What a waste of a cameo. When they showed up, I honestly thought I was in for some whacky, slapstick shenanigans.
But then nothing happened with them! I mean literally nothing.
I was so, so disappointed.
Anyone else feel as ripped off as I did?
Sometimes you have to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble... It's called fun.
Well when I first saw the movie (as a kid), I was a bit disappointed, because they were billed. Jerry Lewis also had no lines but he wasn't billed, and he did have a funny somewhat significant part.
Also a little disappointed in the small part Joe E. Brown got, although he did get to yell "Hey" a few times. But for the most part the parts that the actors I knew got were good.
Agreed. It was great to see them, but I was hoping for some fire-trucks doing circles and crazy hijinks.
It's possible that additional footage featuring the Stooges was shot and eventually edited out of what was still an extremely long film (especially a comedy). I also would have liked to have seen more of them. At least one can make out the opening measure of "Three Blind Mice".
shareWell, at that time, they weren't really doing a lot of stuff, just several films, and even there there was little slapstick due to their age. I think it was just supposed to be funny that they are standing there in all this nuttiness.
shareYes, the joke is that in a movie like this, THEY are the only serious ones.
"'Extremely High Voltage.' Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer Sim--" - Frank Grimes
Who was the stand-in for Curly in that scene?
shareThe leftmost Stooge is Curly Joe DeRita. He wasn't so much a stand-in for Curly but a member of the trio since 1958 until their breakup in 1975 on Moe's death. He joined the group after the departure of Joe Besser.
It's buried under a big W. Say, what is a big W?
When we find out, we'll send you a wire.
I think you mean Larry's death? He died first.
shareNo, because that's the joke! Just the sight of the Stooges conjures up more destruction in your mind than they could ever have put on the screen. This is discussed on the commentary track.
shareFirst of all, they might have been too old to do anything more than just stand around. But I still think that they were used in a wonderfully funny way. Just the slow pan to them standing there ready, was enough. Anything they might have done would have been less funny (and strained, considering their age) than what we can imagine.
I do agree that Joe E. Brown and Buster Keaton were underused.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
It's also been suggested that there was already so much chaos in the film that anything that The Stooges did would be anti-climatic by comparison. Instead, it's up to viewers to speculate what havoc they will cause. I love The Stooges, too, but I think in this case less is more.
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