Clearly, they're most famous for their shorts, but they also did movies and cartoons, of these, what do you think of them? Personally, I love the cartoons, they didn't ahve the typical Stooge physical humor, but they were still very funny...I haven't seen any of their movies in a long time but I always loved The Three Stooges in Orbit, next I plan to see Have Rocket, Will Travel, 'They're throwing things at us!'

One of the local stations used to run them late at night, but I haven't seen The Three Stooges anywhere on TV in approximately twenty years. I didn't even know there was a cartoon version.

Chris wrote:

One of the local stations used to run them late at night, but I haven't seen The Three Stooges anywhere on TV in approximately twenty years. I didn't even know there was a cartoon version.

Sorry Chris, but I just find that funny that I've known about the cartoon series my whole life and I'm a lot younger than you. But like I said, they were good, they were different but they were still funny, and several of them can be found on Youtube and others are on cartoon collections like you find in the $5 bin at Wal-Mart. And for anyone old enough who still has a VCR you can find on Amazon 6 hour tapes of them though the tracking's a little shaky.

I think the stooges are hilarious but my favorite slapstick is Laurel and Hardy. I have seen some of the stooges cartoons over the years. AMC usually runs a Stooges marathon once or twice a year.

Tony Marino wrote:

I think the stooges are hilarious but my favorite slapstick is Laurel and Hardy. I have seen some of the stooges cartoons over the years. AMC usually runs a Stooges marathon once or twice a year.

AMC butchers the 3 Stooges because they cut out whole parts to make room for commercials and now they last maybe all of 5 or 10 minutes. Not at all like it used to be when Saturday mornings was the 3 Stooges playhouse on AMC and they were full and uncut and finished before the commercials.

Shale wrote:

I never cared for the slapstick humor that seemed to have been big in the 30s and 40s.

I do know that in group homes for mentally retarded adults the 3 Stooges and Wrestling were the most popular shows on TV.

Serious question Shale. Does watching that kind of thing result in any injuries? There was a Simpsons episode where Bart is visiting a Daredevil in the hospital and Dr. Hibbert says, "I won't subject you to our Three Stooges ward."

Now back in the 50s, or maybe it was the 60s, Moe Howard showed all the kids the trick of how they did the eye-gouge so nobody got hurt, and the kids thought they were learning a great trick. And about 12 years back there was a special on TV looking at the 3 Stooges and it was explained how they did a lot of their slapstick, rubber broom handles, baked sugar glass bottles, and they slow down the hall slap in Brideless Groom and show Larry's turning his face away as Moe pretends to slap him, and how the eye gouge was always done right over the eyes.


Also, in the 70s Moe was on a talk show, the Mike Douglas show, and he was telling how the PTA was asking a child psychologist or psychiatrist 'is watching the 3 Stooges going to make my child violent?' and the psychiatrist answered 'not at all, my child watches them all the time and he's fine'.

I am a fan of the Stooges but really just their shorts and not past the Shemp era.

I remember watching the 3 Stooges when I was little and noticing how it had the same intro music as some of the old cartoons I watched.

Never really watched them, but from what I can tell....they're not that funny to me.