Top Ten Three Stooges Episodes
The Three Stooges are the greatest comedy team of all time but it is really, really hard to pick out their best.
Curly: "Vernacular?... That's a derby!"
Bailiff to Curly: "Do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth?"
Curly: "No, but I know all the woids."
Larry, while playing jacks on the floor while the crowd stands around watching outside the courtroom: "He was for onesies, I was for twosies."
Moe: "Oh yeah? Well here's fivesies," and punches them both in their eye.
This is their most famous episode, including their most famous "Take off your hat" scene.
Curly on the stand is hilarious. There's also a great scene with a lady dancing in the courtroom.
I think I wet myself laughing at this episode.
Love Shemp trying to teach a horrible singer, and the scene where Moe and Shemp get tangled up in the phone booth.
"Moe, where's your hat?" and "Get your hand out of my face."
"That's not my hand, that's your hand."
"Alright, you asked for it." Shemp then bites his own hand.
Top-shelf Stoogery. The boys bring the pests, then destroy the place exterminating them. Almost as good as the plumbers!
This is by far the funniest episode of the Three Stooges! No matter how many times I see this, I crack up hysterically. Moe's line: "Well, we had to forget something, or we wouldn't be plumbers!" And Larry trying to shut off the water by digging a huge hole out on the lawn... "I'll find this or else."
The classic moment is Curly in the bathtub surrounding himself with pipes! This episode will live on forever!
I think this was the funniest episode because of the number of laughs and the famous scene where Moe says, "This house has sure gone crazy."
Moe, Larry,... CHEESE!
It took a variety of cheeses to calm Curly after he was spooked by seeing a mouse. The boys put this to use as pro wrestlers!
When the motor is falling from the sky after attempting to crank it over, Moe says to Curly, who fails to catch it, "If you had an ounce of initiative, you would have caught it!"
And when they're in the house looking for the wall ("walla walla" on the map) where Captain Kidd's kid hid his treasure, Curly yells "fore," and the sledgehammer he swings goes through the wall and hits Moe on the other side. Perfect timing. This one has it all: snappy lines and physical mayhem.
The back and forth between Moe and Larry that results in Moe shrieking and beating on the random man gets me every time!
"How many in the family?"
"I was one of a litter of three."
"Don't tell me you were the one they kept!"
"Nah, I'm the one they threw away."
Gets me literally every time. Haha.
This one is really lesser-known, but it is really funny and has a LOT of great stunts in it.
One of Curly's best, if not the best. Relaying the ice up the stairs. Stuffing the turkey, dancing with the spring attached to his pants. Shaving some ice. It goes on and on.
Best episode ever! I took my kids to the actual stairs from this episode, and we recreated the whole scene. It was classic!
The cat and dog scene still has me in tears from laughing. I showed my 11-year-old, who had never heard of the Three Stooges, and he absolutely loved it!
Truly classic goofiness that made the Stooges so great. Definitely my favorite.
The most violent episode with Curly Howard! I like this episode as well! I even made a YouTube video with a scene from it.
Moe pulling Curly from the plane: "Hey, you nitwit. Don't saw the wings. You saw the garage."
Curly: "I see the garage, but I don't saw the garage. You are speaking incorrectly. You are murdering the King's English. Et cetera. See? Saw? See? Saw?"
Moe getting covered in a rubber suit is just classic.
This one comes before I'll Never Heil Again and features the first American portrayal of Hitler ever done by Moe.
A CLASSIC! Some of the gags in this clearly inspired certain scenes in Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.
This is the famous short where the Stooges demolish a golf course in great fashion! The famous "Press...Press...Pull" gag makes its appearance, as does Moe's "So's your old man!" line.
Too many sight gags and lines to remember. A great short all around.
Classic short pitting the guys against high society. Of note, Curly's comment during the dancing lesson: "It ain't the dippin', it's the countin' that's got me."
The dance class segment, about 6 minutes in, is truly hysterical.
Best ever! These guys were in a class by themselves.
Hold That Lion with Shemp was my all-time favorite. The look on the Black guy shining shoes when he dips the lion's tail in shoe polish is priceless!
Moe is great in this one. It's also one of Curly's last great episodes before he started to get sick.
I second your opinion on the scene with the Black man. Funniest scene ever.