Moe's head, Shemp runs away and almost
knocks over a nearby lamp in the process. 2) When Moe says "Give!"
right before the Stooges trash the cops with dishes, his lips aren't
moving. 3) When the Stooges are being chased by the tax department
officers, Moe is about to hurl a plate of spaghetti at them, and says
for a second time, "Oh, a double-crossin' rat!" Only problem is, this
entire line was dubbed, and his lips don't move. [thanks to NicktoBaranda
for this one]
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MUSTY MUSKETEERS (1954):
When the Stooges burst out of the magic box, Murgatroyd's hair is
sloppy, then the camera shows a close-up of him and his hair is neat,
then it's back to sloppy in the next shot.
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PALS AND GALS
(1954): In the footage edited
in from OUT WEST (1947), the line design that Shemp has on the back
of his shirt is triangular, but in the new original footage, the line
design that Shemp has on his back is straight. Also his shirt his
darker in the new footage than it is in the reused footage.
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KNUTZY KNIGHTS
(1954): Cedric is supposed to
bonk Moe and Larry's heads together, but they came nowhere close to
hitting each other's heads.
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SHOT IN THE FRONTIER
(1954): 1) After the Stooges
get off of their horses, they all stand in a line and crack their
backs, but the camera only focuses on Larry and Shemp, leaving Moe
out of the scene. Then the camera quickly pans over a little so we
can see Moe. 2) When Shemp says "I'll chop ya to little mincemeat",
the word "mincemeat" is dubbed in.
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SCOTCHED IN SCOTLAND
(1954): For some strange, they
dubbed in Moe's "Nyaaaah!" when the ink bottle spills, even though
doesn't even notice the bottle spilling and he doesn't say "nyaaah"
until later.
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1955
FLING IN THE RING
(1955): When Moe and Larry drag
Shemp away at the end, his shoes leave thin skid marks on the ground.
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OF CASH AND HASH
(1955): 1) After the customer
tells Larry his order, Larry walks away and nearly misses his cue
to tell Shemp the customer's food order. You can even hear him mutter
"Oh, I forgot", to himself when he realizes. 2) This film
has footage edited in from SHIVERING SHERLOCKS (1948), and in one
of the reused scenes, Moe and Larry walk out of the room they're hiding
in and you can hear Moe asking "Shemp, is that you in there?"
but Moe's lips aren't moving, nor is he standing by the door that
Shemp is in. This must've been an editing mistake because in the original,
Moe and Larry walk up to the door and then Moe asks, "Hey, Shemp
is that you in there?" 3) Also in another scene edited in from
SHIVERING SHERLOCKS, Angel yanks off Moe and Larry's jackets when
they run away, but in one of the new scenes after this one, Moe and
Larry suddenly have their jackets on! The editors should've noticed
this. 4) In another reused scene from SHIVERING SHERLOCKS where Lefty
and his assistant see the Stooges' article in the newspaper, the assistant
asks Lefty "How are we gonna find them?" Yet in a new scene that was
added in just before this one, he was at the Stooges cafe, so he should've
known where to find them.
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GYPPED IN THE PENTHOUSE
(1955): 1) When Larry looks
in the mirror and it breaks, afterwards if you look carefully, you
can see the knife in a small hole behind the mirror that broke the
glass. 2) When Shemp sneezes, he's holding a dish, but in the next
shot, it's gone.
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BEDLAM IN PARADISE(1955):
A jump in the picture when the devil gets hit with the whipped cream.
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STONE AGE ROMEOS
(1955): After Larry plays checkers
with the rocks, he places his elbow on the table and knocks over a
picture.
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WHAM-BAM-SLAM!
(1955): 1) When the camera shows
a close-up of Shemp taking a pancake, his wife's hand is on the table,
but in the shots before and after, her hands are under her chin. 2)
You can see a string holding the refrigerator door open. 3) In a reused
scene from PARDON MY CLUTCH, Larry falls off the car and lands flat
on the ground and if you notice, his head is faced toward the camera,
but in the next shot which is new footage added in, Larry's legs are
faced toward the camera!
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BLUNDER BOYS
(1955): 1) Shemp holds up his
finger at the camera, then in the next shot, he's suddenly biting
his fingernail, which he wasn't before. 2) When Shemp is on the horse
vault, he's yelling two different things at the same time. One of
those yells was dubbed in. 3) When Shemp gets his head stuck in the
ceiling and pulls himself down, they use a stunt double for that shot.
However, when the double falls down from the ceiling, his Shemp wig
accidentally falls off.
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1956
HUSBANDS BEWARE (1956):
1) Shemp says "See you laters, fellah" when he was supposed to say
"See you later, fellahs".
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CREEPS (1956):
1) In this remake, there's a small new scene added in where the Stooges
are smoking as they are listening to Sir Tom's story, but in the next
shot which is a reused scene, the boys aren't smoking anymore. 2)
After Larry says "It was a dandylion", the camera goes over to the
Stooges' sons and you can hear Baby Shemp say "Oh no!" and Baby Larry
say "Phooey!", but neither of their lips are moving.
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FLAGPOLE JITTERS (1956):
1) When Moe asks, "Which one of you slammed that door shut?"
the falling buckets make it hard to hear what he's saying. 2) After
Larry says "Maybe a cyclone did it", Moe is supposed to respond "Yeah,
maybe it just blew shut like this...", but he looks at Larry and pauses
for a few seconds as if he forgot his lines. Then the camera cuts
to a closer shot of Moe and Larry, then Moe says the line and also,
his hair looks neater than it did in the previous shot. 3) A remake
of HOKUS POKUS, and new footage is inserted explaning that Svengarlic
and his assistant are safecrackers and are using the Stooges as disposable
dupes. But in a later reused scene from HOKUS when Svengarlic gets
knocked out, Sven's assistant says "The boys are up on the flagpole!"
The assistant's genuine concern for the Stooges stuck on the flagpole
made more sense in the original version where he and Svengarlic were
actually innocent and just using the Stooges as hypnotism subjects.
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FOR CRIMIN' OUT LOUD
(1956): 1)
A remake of WHO DONE IT? (1949), and ironically, there's a goof here
similar to one in the original version "when Larry accidentally
shoots the chandelier down, it's supposed to hit all three Stooges,
but it only hit Moe and Larry and missed Shemp.
RUMPUS IN THE HAREM (1956):
1) After Moe spills water on Larry's face, Larry spits out the water
from his mouth, then he raises his arm, but in the next shot, his
arm is still down, then he raises it again. 2) At the end, when Joe
Palma (doubling for Shemp) jumps out the window, he yells "YIPEE!"
but you can tell that's not Shemp because he sounds absolutely nothing
like him.
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HOT STUFF (1956):
1) When the secretary slams the staples into Moe's hand, Moe, with
his hand still in the stapler, yells, then in the next shot Moe is
suddenly holding his hand in front of him. 2) In one of the new scenes
in this remake, the Stooges knock out Captain Rorik and lock him in
a trunk, but at the end which is reused footage from FUELIN' AROUND
(1949) we can see Rorik with a whole bunch of soldiers shooting at
the Stooges. How did Rorik get unlocked? 3) In one of the scenes reused
from FUELIN' AROUND, Rork and the other two spies are talking about
how they'll take the "professor" (who they think is Larry) over to
Anemia, and in the original version, after Rork says "Yes, colonel",
they show a scene with the Stooges laying carpet. But in this version,
they cut out the carpet scene, so right when Rork says "Yes, c...",
he abruptly gets cut off as it cuts over to the next scene (since
in the original, the end of the "Yes, colonel" line overlapped with
the dissolve to the carpet scene). Then a few seconds later in another
reused scene where Rork and the spies are talking about how they'll
take Moe and Shemp's along with the "professor", this version cuts
out a small part where one of the spies points a gun at the Stooges
and Rork tells him to put the gun away, but you can still see the
spy point the gun right before it cuts to the next scene.
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SCHEMING SCHEMERS (1956):
1) Larry goofs up a line when he says, "Who do you think you...I am,
anyhow?" 2) After Larry hits Moe in the back of the head with a pie,
he breaks character and laughs.
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1957
HOOFS AND GOOFS (1957):
1) You can see Moe lip-synching to Bertie's line: "I can't go
home with you, Joe." 2) You can see that Joe has a pad in his
arm when Bertie bites him. 3) When Bertie belches, Larry is standing
next to her, but in the shots before and after, Larry is behind her.
4) We are supposed to believe that Dinklespiel fell down the stairs,
but after he "falls down the stairs" we can still see him standing
behind the door. 5) Larry's lips don't move when he says "Be good
and we'll take you home tomorrow". 6) All the dialogue from the Stooges
when Bertie gives birth to a baby colt is dubbed in, as the boys lips
aren't moving as we hear them speak. 7) When Moe picks up the baby
colt, the horse playing Bertie suddenly jumps. Moe seems distracted
by it. 8) You can see the face of Moe's double at the end.
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MUSCLE UP A LITTLE CLOSER
(1957): 1)
The camera shows a close-up of Larry and his girlfriend hugging, but
in the next shot, they're not hugging and Moe and Larry are digging
in their pockets for something we don't see. 2) Joe says "They're
wonderful snoopers, they're..." then his line gets cut off in the
cut to the next shot. 3) After Joe cries "It's followin' me!" Moe
walks up to Joe and in the next shot, Joe is at the end of saying
something, but we don't hear the beginning of what he says. 4) After
Joe accidentally spills the eggs, he groans two different ways at
the same time. One of the groans was dubbed in.
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GUNS A POPPIN! (1957):
1) film has reused footage from IDIOTS DE LUXE (1945) and in one of
the reused scenes, Moe asks Joe and Larry (originally Curly and Larry)
for his eggs sunny side down and he adds "And don't turn 'em
over!", but after that there is new footage of Joe and Larry, and
Joe says to himself "Sunny side over, don't turn 'em down? This guy
is nuts!" Seems like Joe's the nutty one since he was supposed to
say, "Sunny side DOWN, don't turn 'em OVER?" 2) When Hookup pushes
Larry away, Larry has his hat on, but in the next shot, Larry's hat
is off. 3) Near the end of the flashback when Moe is chasing Larry
and Joe with an axe, Moe had to stop for a second because the charcoal
he's covered with accidentally got into his eyes.
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RUSTY ROMEOS (1957):
1) There's a huge mistake in this film, which is a remake of CORNY
CASANOVAS (1952) with Joe taking Shemp's place with reused footage
from the original. In one scene, which is reused footage, Larry is
smashing a shovel over Moe's head. If you look in the background,
you'll notice a picture of Shemp on a table. I guess the film editors
of that film missed that part. 2) Why did they dub in Larry's yell
for Moe when he's yelling as tacks are getting yanked out his behind?
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OUTER SPACE JITTERS (1957):
1) When Moe says "Hmm, what do you know? How about that?" his lips
aren't moving. 2) After the Grand Zilch of Sunev orders the High Mucky
Muck to show the Stooges to their ladies, it cuts to the next shot,
and the Mucky Muck is at the end of saying a sentence. 3) When Mucky
Muck says, "We do not drink water", his hands are empty,
but he had a fork in his right hand in the previous shot. 4) At the
end after the Stooges jump out the window, as the scene fades out
you can see one of the boys' shadow outside the window. 5) When Larry
is mumbling while trying to explain to Moe that the goon is standing
behind him, some of his mumbles don't match his actual mouth movements.
6) When Moe ties the wire around Larry's neck and says "Don't go away!",
Larry is then supposed to freeze in position, but he freezes too early
before Moe even says the line.
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1958
QUIZ WHIZZ (1958):
1) When Joe says to Moe "I oughta give you the hotface!_ Joe gets
something caught in his eye. 2) Towards the end of the episode, when
Joe is drinking from a liquor bottle and Moe rips off his pants, Joe
looks but he briefly chokes on his drink before he says his next line.
3) At the end of the film, the Stooges are trying to paste the torn
check pieces together. When Joe licks his hand and slaps that hand
on his torn piece of the check, some spit flies into Larry's eye right
before the scene fades out to the ending title card!
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PIES AND GUYS (1958):
1) When Emil Sitka as the butler brings the Stooges to inside the
house, he says to the two professors "Pardon me, gen....uh, professor,
the plumbers are here". It sounds like Emil almost said "gentlemen",
probably because he said it so many other times in Stooge shorts.
2) After Larry says "There hasn't been a gentleman in our family in
50 generations!", Moe is supposed to respond "Quit braggin'!", but
he pauses for a brief period and just looks at Larry with a mean expression
before he remembers his line. 3) Towards the end, Professor Cedelitz
takes off his glasses for no apparent reason, then he gets hit in
the face with a pie. Him removing his glasses clearly gave it away
that he was about to get hit; why else would he have taken off his
glasses out of the blue like that?
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SWEET AND HOT (1958):
1) When the doctor's (Moe's) head backs into Larry's head, Larry's
eye gets hurt. 2) At the end, when Tiny pushes Larry in the garbage
can, Larry"s leg accidentally gets caught on Tiny's dress.
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FLYING SAUCER DAFFY (1958):
1) Joe says "Somethin' spoiled my snapshot!" and throws his picture
to the ground, Moe and Larry laugh at him, but in the next shot, they're
not smiling. 2) When Moe says, "Hey, Larry, look at this,"
his lips aren't moving. 3) In the scene where Emil Sitka (as the magazine
president) gives Moe and Larry $5000 in a wheelbarrow, Larry runs
off with the money, and Moe yells "Hey, come back you weasel!" and
starts to run after Larry, but he accidentally trips on something
before getting off-screen. This is even funnier when Emil Sitka, who
was talking into the microphone while Larry and Moe were drooling
at the money, stuttered and said "Excuse me, folks" to the microphone
when Moe tripped in front of him. 4) Before Joe even mentions that
he brought a TV dinner, you can see Larry behind him taking the TV
dinner package out of the grocery bag. Then the camera cuts to the
next shot and Larry's hands are suddenly empty, then Joe mentions
the TV dinner, followed by Larry taking the TV dinner package out
of the grocery bag again.
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OIL'S WELL THAT ENDS
WELL (1958):
1) When Joe was supposed to say, "He steals from everybody,"
he forgets his line and Moe says it for him. 2) When Joe and Larry
are trying to get milk from the cow, just after Larry gets that can
of flour on his head, Moe looks at them, shakes his head, and begins
to walk over to the cow. As he does, he has his usual gag haircut.
But when he gets to the cow, his bangs are gone! [thanks to Angie
for this one, I also noticed that Larry's haircut is shorter in some
of the cabin scenes, like Moe's] 3) When Joe says, "That was
better than the first thought," he's really saying something
else. 4) When Moe says, "Why, you! You wrecked my pajamas!"
his lips aren't moving. 5) When Moe throws the rope up to Joe, it
gets caught on Larry's ear. 6) At the end of this film, there is some
footage edited in from OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE (1939). And in one
of the new scenes after Joe accidentally stops the oil from flowing,
Moe says "Shake hands with a pauper" to Larry and they shake
hands. I find that part very silly that they would shake hands just
because they're poor, but they did that so they would match the next
scene, which was reused from OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE. However, after
Larry and Moe shake hands, they stop and look surprisingly at Joe,
but in the next shot, which is reused footage, they are still shaking
hands, then they stop to look at Joe again (originally Curly)! They
really goofed up there in the new footage. 7) After spraying Joe in
the face with the cow's udders the second time, Moe accidentally sprays
some milk in his own hand.
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TRIPLE CROSSED (1958):
1) When Larry is walking to meet Moe's wife, Joe is hiding in the
closet wearing a Santa Claus outfit, but if you look closely at who
quickly peaks around the closet door and whistles, looks like Shemp
to me. 2) When Moe fires the gun up the chimney at Joe, Joe's scream
sounds an AWFUL lot like Shemp. (These are two VERY lazy and careless
mistakes, and it is clear Columbia just didn't give a damn anymore.)
[thanks to Nosehonk for these two] 3) In another reused footage goof,
when Joe is sneaking over to hide under the bear rug, we hear a thud;
apparently they left in the sound for Shemp's land on the ground from
the original version.
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SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS (1958):
In the reused scene from WHAT'S THE MATADOR? (1942) where Curly is
riding on the bull, Curly's woo-woo's are left in although we're supposed
to think Joe's riding on the bull.
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1959
HAVE ROCKET, WILL TRAVEL
(1959): 1) When the monkey jumps
on the backs of Moe and Larry, you can hear Moe yell although his
lips aren’t moving. 2) Like it’s been mentioned before, you can hear
Curly’s woo-woos when the Stooges are climbing down the ladder in
the rocket. 3) When the Stooges are yelling in the birdcage, their
yells are dubbed in from a short with Shemp. You can even hear Shemp’s
yelling along with Moe and Larry’s. 4) At the beginning of the dance
scene toward the end, you can see Moe dancing with Dr. Ingrid, then
it cuts to a different shot where Curly-Joe is carrying a plate with
a slice of cake and behind him, you can see Moe standing and talking
to a guest. Then it cuts back to the original shot and Moe is suddenly
dancing again! He sure gets around! 5) After Larry gets kicked in
the head during the dance sequence, that scene reverses itself afterwards.
6) After the previously mentioned scene, a lady and a man accidentally
trip over Larry and fall to the ground. A second later, the same lady
and man are shown sitting on a couch all of a sudden, then they get
up to dance again.
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1962
THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES
(1962): 1) When King Odious
is leading Diana to his chariot, Moe is standing in the background
with his hands to his side. In the next shot, his arms are suddenly
crossed. 2) When Odious throws the wine in Ulysses’ face, he obviously
misses his face. 3) Right before the lady says to Moe, “Well, get
busy, you know what to do” there’s a cut, and she looks as if she
forgot her line. 4) After Curly-Joe (impersonating a galley slave
leader) cracks his whip and yells “Sit down!!” to Odious, he’s about
to say something else, but it gets cut off in the next shot. 5) When
Moe’s supposed to yell, “That’s Cyclops!” he yells “skyclops” by mistake.
6) When the Cyclops picks up Moe, you can tell that it’s holding a
doll. 7) When Achilles and his assistant open their jackets to show
their knives to the boys, look in the background - the assistant accidentally
opens up the wrong side of his jacket at first.
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