Top 10 Best The 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.

The Top Ten
  1. Disorder in the Court

    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.

  2. A Plumbing We Will Go

    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."

  3. Brideless Groom

    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.

  4. Loco Boy Makes Good

  5. No Census, No Feeling

    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.

  6. They Stooge to Conga

    The most violent episode with Curly Howard! I like this episode as well! I even made a YouTube video with a scene from it.

  7. Yes, We Have No Bonanza

    I think I wet myself laughing at this episode.

  8. Ants in the Pantry

    Top-shelf Stoogery. The boys bring the pests, then destroy the place exterminating them. Almost as good as the plumbers!

  9. Violent Is the Word for Curly

    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!

  10. Hoi Polloi (1935)

    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.

  11. The Newcomers
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    Oil's Well That Ends Well

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    Sappy Bull Fighters

  14. The Contenders
  15. Grips, Grunts and Groans

  16. Goof on the Roof

    Truly classic goofiness that made the Stooges so great. Definitely my favorite.

  17. Dizzy Pilots

    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.

  18. Boobs in Arms

    All-time favourite episode, especially the greeting card gag early in the film.

  19. Cash and Carry

    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.

  20. An Ache in Every Stake

    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!

  21. Slippery Silks

  22. Booby Dupes

  23. Three Smart Saps

    This is the greatest Three Stooges short, if for nothing else than this immortal exchange:

    Tall Female Dancer: Do you rumba?

    Curly: Only when I drink a bicarbonate. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

  24. Higher Than a Kite

  25. Movie Maniacs

  26. You Nazty Spy!

    This one comes before I'll Never Heil Again and features the first American portrayal of Hitler ever done by Moe.

  27. Sing a Song of Six Pants

    The glue in Moe's eye and the ensuing removal are hilarious!

  28. Malice in the Palace

    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!

  29. We Want Our Mummy

    A CLASSIC! Some of the gags in this clearly inspired certain scenes in Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.

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